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United States — Kansas
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City officers are authorized to buy adjoining land, levy a tax to pay for it, and use part of the tax to pay principal and interest on certain city bonds.
United States — Kansas
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Cities and private cemetery corporations in Kansas may create an endowment fund for future cemetery care, if approved by a majority vote of the governing body or stockholders.
United States — Kansas
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A city or corporation may, by majority vote approval, set aside certain funds and receive subscriptions for an endowment fund for a cemetery.
United States — Kansas
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Money in the cemetery endowment fund must be invested in authorized investments, and only the earnings may be spent for cemetery care and improvements.
United States — Kansas
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Custodians of funds in covered private-corporation cities or cemeteries must add double the endowment fund amount to their bonds when they take office.
United States — Kansas
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Certain city governing bodies may use general improvement funds for street work leading to cemeteries outside city limits.
United States — Kansas
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A city governing body may fund certain cemetery-road improvements by issuing improvement bonds for the total cost.
United States — Kansas
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The governing body must fund the improvements with equal yearly installments and make an annual levy on all city property to pay bond interest and installments.
United States — Kansas
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Bonds may not be issued until voters approve them at a general or special election; if the improvement costs $5,000 or less, no vote is required.
United States — Kansas
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Kansas cemetery associations or companies may transfer management and control of their property and affairs to a board of directors or trustees if the meeting was publicly advertised for at least 30 days and a majority of stock or shares present approves.
United States — Kansas
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A city or township may, after a majority vote at a regular or special election, direct its governing body or township board to accept management and control of an association or company’s business and property. The city or township is not liable for that association or company’s debts or other obligations.
United States — Kansas
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A city or township may act as trustee for certain cemetery trust funds, must pass the funds and any income to the association’s board for the trust’s purposes, and is not liable if that board misuses the funds.
United States — Kansas
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The city clerk or township clerk must keep records and record deeds in trust and related approvals and receipts; the deeds may be returned to the makers after the clerk’s certificate of record is endorsed.
United States — Kansas
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Property set aside for cemetery, churchyard, grave, monument, or tomb care is declared a public charity and does not fail just because it is perpetual.
United States — Kansas
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City or township governing bodies may accept certain cemeteries as gifts by resolution, if the transfer follows the donor organization’s bylaws.
United States — Kansas
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Once transferred and accepted by a city or township, the cemetery becomes a public cemetery and is subject to the listed Kansas Statutes provisions.
United States — Kansas
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Cities may not impose sales or excise taxes on cigarettes or cereal malt beverages and related malt products, except for a retailers' sales tax allowed under this act.
United States — Kansas
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A city may create a seven-member cemetery board by ordinance, and the mayor appoints the directors with governing-body consent.
United States — Kansas
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The mayor appoints replacement directors each year by February 1, may remove a director for misconduct or neglect of duty with governing body consent, and fills vacancies for the unexpired term.
United States — Kansas
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Directors must organize after appointment, choose a president, adopt needed bylaws, and oversee the city cemeteries.