Kansas Statutes 24-626. Letting of contracts for improvements; bond of contractor; work under direction of drain commissioner
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 24-626
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Person: shall mean any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation;
(b) "publication" shall mean the publication in a newspaper or newspapers admitted to the United States mail as second-class matter, of general circulation within the joint drainage district;
(c) "land" shall mean real property as that term is defined by the laws of the state of Kansas, and shall include any road, highway, bridge, street or other right-of-way;
(d) "chief engineer" shall mean the chief engineer of the division of water resources of the Kansas department of agriculture;
(e) "board" shall mean the board of directors of a joint drainage district;
(f) "qualified voter" shall mean any qualified elector of the district and any person 18 years of age or over owning land within the district, although not a resident therein;
(g) "landowner" shall mean the record owner of the fee in any real estate in the district or the fee in the surface rights of any real estate in the district, but the owners of an oil and gas lease, mineral rights or interest, easements or mortgages as such shall not be considered landowners, and school districts, cemetery associations and municipal corporations shall not be considered landowners;
(h) "steering committee" shall be the group of not less than three (3) qualified voters who shall serve as the governing body of the proposed drainage district until the first board of directors is elected. See Kansas Statutes 24-656
After the board of supervisors have certified the total levy of the costs and expenses of the drainage improvements to the county clerk as directed by this act, they may proceed to let a contract for the construction of such improvements; and for that purpose they shall give notice by publication thereof for twenty days in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties in which the drainage district is situated, and in such other newspapers as they may deem advisable, calling for sealed bids for the construction of said improvements or any part thereof, notifying the public thereby of the time and place where such bids will be received and opened, and where the plans and specifications may be seen.
On the day fixed the board shall open and consider the bids and may let the contract for the whole work, or any part thereof, to the lowest responsible bidder, or may reject any and all bids and readvertise for proposals, or may proceed to construct the work under their own superitendence. Contract for the purchase of materials shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. The person to whom a contract is awarded shall enter into a bond with good and sufficient sureties to be approved by the board, payable to the district for its use, for the amount of the contract price, conditioned for the faithful performance of such contract. The work shall be done under the direction and to the satisfaction of the drain commissioner, and subject to the approval of the board.