Session of 2024
SENATE BILL No. 424
By Committee on Federal and State Affairs
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AN ACT concerning the Kansas plane coordinate system act; providing for
geographic positions or locations of points within the state of Kansas;
amending K.S.A. 58-20a01, 58-20a02, 58-20a03, 58-20a04, 58-20a05
and 58-20a07 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A.
58-20a06.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
New Section 1. The provisions of this act shall not be construed to
prohibit the appropriate use of other datums and other geodetic reference
networks, established by a state agency or county, such as the Kansas
regional coordinate system, which was developed and implemented by the
Kansas department of transportation and is based upon the North
American datum of 1983.
New Sec. 2. The Kansas coordinate systems of 1983 and 1927 were
established for defining and stating the geographic positions or locations
of points on the surface of the earth within the state of Kansas. The 1983
system is based on the geodetic reference system 1980 ellipsoid of the
North American datum of 1983 and was adopted in K.S.A. 58-20a06, prior
to its repeal. The 1927 system is based on the Clarke 1866 ellipsoid of the
North American datum of 1927 and was not adopted in Kansas statute but
was widely used in Kansas prior to adoption of the 1983 system. Both
systems are divided into a north zone and a south zone. The area north of
the south line of the following counties constitutes the north zone:
Wallace, Logan, Gove, Trego, Ellis, Russell, Ellsworth, Saline, Dickinson,
Morris, Wabaunsee, Shawnee, Douglas and Johnson. The area south of the
north line of the following counties constitutes the south zone: Greeley,
Wichita, Scott, Lane, Ness, Rush, Barton, Rice, McPherson, Marion,
Chase, Lyon, Osage, Franklin and Miami. The plane coordinate values of a
point on the earth's surface, to be used to express the geographic position
or location of such point in the appropriate zone of the Kansas coordinate
systems of 1983 and 1927, consist of two distances, expressed in feet and
decimals of a foot or meters and decimals of a meter. If the values are
expressed in feet, a definition of one foot equals 1200/3937 meter exactly
shall be used as the standard foot for the Kansas coordinate systems of
1983 and 1927. One of the distances, known as the "Northing" or "N" for
the 1983 system, or "y" for the 1927 system, gives the position in a north
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and south direction. The other distance, known as the "Easting" or "E" for
the 1983 system, or "x" for the 1927 system, gives the position in an east
and west direction. For purposes of more precisely defining the Kansas
coordinate systems of 1983 and 1927, the following definitions shall
apply:
(a) The Kansas coordinate systems of 1983 and 1927 north zone
(zone code 1501) means a Lambert conformal conic projection, having
standard parallels at north latitudes 38 degrees 43 minutes and 39 degrees
47 minutes along which parallels the scale is exact. The origin of
coordinates is at the intersection of the meridian 98 degrees zero minutes
west of Greenwich and the parallel 38 degrees 20 minutes north latitude.
For the 1983 system, this origin is given the coordinates N = 0 meters and
E = 400,000 meters. For the 1927 system, this origin is given the
coordinates y = 0 feet and x = 2,000,000 feet.
(b) The Kansas coordinate systems of 1983 and 1927 south zone
(zone code 1502) means a Lambert conformal conic projection, having
standard parallels at north latitudes 37 degrees 16 minutes and 38 degrees
34 minutes along which parallels the scale is exact. The origin of
coordinates is at the intersection of the meridian 98 degrees 30 minutes
west of Greenwich and the parallel 36 degrees 40 minutes north latitude.
For the 1983 system, this origin is given the coordinates N = 400,000
meters and E = 400,000 meters. For the 1927 system, this origin is given
the coordinates y = 0 feet and x = 2,000,000 feet.
New Sec. 3. The provisions of K.S.A. 58-20a01 through 58-20a08,
and sections 1 through 3, and amendments thereto, shall be known and
may be cited as the Kansas plane coordinate system act.
Sec. 4. K.S.A. 58-20a01 is hereby amended to read as follows: 58-
20a01. The system of plane coordinates which has been established by the
national ocean survey/national geodetic survey (formerly the United States
coast and geodetic survey) or its successors for defining and stating the
geographic positions or locations of points on the surface of the earth
within the state of Kansas shall be known as the Kansas coordinate system
of 1983.
For the purpose of the use of this system, the state is divided into a
north zone and a south zone.
