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K.S.A. § 79-405 (2026)

Plat of subdivisions

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79-405. Plat of subdivisions. Whenever any subdivision of land of forty acres or less, or any lot or subdivision, is owned by two or more persons in severalty, and the description of one or more of the different parts or parcels thereof cannot be made sufficiently certain and accurate for the purpose of assessment and taxation without noting the metes and bounds of the same, the county clerk shall cause to be made and recorded, a plat of such tract or lot, with its several subdivisions, as hereinbefore provided.

History: L. 1911, ch. 316, § 5; May 22; R.S. 1923, 79-405.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1968–1995 · leading case: Hixon v. Lario Enter., Inc., 892 P.2d 507 (Kan. 1995).
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Hixon v. Lario Enter., Inc., 892 P.2d 507 (Kan. 1995). “] A DPV memorandum dated February 16, 1990, provides: ‘Aldiough K.S.A. 79-405 requires platted lots in a subdivision to be identified and taxed individually, the appraisal should be based upon the entire tract of land.”
Hixon v. Lario Enter., Inc., 875 P.2d 297 (Kan. Ct. App. 1994). “) A DPV memorandum dated February 16, 1990, provides: “Although K.S.A. 79-405 requires platted lots in a subdivision, to be identified and taxed individually, the appraisal should be based upon the entire tract of land.”
STATE, EX REL. BOUSKA v. City of Edgerton, 440 P.2d 540 (Kan. 1968). “The territory annexed by the ordinance was a part of the tracts and lots described in the County Clerk’s Subdivision in the Northwest Quarter (NWM) of Section 7, Township 15, Range 22, Johnson County, filed in the office of the register of deeds on February 2, 1912, pursuant to…”
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