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K.S.A. § 17-1507 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 15 / Section 17-1507
17-1507 - Same; execution and filing.
Status: in_force

17-1507. Same; execution and filing. The articles of incorporation shall be executed and filed and become effective in the manner prescribed by the general corporation code. The secretary of state shall return to the corporation a certified copy of such articles of incorporation, with the date of filing and attested with the seal of the secretary's office.
K.S.A. § 25-2019 — KS Code / Chapter 25 / Article 20 / Section 25-2019
25-2019 - Limitations on frequency of bond elections; exceptions.
Status: in_force

25-2019. Limitations on frequency of bond elections; exceptions. (a) No school district shall call or hold more than one bond election at a time other than on the same date as a primary or general election, at a special election or the election of board of education members within any one calendar year. The provisions of this act shall not prohibit the planning for or consideration of any bond election during the period between authorized bond elections, nor shall this act prohibit notice or other preparation for election during such period.

(b) The provisions of this act shall have no application to any capital outlay tax levy or election for authorization thereof.

(c) This section shall not apply to bond elections held for the purpose of replacing, or repairing and equipping school buildings or facilities destroyed or substantially damaged by fire, windstorm, flood or other casualty, if approval for such election is obtained from the state board of education.
K.S.A. § 50-1011 — KS Code / Chapter 50 / Article 10 / Section 50-1011
50-1011 - Violations; civil penalties, enforcement.
Status: in_force

50-1011. Violations; civil penalties, enforcement. (a) If the commissioner determines, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, that a person has violated this act, the commissioner may, in addition to all other remedies, impose a civil penalty upon the person in an amount not to exceed $5,000 for each violation.

(b) The commissioner may bring an action in the district court of Shawnee county to enforce payment of any penalty imposed under this section.
K.S.A. § 17-6511 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 65 / Section 17-6511
17-6511 - Rights of holders of bonds, debentures and other obligations of corporation.
Status: in_force

17-6511. Rights of holders of bonds, debentures and other obligations of corporation. In its articles of incorporation, every corporation may confer upon the holders of any bonds, debentures or other obligations issued or to be issued by the corporation the power to vote in respect to the corporate affairs and management of the corporation to the extent and in the manner provided in the articles of incorporation, and may confer upon such holders of bonds, debentures or other obligations the same right of inspection of its books, accounts and other records, and also any other rights, which the stockholders of the corporation have or may have by reason of this act or of its articles of incorporation. If the articles of incorporation so provide such holders of bonds, debentures or other obligations shall be deemed to be stockholders, and their bonds, debentures or other obligations shall be deemed to be shares of stock, for the purpose of any provision of this act which requires the vote of stockholders as a prerequisite to any corporate action and the articles of incorporation may divest the holders of capital stock, in whole or in part, of their right to vote on any corporate matter whatsoever, except as set forth in K.S.A. 17-6602, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 75-2130 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 21 / Section 75-2130
75-2130 - Granting certain easements for rights-of-way by state agencies; definitions.
Status: in_force

75-2130. Granting certain easements for rights-of-way by state agencies; definitions. The following terms or words as used in this act shall be defined to mean as follows:

(a) "Lands belonging to the state of Kansas" shall mean any lands, the title to which is in the state, or any lands which have been granted, devised or bequeathed to any state board, agency, authority, commission or institution, or any lands which have been granted, devised or bequeathed to the state of Kansas for the use and benefit of any state board, agency, authority, commission or institution.

(b) "Quasi-municipal corporation" shall mean any county, township, school district, drainage district, sewer district, water district, watershed district, hospital district or any similar subdivision of government created by the laws of this state which provides or furnishes any public service to the people of the state of Kansas or to any segment of said people who may live within the boundaries of such governmental subdivision.

(c) "Public utility" shall mean any business or enterprise providing or furnishing directly or indirectly any commodity or service to the public, the operation of which business or enterprise is so closely and intimately related to the public or any substantial part of any community as to make the welfare of the public or a substantial part thereof dependent on the proper conduct of such business or enterprise.
K.S.A. § 40-466 — KS Code / Chapter 40 / Article 4 / Section 40-466
40-466 - Same; limitations on provisions of transfer agreement.
Status: in_force

40-466. Same; limitations on provisions of transfer agreement. (a) The provisions of this act may not be waived by any payee.

(b) Any transfer agreement entered into by a payee who resides in this state on or after the effective date of this act shall provide that disputes under such transfer agreement, including any claim that the payee has breached the agreement, shall be determined in and under the laws of this state. No such transfer agreement shall authorize the transferee or any other party to confess judgment or consent to entry of judgment against the payee.

