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K.S.A. § 59-3503 — KS Code / Chapter 59 / Article 35 / Section 59-3503
59-3503 - eneficiary; revocation; change; revocation by will, prohibited.
Status: in_force

59-3503. B eneficiary; revocation; change; revocation by will, prohibited. (a) A designation of the grantee beneficiary may be revoked at any time prior to the death of the record owner, by executing, acknowledging and recording in the office of the register of deeds in the county where the real estate is located an instrument describing the interest revoking the designation. The signature, consent or agreement of or notice to the grantee beneficiary or beneficiaries is not required.

(b) A designation of the grantee beneficiary may be changed at any time prior to the death of the record owner, by executing, acknowledging and recording a subsequent transfer-on-death deed in accordance with K.S.A. 59-3502. The signature, consent or agreement of or notice to the grantee beneficiary or beneficiaries is not required. A subsequent transfer-on-death beneficiary designation revokes all prior designations of grantee beneficiary or beneficiaries by such record owner for such interest in real estate.

(c) A transfer-on-death deed executed, acknowledged and recorded in accordance with this act may not be revoked by the provisions of a will.
K.S.A. § 59-2116 — KS Code / Chapter 59 / Article 21 / Section 59-2116
59-2116 - Consent or relinquishment; time of execution.
Status: in_force

59-2116. Consent or relinquishment; time of execution. (a) A consent or relinquishment may not be given by the mother or accepted until 12 hours after the birth of a child. Any consent or relinquishment given by the mother before 12 hours after the birth of a child is voidable, prior to the final decree of adoption.

(b) A consent or relinquishment may be given by any father or possible father any time after the birth of a child. A consent may be given by any father or possible father before the birth of the child only if he has the advice of independent legal counsel as to the consequences of the consent prior to its execution. The attorney providing independent legal advice shall be present at the execution of the consent.
K.S.A. § 55-1314 — KS Code / Chapter 55 / Article 13 / Section 55-1314
55-1314 - Act supplemental.
Status: in_force

55-1314. Act supplemental. The provisions of this act shall be supplemental to and a part of articles 6 and 7 of chapter 55 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated.
K.S.A. § 40-2004 — KS Code / Chapter 40 / Article 20 / Section 40-2004
40-2004 - Attorney fees.
Status: in_force

40-2004. Attorney fees. In any action in which any judgment is rendered against an unauthorized, foreign or alien insurer upon a contract of insurance issued or delivered in this state to a resident thereof or to a corporation authorized to do business therein, if it appears from the evidence that such insurer has refused to pay such loss, the court in rendering such judgment shall allow the plaintiff a reasonable sum as an attorney's fee to be recovered and collected as part of its costs: Provided, however, That when a tender is made by such insurer before the commencement of the action in which judgment is rendered and the amount recovered is not in excess of such tender, no such costs shall be allowed.
K.S.A. § 59-30,160 — KS Code / Chapter 59 / Article 30 / Section 59-30,160
59-30,160 - Basis for appointment of conservator for minor or adult.
Status: in_force

59-30,160. Basis for appointment of conservator for minor or adult. (a) On petition and after notice and hearing, the court may appoint a conservator for the property or financial affairs of a minor if the court finds by a preponderance of evidence that the minor owns funds or other property exceeding $25,000 in value derived from court settlements, death transfers or sources other than the minor's employment earnings or accounts established under the uniform transfers to minors act, and either:

(1) The minor owns funds or other property requiring management or protection that otherwise cannot be provided;

(2) the minor has or may have financial affairs that may be put at unreasonable risk or hindered because of the minor's age; or

(3) appointment is necessary or desirable to obtain or provide funds or other property needed for the support, care, education, health or welfare of the minor.

(b) On petition and after notice and hearing, the court may appoint a conservator for the property or financial affairs of an adult if the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that:

(1) The adult is unable to manage property or financial affairs because:

(A) Of a limitation in the adult's ability to receive and evaluate information or make or communicate decisions, even with the use of appropriate supportive services, technological assistance or supported decision making; or

(B) the adult is missing, detained or unable to return to the United States;

(2) appointment is necessary to:

(A) Avoid harm to the adult or significant dissipation of the property of the adult; or

(B) obtain or provide funds or other property needed for the support, care, education, health or welfare of the adult or of an individual entitled to the adult's support; and

(3) the adult's identified needs cannot be met by a protective arrangement instead of conservatorship or other less restrictive alternative.

