Kan. Stat. § 12-415
On the filing of such petition the person or officer filing the same may file a praecipe with the clerk of such court, requiring him or her to issue a summons in said action, directed to the sheriff of said county, notifying such persons as may be named in such praecipe of the pendency of such action, and said clerk shall thereupon issue such summons in the form, manner and name in which, and of the purport of the summons provided for in civil actions under said code of civil procedure, and the said sheriff shall serve the same upon the persons named therein, and the same shall be returnable and he or she shall return the same in like manner as is provided by law for the service and return of summons in civil actions under said code; and such person or officer filing such petition shall cause a notice of the pendency of such action to be published for the time and in the manner as provided in Laws of 1909, chapter 182, section 80*, for the publication of a summons in a civil action.
Such notice shall state the court in which the petition is filed, the name of the person or officer filing the same, the substance of the prayer thereof, and shall be addressed to all persons and corporations interested in the establishment on the records of the county (naming it), of the chart, map or plat of the town, village or city, as the case may be (naming it), and shall require that an answer or answers to said petition be filed on or before the time fixed therein, which time shall be the same as provided for in said section of the civil code of procedure, or such petition will be taken as true, and such chart, map or plat so established as prayed for; and no other naming of the persons or corporations, public or private, interested in said action, than as in this section provided, shall be required.
K.S.A. 12-415