Kansas Statutes Annotated

K.S.A. § 12-687 (2026)

Same; improving trafficways and connections

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12-687. Same; improving trafficways and connections. The governing body of such city shall have power to improve or reimprove or cause to be improved or reimproved, any main trafficway or trafficway connection designated and established under the provisions of this act. Such improvement or reimprovement may include grading, regrading, curbing, recurbing, guttering, reguttering, paving, repaving, macadamizing, remacadamizing, constructing, reconstructing, opening, widening, extending, rounding corners, straightening, relocating, building any necessary bridges and approaches thereto, viaducts, overpasses, underpasses, culverts and drainage, trafficway illumination, traffic control devices, pedestrian ways, or other improvements, or any two (2) or more of such improvements or reimprovements and the acquisition of right-of-way by purchase or condemnation when necessary for any of such purposes. The governing body may also employ highway and traffic engineering assistance when necessary to the proper development and planning of such improvement or reimprovement.

History: L. 1959, ch. 71, § 3; June 30.

CASE ANNOTATIONS

1. Whether city's designation of street as main trafficway precludes financing improvements by special assessments under K.S.A. 12-6a01 et seq. examined. Davis v. City of Leawood, 257 Kan. 512, 518, 893 P.2d 512 (1995).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 1995–1995 · 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). · cites it 7× “” K.S.A. 12-687. “All costs of improvements or reimprovements authorized under the provisions of this act, including acquisition of right-of-way, engineering costs, and all other costs properly attributable to such projects shall be paid by fire city at large from the general…”
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