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K.S.A. § 19-4602 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 46 / Section 19-4602
19-4602 - Existing hospitals governed by act; exceptions.
Status: in_force

19-4602. Existing hospitals governed by act; exceptions. (a) Any existing county hospital established under the laws of this state prior to the effective date of this act is hereby continued in existence and shall be governed in accordance with the provisions of this act and any existing hospital board shall be deemed to be the board for purposes of this act unless and until a new board is appointed or elected as provided in this act.

(b) This act shall not affect any judicial proceeding pending or any contract, tax levy, bond issuance or other legal obligation existing on the effective date of this act.
K.S.A. § 13-431 — KS Code / Chapter 13 / Article 4 / Section 13-431
13-431 - Utility rates; review by court.
Status: in_force

13-431. Utility rates; review by court. To prescribe and fix maximum rates and charges, and regulate the collection of the same, for all water, electric light, heat, power, gas, telephone service or any other commodity or service furnished to such city or to any of the inhabitants thereof by any person or corporation now authorized by such city by virtue of a franchise ordinance or laws of this state, or that may hereafter be authorized by virtue of a franchise ordinance or laws of this state to furnish water, electric light, heat, power, gas or telephone service, or any other commodity or service, to such city or to its inhabitants.

The rates and charges so prescribed shall at all times be reasonable and just; and if any city shall fix unreasonable and unjust rates and charges, the same may, at the instance of any producer or consumer, be reviewed and determined by the district court of the county in which such city is situated.
K.S.A. § 65-1752 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 17 / Section 65-1752
65-1752 - Solicitation of clients; prohibitions.
Status: in_force

65-1752. Solicitation of clients; prohibitions. A licensee or the licensee's representative shall not initiate contact with a client or prospective client:

(a) If the person solicited has made known a desire not to receive the communication; or

(b) if the solicitation involves coercion, duress or harassment; or

(c) if the solicitation takes place at the residence of the client or prospective client, is uninvited by the client or prospective client and has not been previously agreed to by the client or prospective client.
K.S.A. § 61-2805 — KS Code / Chapter 61 / Article 28 / Section 61-2805
61-2805 - Acts by court or judge.
Status: in_force

61-2805. Acts by court or judge. Without regard to whether the word "court" or the word "judge" is used in any provisions of this act, all trials upon the merits shall be conducted in open court and in a regular courtroom within the county if reasonably possible. All other acts or proceedings, including the entry of a ruling or judgment, may be done or conducted by a judge or judge pro tem in chambers, or at such other place within the county as is designated by the judge for the conduct of court business, without the attendance of the clerk or other court officials.
K.S.A. § 8-1,118 — KS Code / Chapter 8 / Article 1 / Section 8-1,118
8-1,118 - Same; insufficient or no fund check; penalty; collection of debt; suspension and reinstatement of registration.
Status: in_force

8-1,118. Same; insufficient or no fund check; penalty; collection of debt; suspension and reinstatement of registration. Whenever any person, or owner, as payment for any fees or penalty provided by this act presents a check on a bank in which such person has no money on deposit, or in which there is insufficient money on deposit for the payment of such check upon presentation, the division of vehicles shall immediately provide notice to the owner of a fleet registered hereunder that such owner's right to operate the vehicles of such fleet upon the highways of Kansas has been suspended. Upon the owner's receiving notice aforesaid, such owner shall return the identification devices issued for the vehicles of such owner's fleet or remit full payment to cover the amount of the insufficient or no fund check together with a penalty of ten dollars ($10) to the division of vehicles. If the insufficient or no fund check is not replaced by appropriate payment and penalty within ten (10) days of the date of notice, the division of vehicles may collect the debt by filing a notice of lien in the same manner and to the extent as provided in K.S.A. 8-1,115. The amount of the insufficient or no fund check together with penalty shall constitute a debt due the state, which may be collected by suit or otherwise. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed so as to exclude criminal prosecutions as in other cases involving insufficient or no fund checks.

Upon payment of the insufficient or no fund check and penalty by the fleet owner, the division of vehicles shall give notice to the fleet owner of reinstatement of such owner's right to operate the vehicles of a fleet registered hereunder, and return any identification devices to said owner which may have been received by the division of vehicles.
K.S.A. § 72-6490 — KS Code / Chapter 72 / Article 64 / Section 72-6490
72-6490 - Transportation for activities; rules and regulations for school bus operation.
Status: in_force

