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K.S.A. § 17-1903 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 19 / Section 17-1903
17-1903 - Entry upon and condemnation of land.
Status: in_force

17-1903. Entry upon and condemnation of land. Such companies are also authorized to enter upon any lands, whether owned by private persons in fee, or in any less estate, or by any corporation, whether acquired by purchase or by virtue of any provision in the charter of such corporation, for the purpose of making preliminary surveys and examinations, with a view to the erection of any telegraph lines; and, from time to time to appropriate so much of said lands as may be necessary to erect such poles, piers, abutments, wires and other necessary fixtures for a magnetic telegraph, and to make such changes of location of any part of said lines as may from time to time be deemed necessary, and shall have a right of access to construct said line, and when erected from time to time as may be required, to repair the same, and may proceed to obtain the right-of-way, and to condemn lands for the use of the corporation in the manner provided by K.S.A. 26-501 to 26-516, inclusive.
K.S.A. § 40-4509 — KS Code / Chapter 40 / Article 45 / Section 40-4509
40-4509 - Same; conditions; manager to provide reinsurer annual statement of financial condition; actuarial opinion on adequacy of loss reserves; authority over retrocessional contracts and syndicate participation; notice of contract termination to commissioner; reinsurance manager, officers, directors, employees, controlling shareholders and subproducers ineligible for appointment to reinsurer board.
Status: in_force

40-4509. Same; conditions; manager to provide reinsurer annual statement of financial condition; actuarial opinion on adequacy of loss reserves; authority over retrocessional contracts and syndicate participation; notice of contract termination to commissioner; reinsurance manager, officers, directors, employees, controlling shareholders and subproducers ineligible for appointment to reinsurer board. (a) A reinsurer shall not engage the services of any person, firm, association or corporation to act as a reinsurance manager on its behalf unless such person is licensed as required by subsection (b) of K.S.A. 40-4503.

(b) The reinsurer shall annually obtain a copy of statements of the financial condition of each reinsurance manager which such reinsurer has engaged to be prepared by an independent certified accountant in a form acceptable to the commissioner.

(c) If a reinsurance manager establishes loss reserves, the reinsurer shall annually obtain the opinion of an actuary attesting to the adequacy of loss reserves established for losses incurred and outstanding on business produced by the reinsurance manager. This opinion shall be in addition to any other required loss reserve certification.

(d) Binding authority for all retrocessional contracts or participation in reinsurance syndicates shall rest with an officer of the reinsurer who shall not be affiliated with the reinsurance manager.

(e) Within 30 days of termination of a contract with a reinsurance manager, the reinsurer shall provide written notification of such termination to the commissioner.

(f) A reinsurer shall not appoint to its board of directors, any officer, director, employee, controlling shareholder or subproducer of its reinsurance manager. This subsection shall not apply to relationships governed by the holding company act or, if applicable, the broker controlled insurer act.
K.S.A. § 3-322 — KS Code / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 3-322
3-322 - Same; second resolution; when, limitations; effect.
Status: in_force

3-322. Same; second resolution; when, limitations; effect. When an initial resolution has been adopted under K.S.A. 3-316, and such resolution specified a smaller number of mills than two or a smaller number of years than five, the board of county commissioners of such county may adopt a second resolution under the same procedure as is provided in K.S.A. 3-316 for the initial resolution and subject to the same conditions as provided in K.S.A. 3-316 shall be authorized to make such additional tax levy as is specified in such second resolution for the remainder of the five years succeeding the adoption of such initial resolution. Any such second resolution shall be limited in amount as specified in K.S.A. 3-316, less such amount as has been authorized in the initial resolution, and not to exceed two mills in any one year. In the event that any such resolution is so adopted and the tax levy therein specified is approved under the conditions specified in K.S.A. 3-316, the amount of bonds which may be issued under K.S.A. 3-319 shall be increased accordingly.
K.S.A. § 47-1723 — KS Code / Chapter 47 / Article 17 / Section 47-1723
47-1723 - Boarding or training kennel operator license.
Status: in_force

47-1723. Boarding or training kennel operator license. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, except a licensed veterinarian, to act as or be a boarding or training kennel operator unless such person has obtained from the commissioner a boarding or training kennel operator license for each premises operated by such person. Application for such license shall be made in writing on a form provided by the commissioner. The license period shall be for the license year ending on September 30 following the issuance date.

