In the event of a failure or inability of the boards to make an agreement as provided in K.S.A. 72-527, or if the state board shall disapprove any such agreement, the board of either district or the boards of both districts, either jointly or separately, may file a petition at any time after one year from the effective date of transfer of territory, but in no event sooner than March 1, 1968, in the district court of the county in which the transferred territory, or any part of it, is located, praying for the adjustment of property rights and claims between the school districts.
The court shall appoint and instruct three (3) competent commissioners who shall:
The commissioners shall file a written report of their determination of each of the above items in the office of the clerk of the district court. The court shall examine the report and approve it, or after notice to all interested parties, and hearing, may correct or amend the report and approve it as amended, or the court may reject the report and appoint new commissioners to make a new report. Upon the approval by the court of the report of the commissioners or the report of the commissioners as corrected by the court, the court shall enter judgment for the amount found to be due from one board to the other and either party may have the right to appeal from the judgment of the said court to the supreme court in the same manner as in other cases provided by the code of civil procedure. The court in its discretion may make reasonable allowances to the commissioners for the services and tax them to either board or may divide such charges between them. Such charges shall be paid out of the general fund of the district to which they are taxed. Such judgment shall be enforced in the manner provided in the following section.
K.S.A. 72-529
Revisor's Note:
Section transferred from 72-7106.