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K.S.A. § 60-603 — KS Code / Chapter 60 / Article 6 / Section 60-603
60-603 - Actions against residents.
Status: in_force

60-603. Actions against residents. An action against a resident of this state, other than an action for which venue is otherwise specifically prescribed by law may be brought in the county,

(1) in which the defendant resides, or

(2) in which the plaintiff resides if the defendant is served therein, or

(3) in which the cause of action arose, or

(4) in which the defendant has a place of business or of employment if said defendant is served therein, or

(5) in which the estate of a deceased person is being probated if such deceased person was jointly liable with the defendant and a demand to enforce such liability has been duly exhibited in the probate proceedings, or

(6) in which there is located tangible personal property which is the subject of an action for the possession thereof if immediate possession is sought in accordance with K.S.A. 60-1005 at the time of the filing of the action.
K.S.A. § 60-418 — KS Code / Chapter 60 / Article 4 / Section 60-418
60-418 - Oath.
Status: in_force

60-418. Oath. Every witness before testifying shall be required to express his or her purpose to testify by the oath or affirmation required by law.
K.S.A. § 8-1401 — KS Code / Chapter 8 / Article 14 / Section 8-1401
8-1401 - Definitions applicable to uniform act regulating traffic on highways.
Status: in_force

8-1401. Definitions applicable to uniform act regulating traffic on highways. As used in this act, the words and phrases defined in the sections of article 14 of chapter 8 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them therein.
K.S.A. § 12-4106 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 41 / Section 12-4106
12-4106 - Municipal judge; powers and duties.
Status: in_force

12-4106. Municipal judge; powers and duties. (a) The municipal judge shall have the power to administer the oaths and enforce all orders, rules and judgments made by such municipal judge, and may fine or imprison for contempt in the same manner and to the same extent as a judge of the district court.

(b) The municipal judge shall have the power to hear and determine all cases properly brought before such municipal judge to: Grant continuances; sentence those found guilty to a fine or confinement in jail, or both; commit accused persons to jail in default of bond; determine applications for parole; release on probation; grant time in which a fine may be paid; correct a sentence; suspend imposition of a sentence; set aside a judgment; permit time for post trial motions; and discharge accused persons.

(c) The municipal judge shall maintain a docket in which every cause commenced before such municipal judge shall be entered. Such docket shall contain the names of the accused persons and complainant, the nature or character of the offense, the date of trial, the names of all witnesses sworn and examined, the finding of the court, the judgment and sentence, the date of payment, the date of issuing commitment, if any, and every other fact necessary to show the full proceedings in each case.

(d) The municipal judge shall promptly make such reports and furnish the information requested by any departmental justice or the judicial administrator, in the manner and form prescribed by the supreme court.

(e) The municipal judge shall ensure that information concerning dispositions of city ordinance violations that result in convictions comparable to convictions for offenses under Kansas criminal statutes is forwarded to the Kansas bureau of investigation central repository. This information shall be transmitted, on a form or in a format approved by the attorney general, within 30 days of final disposition.

(f) In all cases alleging a violation of a city ordinance prohibiting the acts prohibited by K.S.A. 8-2,144, 8-1567 or 32-1131 or K.S.A. 21-6419 or 21-6421, and amendments thereto, the municipal court judge shall ensure that the municipal court reports the filing and disposition of such case to the Kansas bureau of investigation central repository, and, on and after July 1, 2014, reports the filing and disposition of such case electronically to the Kansas bureau of investigation central repository.

(g) In all cases in which a fine is imposed for a violation of a city ordinance prohibiting the acts prohibited by K.S.A. 8-2,144 or 8-1567 or K.S.A. 21-6421, and amendments thereto, the municipal court judge shall ensure that the municipal court remits the appropriate amount of such fine to the state treasurer as provided in K.S.A. 12-4120, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 22-3425 — KS Code / Chapter 22 / Article 34 / Section 22-3425
22-3425 - Commitment for failure to pay fine and costs.
Status: in_force

22-3425. Commitment for failure to pay fine and costs. (1) When a defendant is adjudged to pay a fine and costs, the court may order him to be committed to the county jail until such fine and costs are paid or may make an order providing for the payment of such fines and costs in installments.