(c) The court shall grant a conservator only those powers necessitated by demonstrated limitations and needs of the adult and issue orders that will encourage development of the adult's maximum self-determination and independence. The court may not establish a full conservatorship if a limited conservatorship, protective arrangement instead of conservatorship or other less restrictive alternative would meet the needs of the adult.
K.S.A. § 75-5206 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 52 / Section 75-5206
75-5206 - Placement and transfer of inmates; interagency agreements to temporarily house local offenders.
Status: in_force

75-5206. Placement and transfer of inmates; interagency agreements to temporarily house local offenders. (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) or (d), to carry out the purposes of this act, the secretary shall have authority to order the housing and confinement of any person sentenced to the secretary's custody to any institution or facility herein placed under the secretary's supervision and management or to any contract facility, including a conservation camp.

(b) All institutions of the department of corrections shall be institutions for the incarceration of felons sentenced to the custody of the secretary of corrections. The secretary may enter into interagency agreements authorizing the use of department of corrections' institutions for the temporary housing of pretrial detainees, misdemeanor offenders and other persons confined in local detention facilities or jails when the local facility cannot be used to house those persons due to a natural disaster or other emergency. Authorization shall not be given for the temporary housing of juveniles under 16 years of age.

(c) No person under 16 years of age sentenced to the secretary's custody shall be placed in the Lansing correctional facility or the Hutchinson correctional facility.

(d) The secretary shall have the authority to order the placement of a juvenile, as described in K.S.A. 38-2366, and amendments thereto, in a juvenile correctional facility. Such juvenile shall be allowed to be in a juvenile correctional facility only until such juvenile reaches the age of 23 years.
K.S.A. § 12-767 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 7 / Section 12-767
12-767 - Same; flood plain requirements; city building codes.
Status: in_force

12-767. Same; flood plain requirements; city building codes. The governing body of any city located in an area designated as a flood plain shall not authorize, pursuant to its building codes, the construction, reconstruction or renovation of any building, facility or structure which does not comply with the minimum requirements of the national flood insurance act of 1968, as amended, (42 U.S.C. § § 4001 et seq. ) or any rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
K.S.A. § 22-4403 — KS Code / Chapter 22 / Article 44 / Section 22-4403
22-4403 - nforcement and cooperation.
Status: in_force

22-4403. E nforcement and cooperation. All courts, departments, agencies, officers and employees of this state and its political subdivisions are hereby directed to enforce the agreement on detainers and to cooperate with one another and with other party states in enforcing the agreement and effectuating its purpose.
K.S.A. § 25-1451 — KS Code / Chapter 25 / Article 14 / Section 25-1451
25-1451 - Final determination of contest of state representatives and senators; procedure before legislative body.
Status: in_force

25-1451. Final determination of contest of state representatives and senators; procedure before legislative body. (a) When a contest of election is for the office of state senator or member of the house of representatives, the only question to be tried by the court, notwithstanding any other provision of law, shall be the question of what number of legally cast votes each of the candidates to the contested office received. The judge trying the proceedings shall make findings of fact upon the question so tried. Further evidence upon the points specified in the notice, including but not limited to the question as to the eligibility of any person to office, shall be taken and preserved by the judge trying the contest, but the judge shall make no finding or conclusion thereon. The clerk of the district court shall transmit all the files and records of the proceedings with all the evidence taken to the president of the senate or the speaker of the house of representatives, as the case may be.

(b) In judging the election, returns and qualifications of any member of the house of representatives or senate, in the absence of rules providing otherwise, the speaker or president shall appoint a select committee of equal numbers of members of the two parties having the greatest number of members of the entire senate or house of representatives as the case may be, and shall also appoint the chairperson and vice chairperson of the select committee. The select committee shall consider the files, records and evidence transmitted from the court and shall hear the contestant and contestee and their respective counsel. Such select committee shall have powers of compulsory process and laws applicable thereto shall apply, except that all hearings shall be open. The select committee shall report to the full house of representatives or senate not later than ten days after its appointment. Such report shall be set for the special order of business within five legislative days from the date the report is made. All members shall have access to files, records and evidence transmitted from the court at such reasonable times as determined by the full house of representatives or senate. When the time of the special order of business arrives the full house of representatives or senate except the contestee shall determine, after debate thereon, the person who is the elected member.
K.S.A. § 75-3725 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 37 / Section 75-3725
75-3725 - Allotment plans and information to be available to director of accounts and reports.
Status: in_force

75-3725. Allotment plans and information to be available to director of accounts and reports. The director of the budget, under rules and regulations adopted as provided in K.S.A. 75-3706, shall make available to the director of accounts and reports all information as to allotment plans and available funds as will assist the director of accounts and reports in recording, by funds and items, the amounts appropriated for, and the estimated revenues of each state agency, the amounts allotted and available for expenditure, the amounts of expenditure obligations authorized to be incurred, actual receipts and disbursements, actual balances on hand, and the unencumbered balances after deduction of all actual and authorized expenditures.
K.S.A. § 9-551 — KS Code / Chapter 9 / Article 5 / Section 9-551
9-551 - Applicability of act.
Status: in_force

9-551. Applicability of act. (a) K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 9-551 through 9-554, and amendments thereto, shall be known and may be cited as the Kansas financial institutions information security act.

