Any private township cemetery association organized under the laws of Kansas as a nonprofit corporation which has failed to operate and maintain its cemetery for a period of more than ten (10) years and which has been maintained by the township under the provisions of K.S.A. 80-916 for a period of at least five (5) years may be declared abandoned and extinct by order of the district court of the county in which the cemetery is located and the title to the cemetery property of such association vested in the township in the manner hereinafter provided.
K.S.A. 80-934