(2) Any person confined in the county jail for failure to pay a fine or costs may be released by the court which imposed sentence, upon satisfactory proof that such person is unable to pay such fine and costs. A release under this section shall not discharge a person from his liability to pay the fine and costs adjudged against him, but they may thereafter be collected by execution as on judgments in civil cases.
K.S.A. § 74-6507 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 65 / Section 74-6507
74-6507 - Executive director; qualifications.
Status: in_force

74-6507. Executive director; qualifications. The executive director of the commission shall be qualified by education and experience to assume the responsibilities of such office and be able to converse and write fluently in both the English and Spanish languages.
K.S.A. § 17-2707 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 27 / Section 17-2707
17-2707 - Professional corporation law; definitions.
Status: in_force

17-2707. Professional corporation law; definitions. As used in this act, unless the context clearly indicates that a different meaning is intended:

(a) "Professional corporation" means a corporation organized under this act.

(b) "Professional service" means the type of personal service rendered by a person duly licensed, registered or certified by this state as a member of any of the following professions, each paragraph constituting one type:

(1) A certified public accountant;

(2) an architect;

(3) an attorney-at-law;

(4) a chiropractor;

(5) a dentist;

(6) an engineer;

(7) an optometrist;

(8) an osteopathic physician or surgeon;

(9) a physician, surgeon or doctor of medicine;

(10) a veterinarian;

(11) a podiatrist;

(12) a pharmacist;

(13) a land surveyor;

(14) a licensed psychologist;

(15) a specialist in clinical social work;

(16) a licensed physical therapist;

(17) a landscape architect;

(18) a registered professional nurse;

(19) a real estate broker or salesperson;

(20) a clinical professional counselor;

(21) a geologist;

(22) a clinical psychotherapist;

(23) a clinical marriage and family therapist;

(24) a licensed physician assistant;

(25) a licensed occupational therapist;

(26) a licensed audiologist;

(27) a licensed speech-pathologist; and

(28) a licensed naturopathic doctor.

(c) "Regulating board" means the court, board or state agency that is charged with the licensing, registering or certifying and regulation of the practice of the profession that the professional corporation is organized to render.

(d) "Qualified person" means:

(1) Any natural person licensed, registered or certified to practice the same type of profession that any professional corporation is authorized to practice;

(2) the trustee of a trust that is a qualified trust under section 401(a) of the federal internal revenue code, as in effect on January 1, 2004, or of a contribution plan that is a qualified employee stock ownership plan under section 409A(a) of the federal internal revenue code, as in effect on January 1, 2004;

(3) the trustee of a revocable living trust established by a natural person who is licensed, registered or certified to practice the type of profession that any professional corporation is authorized to practice, if the terms of such trust provide that such natural person is the principal beneficiary and sole trustee of such trust and such trust does not continue to hold title to professional corporation stock following such natural person's death for more than a reasonable period of time necessary to dispose of such stock; or

(4) a healing arts school clinic authorized to perform professional services in accordance with K.S.A. 65-2877a, and amendments thereto .
K.S.A. § 77-112 — KS Code / Chapter 77 / Article 1 / Section 77-112
77-112 - Continuation of existing laws in Revised Statutes of 1923.
Status: in_force

77-112. Continuation of existing laws in Revised Statutes of 1923. The provisions of the Revised Statutes, so far as they are the same as those of prior laws, shall be construed as a continuation of such laws, and not as new enactments.
K.S.A. § 74-5515 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 55 / Section 74-5515
74-5515 - Access to certain records by developmental disabilities protection and advocacy agency; confidentiality of records; "records" defined.
Status: in_force

74-5515. Access to certain records by developmental disabilities protection and advocacy agency; confidentiality of records; "records" defined. (a) The agency designated as the developmental disabilities protection and advocacy agency pursuant to P.L. 94-103, as amended, and P.L. 99-319, as amended, shall have access to records of:

(1) Any developmentally disabled or mentally ill person who is a client of the agency and has authorized access or if such person's legal guardian, conservator or other legal representative has authorized such access.

(2) Any developmentally disabled or mentally ill person, including a person who has died or whose whereabouts is unknown, whose physical or mental condition will not allow such person to grant the agency authorization to access if:

(A) A complaint has been received by the agency from or on behalf of such person or there is probable cause to believe, as a result of monitoring or other activities, that such person has been subject to abuse or neglect; and

(B) such person does not have a legal guardian, conservator or other legal representative, or the state or a designee of the state is the legal guardian of such person.

(3) Any person with a developmental disability who has a legal guardian, conservator or other legal representative with respect to whom a complaint has been received by the agency or with respect to whom there is probable cause to believe the health or safety of the individual is in serious and immediate jeopardy whenever:

(A) Such representative has been contacted by the agency upon receipt of the name and address of such representative;

(B) the agency has offered assistance to such representative to resolve the situation; and

(C) such representative has failed or refused to act on behalf of the person.

(b) The agency shall maintain the confidentiality of any records it obtains under this section to the same extent as is required by the facility, agency, person or other entity from which such records are obtained.

