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K.S.A. § 12-601 (2026)

Cost of street improvements assessed against abutting owners

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12-601. Cost of street improvements assessed against abutting owners. Whenever any street or avenue in any city shall be graded, regraded, paved, repaved, curbed, recurbed, guttered, reguttered, macadamized, remacadamized, or otherwise improved, the cost of such improvement shall be paid by and assessed to the property on each side of said street or avenue to the middle of the block.

History: R.S. 1923, § 12-601; December 27.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 10 cases, 1929–1995 · leading case: Davis v. City of Leawood, 893 P.2d 233 (Kan. 1995).
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Davis v. City of Leawood, 893 P.2d 233 (Kan. 1995). “12-601 in those areas which are platted with artistic design, and realizing the inequities which may result from application of the ‘center-of-the-block’ assessment method, enacted legislation (now K.S.A. 12-6a01-17) embodying new procedures for the construction of street…”
Berndt v. City of Ottawa, 298 P.2d 262 (Kan. 1956). · cites it 6× “1949, 12-601 and 12-602, provide in pertinent part: Section 12-601: “Whenever any street or avenue in any city shall be graded, .”
Bauer v. City of Olathe, 894 P.2d 823 (Kan. 1995). · cites it 2× “provides a complete alternative, including standards for the composition of the district, it was not necessary for the city to abide by the strictures of K.S.A. 12-601 et seq., the general paving law.”
Mallon v. City of Emporia, 726 P.2d 1354 (Kan. Ct. App. 1986). “2d 430 (1976) (street improvements brought pursuant to the general paving law, K.S.A. 12-601 et seq.). Dodson prohibited using an unsubstantiated percentage estimate of construction cost to arrive at the cost of the improvement.”
State ex rel. Martin v. City of Kansas City, 317 P.2d 806 (Kan. 1957). · cites it 2× “In the Bowlus case, Justice Burch said: *881 "... According to all the dictionaries and the popular understanding everywhere a block is a portion of a city surrounded by streets.”
Getty v. City of Syracuse, 281 P. 883 (Kan. 1929). · cites it 2× “” Part of section 12-602 reads: “The cost of grading, regrading, paving, repaving, curbing, recurbing, guttering, reguttering, macadamizing, remacadamizing, or otherwise improving intersections of streets and the cost of making any of said improvements in streets, avenues and…”
Barrows v. City of Ness City, 676 P.2d 1285 (Kan. Ct. App. 1984). “This street improvement was initiated under the “old” general paving law for street improvements, K.S.A. 12-601 et seq. We are *226 therefore not concerned about K.”
Babb v. City of Wichita, 259 P.2d 581 (Kan. 1953). · cites it 2× “street purposes, is not a block within the meaning of the term “block’ as used in the General Statutes of Kansas for 1949, Section 12-601. “3. That the vacation of Yale Avenue by the City of Wichita under the authority of G.”
Overholt v. City of Ellinwood, 270 P.2d 213 (Kan. 1954). · cites it 2× “Section 12-602 must be read in conjunction with section 12-601 and, when so read, it is crystal clear that whenever any street to be improved runs along city property, the city shall pay for its portion of the improvement the same as any private citizen would be required to pay,…”
Barrows v. City of Ness City, 683 P.2d 1267 (Kan. 1984). “This street improvement was initiated under the “old” general paving law for street improvements, K.S.A. 12-601 et seq. We are, therefore, not concerned about K.”
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