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K.S.A. § 59-2950 — KS Code / Chapter 59 / Article 29 / Section 59-2950
59-2950 - Discharge of a voluntary patient.
Status: in_force

59-2950. Discharge of a voluntary patient. The head of a treatment facility shall discharge any voluntary patient whose treatment in the facility is determined by the head of the treatment facility to have reached maximum benefit. Prior to the discharge, the head of the treatment facility shall give written notice of the date and time of the discharge to the patient and, if appropriate, to the patient's parent, legal guardian or other person known to the head of the treatment facility to be interested in the care and welfare of a minor patient.
K.S.A. § 58-3038 — KS Code / Chapter 58 / Article 30 / Section 58-3038
58-3038 - Licensure required for recovery of compensation for services; exceptions.
Status: in_force

58-3038. Licensure required for recovery of compensation for services; exceptions. (a) Except as provided by subsection (b), no action shall be instituted or recovery be had in any court of this state by any person for compensation for any act or service, the performance of which requires a license under this act, unless such person was duly licensed under this act at the time of offering to perform any such act or service or procuring any promise to contract for the payment of compensation for any such contemplated act or service.

(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to associations, corporations, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships, partnerships or professional corporations whose partners, members, officers and employees are licensed as provided by subsection (b) of K.S.A. 58-3042, and amendments thereto.

(c) Except as provided by K.S.A. 58-3076, and amendments thereto, nothing herein shall preclude a person who is properly licensed as a broker or salesperson in another jurisdiction from collecting a referral fee.
K.S.A. § 68-173 — KS Code / Chapter 68 / Article 1 / Section 68-173
68-173 - Same; disposition of moneys.
Status: in_force

68-173. Same; disposition of moneys. All moneys collected by the secretary of transportation pursuant to the terms of an agreement entered into in accordance with the provisions of this act shall be remitted to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the state highway fund.
K.S.A. § 65-429 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 4 / Section 65-429
65-429 - Issuance and renewal of licenses; funding the cost of administration of the medical care facilities licensure and risk management program; display of license.
Status: in_force

65-429. Issuance and renewal of licenses; funding the cost of administration of the medical care facilities licensure and risk management program; display of license. Upon receipt of an application for license, the licensing agency shall issue with the approval of the state fire marshal a license provided the applicant and the physical facilities of the medical care facility meet the requirements established under this act. A license, unless suspended or revoked, shall be renewable annually without charge upon the filing by the licensee, and approval by the licensing agency, of an annual report upon such uniform dates and containing such information in such form as the licensing agency prescribes by rules and regulations. A medical care facility which has been licensed by the licensing agency and which has received certification for participation in federal reimbursement programs and which has been accredited by the joint commission on accreditation of health care organizations or the American osteopathic association may be granted a license renewal based on such certification and accreditation. The cost of administration of the medical care facilities licensure and risk management program provisions of this act pursuant to K.S.A. 65-433 and 65-4921 et seq., and amendments thereto, shall be funded by an annual assessment from the health care stabilization fund, which assessment shall not exceed $200,000 in any one fiscal year. The licensing agency shall make an annual report to the health care stabilization fund regarding the use of these funds. Each license shall be issued only for the premises and persons or governmental units named in the application and shall not be transferable or assignable except with the written approval of the licensing agency. A separate license is not required for two separate establishments which are located in the same or contiguous counties, which provide the services required by K.S.A. 65-431 and amendments thereto and which are organized under a single owner or governing board with a single designated administrator and medical staff. Licenses shall be posted in a conspicuous place on the licensed premises.
K.S.A. § 58-3625 — KS Code / Chapter 58 / Article 36 / Section 58-3625
58-3625 - Application and construction of act.
Status: in_force

58-3625. Application and construction of act. The provisions of K.S.A. 58-3621 through 58-3624, and amendments thereto, shall not apply to any release or modification of any donor restriction or purpose ordered or made pursuant to K.S.A. 58-3616, and amendments thereto, prior to July 1, 2023, or to any appeal of any such release or modification that is pending on or after July 1, 2023. Nothing in this act affects the authority of the attorney general to enforce any restriction in an endowment agreement, limits the application of the judicial power of cy pres or alters the right of an institution to modify a restriction on the management, investment, purpose or use of an endowment fund in a manner permitted by the endowment agreement.
K.S.A. § 74-4546 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 45 / Section 74-4546
74-4546 - Sand Hills state park; state park and resources authority to acquire certain lands.
Status: in_force

74-4546. Sand Hills state park; state park and resources authority to acquire certain lands. The state park and resources authority shall acquire from the appropriate state agency, as authorized by K.S.A. 74-4512, jurisdiction and control of the following described tract of land located in Reno county, Kansas, which is presently held for the use and benefit of the state industrial reformatory, and more particularly described as follows, to wit: All of section 23, township 22 south, range 5 west of the 6th P.M., in Reno county, Kansas. Further, the state park and resources authority is hereby authorized and directed to acquire by private donation, as authorized by K.S.A. 74-4510, jurisdiction and control of the following tract of land adjacent to Sand Hills state park and located in Reno county, Kansas: The east half of section 22, township 22S, range 5W.

