Kansas Statutes Chapter 68. Roads and Bridges § 68-117a. Counties having a township of 10,000 or over with no city or town; petition for laying out, viewing or altering roads; bond

In all counties in which there is a township with a population of ten thousand or more outside of the limits of any incorporated city or town, applications for laying out roads, or for viewing, reviewing, widening or altering any road, shall be by petition to the board of county commissioners signed by the owners of not less than fifty percent of the land abutting that part of the road sought to be laid out, viewed, reviewed, widened or altered; and one or more of the signers of any petition presented as aforesaid shall enter into a bond with sufficient sureties payable to the state of Kansas for the use of the county, to be approved by the board of county commissioners, conditioned that the persons signing such bonds shall pay into the treasury of the county the amount of all costs and expenses accruing on said location, view, review, widening or alteration in case the proceedings had in pursuance of said petition shall not be finally confirmed and established; and on neglect or refusal of the persons so bound, after a liability shall have accrued, the county clerk of the county shall collect or cause to be collected such costs and expenses, and pay the same into the county treasury.