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K.S.A. § 17-7931 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 79 / Section 17-7931
17-7931 - Registration of foreign covered entities with secretary of state.
Status: in_force

17-7931. Registration of foreign covered entities with secretary of state. Before doing business in the state of Kansas, a foreign covered entity shall register with the secretary of state. In order to register, a foreign covered entity shall submit to the secretary of state, together with payment of a fee if authorized by law, as provided by K.S.A. 17-7910, and amendments thereto, an original copy executed by a governor, of an application for registration as a foreign covered entity setting forth:

(a) The name of the foreign covered entity;

(b) the jurisdiction where organized;

(c) the date of its organization;

(d) a statement made under penalty of perjury that, as of the day of the filing, the foreign covered entity exists in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization;

(e) the nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted in the state of Kansas, including whether the covered entity operates for-profit or not-for-profit;

(f) the address of the registered office and the name and address of the resident agent for service of process required to be maintained by this act;

(g) an irrevocable written consent of the foreign covered entity that actions may be commenced against it in the proper court of any county where there is proper venue by the service of process on the secretary of state as provided for in K.S.A. 60-304, and amendments thereto, and stipulating and agreeing that such service shall be taken and held, in all courts, to be as valid and binding as if due service had been made upon the governors of the foreign covered entity; and

(h) the date on which the foreign covered entity first did, or intends to do, business in the state of Kansas.
K.S.A. § 66-1513 — KS Code / Chapter 66 / Article 15 / Section 66-1513
66-1513 - Contracts for professional services authorized; procedures; negotiating committee, composition and duties; exemption from certain statutes; "person" defined.
Status: in_force

66-1513. Contracts for professional services authorized; procedures; negotiating committee, composition and duties; exemption from certain statutes; "person" defined. (a) In accordance with the provisions of subsection (b), the state corporation commission is hereby authorized to contract for professional services, including but not limited to the services of engineers, accountants, attorneys and economists, to assist in investigations and appraisals under K.S.A. 66-1502, and amendments thereto, which assistance may include preparation and presentation of expert testimony, when the expenses of such professional services are required to be assessed under that statute against the public utilities involved.

(b) Such contracts shall be negotiated by a negotiating committee composed of the following persons: The general counsel of the state corporation commission or the designee of the general counsel; the director of the budget or the designee of the director; the director of accounts and reports or the designee of the director; and the director of the appropriate division of the state corporation commission, as determined and designated by the chairperson of the state corporation commission, or the designee of the director. When a contract authorized under subsection (a) is proposed to be entered into, the general counsel of the state corporation commission or the designee of the general counsel shall convene the negotiating committee. The negotiating committee shall consider all proposals by persons applying to perform such contract and shall award the contract.

(c) Such contracts shall not be subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 75-3739, and amendments thereto, or to the provisions of the acts contained in article 58 of chapter 75 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated.

(d) As used in this section, "person" means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association or other legal entity.
K.S.A. § 25-4177 — KS Code / Chapter 25 / Article 41 / Section 25-4177
25-4177 - Failure to file affidavit of intent; misdemeanor.
Status: in_force

25-4177. Failure to file affidavit of intent; misdemeanor. Failure to file an affidavit of intent is the intentional failure to file an affidavit as required by K.S.A. 25-4173 or 25-4175 or failing to file the reports required by the campaign finance act after a change in intent as required by K.S.A. 25-4174 or 25-4176.

Failure to file an affidavit of intent is a class A misdemeanor.
K.S.A. § 20-3002 — KS Code / Chapter 20 / Article 30 / Section 20-3002
20-3002 - Judges; number; selection; compensation; expenses; assignment to the supreme court.
Status: in_force

20-3002. Judges; number; selection; compensation; expenses; assignment to the supreme court. (a) The court of appeals shall consist of 14 judges whose positions shall be numbered one to 14.

(b) Judges of the court of appeals shall be appointed in the manner provided by K.S.A. 20-3020, and amendments thereto. Each judge of the court of appeals shall receive an annual salary in the amount prescribed by law. No judge of the court of appeals may receive additional compensation for official services performed by the judge. Each such judge shall be reimbursed for expenses incurred in the performance of such judge's official duties in the same manner and to the same extent justices of the supreme court are reimbursed for such expenses.

(c) The supreme court may assign a judge of the court of appeals to serve temporarily on the supreme court.