(c) No transfer of structured settlement payment rights shall extend to any payments that are life-contingent unless, prior to the date on which the payee signs the transfer agreement, the transferee has established and has agreed to maintain procedures reasonably satisfactory to the annuity issuer and the structured settlement obligor for:

(1) Periodically confirming the payee's survival; and

(2) giving the annuity issuer and the structured settlement obligor prompt written notice in the event of the payee's death.

(d) No payee who proposes to make a transfer of structured settlement payment rights shall incur any penalty, forfeit any application fee or other payment, or otherwise incur any liability to the proposed transferee or any assignee based on any failure of such transfer to satisfy the conditions of this act.

(e) No provision of this act shall be construed to authorize any transfer of structured settlement payment rights in contravention of any law or to imply the validity of any transfer under a transfer agreement entered into prior to the effective date of this act.

(f) Compliance with the requirements of K.S.A. 40-462, and amendments thereto, and fulfillment of the conditions of K.S.A. 40-463, and amendments thereto, shall be solely the responsibility of the transferee in any transfer of structured settlement payment rights. Neither the structured settlement obligor nor the annuity issuer shall bear any responsibility for, or any liability arising from, non-compliance with such requirements or failure to fulfill such conditions.
K.S.A. § 58-3613 — KS Code / Chapter 58 / Article 36 / Section 58-3613
58-3613 - Standard of conduct in managing and investing institutional fund.
Status: in_force

58-3613. Standard of conduct in managing and investing institutional fund. (a) Subject to the intent of a donor expressed in a gift instrument, an institution, in managing and investing an institutional fund, shall consider the charitable purposes of the institution and the purposes of the institutional fund.

(b) In addition to complying with the duty of loyalty imposed by law other than this act, each person responsible for managing and investing an institutional fund shall manage and invest the fund in good faith and with the care an ordinarily prudent person in a like position would exercise under similar circumstances.

(c) In managing and investing an institutional fund, an institution:

(1) May incur only costs that are appropriate and reasonable in relation to the assets, the purposes of the institution and the skills available to the institution; and

(2) shall make a reasonable effort to verify facts relevant to the management and investment of the fund.

(d) An institution may pool two or more institutional funds for purposes of management and investment.

(e) Except as otherwise provided by gift instrument, the following rules apply:

(1) In managing and investing an institutional fund, the following factors, if relevant, must be considered:

(A) General economic conditions;

(B) the possible effect of inflation or deflation;

(C) the expected tax consequences, if any, of investment decisions or strategies;

(D) the role that each investment or course of action plays within the overall investment portfolio of the fund;

(E) the expected total return from income and the appreciation of investments;

(F) other resources of the institution;

(G) the needs of the institution and the fund to make distributions and to preserve capital; and

(H) an asset's special relationship or special value, if any, to the charitable purposes of the institution.

(2) Management and investment decisions about an individual asset must be made not in isolation but rather in the context of the institutional fund's portfolio of investments as a whole and as a part of an overall investment strategy having risk and return objectives reasonably suited to the fund and to the institution.

(3) Except as otherwise provided by law other than this act, an institution may invest in any kind of property or type of investment consistent with this section.

(4) An institution shall diversify the investments of an institutional fund unless the institution reasonably determines that, because of special circumstances, the purposes of the fund are better served without diversification.

(5) Within a reasonable time after receiving property, an institution shall make and carry out decisions concerning the retention or disposition of the property or to rebalance a portfolio, in order to bring the institutional fund into compliance with the purposes, terms and distribution requirements of the institution as necessary to meet other circumstances of the institution and the requirements of this act.
K.S.A. § 14-536 — KS Code / Chapter 14 / Article 5 / Section 14-536
14-536 - Same; limitation of actions.
Status: in_force

14-536. Same; limitation of actions. No suit or action of any kind shall be maintained in any court to set aside or in any way contest or enjoin the levy or collection of any tax or special assessment levied under the provisions of this act, after the expiration of thirty days from the time the amount due on such lot or piece of ground liable for such assessment is ascertained.
K.S.A. § 75-5056 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 50 / Section 75-5056
75-5056 - Secretary of transportation, powers and duties.
Status: in_force

75-5056. Secretary of transportation, powers and duties. (a) The secretary shall establish coordinated transit districts for the purpose of providing financial and administrative assistance to transportation systems.

(b) The secretary shall determine the eligibility of each agency to serve as coordinated transit district administrator. The following criteria shall be used in determining eligibility:

(1) Whether the proposal serves the transportation needs of elderly persons, persons with disabilities and the general public of the proposed district;

(2) whether resources for transportation services are utilized in an effective and efficient manner; and

(3) whether the proposal is consistent with the statewide coordinated transit district plan.

