Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 82a > Article 24 - Reservoir Improvement District Act

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Board: means the board of directors of a reservoir improvement district;

  (b) "district" means a reservoir district for which organization is proposed or has been organized under the provisions of this act, and amendments thereto;

  (c) "eligible water right holder" means any person:

  (1) Holding a water right or permit, pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 82a-2402

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• general plan: means a preliminary engineering report describing the characteristics of the reservoir, the nature and methods of dealing with the bed and water problems in the reservoir or the reservoir watershed and the projects proposed to be undertaken by the district. See Kansas Statutes 82a-2402
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• person: means any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation;

  (f) "specific project" means any project outlined and proposed by the board of directors and may constitute all or part of the general plan;

  (g) "steering committee" means the group of eligible water right holders, not less than the number to be chosen for the board of directors, who shall serve as the governing body of the proposed reservoir improvement district until the first board of directors is elected;

  (h) "water right" shall have the meaning provided in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 82a-2402

• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, evidences of debt and things in action, and digital assets as defined in the revised uniform fiduciary access to digital assets act, Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Residence: means the place which is adopted by a person as the person's place of habitation and to which, whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention of returning. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• seal: includes an impression of the seal upon the paper alone, as well as upon wax or a wafer affixed to the paper. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• watershed: means all the area within the state draining toward a selected point on a reservoir. See Kansas Statutes 82a-2402