The state park and resources authority shall acquire by purchase, as authorized by K.S.A. 74-4510, jurisdiction and control of the following tracts of land adjacent to Sand Hills state park and located in Reno county, Kansas: The west half of the northeast quarter of section 27, containing 80 acres more or less, and a portion of the southwest quarter of section 22, lying east of the former C. R. I. & P. Railroad right of way, township 22S, range 5W containing 83 acres, more or less.
K.S.A. § 74-5401 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 54 / Section 74-5401
74-5401 - Definitions.
Status: in_force

74-5401. Definitions. As used in this act:

(a) "Antiquities" means historic or prehistoric ruins and other archeological sites, including evidence of such features as constructions or inscriptions by human agency or other evidence of human activity having antiquity but not including any unmarked burial site subject to the provisions of the Kansas unmarked burial sites preservation act.

(b) "Commission" means the antiquities commission created by this act.
K.S.A. § 75-5094 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 50 / Section 75-5094
75-5094 - Broadband infrastructure construction projects; fund; grants; transfers from the state highway fund.
Status: in_force

75-5094. Broadband infrastructure construction projects; fund; grants; transfers from the state highway fund. (a) The secretary of transportation is hereby authorized and empowered to make grants for construction projects, the purpose of which is to expand and improve broadband service in the state of Kansas. The secretary of transportation is authorized to make such grants when working jointly with the office of broadband development within the department of commerce.

(b) There is hereby established in the state treasury the broadband infrastructure construction grant fund. All moneys credited to such fund shall be used to provide grants for the expansion of broadband service in the state of Kansas. All expenditures from such fund shall be made in accordance with the provisions of appropriation acts and upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the secretary of transportation or the secretary's designee.

(c) Grants made by the secretary of transportation from the broadband infrastructure construction grant fund shall reimburse grant recipients for up to 50% of actual construction costs in expanding and improving broadband service in the state of Kansas. Such grant reimbursements shall be upon such terms and conditions as the secretary of transportation may deem appropriate, in coordination with the secretary of commerce.

(d) On July 1, 2020, and each July 1 thereafter through July 1, 2022, the director of accounts and reports shall transfer $5,000,000 from the state highway fund to the broadband infrastructure construction grant fund. On July 1, 2023, and each July 1 thereafter through July 1, 2030, the director of accounts and reports shall transfer $10,000,000 from the state highway fund to the broadband infrastructure construction grant fund. At the end of each fiscal year, the secretary of transportation is hereby authorized to notify the director of accounts and reports to transfer all remaining and unencumbered funds from the broadband infrastructure construction grant fund to the state highway fund.
K.S.A. § 80-501 — KS Code / Chapter 80 / Article 5 / Section 80-501
80-501 - Duties of clerk.
Status: in_force

80-501. Duties of clerk. The township clerk shall have the custody of the records, books and papers of the township, when no other provision is made by law; and he or she shall file in his or her office all such papers as are by law required to be filed, and promptly record such as are by law required to be recorded therein; and he or she shall discharge such other duties as may be required by law.
K.S.A. § 65-5404 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 54 / Section 65-5404
65-5404 - Occupational therapist council established; appointment of members; compensation.
Status: in_force

65-5404. Occupational therapist council established; appointment of members; compensation. (a) There is established an occupational therapist council to advise the board in carrying out the provisions of this act. The council shall consist of five members, all citizens and residents of the state of Kansas appointed as follows: One member shall be a physician appointed by the state board of healing arts; one member shall be the president of the state board of healing arts or a person designated by the president; and three members shall be occupational therapists appointed by the governor. The governor shall, insofar as possible, appoint persons from different geographical areas and persons who represent various types of occupational therapy treatment. If a vacancy occurs on the council, the appointing authority of the position which has become vacant shall appoint a person of like qualifications to fill the vacant position for the unexpired term, if any. The Kansas occupational therapy association shall recommend the names of occupational therapists to the governor in a number equal to at least twice the positions or vacancies to be filled, and the governor may appoint members to fill the positions or vacancies from the submitted list. The terms of the members of the council appointed by the governor prior to the effective date of this act shall expire on July 1, 1988. Members of the council appointed by the governor on and after the effective date of this act shall be appointed for terms of three years and until their successors are appointed and qualified except that of the members first appointed by the governor on or after the effective date of this act one shall be appointed for a term of one year, one shall be appointed for a term of two years and one shall be appointed for a term of three years, as designated by the governor. The member appointed by the state board of healing arts shall serve at the pleasure of the state board of healing arts. A member designated by the president of the state board of healing arts shall serve at the pleasure of the president.