(d) Any additional court of appeals judge position created by this section shall be considered a position created by the supreme court and not a civil appointment to a state office pursuant to K.S.A. 46-234, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 76-7,142 — KS Code / Chapter 76 / Article 7 / Section 76-7,142
76-7,142 - Sales tax exemption, expenditures for engineering initiative facilities.
Status: in_force

76-7,142. Sales tax exemption, expenditures for engineering initiative facilities. Purchases by the board of regents or the state educational institutions relating to engineering initiative facilities shall not be subject to sales tax under K.S.A. 79-3601 et seq., and amendments thereto, or use tax under K.S.A. 79-3701 et seq., and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 39-965 — KS Code / Chapter 39 / Article 9 / Section 39-965
39-965 - Penalties for violations posing serious physical harm to resident.
Status: in_force

39-965. Penalties for violations posing serious physical harm to resident. (a) If the secretary for aging and disability services determines that an adult care home is in violation of or has violated any requirements, standards or rules and regulations established under the adult care home licensure act which violation can reasonably be determined to have resulted in, caused or posed serious physical harm to a resident, the secretary for aging and disability services in accordance with proceedings under the Kansas administrative procedure act, may assess a civil penalty against the licensee of such adult care home in an amount of not to exceed $1,000 per day per violation for each day the secretary finds that the adult care home was not in compliance with such requirements, standards or rules and regulations but the maximum assessment shall not exceed $10,000.

(b) All civil penalties assessed shall be due and payable in accordance with subsection (c) of K.S.A. 39-946 and K.S.A. 39-947, and amendments thereto.

(c) The secretary for aging and disability services may adopt rules and regulations which shall include due process procedures for the issuance of civil penalties relating to nursing facilities.

(d) The authority to assess civil penalties granted to the secretary for aging and disability services under this section is in addition to any other statutory authority of the secretary relating to the licensure and operation of adult care homes and is not to be construed to limit any of the powers and duties of the secretary for aging and disability services under the adult care home licensure act.

(e) This section shall be part of and supplemental to the adult care home licensure act.
K.S.A. § 5-432 — KS Code / Chapter 5 / Article 4 / Section 5-432
5-432 - Consolidation of separate arbitration proceedings.
Status: in_force

5-432. Consolidation of separate arbitration proceedings. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), upon motion of a party to an agreement to arbitrate or to an arbitration proceeding, the court may order consolidation of separate arbitration proceedings as to all or some of the claims if:

(1) There are separate agreements to arbitrate or separate arbitration proceedings between the same persons or one of them is a party to a separate agreement to arbitrate or a separate arbitration proceeding with a third person;

(2) the claims subject to the agreements to arbitrate arise in substantial part from the same transaction or series of related transactions;

(3) the existence of a common issue of law or fact creates the possibility of conflicting decisions in the separate arbitration proceedings; and

(4) prejudice resulting from a failure to consolidate is not outweighed by the risk of undue delay or prejudice to the rights of or hardship to parties opposing consolidation.

(b) The court may order consolidation of separate arbitration proceedings as to some claims and allow other claims to be resolved in separate arbitration proceedings.

(c) The court may not order consolidation of the claims of a party to an agreement to arbitrate if the agreement prohibits consolidation.
K.S.A. § 58-2566 — KS Code / Chapter 58 / Article 25 / Section 58-2566
58-2566 - Acceptance of late rent; effect.
Status: in_force

58-2566. Acceptance of late rent; effect. Acceptance of late payment of rent from the tenant without reservation by the landlord, or acceptance of performance by the tenant, other than for payment of rent, that varies from the terms of the rental agreement, constitutes a waiver of the landlord's right to terminate the rental agreement for that breach, unless otherwise agreed after the breach has occurred.
K.S.A. § 68-2204 — KS Code / Chapter 68 / Article 22 / Section 68-2204
68-2204 - Junkyards prohibited, when.
Status: in_force

68-2204. Junkyards prohibited, when. No person shall establish, operate, or maintain a junkyard, any portion of which is within one thousand (1,000) feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of any street or highway on the interstate system or the primary system, or any portion of which is within one thousand (1,000) feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of any other state, county, township highway, road, or city street, except the following:

(a) Those which are screened by natural objects, plantings, fences, or other appropriate means so as not to be visible from the main traveled way of the street or highway, or otherwise removed from sight.

(b) Those located within areas which are zoned for industrial use under authority of law.

(c) Those located within unzoned industrial areas, which areas shall be determined from actual land uses and defined by rules and regulations to be adopted by the secretary of transportation.