(c) The secretary shall administer and allocate funds to qualified coordinated transit district administrators, consistent with the statewide coordinated transit district plan.
K.S.A. § 19-3502 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 35 / Section 19-3502
19-3502 - Conditions and restrictions on organization and establishment; powers.
Status: in_force

19-3502. Conditions and restrictions on organization and establishment; powers. One or more water districts, for the purpose of this act, may be organized, created and established in the manner hereinafter provided in any territory located in Miami, Franklin, Johnson and Wyandotte counties. Such water district or districts shall be located in territory outside the limits of any territory served by or included within the limits of any previously organized municipally-owned and operated public water supply and distribution system. Such water district or districts shall be organized, created and established without regard to county, township or city boundaries and no such counties, townships or cities in any territory in which a duly organized water district is located shall have or exercise any jurisdiction or control over the administration of such water district, except as specifically provided herein. Nor shall any such city, township, or county create, organize or establish any municipally-owned and operated water supply and distribution system in any territory actually served, supplied or serviced by any water district created under this act.

Each of such water districts shall be quasi-municipal body corporate with the power of eminent domain, which shall be exercised in the manner provided in K.S.A. 26-501 to 26-517, inclusive; such districts shall have power to enter into contracts; to sue and be sued; to establish, construct, purchase, operate and maintain a water supply and distribution system; to fix water rates; and to issue revenue bonds in the manner hereinafter provided to pay for the establishment, construction, purchase and operation of a water supply and distribution system or systems.
K.S.A. § 23-2515 — KS Code / Chapter 23 / Article 25 / Section 23-2515
23-2515 - Proof of relationship of parties; penalty for granting license to parties not entitled without examination.
Status: in_force

23-2515. Proof of relationship of parties; penalty for granting license to parties not entitled without examination. In all cases, before granting a marriage license the judge or clerk of the district court shall require the applicant for such license to take and subscribe to an oath to the effect that none of the reasons set forth in K.S.A. 23-2503 exist why such applicant should not be granted a marriage license; and the judge or clerk may in his or her discretion examine witnesses under oath concerning the matters referred to in K.S.A. 23-2503, as applied to the applicant for such marriage license, and for the purpose of this act shall have power to administer oaths. If the judge or clerk fails to examine such applicant for license as provided in this section, he or she shall be liable to fine for granting license to parties not legally entitled thereto, in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), to be recovered by indictment or information, with cost.
K.S.A. § 75-7204 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 72 / Section 75-7204
75-7204 - Chief information technology architect; duties.
Status: in_force

75-7204. Chief information technology architect; duties. (a) There is hereby established, within and as a part of the office of information technology services, the position of chief information technology architect whose duties shall be performed under the supervision of the executive chief information technology officer. The chief information technology architect shall be in the unclassified service under the Kansas civil service act, shall be appointed by the executive chief information technology officer, subject to approval of the governor and shall receive compensation in an amount fixed by the executive chief information technology officer, subject to approval of the governor.

(b) The chief information technology architect shall:

(1) Propose to the information technology executive council: (A) Information technology resource policies and procedures and project management methodologies for all state agencies; (B) an information technology architecture, including telecommunications systems, networks and equipment, that covers all state agencies; (C) standards for data management for all state agencies; and (D) a strategic information technology management plan for the state;

(2) serve as secretary to the information technology executive council; and

(3) perform such other functions and duties as provided by law or as directed by the executive chief information technology officer.
K.S.A. § 76-451 — KS Code / Chapter 76 / Article 4 / Section 76-451
76-451 - Exchange of land between board of regents and Kansas state university endowment association; approval of attorney general.
Status: in_force

76-451. Exchange of land between board of regents and Kansas state university endowment association; approval of attorney general. The state board of regents is hereby authorized and empowered to exchange and convey the following described real estate located in Riley county, Kansas: A tract of land in lot 8 of section 18, township 10 south, range 8 east of the 6th P.M., in the city of Manhattan, Kansas, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point that is 295.55 feet south and 185.75 feet east of the northwest corner of said lot 8 in section 18, township 10 south, range 8 east of the 6th P.M.; thence north 150 feet, more or less along and parallel with the east line of the Harriet Parker tract; thence east 135.75 feet, more or less, to the northwest corner of the Harbes tract; thence south along and parallel with the west side of said Harbes tract 150 feet, more or less, to the north line of West Laramie street; thence west along said north line to the point of beginning, all in Riley county, Kansas, together with all and singular the appurtenances thereunto belonging.

