The act or process of forming or creating; the formation of a legal or political body, with the quality of perpetual existence and succession, unless limited by the act of incorporation is known as Incorporation. Incorporation procedures and requisites are governed by state statutes. In the civil law, the union of one domain to another. The legislature provides by general law, methods by which city boundaries may be altered, merged, consolidated and dissolved. [Kansas home rule amendment, Kansas constitution, Article 12, § 5(a)]
In order for a city to be incorporated, there must be 300 or more persons living in the area to be incorporated and a petition must be signed by 50 or more people of voting age. Then the petition is presented
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