13-1220.
Board of public utilities, any city; administrative agency, duties.
Any city may establish an administrative agency known as the board of public utilities of such city, to be elected in the manner hereinafter provided. The board shall manage, operate, maintain and control the daily operation of the water plant and electric-light plant of such city, and shall make all such rules and regulations as are necessary for the safe, economical and efficient operation and management of such water plants and electric-light plants. The board may also improve, extend or enlarge the water plants and electric-light plants as hereinafter provided, and furnish a supply of water, light, heat and power for domestic, industrial and municipal purposes.
History:
L. 1929, ch. 126, § 1; L. 1980, ch. 72, § 2; L. 2015, ch. 88, § 19; July 1.
Notes of Decisions
Figures v. Bd. of Pub. Utils. of Kansas City, 731 F. Supp. 1479 (D. Kan. 1990).
“The BPU board of directors, consisting of six elected members, is vested with exclusive control of the daily operation of the water plant and electric light plant of the City. At all times pertinent to this litigation, defendants De-Graeve, Dick, Lynch and Nesselrode were…”
State Ex Rel. Tomasic v. Cahill, 567 P.2d 1329 (Kan. 1977).
“It was created in 1929 by enactments of the legislature which now appear as K.S.A. 13-1220, et seq. Members of the Board are elected by the city at large for four-year terms.”
Bd. of Pub. Utils. v. City of Kansas City, 605 P.2d 151 (Kan. 1980).
“The act provides in each city of the first class, identified as having a population over 100,000, which owns and operates municipal water and electric light plants, there shall be elected a board of public utilities which shall manage, operate, maintain and control the water and…”
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