Printable Format12-631g. Sewage service charges by cities and township districts; exceptions. The governing body of any city or any township sewer district which has installed or may hereafter install a system of sewage disposal may, by ordinance of such city or by the resolution of the governing body of such township sewer district, establish just and equitable rates of service charges to be paid to such city, or to such township sewer district, for the use of such sewage disposal system by all persons, firms, corporations, city departments, the United States, the state of Kansas and its political subdivisions, and any organizations whose premises are connected or may hereafter be connected to the sanitary sewer system of such city or of such township sewer district: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to any city of the first class having a population of more than two hundred thousand (200,000).
History: L. 1953, ch. 120, § 1; L. 1957, ch. 88, § 1; April 16.
Cross References to Related Sections:
Cities, second class, see 14-566 through 14-569.
Townships, see chapter 80, article 20.
Law Review and Bar Journal References:
"Fifteen Years of Home Rule in Kansas Municipalities," Murray E. Anderson, 16 W.L.J. 360, 368 (1977).
Attorney General's Opinions:
Sewage services charges by cities, liens on rental property. 95-59.
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. Section is not statutory authority to impose sewer charges to occupants not connected with system. Jennings v. Walsh, 214 Kan. 398, 399, 400, 401, 521 P.2d 311.