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19-3624.Fire districts in two or more counties; creation; procedure. Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-270, whenever 51% of the resident property owners of territory located in two or more counties, as determined by an enumeration taken and verified for this purpose by the county election officers of the counties in which the territory proposed to be included within the district is located, shall petition the county commissioners of the county in which the greater portion of territory of the proposed district is located for the creation of a benefit district for the purpose of providing fire-fighting service within the benefit district, it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners, by resolution, to establish such fire district and to define the boundaries thereof as set forth in the petition. Thereafter, the county commissioners establishing such district shall direct the county clerk of the county in which the greater portion of the district is located to transmit a copy of the original resolution of the board establishing the district to the county clerk of any other county in which any territory of the benefit district shall be located.

History: L. 1959, ch. 149, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 109, § 1; L. 1986, ch. 70, § 19; May 15.



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