72-6490. Transportation for activities; rules and regulations for school bus operation. The board of education of any school district or the board of trustees of any community junior college, which school district or community junior college is: (a) Participating in or cooperating in any vocational education course or program; (b) engaged in field trips in connection with any course or training; or (c) engaged in any extracurricular school activity, may provide and furnish transportation for students and school personnel of the school district or community junior college. The school district or community junior college may pay mileage for those school buses contracted, leased or hired for such purposes, and may adopt rules and regulations governing the use and operation of such school buses. All students so transported shall be under school control and discipline and in every case shall be accompanied by a suitable adult person.
K.S.A. § 68-401 — KS Code / Chapter 68 / Article 4 / Section 68-401
68-401 - Acceptance of federal aid.
Status: in_force

68-401. Acceptance of federal aid. The assent of the legislature is hereby given to the provisions and requirements of the act of congress known as the federal-aid road act, approved July 11, 1916, entitled "An act to provide that the United States shall aid the states in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes." The legislature likewise assents to all subsequent federal-aid acts, federal highway acts, federal-aid highway acts and the federal aid highway act of 1956 and all acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.
K.S.A. § 66-1255 — KS Code / Chapter 66 / Article 12 / Section 66-1255
66-1255 - Requirements for notice to customers of water utilities under the jurisdiction of the state corporation commission proposing rate increases.
Status: in_force

66-1255. Requirements for notice to customers of water utilities under the jurisdiction of the state corporation commission proposing rate increases. Each water utility over which the state corporation commission has jurisdiction which applies for an increase in rates or charges due to capital improvements, rate of return or cost of service shall provide a notice of such proposed increase in rates or charges including, but not limited to, a comparison of current and proposed rates and a description of the cost increase for a typical customer. Such notice shall be in boldface type and in no smaller print than 8-point type and shall be included as a bill insert or bill message in the customer's ensuing monthly bill, or a separate mailing notifying customers, following the application and shall include a contact telephone number the customer may call to receive additional information concerning the rate increase from the utility proposing such increase and a website address for the state corporation commission with information about how a customer may intervene at the commission's rate hearing.
K.S.A. § 65-1,121 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 1 / Section 65-1,121
65-1,121 - Medication aides; continuing education; requirements; fees.
Status: in_force

65-1,121. Medication aides; continuing education; requirements; fees. (a) On and after the effective date of this act, no person shall be a medication aide for the purposes of subsection (i) of K.S.A. 65-1124 and amendments thereto unless such person completes a program of continuing education at least every two years, as established by the secretary. The secretary by duly adopted rules and regulations shall establish the requirements for such a program as soon as possible after the effective date of this act. The secretary shall update the certificate of a medication aide upon the completion by such medication aide of any continuing education program as provided in this section. The secretary shall determine a fee by rules and regulations in an amount sufficient to cover the costs of the department to administer the provisions of this act.
K.S.A. § 58-2238 — KS Code / Chapter 58 / Article 22 / Section 58-2238
58-2238 - Escheats of alien's property to state forfeited, when.
Status: in_force

58-2238. Escheats of alien's property to state forfeited, when. Where real estate in this state might be claimed to have escheated to the state by reason of the heirs at law of a citizen of the United States, who died intestate owning such land, being aliens and incapable of inheriting, which land has heretofore been conveyed by such alien heir or heirs, to a citizen of the United States for a valuable consideration, and has been occupied in reliance upon said conveyance, without an adverse claim or title or right thereto having been asserted by the state for more than twenty-five years subsequent to such conveyance, the title and possession of such grantee, or his or her heirs or assigns, shall never be questioned in any manner, by or on behalf of the state of Kansas, and the state shall be deemed to have forever forfeited all title or right it may have ever had thereto.
K.S.A. § 71-1405 — KS Code / Chapter 71 / Article 14 / Section 71-1405
71-1405 - Change to district method of election.
Status: in_force

71-1405. Change to district method of election. Any board desiring to change an at-large method of election to a district method of election or from one district method of election to another shall first prepare a plan of change showing the proposed member districts into which the college district will be divided. Each member district shall be comprised of one contiguous compact area. The member districts shall have equal population as nearly as practicable. All of the territory in the college district shall be assigned to and made a part of one of the member districts, and no territory shall be included in more than one member district. The proposed member districts shall be so planned that no member of the board of trustees holding office at the time the change is made will be displaced by establishment or rearrangement of the member districts or by inclusion of more members in a single proposed member district than is authorized by law.
K.S.A. § 75-4510 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 45 / Section 75-4510
75-4510 - Parking in violation of regulations; nuisances, abatement; costs.
Status: in_force

75-4510. Parking in violation of regulations; nuisances, abatement; costs. Any motor vehicle parked in violation of K.S.A. 75-4510a shall be deemed a common nuisance and the attorney general shall provide for the abatement of such nuisance and for the removal and impounding of such vehicle. The cost of such abating by removal and impounding shall be a lien against the motor vehicle until paid by the owner or his or her representative.
K.S.A. § 77-418 — KS Code / Chapter 77 / Article 4 / Section 77-418
77-418 - Filing rules and regulations, form.
Status: in_force

77-418. Filing rules and regulations, form. All rules and regulations adopted by every state agency shall be filed with the secretary of state in a form and manner approved by the secretary of state.
K.S.A. § 17-7501 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 75 / Section 17-7501
17-7501 - Definitions.
Status: in_force

17-7501. Definitions. As used in this act:

(a) "Domestic corporation" means any corporation organized under the laws of this state, irrespective of whether such corporation is organized for profit.