(b) This section shall be part of and supplemental to K.S.A. 47-1701 et seq., and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 58-3813 — KS Code / Chapter 58 / Article 38 / Section 58-3813
58-3813 - Validity of conservation easement.
Status: in_force

58-3813. Validity of conservation easement. A conservation easement is valid even though:

(a) It is not appurtenant to an interest in real property;

(b) it can be or has been assigned to another holder;

(c) it is not of a character that has been recognized traditionally at common law;

(d) it imposes a negative burden;

(e) it imposes affirmative obligations upon the owner of an interest in the burdened property or upon the holder;

(f) the benefit does not touch or concern real property; or

(g) there is no privity of estate or of contract.
K.S.A. § 73-1227 — KS Code / Chapter 73 / Article 12 / Section 73-1227
73-1227 - Same; fiscal impact study identifying budgetary impact thereof.
Status: in_force

73-1227. Same; fiscal impact study identifying budgetary impact thereof. Subject to funds available, the director shall conduct a fiscal impact study, aimed at identifying the annual budgetary impact of Gulf War syndrome on Kansas in terms of increased costs of education, medical coverage, correction of birth defects and other expenses identified through the results of the surveys conducted under K.S.A. 73-1224, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 74-522 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 5 / Section 74-522
74-522 - Expenses of members.
Status: in_force

74-522. Expenses of members. The members of the Kansas state fair board when attending meetings authorized by the board shall be paid compensation, subsistence allowances, mileage and other expenses as provided in K.S.A. 75-3223 and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 40-2,110 — KS Code / Chapter 40 / Article 2 / Section 40-2,110
40-2,110 - Reporting fire losses; rules and regulations; report forms.
Status: in_force

40-2,110. Reporting fire losses; rules and regulations; report forms. (a) Every property or casualty insurance company transacting business in this state shall file with the state fire marshal, directly or through a reporting service, a monthly report of each fire loss paid which exceeds five hundred dollars ($500) and an annual report setting forth the total number of fire losses and the total amount of losses paid.

(b) The state fire marshal shall adopt rules and regulations prescribing the contents of the reports required to be filed pursuant to the provisions of subsection (a) and prescribing the time for filing such reports. The state fire marshal shall make report forms available upon request.
K.S.A. § 72-2670 — KS Code / Chapter 72 / Article 26 / Section 72-2670
72-2670 - Employees' retirement fund in certain cities between 120,000 and 200,000; definitions.
Status: in_force

72-2670. Employees' retirement fund in certain cities between 120,000 and 200,000; definitions. Unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context the following words and phrases, as used in this act, shall have the following meanings:

(a) "School employee" shall mean any person regularly employed, and paid out of public funds, to perform services for the school district, and shall include all teachers, principals, superintendents, supervisors, librarians, clerks, secretaries, school nurses, attendance officers, managers, engineers, building superintendents, maintenance and repairmen, custodians, and all other persons regularly employed by the board of education.

(b) "Regularly employed" shall mean employed for the major part of the working days, as distinguished from being employed as a substitute or for part-time work or less than a major part of the time.

(c) "A school service year" shall mean a twelve-month period during which a school employee has received at least one-half of his normal annual salary.

(d) "School annuitant" shall mean any person who is entitled to receive a school annuity or a disability annuity.

(e) "School annuity" shall mean the annual payment due to any school annuitant. Such annual payment shall continue for life, and be paid in equal monthly installments.

(f) "Disability annuity" shall mean a school annuity granted to a school employee who suffers such physical or mental disability as to be unable to perform school service.

(g) "Salary" shall mean the amount actually paid to the school employee for personal services plus the amount, if any, paid by the board of education toward an annuity for the school employee.
K.S.A. § 17-7915 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 79 / Section 17-7915
17-7915 - Service of process on covered entity or series of a limited liability company.
Status: in_force

17-7915. Service of process on covered entity or series of a limited liability company. Service of process in any action against a covered entity or a series of a limited liability company shall be made in the manner described in K.S.A. 60-304, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 55-802 — KS Code / Chapter 55 / Article 8 / Section 55-802
55-802 - When compact binding.
Status: in_force

55-802. When compact binding. No compact made under the authority of this act shall bind this state, unless and until:

(a) Said compact shall be ratified by the legislatures of two of the states of Texas, Oklahoma, California, Kansas, and New Mexico, and the legislature of this state, and congress shall consent thereto;

(b) Congress shall make provision for the limitation of importations of petroleum and the products thereof, including natural asphalt, to not to exceed 4.5 percent of the domestic allowable production of crude petroleum as determined in accordance with the findings referred to in K.S.A. 55-801;

(c) Congress shall provide for the control of interstate movement of petroleum produced or withdrawn from storage in violation of the law and valid regulations of the several states, and products of such petroleum;

