24-133. Same; no-fund warrants, limitations. (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b), the governing body of any drainage district may issue emergency no-fund warrants of the drainage district to pay the costs and expenses resulting from an emergency within the district. An emergency within the district exists by reason of current injuries to persons or property, or imminent danger thereof, from floods or other injurious action of water in any watercourse within the district. In case of an emergency, the governing body of the district may build new dikes and levees, and repair, expand and strengthen old ones, dig ditches, build jetties, or make any other changes, alterations and additions in existing improvements. The governing body also may build any other new structure or other improvement it deems necessary to solve the problems created by the emergency.

The governing body shall levy a tax at the first tax levying period after the issuance to pay the emergency no-fund warrants and interest thereon. The levy shall be in addition to all other levies authorized or limited by law. Emergency no-fund warrants shall be issued, registered, redeemed and bear interest in the manner and in the form prescribed by K.S.A. 79-2940, and amendments thereto, except that such no-fund warrants shall be issued without the approval of the state board of tax appeals and shall not bear the notation required thereby.

(b) Except as provided by subsection (c), the authorized and outstanding no-fund warrant indebtedness of any drainage district shall not exceed 5% of the assessed valuation of the drainage district.

(c) If the governing body of a drainage district determines it is necessary to issue no-fund warrants and the amount of such no-fund warrants together with any outstanding no-fund warrants exceed 5% of the assessed valuation of the drainage district prior to issuing any such no-fund warrants under the authority of this section, the governing body shall publish once in a newspaper of general circulation within the district a notice of the intention of the governing body to issue such no-fund warrants. If within 60 days after the publication of such notice, a petition requesting an election on the question of the issuance of the no-fund warrants signed by not less than 5% of the owners of land within the district is filed with the county election officer of the county in which the greater portion of the district is located, the governing body shall submit the question of the issuance of such no-fund warrants at an election held under the provisions of the general bond law.

(d) For the purpose of this section, assessed valuation means the value of all taxable tangible property within the drainage district as certified to the county clerk on the preceding August 25 which includes the assessed valuation of motor vehicles as provided by K.S.A. 10-310, and amendments thereto.

History: L. 1983, ch. 118, § 20; L. 1995, ch. 210, § 1; L. 2008, ch. 109, § 54; L. 2014, ch. 141, § 48; July 1.