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Promoting the Enjoyment, Understanding, Protection, and Restoration of our Natural Ecosystem.
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80-1201. Destruction of prairie dogs, moles and gophers;
expense from general fund. The township board of any township in
this state, at any regular or special meeting, is hereby authorized
to purchase material and to employ one or more suitable persons
to destroy prairie dogs, moles and gophers within the limits of
such township, any material so purchased and compensation for such
services to be paid out of the general fund of such township.
80-1202 80-1202. Eradication of prairie dogs; duties of township
trustees; entry upon land, exceptions; assessment of costs. In addition
to the duties now prescribed by law for township trustees, in counties
infested by prairie dogs, they may do and perform the following
services: That the township trustees of the several townships in
this state infested by prairie dogs may enter upon the lands so
infested in their respective townships and make diligent efforts
to exterminate all prairie dogs thereon. For the purpose of enabling
them to carry into effect the provisions of this act, the trustees
are authorized and empowered to employ all such assistance and to
purchase the poison or such appliances and material as they may
deem necessary to exterminate such dogs. The work of such extermination
shall all be done under the supervision and direction of the trustees:
Provided, That in any county having a population of more than four
thousand (4,000) and less than five thousand two hundred (5,200)
which contains no city of the second class and not more than two
(2) cities of the third class, the trustees shall before entering
upon the lands give written notice to any landowner who shall fail
or refuse to make use of the materials offered or provided, that
unless he or she endeavors to control such prairie dogs according
to the methods prescribed by the board of trustees will, within
fifteen (15) days after the date specified in the notice enter upon
his or her land and use the necessary materials to eradicate the
prairie dogs thereon; and the trustees or their agents, may thereafter
enter upon the land and proceed to eradicate such prairie dogs.
80-1203 80-1203. Same; report of expense to county commissioners;
tax levy. The trustees of the several townships infested by prairie
dogs shall appear before the board of county commissioners of their
respective counties at their annual meeting in August of each year,
when they convene to make the annual tax levy, and make a report
of the probable expense to exterminate the prairie dogs in their
respective townships. And the commissioners of the respective counties,
after receiving said reports, shall cause to be levied on real estate
assessed for taxation in each township thus infested by prairie
dogs the approximate amount estimated by the several trustees as
herein provided, or any part thereof: Provided, however, That no
assessment for this purpose shall be greater than seventy cents
on each one hundred dollars valuation as herein provided.
80-1204 80-1204. Same; compensation of trustees and assistants.
The trustees of each township and their assistants shall receive
as compensation for their services for the time actually and necessarily
employed. Such compensation shall be paid only out of the fund of
the county created by this act for that purpose and shall be in
an amount determined by the township board as provided by K.S.A.
80-207, and amendments thereto.
80-1205 80-1205. Same; custody and disbursement of funds.
The township trustees shall be the custodians of the fund created
by this act, and disburse the same on vouchers audited by the township
boards at their regular quarterly meetings and warrants drawn on
the treasurer for the same: Provided, That no part of this fund
shall be subject to the payment of claims other than those specified
in this act.
80-1206 80-1206. Same; payment of moneys to township treasurers.
The county treasurers of the several counties of this state are
hereby authorized and directed to pay over to the several township
treasurers of their respective counties all the moneys collected
for the purpose designated in this act, in the mode and manner as
other township funds are paid over to said township treasurers.
80-1207 80-1207. Same; surplus funds; use. Whenever any township
of this state shall have rid itself of the prairie dogs and there
shall cease to be a necessity of any future procedure under this
act (which question shall be determined by the board of county commissioners
and the trustee of such township), the surplus fund, if any, in
the hands of the township treasurers shall be merged into the general
township funds of said townships and to be used for general township
purposes.
80-1208 80-1208. Same; penalty for failure to perform duties.
Any township trustee or board of county commissioners failing to
perform any of the duties imposed upon them by this act shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be subject
to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor exceeding one hundred
dollars for each offense thus committed.
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