(b) Members of the council attending meetings of the council, or attending a subcommittee meeting thereof authorized by the council, shall be paid amounts provided in subsection (e) of K.S.A. 75-3223 and amendments thereto from the healing arts fee fund.
K.S.A. § 65-2887 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 28 / Section 65-2887
65-2887 - Assisting unlicensed persons to practice optometry not authorized; exceptions.
Status: in_force

65-2887. Assisting unlicensed persons to practice optometry not authorized; exceptions. (a) Nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize any person licensed under this act to knowingly perform any act which in any way assists an unlicensed person, except as provided under subsections (b) and (c), firm, association or corporation (1) to make an examination of the eyes for the prescription of glasses, or (2) to perform any of the practice acts for which optometrists are licensed.

(b) A person who is licensed to practice medicine and surgery may delegate to assistants the performance of screening procedures for visual acuities, color vision, visual fields, and intraocular pressure.

(c) A person who is licensed to practice medicine and surgery and who has completed an approved postgraduate training program in ophthalmology or who is practicing as a fulltime ophthalmologist on the effective date of this act may utilize not more than three (3) assistants to perform examination procedures which may be performed by a person licensed to practice optometry. The examination procedures performed by assistants to ophthalmologists shall be limited to data gathering at the direct request of the ophthalmologist and to those examination procedures which do not require professional interpretation or professional judgment. These examination procedures may be performed by assistants only under the immediate and personal supervision and within the office of an ophthalmologist. Delegation to such assistants of the external and internal evaluation of the eye, biomicroscopic evaluation, subjective refraction, gonioscopic evaluation, final contact lens fit evaluation, orthoptic and strabismus evaluations, visual training evaluations, analysis of findings and the prescribing of ophthalmic lenses are prohibited.
K.S.A. § 50-1013 — KS Code / Chapter 50 / Article 10 / Section 50-1013
50-1013 - Violation of act or cease and desist order, penalties; prosecution.
Status: in_force

50-1013. Violation of act or cease and desist order, penalties; prosecution. (a) Any person who willfully violates any provision of this act or knowingly violates any cease and desist order issued under this act commits a severity level 7, nonperson felony. Any violation of this act committed on or after July 1, 1993, resulting in a loss of $25,000 or more, regardless of its location on the sentencing grid block, shall have a presumptive sentence of imprisonment.

(b) Prosecution for any crime under this act must be commenced within five years after the alleged violation. A prosecution is commenced when a complaint or information is filed, or an indictment returned, and a warrant thereon is delivered to the sheriff or other officer for execution. No such prosecution shall be deemed to have been commenced if the warrant so issued is not executed without unreasonable delay.

(c) The commissioner shall prepare and refer such evidence as may be available concerning criminal violations of this act or of any rule and regulation or order hereunder to the attorney general, or in consultation with the attorney general to the proper county or district attorney, who may, in such prosecutor's discretion, with or without such a reference, institute the appropriate criminal proceedings under the laws of this state. The commissioner may pay extradition and witness expenses and other costs associated with the case. The commissioner and persons employed by the administrator shall assist in the prosecution of criminal cases as requested by the attorney general or county or district attorney.
K.S.A. § 75-4912 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 49 / Section 75-4912
75-4912 - Issuance of bonds for purpose of matching federal funds for capital equipment purchases; limitations.
Status: in_force

75-4912. Issuance of bonds for purpose of matching federal funds for capital equipment purchases; limitations. (a) The activities of the Kansas public broadcasting council in making grants to noncommercial public television stations and public radio stations serving Kansas for the purpose of providing money for the public television station or public radio station to match federal funds for capital equipment purchases with the proceeds of revenue bonds issued for such purpose by the Kansas development finance authority are hereby approved for the purposes of subsection (b) of K.S.A. 74-8905 and amendments thereto and the authorization of the issuance of such bonds by the Kansas development finance authority in accordance with that statute except that no such bonds shall be issued unless the issuance of such bonds is specifically approved by an appropriation or other act of the legislature, other than this act. The provisions of subsection (a) of K.S.A. 74-8905 and amendments thereto shall not prohibit the issuance of bonds for such purposes and any such issuance of bonds is exempt from the provisions of subsection (a) of K.S.A. 74-8905 and amendments thereto. Bonds issued under this section shall be financed from moneys appropriated for the public television stations and public radio stations.
K.S.A. § 65-1,201 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 1 / Section 65-1,201
65-1,201 - Definitions.
Status: in_force

65-1,201. Definitions. As used in the residential childhood lead poisoning prevention act:

(a) "Abatement" means any measure or set of measures designed to permanently eliminate lead-based paint hazards as defined in the federal program.