Such conveyance of real estate shall be executed in the name of the state board of regents by its chairman and secretary, and shall be delivered upon receipt of a good and sufficient warranty deed from the Kansas state university endowment association to the following described real estate: A tract of land in lot 19 of section 7, township 10 south, range 8 east of the 6th P.M., in Riley county, Kansas, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the southwest corner of said lot 19 in section 7, township 10 south, range 8 east of the 6th P.M.; thence north on the west line of said lot 253.25 feet; thence east 175.45 feet; thence south 253.25 feet to the south line of said lot 19; thence west on said south line 175.45 feet to the point of beginning, all in Riley county, Kansas.

The conveyance made by the state board of regents of the land first described in this section shall be made to the Kansas state university endowment association by a deed which has had the prior approval of the attorney general.
K.S.A. § 68-1057 — KS Code / Chapter 68 / Article 10 / Section 68-1057
68-1057 - Designation of part of K-99 as The road to Oz.
Status: in_force

68-1057. Designation of part of K-99 as The road to Oz. [The portion of highway K-99] from the south city limits of Frankfort , south on K-99 highway to the junction of K-99 and interstate highway 70, is hereby designated as "The road to Oz." The secretary of transportation shall place signs along the highway right-of-way at proper intervals to indicate that the highway is "The road to Oz," except that such signs shall not be placed until the secretary has received sufficient moneys from gifts and donations to reimburse the secretary for the cost of placing such signs. The secretary of transportation may accept and administer gifts and donations to aid in obtaining and installing suitable signs.
K.S.A. § 58-5118 — KS Code / Chapter 58 / Article 51 / Section 58-5118
58-5118 - Removal or replacement of authorized fiduciary; restrictions.
Status: in_force

58-5118. Removal or replacement of authorized fiduciary; restrictions. An authorized fiduciary shall not exercise the decanting power to modify a provision in a first-trust instrument granting another person power to remove or replace the fiduciary unless the:

(a) Person holding the power consents to the modification in a signed record and the modification applies only to the person;

(b) person holding the power and the qualified beneficiaries of the second trust consent to the modification in a signed record and the modification grants a substantially similar power to another person; or

(c) court approves the modification and the modification grants a substantially similar power to another person.
K.S.A. § 4-4,536 — KS Code / Chapter 4 / Article 4 / Section 4-4,536
4-4,536 - District 38.
Status: in_force

4-4,536. District 38. Senatorial district 38 shall consist of all of Clark county; and all of Ford county; and all of Gray county; and all of Haskell county; and all of Hodgeman county; and all of Meade county; and all of Seward county.
K.S.A. § 73-3701 — KS Code / Chapter 73 / Article 37 / Section 73-3701
73-3701 - Official state rock.
Status: in_force

73-3701. Official state rock. Greenhorn limestone, a staple of the Kansas Flint Hills that is used in the construction of buildings throughout the state, is hereby designated as the official rock of the state of Kansas.
K.S.A. § 5-441 — KS Code / Chapter 5 / Article 4 / Section 5-441
5-441 - Award.
Status: in_force

5-441. Award. (a) An arbitrator shall make a record of an award. The record must be signed or otherwise authenticated by an arbitrator who concurs with the award. The arbitrator or the arbitration organization shall give notice of the award, including a copy of the award, to each party to the arbitration proceeding.

(b) An award must be made within the time specified by the agreement to arbitrate or, if not specified therein, within the time ordered by the court. The court may extend or the parties to the arbitration proceeding may agree in a record to extend the time. The court or the parties may do so within or after the time specified or ordered. A party waives any objection that an award was not timely made unless the party gives notice of the objection to the arbitrator before receiving notice of the award.
K.S.A. § 73-423 — KS Code / Chapter 73 / Article 4 / Section 73-423
73-423 - Soldiers' monument at Winfield.
Status: in_force

73-423. Soldiers' monument at Winfield. Laws 1905, chapter 150, included by reference. [Supplemental act to chapter 362, Laws 1903; authorized a soldiers' monument in the city of Winfield.]
K.S.A. § 65-7212 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 72 / Section 65-7212
65-7212 - Board of healing arts to adopt naturopathic formulary; naturopathic formulary advisory committee.
Status: in_force

65-7212. Board of healing arts to adopt naturopathic formulary; naturopathic formulary advisory committee. The board shall adopt a naturopathic formulary which lists the drugs and substances which are approved for intramuscular or intravenous administration by a naturopathic doctor pursuant to the order of a physician. The board shall appoint a naturopathic formulary advisory committee which shall advise the board and make recommendations on the list of substances which may be included in the naturopathic formulary. The naturopathic formulary advisory committee shall consist of a licensed pharmacist, a person knowledgeable in medicinal plant chemistry, two persons licensed to practice medicine and surgery, and two naturopathic doctors licensed under this act.