Kansas Statutes 24-636. Civil liability for obstructing or injuring property; penalty
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 24-636
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- 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
If any person shall willfully obstruct or injure any ditch, drain, or watercourse, or damage or destroy any dike or other work constructed under the provisions of this act, he shall be liable to the drainage district for the full amount of the injury occasioned by the damage thereto, the same to be recovered by a civil action, in the name of the district before any court having jurisdiction thereof, and in addition thereto shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars and may be imprisoned until such fine and costs of prosecution are paid.