Chapter 431.
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CHAP. 431.— Joint Resolution Providing for the consent of the Congress of the United States of America to a compact and agreement between the State of Kansas and the State of Missouri respecting the erection, maintenance, and operation of the water-works plants of the cities of Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri; the taxation thereof, and exercise of eminent domain in connection therewith by each State. September 22, 1922.[[S.J. Res. 216](/us/bill/67/sjres/216).][[Pub.
Res., No. 75](/us/67/pubres/75).] Missouri and Kansas.Preamble.Agreement for mutual operation of water-works for Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kans.Whereas by a concurrent resolution adopted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri and approved by the Governor of said State on April 15, 1921, and a similar resolution adopted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas and approved by the Governor of said State on March 18, 1921, it was resolved and provided that, whereas the city of Kansas City, in Wyandotte County, Kansas, and the city of Kansas City, in Jackson County, Missouri, are contiguous and adjoining and each owns and operates waterworks plants, the intake portions of which are on the banks of the Missouri River in Kansas City, Kansas, and contiguous to each; and for the protection of each city, in the event of a breakdown of its plant, a conflagration, epidemic, or other exigency, it is vitally important that its water plant have connection with and access to the facilities of the other; and it is and has been in the past of material benefit to each city that both contribute to a common fund in protecting the banks of the Missouri River in the vicinity of said plants and farther upstream from breaking over and destroying the plants or changing its course so as to leave the intake so far from the stream as to render it impossible to obtain an adequate flow of water therefrom; and the water plants of both cities are connected at various points so that they can in the future, as they have in the past, supply each other with water, thereby preserving the health and protecting the property of each; and the plant of Kansas City, Missouri, is now, and will of necessity continue to be for a long period in the future, the only source of water supply to the city of Rosedale, in Wyandotte County, Kansas, and the maintenance of this supply is of vital importance to the health and property protection of the citizens and said municipality; and the contour of the territory of each city is such that to reach and serve certain districts it is necessary that portions of the service mains and plants occupy and run through the territory of the other State: and Kansas City, Missouri, is about to invest many millions of dollars in the betterment of its plant in the immediate future and the city of Kansas City, Kansas, will invest in the future large sums in extending its plant, said extensions of each municipality necessitating large investments in the territory of the adjacent State, and to raise the funds for the purpose of making these investments it is vital to each city that each plant be free from assessment and taxation in the other State; and that therefore, by reason of the advantages accruing to the municipalities of each State and to the inhabitants thereof, as hereinbefore recited, and other advantages not therein enumerated, the States of Kansas and Missouri thereby entered into the following compact and agreement:
(1)Text of compact, etc. Neither the State of Kansas, nor any county, township, or municipality located within said State, or any official thereof, shall ever assess, levy, or collect any taxes, assessments, or imposts of any kind or character whatsoever on the portion of the waterworks plant of the municipality of Kansas City, Missouri, now or hereafter located within the territory of the State of Kansas.
(2)Neither the State of Missouri, nor any county, township, or municipality located within said State, or any official thereof, shall ever assess, levy, or collect any taxes, assessments, or imposts of any kind or character whatsoever on the portion of the waterworks plant of the municipality of Kansas City, Kansas, now or hereafter located within the territory of the State of Missouri. 1059 It is further provided by said resolutions, compact, and agreement that the right of eminent domain, for the purpose of acquiring property rights and easements for a waterworks plant, including mains, water pipe lines, or extensions, or any part thereof, in either State, was thereby given and granted to each State and to Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, to be exercised by Kansas City, Kansas, in the State of Missouri, and by Kansas City, Missouri, in the State of Kansas, for said purposes; and that to the faithful observance of the said compact and agreement each State, by the adoption of said resolutions, pledged its good faith: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of CongressConsent given to compact and agreement. is hereby accorded to said compact and agreement between the State of Kansas and the State of Missouri. Approved, September 22, 1922.