Kan. Stat. § 80-1526
Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-270, whenever 40 or more industries and taxpayers located in any township covered by the provisions of this act are actively operated in an industrial area or district of such township, which by character and location are predominately industrial and used for industrial purposes, and such industries or more than 60% thereof are members of an incorporated, nonprofit association organized under the laws of this state to objectively plan for the safety, good order and welfare of industries and employees thereof in the industrial area or district of such township, such incorporated association or any other organized group representing 60% of the operated factories and warehouses therein or a majority of industries in any proposed special fire protection district of any such township, may petition separately or together, the township board to designate, organize and fix the official boundary of a special fire protection district in such township. Such petition shall be in writing and signed by a majority of the industries or by an incorporated industrial association as hereinbefore set out or any organized group representing more than 60% of the factories and warehouses operating and located in proposed special fire protection district as herein set out and further reciting and showing by such petition in writing the name under which special fire protection district should be known, if authorized.
All such petitions also shall describe the land included in the special district, to which a map shall be attached showing each tract of land in the boundary of the special district to correspond with the records of the county clerk of the county in which such township is located. If such petition is signed by an incorporated industrial association or organized group as representatives of operated factories and warehouses, the names of the industries and taxpayers so represented shall be shown.
K.S.A. 80-1526