(d) Congress shall provide for the control of interstate movement of petroleum produced in any state in excess of the determination, referred to in K.S.A. 55-801, of allowable production within said state as approved by the president, and products of such petroleum.
K.S.A. § 39-1106 — KS Code / Chapter 39 / Article 11 / Section 39-1106
39-1106 - Same; name and citation of act.
Status: in_force

39-1106. Same; name and citation of act. This act shall be known and may be cited as the Kansas white cane law.
K.S.A. § 59-30,178 — KS Code / Chapter 59 / Article 30 / Section 59-30,178
59-30,178 - Distribution from conservatorship estate.
Status: in_force

59-30,178. Distribution from conservatorship estate. Except as otherwise provided in K.S.A. 59-30,179, and amendments thereto, or as qualified or limited in the court's order of appointment and stated in the letters of office, and unless contrary to a conservator's plan under K.S.A. 59-30,180, and amendments thereto, the conservator may expend or distribute income or principal of the conservatorship estate without specific court authorization or confirmation for the support, care, education, health or welfare of the individual subject to conservatorship or an individual who is in fact dependent on the individual subject to conservatorship, including the payment of child or spousal support, in accordance with the following rules:

(a) The conservator shall consider a recommendation relating to the appropriate standard of support, care, education, health, or welfare for the individual subject to conservatorship or individual who is dependent on the individual subject to conservatorship, made by a guardian for the individual subject to conservatorship, if any, and, if the individual subject to conservatorship is a minor, a recommendation made by a parent of the minor.

(b) The conservator acting in compliance with the conservator's duties under section 99, and amendments thereto, is not liable for an expenditure or distribution made based on a recommendation under subsection (a) unless the conservator knows the expenditure or distribution is not in the best interest of the individual subject to conservatorship.

(c) In making an expenditure or distribution under this section, the conservator shall consider:

(1) The size of the conservatorship estate, the estimated duration of the conservatorship and the likelihood the individual subject to conservatorship, at some future time, may be fully self-sufficient and able to manage the individual's financial affairs and the conservatorship estate;

(2) the accustomed standard of living of the individual subject to conservatorship and individual who is dependent on the individual subject to conservatorship;

(3) other funds or source used for the support of the individual subject to conservatorship; and

(4) the preferences, values and prior directions of the individual subject to conservatorship.

(d) Subject to K.S.A. 59-30,120, and amendments thereto, funds expended or distributed under this section may be paid by the conservator to any person, including the individual subject to conservatorship, as reimbursement for expenditures the conservator might have made, or in advance for services to be provided to the individual subject to conservatorship or individual who is dependent on the individual subject to conservatorship if it is reasonable to expect the services will be performed and advance payment is customary or reasonably necessary under the circumstances.
K.S.A. § 20-320 — KS Code / Chapter 20 / Article 3 / Section 20-320
20-320 - Duties of chief justice; records and report.
Status: in_force

20-320. Duties of chief justice; records and report. The chief justice shall analyze and study such reports as are submitted to him and promptly submit a summary thereof, and the recommendations of the judicial departments and judicial administrators, and shall cause a copy of all recommendations to be filed as public record in the office of the clerk of the supreme court and shall, at the beginning of every legislative session, submit a written report to the governor of the state, and to the judiciary committees of both houses of the legislature.
K.S.A. § 46-217 — KS Code / Chapter 46 / Article 2 / Section 46-217
46-217 - "Economic opportunity" defined.
Status: in_force

46-217. "Economic opportunity" defined. "Economic opportunity" means any purchase, sale, lease, contract, option, or other transaction or arrangement involving property or services wherein a state officer or employee or candidate for state office may gain a personal economic benefit, but not including any gift.
K.S.A. § 19-2203 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 22 / Section 19-2203
19-2203 - Disposition of moneys for itinerant vendor licenses.
Status: in_force

19-2203. Disposition of moneys for itinerant vendor licenses. All sums received by the county clerk for itinerant vendors' licenses shall be by him deposited with the county treasurer and covered into the general fund for the use of the county.
K.S.A. § 12-5259 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 52 / Section 12-5259
12-5259 - Kansas rural home loan guarantee act; citation.
Status: in_force

12-5259. Kansas rural home loan guarantee act; citation. The provisions of K.S.A. 12-5259 through 12-5263, and amendments thereto, shall be known and may be cited as the Kansas rural home loan guarantee act.
K.S.A. § 47-1827 — KS Code / Chapter 47 / Article 18 / Section 47-1827
47-1827 - Animal facilities and field crop production areas; prohibited acts; criminal penalties.
Status: in_force

47-1827. Animal facilities and field crop production areas; prohibited acts; criminal penalties. (a) No person shall:

(1) Without the consent of the owner, damage or destroy an animal facility or any animal or property in or on an animal facility;

(2) enter or remain upon or in any animal facility, including flying an aircraft within the airspace directly above such animal facility but below the minimum safe altitude prescribed in 14 C.F.R. 91.119(c), as in effect on July 1, 2024, without the consent of the owner; or

(3) knowingly make false statements on an employment application to gain access to an animal facility.

