19-2505. Enforcement; notice; tax levy.
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19-2505. Enforcement; notice; tax levy. Upon the failure of the owner or his agent to comply with the provisions of K.S.A. 19-2504 within the time mentioned in said section, the party complaining may notify the township trustee of the township wherein such well, pit, mine, or other excavation is situated, by the filing with him of a copy of the notice served upon the owner of such land or his agent, or posted as aforesaid, with the date of service thereof endorsed thereon, or if such notice was posted as aforesaid, the date when such notice was posted, and the fact that the residence of the landowner or his agent is unknown; and thereupon the township trustee shall be required forthwith to make a personal investigation of said well, pit, mine or other excavation, and if in his judgment the well, pit, mine or other excavation shall be dangerous he shall cause the same to be filled up, or securely covered; and any all expense incurred therein shall be by him duly itemized, verified and returned to the county clerk, together with a description of the land on which such well, pit, mine or other excavation is situated, who shall enter the same on the tax rolls of said county against the tract of land on which such well, pit, mine or excavation is situated, and the same shall become and be a lien upon said premises and shall be collected by the county treasurer as other taxes, and become a part of the general fund.