(b) The purpose of the Kansas financial institutions information security act is to establish information security standards for any covered entity consistent with 16 C.F.R. § 314, as in effect on July 1, 2023.

(c) The Kansas financial institutions information security act applies to the handling of customer information by the following covered entities: (1) Credit services organizations, as defined in K.S.A. 50-1117, and amendments thereto; (2) mortgage companies, as defined in K.S.A. 9-2201, and amendments thereto; (3) supervised lenders, as defined in K.S.A. 16a-1-301, and amendments thereto; (4) financial institutions engaging in money transmission, as defined in K.S.A. 9-508, and amendments thereto; (5) trust companies, as defined in K.S.A. 9-701, and amendments thereto; and (6) technology-enabled fiduciary financial institutions, as defined in K.S.A. 9-2301, and amendments thereto.

(d) The commissioner may adopt all rules and regulations necessary to govern and administer the provisions of the Kansas financial institutions information security act.

(e) The Kansas financial institutions information security act shall be a part of and supplemental to chapter 9 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 46-240 — KS Code / Chapter 46 / Article 2 / Section 46-240
46-240 - Same; restrictions on compensation.
Status: in_force

46-240. Same; restrictions on compensation. No state officer or employee shall accept or agree to accept compensation, or any part thereof, for employment in a representation case of any kind, before a state agency, except workmen's compensation cases, which is contingent upon the result achieved or attained.
K.S.A. § 32-1435 — KS Code / Chapter 32 / Article 14 / Section 32-1435
32-1435 - Assumption of risk by participant; pleading.
Status: in_force

32-1435. Assumption of risk by participant; pleading. Except as provided in K.S.A. 32-1436, and amendments thereto, any participant is assuming the inherent risks of a registered agritourism activity when such participant engages in such agritourism activity. In any action for damages arising from the operation of a registered agritourism activity, the registered agritourism operator, pursuant to K.S.A. 60-208, and amendments thereto, shall plead an affirmative defense of assumption of risk by the participant.
K.S.A. § 74-32,259 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 32 / Section 74-32,259
74-32,259 - Tax levy authorized; limitations; disposition of proceeds; adult education fund; protest petition.
Status: in_force

74-32,259. Tax levy authorized; limitations; disposition of proceeds; adult education fund; protest petition. (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b), the board of any school district may make an annual tax levy for a period of not to exceed five years in an amount not to exceed 1/2 mill upon the assessed taxable tangible property within the school district to maintain and operate an adult basic education program at a level approved by the state board and for the purpose of paying a portion of the principal and interest on bonds issued by cities under authority of K.S.A. 12-1774, and amendments thereto, for the financing of redevelopment projects upon property located within the school district. Proceeds from the tax levy, except for an amount to pay a portion of the principal and interest on bonds issued by cities under authority of K.S.A. 12-1774, and amendments thereto, for the financing of redevelopment projects upon property located within the school district, shall be deposited in the adult education fund of the school district, which fund is hereby established. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all moneys received by the school district from whatever source for adult basic education shall be credited to the adult education fund established by this section. The expenses of a school district directly attributable to adult basic education shall be paid from the adult education fund.

(b) No tax levy shall be made under this section until a resolution authorizing the levy is passed by the board and published once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper having general circulation in the school district. The resolution shall specify the millage rate of the tax levy and the period of time for which the tax levy shall be made under authority thereof. After adoption of the resolution, the levy may be made unless, within 90 days following the last publication of the resolution, a petition in opposition to the levy, signed by not less than 5% of the qualified electors of the school district, is filed with the county election officer of the home county of the school district. In the event a petition is filed, the tax shall not be levied without the question of levying the same having been submitted to and approved by a majority of the qualified electors of the school district voting at an election which shall be called for that purpose or at the next general election.

