CHAPTER 60 HOUSE BILL No. 2621 An Act designating a part of United States highway 77 as the Walnut Valley Greenway;
amending K.S.A. 1997 Supp. 68-1010 and repealing the existing section. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

New Section 1. United States Highway 77 from its south junction
with United States highway 77 business, thence north to the north junc-
tion with United States highway 77 business, is hereby designated as the
Walnut Valley Greenway. The secretary of transportation shall place high-
way signs along the highway right-of-way at proper intervals to indicate
that the highway is the Walnut Valley Greenway, except that such signs
shall not be placed until the secretary has received sufficient moneys from
gifts and donations to reimburse the secretary for the cost of placing such
signs. The secretary of transportation may accept and administer gifts and
donations to pay for the cost of such highway signs bearing the proper
approved inscription.

Sec. 2. K.S.A. 1997 Supp. 68-1010 is hereby amended to read as
follows: 68-1010. The portion of United States highway 75 where it enters
the state on the Kansas-Nebraska line on the north then south to the
junction with K-9 then west to the junction of K-9 with K-62 then south
to the junction of K-62 with K-16 then east to the junction with United
States highway 75 then south to United States highway 40, and United
States highway 77 from United States highway 40 south on United States
highway 77 to the northern boundary of Cowley county is hereby desig-
nated the official north-south Blue Star memorial highway route in the
state of Kansas. The portion of United States highway 77 from the north-
ern boundary of Cowley county to the junction with United States high-
way 77 business then south on United States highway 77 business to
United States highway 77 then south to the Kansas-Oklahoma border is
hereby designated the Robert B. Docking memorial highway.

Sec. 3. K.S.A. 1997 Supp. 68-1010 is hereby repealed.

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

Approved April 2, 1998

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