(b) No person shall:

(1) Without the consent of the owner, damage or destroy any field crop product that is grown in the context of a product development program in conjunction or coordination with a private research facility, a university or any federal, state or local governmental agency;

(2) enter or remain upon or in any property in a field crop production area of a product development program in conjunction or coordination with a private research facility, a university or any federal, state or local government entity, including flying an aircraft within the airspace directly above such property area but below the minimum safe altitude prescribed in 14 C.F.R. 91.119(c), as in effect on July 1, 2024, without the consent of the owner; or

(3) knowingly make false statements on an employment application to gain access to a field crop production area of a product development program in conjunction or coordination with a private research facility, a university or any federal, state or governmental agency.

(c) (1) Violation of subsection (a)(1) or (b)(1) is a:

(A) Class A nonperson misdemeanor, except as provided in subparagraph (B) or (C);

(B) severity level 9, nonperson felony if property damaged or destroyed is of a value of more than $1,000 but less than $25,000; or

(C) severity level 7, nonperson felony if the property damaged or destroyed is of a value more than $25,000.

(2) Violation of subsection (a)(2) or (b)(2) is a class A nonperson misdemeanor.

(3) Violation of subsection (a)(3) or (b)(3) is a class B nonperson misdemeanor.

(d) The provisions of this section shall not apply to lawful activities of any governmental agency or employees or agents thereof carrying out their duties under law.
K.S.A. § 72-5221 — KS Code / Chapter 72 / Article 52 / Section 72-5221
72-5221 - U.S.D. 203; application of term "assessed valuation per pupil" for determination of capital improvement entitlements.
Status: in_force

72-5221. U.S.D. 203; application of term "assessed valuation per pupil" for determination of capital improvement entitlements. (a) For the purpose of determination of supplemental state aid under K.S.A. 72-5145, and amendments thereto, and payments from the school district capital improvements fund under K.S.A. 72-5462, and amendments thereto, notwithstanding any provision of either such statutory section to the contrary, the term assessed valuation per pupil, as applied to unified school district No. 203, Wyandotte county, shall not include within its meaning the assessed valuation of property which is owned by Sunflower Racing, Inc. and operated as a racetrack facility known as the Woodlands. The meaning of assessed valuation per pupil as provided in this subsection, for the purposes specified in this subsection, and as applied to the unified school district designated in this subsection, shall be in force and effect for the 1994-95 and 1995-96 school years.

(b) (1) In the event unified school district No. 203, Wyandotte county, receives in any school year the proceeds from any taxes which may be paid upon the Woodlands for the 1994-95 school year or the 1995-96 school year or for both such school years, the state board of education shall deduct an amount equal to the amount of such tax proceeds from future payments of state aid to which the district is entitled.

(2) For the purposes of this subsection, the term "state aid" means payments from the school district capital improvements fund.
K.S.A. § 25-209 — KS Code / Chapter 25 / Article 2 / Section 25-209
25-209 - Certification of candidates; publication notice of primary elections; municipal primary elections.
Status: in_force

25-209. Certification of candidates; publication notice of primary elections; municipal primary elections. (a) As soon as possible after the filing deadline, the secretary of state shall certify to each county election officer the name and post-office address of each person who has filed valid nomination petitions or a declaration of intent to become a candidate for United States senator or representative or for state office, together with the designation of the office for which each is a candidate and the party or principle which the candidate represents.

(b) The county election officer shall, upon receipt thereof, publish for three consecutive weeks in the official paper, a notice which shall set forth under the proper party designation, the title of each national, state, county and township office any part of the district of which is in the county, the names and addresses of all persons certified by the secretary of state as candidates for any national or state office any part of the district of which is in the county and, in addition thereto, the names and addresses of all persons from whom valid nomination papers or declarations have been filed in the county election officer's office, giving the name and address of each, the day of the primary election, the hours during which the polls will be open and stating that the primary election will be held at the regular voting places. Where such voting places are not well established and customarily known the published notice herein provided for shall give the location of such voting places.

(c) The secretary of state and county election officers shall utilize the procedures established in this section to the extent applicable for municipal elections conducted in the fall of both odd-numbered and even-numbered years when needed.