(d) Those which are not visible from the main traveled way of a street or highway on the interstate or the primary systems, or any other state, county, township highway, road, or city street.
K.S.A. § 46-283 — KS Code / Chapter 46 / Article 2 / Section 46-283
46-283 - "Major policy making" position defined.
Status: in_force

46-283. "Major policy making" position defined. "Major policy making" position means (a) the administrative head or heads or executive of a state agency or (b) the head of each department, division, bureau or other major administrative unit within a state agency.
K.S.A. § 55-1630 — KS Code / Chapter 55 / Article 16 / Section 55-1630
55-1630 - ssessments on production of oil and gas; oil and gas resources fund.
Status: in_force

55-1630. A ssessments on production of oil and gas; oil and gas resources fund. The Kansas oil and gas resources board is hereby authorized to levy assessments on the production of oil and natural gas in Kansas for the purposes of a petroleum education and marketing program. There is hereby created a special fund to be designated as the oil and gas resources fund. The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations and shall consist of all moneys received by the Kansas oil and gas resources board from assessments received and collected pursuant to K.S.A. 55-1631, and amendments thereto, and donations, grants, contributions and gifts from any public or private source.
K.S.A. § 75-4512 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 45 / Section 75-4512
75-4512 - Same; state agencies to use service; charges; rules and regulations.
Status: in_force

75-4512. Same; state agencies to use service; charges; rules and regulations. The secretary of administration shall provide and maintain central and consolidated mail services for state agencies. Each state agency shall use such central and consolidated mail services for the purpose of mailing all matter, but this provision shall not be construed as preventing any state agency from occasionally mailing directly or by other means any mail which requires special or expeditious handling.

The secretary of administration may adopt rules and regulations governing the use and operation of such central and consolidated mail services and the use of other postage as provided in K.S.A. 75-3706. Each state agency shall pay the entire postage charge required on all mail handled for such agency by the central and consolidated mail services at such time as may be determined by the secretary of administration.
K.S.A. § 48-2605 — KS Code / Chapter 48 / Article 26 / Section 48-2605
48-2605 - (KCMJ Art. 34) Advice of judge advocate.
Status: in_force

48-2605. (KCMJ Art. 34) Advice of judge advocate. Before proceeding to take action under this code, a commanding officer should confer with the commanding officer's servicing judge advocate for consideration and advice.
K.S.A. § 55-212 — KS Code / Chapter 55 / Article 2 / Section 55-212
55-212 - Lien of transporter of oil-field equipment, labor and materials; definitions.
Status: in_force

55-212. Lien of transporter of oil-field equipment, labor and materials; definitions. As used in this act: (a) The term "person" includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees and receivers in bankruptcy and reorganization of any group whether or not it is incorporated.

(b) The term "oil-field equipment" means oil-field supplies, oil-field machinery, materials, heavy machinery, buildings, tubing, tanks, boilers, engines, casing, wire lines, sucker rods, oil pipelines, gas pipelines and all other material used in digging, drilling, torpedoing, operating, completing, maintaining or repairing any such oil or gas wells or oil pipelines or gas pipelines, or in the construction or dismantling of refineries, casing-head gasoline plant and carbon black plants.
K.S.A. § 76-790 — KS Code / Chapter 76 / Article 7 / Section 76-790
76-790 - Privately-financed buildings; maintenance costs.
Status: in_force

76-790. Privately-financed buildings; maintenance costs. (a) As used in this section:

(1) "State educational institution" has the meaning ascribed thereto by K.S.A. 76-711, and amendments thereto.

(2) "Private moneys" means moneys from nongovernmental sources.

(3) "Improvement" means new construction of a building or other capital improvement of which at least 51% of the cost is financed with private moneys.

(4) "State board" means the state board of regents.

(b) Each state educational institution shall provide for the future annual maintenance and operation costs for an improvement. From and after July 1, 2007, the state board shall not request any moneys from the state general fund to pay for the cost of maintenance and operation of improvements which exceed the amount of moneys paid from the state general fund in fiscal year 2007 for such purpose.

The provisions of this subsection shall apply to any improvement approved by the state board after January 31, 2007.

(c) Each state educational institution shall submit to the state board a plan to provide for the annual maintenance and operation costs of an improvement when seeking approval for the making of such improvement from the state board.
K.S.A. § 19-4601 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 46 / Section 19-4601
19-4601 - Definitions.
Status: in_force

19-4601. Definitions. As used in this act:

(a) "Board" means a hospital board which is selected in accordance with the provisions of this act and which is vested with the management and control of a county hospital;

(b) "commission" means the board of county commissioners of any county;

(c) "hospital" means a medical care facility as defined in K.S.A. 65-425, and amendments thereto, and includes within its meaning any clinic, school of nursing, long-term care facility, limited care residential facility, child-care facility and joint enterprises for the provision of health care services operated in connection with the operation of the medical care facility;

(d) "hospital moneys" means, but is not limited to, moneys acquired through the issuance of bonds, the levy of taxes, the receipt of grants, donations, gifts, bequests, interest earned on investments authorized by this act and state or federal aid and from fees and charges for use of and services provided by the hospital;

