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HOUSE BILL No. 2624
AN ACT concerning fire districts; authorizing the disorganization of a county fire district
by the board of county commissioners when such district contains no territory;
amending K.S.A. 19-3604 and repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 19-3604 is hereby amended to read as follows:
19-3604. (a) Any fire district may be disorganized by the board of
county commissioners at any time after four years from the date of the
publication of the final resolution for the first organization of such
district upon a petition to the board and the making of an order in like
manner as in the case of organizing any fire district under K.S.A. 19-
3603, and amendments thereto.
(b) Any fire district that has been altered by the exclusion of lands
such that the district has no territory may be disorganized at any time
upon motion by the board of county commissioners and the making of
an order in like manner as in the case of organizing any fire district
under K.S.A. 19-3602, and amendments thereto.
(c) Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-270, the territory of any
organized fire district may be subsequently altered by the inclusion of
new lands or by the exclusion of lands therein within the territory of
such district upon a petition to the board of county commissioners
signed by the owners of at least 10% of the area of the lands sought to
be included or excluded, which. Such petition shall conform, as near as
may be possible, to the petition required for the organization of a fire
district. If the board of county commissioners finds the petition is
sufficient, the board may adopt and publish a resolution attaching or
detaching the lands described in the petition to or from the fire district.
The resolution shall be published once each week for two consecutive
weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the area where the lands
are located. Such publication shall include a map showing the territory
of the district and the lands proposed to be attached to or detached
therefrom from such district. If within 30 days after the last publication
of the resolution and map, a petition protesting the inclusion or
detachment of such lands, signed by the owners, whether residents of
the county or not, of more than 19% of the area of the lands sought to
be included in or excluded from the fire district is filed with the county
clerk, the resolution shall have no force or effect. If such a protest
petition shall not be filed within such time, the resolution shall become
final, and the lands shall thereupon be deemed attached to or detached
from the fire district. In any case where lands are included in or
excluded from a fire district as provided herein pursuant to this section,
the board shall declare the new boundary of the district by the adoption
and publication of a resolution in like manner as the boundaries were
declared at the time of the original organization thereof of such district.
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Sec. 2. K.S.A. 19-3604 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
I hereby certify that the above BILL originated in the
HOUSE, and passed that body
Speaker of the House.
Chief Clerk of the House.
Passed the SENATE ______________________________________________________________________________
President of the Senate.
Secretary of the Senate.
APPROVED __________________________________________________________________________________________________
Governor.