(b) "Accredited training program" means a training program that has been accredited by the federal program or the secretary to present training courses to individuals engaged in lead-based paint activities.

(c) "Business entity" means a company, partnership, corporation, sole proprietorship, association, or other business concern.

(d) "Certificate" means an authorization issued by the secretary permitting an individual to engage in lead-based paint activities.

(e) "Federal program" means subpart L, lead-based paint activities of 40 C.F.R. part 745, as in effect on the effective date of this act.

(f) "Lead-based paint" means paint or other surface coatings that contain lead equal to or in excess of one milligram per square centimeter or more than 0.5% by weight.

(g) "Lead-based paint activities" means the inspection, assessment and abatement of lead-based paint, including the disposal of waste generated therefrom.

(h) "License" means an authorization issued by the secretary permitting a business entity to engage in lead-based paint activities.

(i) "Public agency" means any state agency or political or taxing subdivision of the state and those federal departments, agencies or instrumentalities thereof which are not subject to preemption.

(j) "Secretary" means the secretary of health and environment.

(k) "Residential dwelling" means a detached single family dwelling or a single family dwelling unit in a structure that contains more than one separate residential dwelling unit used as a place of residence for habitation by an individual or the individual's immediate family, or both.

(l) "Habitation" means a place of abode or residence constructed before 1978 where individuals eat, sleep and reside.

(m) "Immediate family" means spouse, parent, stepparent, child, stepchild or sibling.
K.S.A. § 65-6911 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 69 / Section 65-6911
65-6911 - Denial, suspension, limitation, refusal to renew, probation, reprimand or revocation of a license; grounds.
Status: in_force

65-6911. Denial, suspension, limitation, refusal to renew, probation, reprimand or revocation of a license; grounds. (a) The board may deny, suspend, limit, refuse to renew, place on probation, reprimand or revoke any license granted under the athletic trainers licensure act or take other disciplinary action as the board may deem proper for any of the following reasons:

(1) Use of drugs or alcohol, or both, to an extent that impairs the individual's ability to engage in athletic training;

(2) the individual has been convicted of a felony and, after investigation, the board finds that the individual has not been sufficiently rehabilitated to merit the public trust;

(3) use of fraud, deception, misrepresentation or bribery in securing any license issued pursuant to the provisions of the athletic trainers licensure act or in obtaining permission to take any examination given or required pursuant to the provisions of the athletic trainers licensure act;

(4) obtaining or attempting to obtain any fee, charge, tuition or other compensation by fraud, deception or misrepresentation;

(5) incompetence, misconduct, fraud, misrepresentation or dishonesty in the performance of the functions or duties of an athletic trainer;

(6) violation of, or assisting or enabling any individual to violate, any provision of this act or any rule and regulation adopted under such act;

(7) impersonation of any individual holding a license under the athletic trainers licensure act;

(8) negligent or intentional violation of the provisions of this act or the rules and regulations adopted under this act;

(9) violation of any professional trust or confidence; and

(10) the individual has committed unprofessional conduct as defined by rules and regulations adopted by the board.

(b) Any action authorized by this section shall be taken in accordance with the Kansas administrative procedure act.
K.S.A. § 23-2211 — KS Code / Chapter 23 / Article 22 / Section 23-2211
23-2211 - Parties.
Status: in_force

23-2211. Parties. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), the child, the mother, each man presumed to be the father under K.S.A. 23-2208, and amendments thereto, and each man alleged to be the father shall be made parties or, if not subject to the jurisdiction of the court, shall be given notice of the action in a manner prescribed by the court and shall be afforded the opportunity to be heard. If a man alleged or presumed to be the father is a minor, the court shall cause notice of the pendency of the proceedings and copies of the pleadings on file to be served upon the parents or guardian of the minor and shall appoint a guardian ad litem who shall be an attorney to represent the minor in the proceedings. If the parents or guardian of the minor cannot be found, notice shall be served in the manner directed by the court.

(b) In an action to establish an order for support of the child, failure to join any person as a party shall not deprive the court of jurisdiction to determine whether a party to the action has a duty to support the child and, if so, to enter an order for support.