CHAPTER 135 SENATE BILL No. 556 An Act concerning municipalities; relating to certain publications required thereof; amend-
ing K.S.A. 64-101 and 80-410 and repealing the existing sections. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

Section 1. K.S.A. 64-101 is hereby amended to read as follows: 64-
101. (a) The governing body of each city of the first class shall designate
by resolution a newspaper to be the official city newspaper. Once desig-
nated, the newspaper shall be the official city newspaper until such time
as the governing body designates a different newspaper.

No legal notice, advertisement or publication of any kind required or
provided by any of the laws of the state of Kansas, to be published in a
newspaper shall have any force or effect as such unless the same is pub-
lished in a newspaper having the following qualifications which:

(1) It must be Is published at least weekly 50 times a year and have
has been so published for at least five years one year prior to the publi-
cation of any official city publication;

(2) it must be is entered at the post office of publication as second
periodical class mail matter;

(3) it shall have has general paid circulation on a daily, weekly,
monthly or yearly basis in the county in which the city is located and shall
is not be a trade, religious or fraternal publication; and

(4) it must be is printed in the state of Kansas and published in the
county in which the city publishing the official publication, or is located.
If there is no newspaper published in the county, then in a the newspaper
shall be printed published in Kansas and having shall have general paid
circulation in the county.

(b) The board of county commissioners of each county shall designate
by resolution a newspaper to be the official county newspaper. Once
designated the newspaper shall be the official county newspaper until
such time as the board designates a different newspaper. The newspaper
selected for the official publications of a county shall be one which has
the following qualifications a newspaper which:

(1) It must be Is published at least weekly 50 times each year and
have has been so published for at least one year prior to the publication
of any official county publication;

(2) it must be entered at the post office of publication as second-class
mail matter is entered at the post office in the county of publication as
periodical class mail matter, which county shall be located in Kansas;

(3) more than 50% of the circulation must be sold to the subscribers
either on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis; and

(4) (3) it shall have has general paid circulation on a daily, weekly,
monthly or yearly basis in the county and shall is not be a trade, religious
or fraternal publication.; and

(4) is published in the county publishing the official publication. If
there is no newspaper published in the county, the newspaper shall be
printed in Kansas and have general paid circulation in the county.

Nothing in this subsection shall apply to counties in which no news-
paper has been published the requisite length of time.

(c) Whenever the board of education of a school district is required
to publish a legal notice, advertisement or other publication in a news-
paper having general circulation in the school district, such newspaper
shall be one which:

(1) Is published at least weekly 50 times each year and has been so
published for at least one year prior to the publication of any school
district publication;

(2) is entered at the post office in the school district of publication as
periodical class mail matter;

(3) has general paid circulation on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly
basis in the school district and is not a trade, religious or fraternal pub-
lication; and

(4) is published in the school district publishing the official publica-
tion. If there is no newspaper published in the school district, the news-
paper shall be published in Kansas and shall have general paid circulation
in the school district.

(c) (d) Nothing contained in this section shall invalidate the publi-
cation in a newspaper which has resumed publication after having sus-
pended publication all or part of the time that the United States has been
engaged in war with any foreign nation and six months next following the
cessation of hostilities if such newspaper resumes publication in good faith
under the same ownership as it had when it suspended publication. Noth-
ing in this section shall invalidate the publication in a newspaper which
has simply changed its name or moved its place of publication from one
part of the county to another part, or suspended publication on account
of fire, flood, strikes, shortages of materials or other unavoidable accidents
for not to exceed 10 weeks within the year last preceding the first pub-
lication of the legal notice, advertisement or publication. All legal
publications heretofore made which otherwise would be valid, that have
been made in a newspaper which, on account of flood, fire, strikes, short-
ages of materials or other unavoidable accident, has suspended publica-
tion for a period of not exceeding 10 weeks, are hereby legalized.

Sec. 2. K.S.A. 80-410 is hereby amended to read as follows: 80-410.
(a) The treasurer of each township shall file with the county clerk a duly
verified full and detailed statement of the receipts, expenditures and li-
abilities of the township for the preceding calendar year, on or before
January 31 of the succeeding year.

(b) The treasurer of each township having an annual budget exceed-
ing $25,000 shall publish, or cause to be published, in a newspaper of
general circulation in the township immediately following the annual set-
tlement in December of each year, a summary which shows totals for
categories of the receipts, expenditures and liabilities of such township
for the year ending at the time of such annual settlement. Such publi-
cation shall include a notice that a detailed statement of such receipts,
expenditures and liabilities is available for public inspection at the county
clerk's office. Copies of the statement shall be made available upon re-
quest.

If the total of all expenditures is $500 or less, the summary of receipts,
expenditures and liabilities shall not be required to be published as pro-
vided by this subsection.

(c) The treasurer of the township shall file with the county clerk a
full and detailed statement of the amount of money paid to each member
of the township board pursuant to K.S.A. 80-207, and amendments
thereto, during the preceding calendar year, on or before January 31 of
the succeeding year.

Sec. 3. K.S.A. 64-101 and 80-410 are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.

Approved April 23, 1998

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