(c) The board of any school district which has made a tax levy authorized under the provisions of this section may initiate procedures to renew its authority to make such a tax levy at any time after the final levy under a current authorization is certified to the county clerk.
K.S.A. § 59-1109 — KS Code / Chapter 59 / Article 11 / Section 59-1109
59-1109 - Court canceled bond; showing just cause.
Status: in_force

59-1109. Court canceled bond; showing just cause. The court may cancel a bond issued pursuant to article 11 of chapter 59 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, upon a motion by the bonding company showing just cause. An accounting, through the date the motion is filed, shall accompany such motion. The court shall not grant the motion until the accounting is filed and approved. Just cause shall include, but not be limited to, nonpayment of a premium.
K.S.A. § 8-2419 — KS Code / Chapter 8 / Article 24 / Section 8-2419
8-2419 - Liability of manufacturers and distributors for defects in equipment; indemnification for damages; when.
Status: in_force

8-2419. Liability of manufacturers and distributors for defects in equipment; indemnification for damages; when. (a) All first or second stage manufacturers and distributors shall be liable for the full period of the warranty of the vehicle for all defects in any equipment attached to any vehicle at the factory and all defects in any equipment produced by or advertised as an accessory to a vehicle manufactured by such first or second stage manufacturer which is added at the dealership whether such equipment is added to a new or to a used vehicle so long as such equipment has been advertised as being either an "accessory" or an "option."

(b) All first stage manufacturers and second stage manufacturers and distributors shall, upon demand:

(1) Indemnify any existing or former licensee or party to a franchise agreement and the licensee or party's successors and assigns from any and all damages sustained and attorney's fees and other expenses reasonably incurred by the licensee or party that result from or relate to any claim made or asserted by a third party against the licensee or party to the extent the claim results from any of the following:

(A) The condition, characteristics, manufacture, assembly or design of any vehicle, parts, accessories, tools or equipment or the selection or combination of parts or components manufactured or distributed by the manufacturer or distributor;

(B) service systems, procedures or methods the franchisor required or recommended the licensee or party to use if the licensee or party properly uses the system, procedure or method;

(C) improper use or disclosure by a manufacturer or distributor of nonpublic personal information obtained from a licensee or party concerning any consumer, customer or employee of the licensee or party; and

(D) any act or omission of the manufacturer or distributor for which the licensee or party would have a claim for contribution or indemnity under applicable law or under the franchise, irrespective of and without regard to a prior termination or expiration of the franchise.

(2) This subsection does not limit in any way the existing rights, remedies or recourses available to any licensee, party or other person.
K.S.A. § 11-209 — KS Code / Chapter 11 / Article 2 / Section 11-209
11-209 - Secretary of state liaison with federal bureau of census.
Status: in_force

11-209. Secretary of state liaison with federal bureau of census. The secretary of state shall serve as the state liaison with the federal bureau of the census on matters relating to the tabulation of the population.
K.S.A. § 13-1237 — KS Code / Chapter 13 / Article 12 / Section 13-1237
13-1237 - Same; certain contracts prohibited; exception.
Status: in_force

13-1237. Same; certain contracts prohibited; exception. This act shall not authorize the governing body of any such city to contract with any person, firm or corporation to supply electric energy to the municipal light plant, and the making of any such contract is hereby prohibited: Provided, however, That in the event the municipal light plant is temporarily or partially disabled due to an act of God or the breaking of machinery or equipment, the governing body of such city may contract for a supply of electric energy during, but not to exceed, the time necessary to make repairs to remove such temporary or partial disability.
K.S.A. § 23-37,103 — KS Code / Chapter 23 / Article 37 / Section 23-37,103
23-37,103 - Proceeding governed by other law.
Status: in_force

23-37,103. Proceeding governed by other law. (UCCJEA 103). This act does not govern a proceeding pertaining to the authorization of emergency medical care for a child.
K.S.A. § 9-596 — KS Code / Chapter 9 / Article 5 / Section 9-596
9-596 - Severability of act.
Status: in_force

9-596. Severability of act. (a) The provisions of this act are severable. If any portion of the act is declared unconstitutional or invalid, or the application of any portion of the act to any person or circumstance is held unconstitutional or invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other portions of the act that can be given effect without the invalid portion or application, and the applicability of such other portions of the act to any person or circumstance shall remain valid and enforceable.

(b) This section shall take effect on and after January 1, 2025.
K.S.A. § 75-42,102 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 42 / Section 75-42,102
75-42,102 - Program controls over conflicting provisions; loans not bonded indebtedness.
Status: in_force

75-42,102. Program controls over conflicting provisions; loans not bonded indebtedness. (a) To the extent that any provisions of K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 75-4297 through 75-42,102, and amendments thereto, conflict with the provisions of article 42 of chapter 75 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, or any other provision of law, the provisions of K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 75-4297 through 75-42,102, and amendments thereto, shall control.

(b) Any loan made to a city under the program shall not be considered bonded indebtedness for the purposes of K.S.A. 10-308, and amendments thereto, or any other statute imposing a limitation on indebtedness of a city.