(b) "Foreign corporation" means any corporation organized under the laws of any jurisdiction other than this state.

(c) "Articles of incorporation" means the original articles of incorporation filed to create a corporation, but such term also includes the charter, articles of association and any other instrument by whatever name known under which a corporation has been or may be lawfully formed.

(d) "Shareholder's equity" means the sum of: (1) Paid-in capital stock, except that paid-in capital stock shall not include any capital stock issued by a corporation and reacquired by such corporation through gift, purchase or otherwise and available for resale or retirement; (2) capital paid in, in excess of par; and (3) retained earnings, except that any moneys which have been allocated and are payable to the members of any corporation which is organized as a cooperative association or society shall not be included as part of the retained earnings of such corporation for the purpose of this act.

(e) "Shareholder's equity attributable to Kansas" means the shareholder's equity of a corporation multiplied by a percentage which is the average of the following three percentages: (1) The average value of the corporation's real and tangible personal property owned or rented and used in this state during the next preceding tax period divided by the average total value of the corporation's real and tangible personal property owned or rented and used during the next preceding tax period; (2) the total amount of compensation paid by the corporation in this state during the next preceding tax period divided by the total amount of compensation paid everywhere by the corporation during the next preceding tax period; and (3) the total sales of the corporation in this state during the next preceding tax period divided by the total sales of the corporation everywhere during the next preceding tax period. If a corporation has no property or activity mentioned in one of the above factors, the appropriate percentage for that factor is 100%.

(f) "Tax period" means a corporation's taxable year under the Kansas income tax act.
K.S.A. § 68-2013 — KS Code / Chapter 68 / Article 20 / Section 68-2013
68-2013 - Exercise of governmental function; bonds and income from projects and property exempt from taxation.
Status: in_force

68-2013. Exercise of governmental function; bonds and income from projects and property exempt from taxation. The exercise of the powers granted by this act will be in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state, for the increase of their commerce and prosperity, and for the improvement of their health and living conditions, and as the operation and maintenance of turnpike projects by the authority will constitute the performance of essential governmental functions, the authority shall not be required to pay any taxes or assessments upon the income derived from any turnpike project or property acquired or used by the authority under the provisions of this act. Any bonds issued under the provisions of this act, their transfer and the income therefrom (including any profit made on the sale thereof) shall at all times be free from taxation within the state.
K.S.A. § 12-872 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 8 / Section 12-872
12-872 - Same; sue and be sued; seal; purposes; contracts; limitations.
Status: in_force

12-872. Same; sue and be sued; seal; purposes; contracts; limitations. (a) The authority may sue and be sued in its corporate name but execution shall not in any case issue against any property of the authority. It may adopt a common seal and change the same at pleasure.

(b) The purpose of the authority shall be to determine the natural gas requirements of the city and to provide for natural gas sources necessary to meet such requirements. To carry out said purpose, the authority shall have the power to negotiate and, subject to approval of the governing body of the city, execute contracts for the production, purchase, sale, transmission and distribution of natural gas in Kansas. Such contracts may provide for:

(1) The purchase of natural gas at any wellhead in Kansas for the wellhead cost of the gas and may contain escalator clauses in the event that any order may be made by any authorized federal or state agency increasing the wellhead cost of gas;

(2) the transmission of natural gas by any existing pipeline corporation or public utility;

(3) the sale for resale of natural gas to private distributors located in the city and the delivery of the gas to the distribution systems of said private distributors;

(4) the direct sale and delivery of natural gas to industrial, institutional and commercial consumers within the city; and

(5) the construction and operation of pipelines by pipeline corporations or public utilities for the use of the authority.

(6) The construction of pipelines by the authority when no pipeline exists or when existing pipelines have no available space or are inadequate and when approved by the Kansas corporation commission.