(e) "limited care residential facility" means a facility, other than an adult care home, in which there are separate apartment-style living areas, bedrooms, bathrooms and individual utilities and in which some health related services are available;

(f) "joint enterprises" means a business undertaking by a hospital and one or more public or private entities for the provision of health care services.
K.S.A. § 19-3616 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 36 / Section 19-3616
19-3616 - Powers.
Status: in_force

19-3616. Powers. Upon the creation of a fire district pursuant to K.S.A. 19-3613, and amendments thereto, the governing body of the fire district shall have the authority to:

(a) Enter contracts;

(b) acquire, by lease or purchase, and dispose of real and personal property;

(c) acquire, by lease or purchase, construct, reconstruct, equip, operate, maintain and furnish buildings to house fire-fighting equipment;

(d) acquire, by lease or purchase, operate and maintain fire-fighting equipment;

(e) issue bonds, if approved by the board of county commissioners, as provided in K.S.A. 19-3601b, and amendments thereto;

(f) pay compensation and salaries to fire district employees;

(g) pay compensation to volunteer members of the fire district for fighting fires, responding to emergencies or attending meetings;

(h) issue no-fund warrants;

(i) exercise eminent domain;

(j) pay the operation and maintenance expenses of the fire district and any other expenses legally incurred by the fire district;

(k) prepare and adopt a budget, subject to the approval of the board of county commissioners;

(l) pay for the acquisition, installation or maintenance of one or more fire hydrants, or similar devices for fighting fires, including necessary equipment, services or supplies related thereto.

The acquisition, installation and maintenance shall be subject to the mutual agreement of the governing body of the fire district and the governing body of the rural water district which owns, operates or maintains the water line on which the fire hydrant, or other similar device for fighting fires, is to be installed; and

(m) do all other things necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act.
K.S.A. § 32-1120 — KS Code / Chapter 32 / Article 11 / Section 32-1120
32-1120 - Restrictions on motorboat exhaust noise; compliance; penalties.
Status: in_force

32-1120. Restrictions on motorboat exhaust noise; compliance; penalties. (a) A motorboat shall not be operated on the waters of this state under any condition or in any manner whereby the motorboat exhaust noise emits a sound level in excess of 92 decibels on the "A" weighted scale, when subjected to a stationary sound level test as prescribed by SAE J2005.

(b) The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply to motorboats officially registered and competing in or while on trial runs 48 hours immediately preceding a regatta, race, marine parade, tournament or exhibition which has been authorized or permitted by the department.

(c) Any officer authorized to enforce the provisions of this section who has reasonable suspicion to believe that a motorboat is not in compliance with the noise levels established in this section may direct the operator of such motorboat to submit the motorboat to an on-site test to measure noise levels, with the officer on board if such officer chooses, and the operator shall comply with such request. The owner of any motorboat which violates any provision of this section shall have sixty days from the date of the violation to bring the motorboat into compliance with the provisions of this section. Thereafter, it shall be the owner's responsibility to have the motorboat tested by the department. If the motorboat fails such test, the motorboat shall not be operated on the waters of this state until the department certifies that the motorboat is in compliance with the provisions of this section. Failure to comply with a request or direction of an officer made pursuant to this subsection is a class C misdemeanor. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the officer's ability to enforce this section and to issue citations to the owner or operator of any motorboat during the sixty-day compliance period.
K.S.A. § 65-2886 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 28 / Section 65-2886
65-2886 - Licensee to comply with public health laws and regulations.
Status: in_force

65-2886. Licensee to comply with public health laws and regulations. Every licensee hereunder shall be subject to all state and municipal regulations relating to the control of contagious and infectious diseases; sign death certificates and any and all matters pertaining to public health, and shall report all matters pertaining to public health as required by law.
K.S.A. § 59-505 — KS Code / Chapter 59 / Article 5 / Section 59-505
59-505 - Surviving spouse entitled to 1/2 of real estate.
Status: in_force

59-505. Surviving spouse entitled to 1 / 2 of real estate. Except as provided further, the surviving spouse shall be entitled to receive one-half of all real estate of which the decedent at any time during the marriage was seized or possessed and to the disposition whereof the survivor shall not have consented in writing, or by a will, or by an election as provided by law to take under a will, except such real estate as has been sold on execution or judicial sale, or taken by other legal proceeding. The surviving spouse shall not be entitled to any interest under the provisions of this section in any real estate of which such decedent in such decedent's lifetime made a conveyance, when such spouse at the time of the conveyance was not a resident of this state and never had been during the existence of the marriage relation. The spouse's entitlement under this section shall be included as part of the surviving spouse's property under K.S.A. 59-6a207, and amendments thereto.