Kansas Statutes 12-6a32. Same; suit to set aside assessments or question validity of proceedings or sales tax limited in time; protest petition limited in time
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 12-6a32
- Assessments: means special assessments imposed and levied pursuant to the provisions of this act. See Kansas Statutes 12-6a27
- Bonds: means special obligation bonds, special obligation notes, full faith and credit bonds or full faith and credit notes payable solely from the sources described in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 12-6a27
- Community improvement district sales tax: means the tax authorized by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 12-6a27
- District: means a community improvement district created pursuant to this act. See Kansas Statutes 12-6a27
- Project: means :
(1) Any project within the district to acquire, improve, construct, demolish, remove, renovate, reconstruct, rehabilitate, maintain, restore, replace, renew, repair, install, relocate, furnish, equip or extend:
(A) Buildings, structures and facilities;
(B) sidewalks, streets, roads, interchanges, highway access roads, intersections, alleys, parking lots, bridges, ramps, tunnels, overpasses and underpasses, traffic signs and signals, utilities, pedestrian amenities, abandoned cemeteries, drainage systems, water systems, storm systems, sewer systems, lift stations, underground gas, heating and electrical services and connections located within or without the public right-of-way, water mains and extensions and other site improvements;
(C) parking garages;
(D) streetscape, lighting, street light fixtures, street light connections, street light facilities, benches or other seating furniture, trash receptacles, marquees, awnings, canopies, walls and barriers;
(E) parks, lawns, trees and other landscape;
(F) communication and information booths, bus stops and other shelters, stations, terminals, hangers, restrooms and kiosks;
(G) paintings, murals, display cases, sculptures, fountains and other cultural amenities;
(H) airports, railroads, light rail and other mass transit facilities; and
(I) lakes, dams, docks, wharfs, lakes or river ports, channels and levies, waterways and drainage conduits;
(2) within the district, to operate or to contract for the provision of music, news, child-care, or parking lots or garages, and buses, minibuses or other modes of transportation;
(3) within the district, to provide or contract for the provision of security personnel, equipment or facilities for the protection of property and persons;
(4) within the district, to provide or contract for cleaning, maintenance and other services to public or private property;
(5) within the district, to produce and promote any tourism, recreational or cultural activity or special event, including, but not limited to, advertising, decoration of any public place in the district, promotion of such activity and special events and furnishing music in any public place;
(6) within the district, to support business activity and economic development, including, but not limited to, the promotion of business activity, development and retention and the recruitment of developers and business;
(7) within the district, to provide or support training programs for employees of businesses;
(8) to contract for or conduct economic impact, planning, marketing or other studies; and
(9) within or without the district, costs for infrastructure located outside the district but contiguous to any portion of the district and such infrastructure is related to a project within the district or substantially for the benefit of the district. See Kansas Statutes 12-6a27
No suit to set aside the assessments or otherwise question the validity of the proceedings for the creation of the district or the authorization of the project shall be brought after the expiration of 30 days from the publication of the ordinance or resolution creating the district. No suit to set aside the community improvement district sales tax shall be brought after the expiration of 30 days from the publication of the ordinance or resolution declaring the intent to impose the community improvement district sales tax. No protest petition pertaining to the issuance of full faith and credit bonds, as described in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 12-6a36, and amendments thereto, shall be brought after the expiration of 60 days following the date of the public hearing described in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 12-6a29, and amendments thereto.