The area now included north of the south line of the following counties
shall constitute the north zone: Wallace, Logan, Gove, Trego, Ellis,
Russell, Ellsworth, Saline, Dickinson, Morris, Wabaunsee, Shawnee,
Douglas and Johnson.
The area now included south of the north line of the following counties
shall constitute the south zone: Greeley, Wichita, Scott, Lane, Ness, Rush,
Barton, Rice, McPherson, Marion, Chase, Lyon, Osage, Franklin and
Miami The most recent system of plane coordinates established by the
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national oceanic and atmospheric administration's national geodetic
survey, or a successor agency, based on the national spatial reference
system, for defining and stating the geographic positions or locations of
points on, within or above the surface of the earth within the state of
Kansas are hereafter to be known and designated as the Kansas plane
coordinate system.
Sec. 5. K.S.A. 58-20a02 is hereby amended to read as follows: 58-
20a02. As established for use in the north zone, the Kansas coordinate
system of 1983 shall be named. In any land description in which it is used,
it shall be designated the "Kansas coordinate system 1983 north zone."
As established for use in the south zone, the Kansas coordinate system
of 1983 shall be named. In any land description in which it is used, it shall
be designated the "Kansas coordinate system 1983 south zone." The
Kansas plane coordinate system shall be named in any land description in
which it is used, and the zone used shall be specified in the description,
and if applicable, the geodetic datum and the epoch of the coordinates in
decimal years.
Sec. 6. K.S.A. 58-20a03 is hereby amended to read as follows: 58-
20a03. The plane coordinate values for a point on the earth's surface used
to express the geographic position or location of such point in the
appropriate zone of this the Kansas plane coordinate system, shall consist
of two distances expressed in feet and decimals of a foot or meters and
decimals of a meter when using the Kansas coordinate system of 1983.
One of the distances, to be known as the "Northing" or "N" shall give the
position in a north-and-south direction; the other, to be known as the
"Easting" or "E" shall give the position in an east-and-west direction.
These coordinates shall be made to depend upon and conform to plane
rectangular coordinate values for the monumented points of the North
American national geodetic horizontal network as published by the
national ocean survey/national geodetic survey (formerly the United States
coast and geodetic survey), or its successors, and whose plane coordinates
have been computed on the system defined in the act. Any such station or
point may be used for establishing a survey connection to the Kansas
coordinate system of 1983. If the values are expressed in feet, a definition
of one foot equals 0.3048 meter exactly is used as the standard foot for the
Kansas plane coordinate system. One of the two distances, to be known as
the east or x-coordinate, gives the distance east of the y-axis. The other
distance, to be known as the north or y-coordinate, gives the distance
north of the x-axis. The y-axis of any zone is parallel with the central
meridian of that zone. The x-axis of any zone is at right angles to the
central meridian of that zone. Height is the coordinate value of the vertical
elements of the national spatial reference system expressed in feet or
meters and identified as ellipsoid height or orthometric height.
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Sec. 7. K.S.A. 58-20a04 is hereby amended to read as follows: 58-
20a04. Descriptions of tracts of land by reference to subdivisions, lines or
corners of the United States public land survey, or other original pertinent
surveys, are hereby recognized as the basic and prevailing method for
describing such tracts. Whenever coordinates of the Kansas plane
coordinate system are used in such descriptions they shall be construed as
being supplementary to descriptions of such subdivisions, lines or corners
contained in official plats and field notes of record; and, in the event of
any conflict, the descriptions by reference to the subdivisions, lines or
corners of the United States public land surveys, or other original pertinent
surveys shall prevail over the description by coordinates.
Sec. 8. K.S.A. 58-20a05 is hereby amended to read as follows: 58-
20a05. When any tract of land to be defined by a single description
extends from one zone into the other of the above coordinate adjacent
zones, the position of all points on its boundaries may shall be referred to
either of the two exclusively to only one of the multiple zones, the zone
which that is used being specifically named shall be specified in the
description.
Sec. 9. K.S.A. 58-20a07 is hereby amended to read as follows: 58-
20a07. The use of the term "Kansas coordinate system of 1983 north zone"
or " Kansas plane coordinate system of 1983 south zone" on any map,
report of survey, or other document shall be limited to coordinates based
on the Kansas plane coordinate system as defined in this act.
Sec. 10. K.S.A. 58-20a01, 58-20a02, 58-20a03, 58-20a04, 58-20a05,
58-20a06 and 58-20a07 are hereby repealed.
Sec. 11. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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