(7) Said contracts may be for a period not to exceed twenty (20) years.
K.S.A. § 44-1128 — KS Code / Chapter 44 / Article 11 / Section 44-1128
44-1128 - Construction of act.
Status: in_force

44-1128. Construction of act. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit:

(a) Consideration or application of characteristics directly affecting the credit worthiness of a member of the military; or

(b) sales promotions or discounts limited to members of specified groups of people.
K.S.A. § 20-3130 — KS Code / Chapter 20 / Article 31 / Section 20-3130
20-3130 - Use and investment of idle funds.
Status: in_force

20-3130. Use and investment of idle funds. The trustees may invest any idle funds in investments authorized by K.S.A. 12-1675, and amendments thereto, in the manner prescribed therein. The trustees may also direct that any funds collected may be used for any purpose consistent with the establishment and maintenance of a law library.
K.S.A. § 61-3004 — KS Code / Chapter 61 / Article 30 / Section 61-3004
61-3004 - Service of process; time limits; on whom service made.
Status: in_force

61-3004. Service of process; time limits; on whom service made. (a) Service shall be made promptly and, in any event, in time to make a timely return of service as required by K.S.A. 61-3005, and amendments thereto.

(b) If the defendant is a nonresident who is employed in this state, or if the place of residence of the defendant is unknown, the plaintiff may direct that the service of summons or other process shall be made by directing an officer, partner, managing or general agent, or the person having charge of the office or place of employment at which the defendant is employed, to make the defendant available for the purpose of permitting the summons or other process to be served on the defendant at the defendant's place of employment.

(c) As used in this section, "serving" means making service by any of the methods described in K.S.A. 61-3003, and amendments thereto, unless a specific method of making service is prescribed in this section. Except for service by publication, service of process shall be made as follows:

(1) Service upon an individual other than a minor or disabled person shall be made by serving the individual or by serving an agent authorized by appointment or by law to receive service of process, but if the agent is one designated by statute to receive service, such further notice as the statute requires shall be given. Service by certified mail or first-class mail shall be addressed to an individual at the individual's dwelling house or usual place of abode and to an authorized agent at the agent's usual or designated address.

(2) Service upon a minor, disabled person as defined by K.S.A. 77-201, and amendments thereto, foreign or domestic corporations, partnerships, insurance companies or associations shall be made in accordance with the applicable provisions of K.S.A. 60-304, and amendments thereto.

(3) Service upon a governmental entity shall be made in accordance with the applicable provisions of K.S.A. 60-304, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 75-5923 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 59 / Section 75-5923
75-5923 - Toll-free telephone system established, purpose; duties of secretary; display of notice of existence of toll-free telephone system.
Status: in_force

75-5923. Toll-free telephone system established, purpose; duties of secretary; display of notice of existence of toll-free telephone system. (a) The secretary for aging and disability services shall establish a telephone system to assist older Kansans, friends and relatives of older Kansans and other persons in obtaining information about and access to services available to both institutionalized and non-institutionalized older Kansans. The telephone system shall be designed to permit any person in the state to place a toll-free call into the system.

(b) The secretary for aging and disability services shall:

(1) Publicize the existence and purpose of the toll-free telephone system established by this section and the telephone number of such system;

(2) develop policies and procedures to document requests for assistance and monitor follow-up on such requests;

(3) develop policies and procedures to maintain confidentiality of requests for assistance;

(4) develop a program to train and coordinate the use of older Kansans within the toll-free telephone system;

(5) provide as part of the toll-free telephone system a call-forward system to assist in providing access to information; and

(6) develop a handbook of information to answer requests and for further referral.

(c) Upon written notification by the secretary for aging and disability services, every adult care home, as defined in K.S.A. 39-923(a)(1), and amendments thereto, title XX adult residential home licensed under K.S.A. 39-2001 et seq., and amendments thereto, recuperation center, as defined in K.S.A. 65-425(g), and amendments thereto, intermediate care facility, as defined in section 1905(c) of the federal social security act, skilled nursing facility, as defined in section 1861(j) of the federal social security act, and any other institution or facility that is licensed or certified by the state, that offers health, social or dietary care to elderly persons on a regular basis and that is financed in whole or in part by funds from the federal government, the state of Kansas, or any political subdivision thereof, shall prominently display notice of the existence of the toll-free telephone system established under this section and the telephone number of such system.
K.S.A. § 13-3111 — KS Code / Chapter 13 / Article 31 / Section 13-3111
13-3111 - Same; issuance of revenue bonds; refunding bonds.
Status: in_force

13-3111. Same; issuance of revenue bonds; refunding bonds. The governing body of any such city may adopt an ordinance without an election providing for the issuance of revenue bonds, the proceeds of which such city may use to acquire land, buses, equipment, supplies, materials, spare parts, contracts and other property reasonably required for a public transit system or for refunding bonds previously issued for such purposes. All refunding bonds issued under this section shall be issued in the manner prescribed by and subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 10-116a.