3-126. Transfer of control to board of public utilities in certain cities of more than 100,000 population; indebtedness. Any city of the first class now having or hereafter acquiring a population of more than 100,000 inhabitants, now owning or hereafter acquiring a municipal water plant and a municipal light plant, which plants are now or hereafter operated, managed and controlled by a board of public utilities, as provided by K.S.A. 13-1220 to 13-1234a, and all acts and parts of acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, which city now owns or hereafter may acquire a municipal airport and municipal fields for aviation purposes, is authorized to transfer the management, operation, control and maintenance of such municipal airport and fields for aviation purposes to its board of public utilities.

Upon the transfer by such city to its board of public utilities, the management, operation, control and maintenance of such municipal airport and municipal fields for aviation purposes, together with all funds in its hands acquired for airport purposes, the board of public utilities of such city shall assume and pay all outstanding obligations of such city incurred by the city for the purchase of said airport and municipal fields for aviation purposes, and shall provide a sinking fund to pay all bonded obligations issued for the purchase, construction, development and maintenance of such municipal airport and municipal fields for aviation purposes, as they become due.

History: L. 1941, ch. 12, § 1; March 26.