(c) As used in this section, "records" include reports prepared by any staff of a facility rendering care and treatment or reports prepared by an agency charged with investigating reports of incidents of abuse, neglect, injury or death occurring at such facility that describe incidents of abuse, neglect, injury or death occurring at such facility, and the steps taken to investigate such incidents, and discharge planning records.
K.S.A. § 17-6406 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 64 / Section 17-6406
17-6406 - Partly paid certificated shares.
Status: in_force

17-6406. Partly paid certificated shares. Any corporation may issue the whole or any part of its shares as partly paid and subject to call for the remainder of the consideration to be paid therefor. Upon the face or back of each stock certificate issued to represent any such partly paid certificated shares, or upon the books and records of the corporation in the case of uncertificated partly paid shares, the total amount of the consideration to be paid therefor and the amount paid thereon shall be stated. Upon the declaration of any dividend on fully paid shares, the corporation shall declare a dividend upon partly paid shares of the same class, but only upon the basis of the percentage of the consideration actually paid thereon.
K.S.A. § 26-518 — KS Code / Chapter 26 / Article 5 / Section 26-518
26-518 - Acquisition of real property; duties of condemning authority.
Status: in_force

26-518. Acquisition of real property; duties of condemning authority. Whenever federal funding is not involved, and real property is acquired by any condemning authority through negotiation in advance of a condemnation action or through a condemnation action, and which acquisition will result in the displacement of any person, the condemning authority shall:

(a) Provide the displaced person, as defined in the federal uniform relocation assistance and real property acquisition policies act of 1970, fair and reasonable relocation payments and assistance to or for displaced persons.

(b) Fair and reasonable relocation payments and assistance to or for displaced persons as provided under sections 202, 203 and 204 of the federal uniform relocation assistance and real property acquisition policies act of 1970, and amendments thereto, shall be deemed fair and reasonable relocation payments and assistance pursuant to this section.

(c) Nothing in this section shall preclude the voluntary negotiation of fair and reasonable relocation payments and assistance between the displaced person and condemning authority. If such negotiations lead to agreement between the displaced person and the condemning authority, that agreement shall be deemed fair and reasonable.
K.S.A. § 42-343 — KS Code / Chapter 42 / Article 3 / Section 42-343
42-343 - Filing copy of agreement for rotation of water with superintendent; water to be distributed according to such agreement.
Status: in_force

42-343. Filing copy of agreement for rotation of water with superintendent; water to be distributed according to such agreement. Whenever any agreement shall be entered for the rotation of the water of any ditch, conduit, reservoirs or other works, or any lateral of such ditch or conduit, or any part of such water, among those entitled to the use of such water, such agreement, or one part or copy thereof, shall be delivered to the superintendent of the ditch, conduit, reservoir, or lateral, and be by him carefully preserved, and he shall cause the water to which the parties thereto may be entitled to be rotated and distributed conformably to the said agreement, during the time mentioned therein for the continuance in force of such agreement.
K.S.A. § 16-110 — KS Code / Chapter 16 / Article 1 / Section 16-110
16-110 - Conveyances of improvements on public lands.
Status: in_force

16-110. Conveyances of improvements on public lands. Deeds of quitclaim and other conveyances of improvements upon public lands shall be as binding, and effectual between the parties, for conveying the title of the grantor in and to the same, as in cases where the grantor has the fee simple to the premises conveyed.
K.S.A. § 14-1304 — KS Code / Chapter 14 / Article 13 / Section 14-1304
14-1304 - Bond of the mayor and commissioners; fixing the amount.
Status: in_force

14-1304. Bond of the mayor and commissioners; fixing the amount. (a) The mayor and each of the commissioners, before entering upon the duties of office, shall give a good and sufficient surety bond, to be executed by a bonding company authorized to do business in Kansas, payable to and for the use and benefit of any such city, in the sum of not less than $5,000, conditioned for the faithful discharge of duties, and that such officer will save the city harmless from all loss caused by neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, or for the willful expenditure or misappropriation of any moneys, property or securities of such city in violation of law.

(b) The cost of such surety bonds shall be borne by such city. In any city of the second class where the mayor or one of the commissioners is the custodian of any money or negotiable securities belonging to such city as the part of any trust fund, or other fund of the city, amounting to more than $5,000, such custodian of such money or securities shall furnish a surety bond as herein provided in a sum equal to the total amount of such money and securities in such person's possession as such custodian. The cost of such bond shall be borne by the city.

(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply if the mayor or commissioners are included within a blanket or other surety bond covering other officers and employees of the city, in an amount not less than required by subsection (a) or (b).
K.S.A. § 19-714 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 7 / Section 19-714
19-714 - Measures for conviction of election or license offenders.
Status: in_force

19-714. Measures for conviction of election or license offenders. It shall be the duty of each county attorney, upon information being given him that any person has violated any of the provisions of the election laws, or license laws, to adopt effectual measures for the conviction of such person.
K.S.A. § 84-9-333 — KS Code / Chapter 84 / Article 9 / Section 84-9-333
84-9-333 - Priority of certain liens arising by operation of law.
Status: in_force

84-9-333. Priority of certain liens arising by operation of law. (a) "Possessory lien." In this section, "possessory lien" means an interest, other than a security interest or an agricultural lien:

(1) Which secures payment or performance of an obligation for services or materials furnished with respect to goods by a person in the ordinary course of the person's business;

(2) which is created by statute or rule of law in favor of the person; and

(3) whose effectiveness depends on the person's possession of the goods.

(b) Priority of possessory lien. A possessory lien on goods has priority over a security interest in the goods unless the lien is created by a statute that expressly provides otherwise.
K.S.A. § 65-481 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 4 / Section 65-481
65-481 - Rural emergency hospital act; citation of act.
Status: in_force

65-481. Rural emergency hospital act; citation of act. K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 65-481 through 65-488, and amendments thereto, shall be known and may be cited as the rural emergency hospital act.
K.S.A. § 16-118 — KS Code / Chapter 16 / Article 1 / Section 16-118
16-118 - Requirements; failure to comply.
Status: in_force

16-118. Requirements; failure to comply. (a) A debtor or a creditor may not maintain an action for legal or equitable relief or a defense, based in either case upon a failure to perform on an alleged credit agreement, unless the material terms and conditions of the agreement are in writing and signed by the creditor and the debtor.

(b) All credit agreements shall contain a clear, conspicuous and printed notice to the debtor that states that the written credit agreement is a final expression of the credit agreement between the creditor and debtor and such written credit agreement may not be contradicted by evidence of any prior oral credit agreement or of a contemporaneous oral credit agreement between the creditor and debtor. A written credit agreement shall contain a sufficient space for the placement of nonstandard terms, including the reduction to writing of a previous oral credit agreement and an affirmation, signed or initialed by the debtor and the creditor, that no unwritten oral credit agreement between the parties exists.

(c) Failure to comply with provisions of subsections (a) and (b) shall preclude an action or defense based on any of the following legal or equitable theories: (1) An implied agreement based on course of dealing or performance or on a fiduciary relationship; (2) promissory or equitable estoppel; (3) part performance; or (4) negligent representation.
K.S.A. § 12-1660 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 16 / Section 12-1660
12-1660 - Same; historical society as supervisor or curator, when; compensation.
Status: in_force

12-1660. Same; historical society as supervisor or curator, when; compensation. If there is within the city or county in which such historical collection as provided in this act is established, an organized historical society, such society may be designated by the governing body as supervisor or curator of such historical collection, and the governing body may provide to such society compensation, funds or reimbursements for supervising, housing, displaying, caring for and maintaining such collection.
K.S.A. § 75-5722 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 57 / Section 75-5722
75-5722 - Chief attorney and additional attorneys for department; appointment and salaries.
Status: in_force

75-5722. Chief attorney and additional attorneys for department; appointment and salaries. The secretary of labor shall appoint a chief attorney for the department of labor, who shall serve at the pleasure of the secretary. The chief attorney shall be in the unclassified service under the Kansas civil service act and shall receive an annual salary fixed by the secretary of labor, with the approval of the governor. The secretary of labor also may appoint additional attorneys for the department of labor. Except for those attorneys the secretary may appoint to positions in the classified service under the Kansas civil service act in order to comply with directives under any federal act, or federal administration thereof, which federal act is related to a function or duty required to be performed by the secretary, such additional attorneys shall be in the unclassified service under the Kansas civil service act, shall receive an annual salary fixed by the secretary of labor, with the approval of the governor, and shall be subject to assignment and reassignment of duties within the department of labor as may be determined by the chief attorney.
K.S.A. § 19-4624 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 46 / Section 19-4624
19-4624 - Title to property.
Status: in_force

19-4624. Title to property. Title to any real or personal hospital property shall be vested in the county where the hospital is located.
K.S.A. § 55-501 — KS Code / Chapter 55 / Article 5 / Section 55-501
55-501 - Pipelines declared common carriers.
Status: in_force

55-501. Pipelines declared common carriers. All pipelines laid, built or maintained for the conveyance of crude oil within the state of Kansas are hereby declared to be common carriers, and said conveyance of said oil shall be in the manner and under the restrictions in this act provided.