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K.S.A. § 46-242 — KS Code / Chapter 46 / Article 2 / Section 46-242
46-242 - Restrictions on acceptance of representation case and conduct therein by state officer or employee.
Status: in_force

46-242. Restrictions on acceptance of representation case and conduct therein by state officer or employee. (a) No state officer or employee shall accept a representation case before a state agency where such officer or employee knows or should know that it is obviously without merit and is being offered with intent to obtain improper influence over a state agency.

(b) No state officer or employee shall use threat or promise of official action in an attempt to influence a state agency in any representation case.
K.S.A. § 75-7226 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 72 / Section 75-7226
75-7226 - Same; annual report.
Status: in_force

75-7226. Same; annual report. (a) On or before January 15 of each year, the board shall publish an annual report and shall present the report to the legislature, governor and department of education. The report shall set forth in detail the operations and transactions conducted by the board pursuant to this act. The annual report shall specifically account for the ways in which the purpose of this act have been carried out, and the recommendations shall specifically note what changes are necessary to better address the purposes described in this act.

(b) On or before January 15, 2013, the board shall report to the senate standing committees on utilities and ways and means, the house standing committees on energy and utilities and appropriations and the joint committee on information technology. Such report shall include:

(1) Distance learning and telemedicine usage;

(2) options for a shared resource fee structure for schools, libraries and hospitals for distance learning and telemedicine usage;

(3) options to fund the KAN-ED program for fiscal year 2014;

(4) the standards and methods established by the board pursuant to subsection (c) [(d)] of K.S.A. 75-7224, and amendments thereto; and

(5) the plan developed by the board pursuant to subsection (d) [(e)] of K.S.A. 75-7224, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 72-5146 — KS Code / Chapter 72 / Article 51 / Section 72-5146
72-5146 - Same; determination of supplemental state aid for school districts formed by consolidation or attachment of territory.
Status: in_force

72-5146. Same; determination of supplemental state aid for school districts formed by consolidation or attachment of territory. (a) (1) For the purposes of determining the amount of supplemental state aid, the state board shall determine the ranking of each of the former school districts of which the school district is composed as required by K.S.A. 72-5145(b)(2), and amendments thereto, for the school year prior to the effectuation of the consolidation or attachment.

(2) For the school year in which the consolidation or attachment is effectuated and the next succeeding two school years, the ranking of the school district for the purposes of K.S.A. 72-5145(b)(2), and amendments thereto, shall be the ranking of the school district receiving the highest amount of supplemental state aid determined under subsection (a)(1).

(b) The provisions of this section shall apply to school districts that have consolidated or disorganized on and after July 1, 2004.

(c) As used in this section, "school district" means:

(1) Any school district formed by consolidation in accordance with article 7 of chapter 72 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto; or

(2) any school district formed by disorganization and attachment in accordance with article 6 of chapter 72 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, if all the territory which comprised a disorganized school district is attached to a single school district.
K.S.A. § 75-5225 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 52 / Section 75-5225
75-5225 - Defect in order of commitment, no ground for action against warden or secretary.
Status: in_force

75-5225. Defect in order of commitment, no ground for action against warden or secretary. No defect in the order of commitment under which a person convicted of crime is held by the warden of any correctional institution or the secretary of corrections shall be held a ground of action against the warden or the secretary of corrections for false imprisonment, and no such action shall be maintained in the courts, provided it shall appear that the warden or the secretary of corrections attempted to faithfully carry out the judgment of the court making such order.
K.S.A. § 55-112 — KS Code / Chapter 55 / Article 1 / Section 55-112
55-112 - Transportation of gas; standards for.
Status: in_force

55-112. Transportation of gas; standards for. (a) Any person or persons, firm, company or corporation engaged in drilling for, piping, transporting, using or selling natural gas shall transport or conduct the same through materials listed under appendix B of 49 C.F.R. part 192 and pressure test the pipe according to the criteria provided in subpart J of 49 C.F.R. part 192, as in effect on the effective date of this act.

(b) The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply to any gathering lines which are exempted from 49 C.F.R. part 192.
K.S.A. § 72-6491 — KS Code / Chapter 72 / Article 64 / Section 72-6491
72-6491 - Transportation of nonpublic school pupils.
Status: in_force

72-6491. Transportation of nonpublic school pupils. (a) Whenever any school district shall provide or furnish transportation under authority of this act for pupils attending the public schools, pupils residing in such school district attending private or parochial schools of elementary or high school grades which are accredited by the state board of education, who shall reside on or along the highway or street constituting the regular route of a school bus, or who shall gather at some place on the regular route nearest or most easily accessible to their homes or such schools, where such transportation is provided for pupils attending the public schools, shall be entitled to the privilege of such school bus transportation upon such regular route as arranged for the benefit of pupils attending public schools. For the purposes of this section, regular route shall not include any route arranged by the school district for the transportation of exceptional children to special education services.

(b) Whenever any school district shall provide or furnish transportation under authority of article 64 of chapter 72 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated for pupils attending the public schools, it may provide or furnish transportation for pupils residing in the district and attending private or parochial schools of elementary or high school grades which are accredited by the state board of education to such extent and upon such conditions as the school district shall deem appropriate. The authorization contained in this subsection (b) shall be in addition to the requirement provided in subsection (a) of this section.

(c) Whenever any school district shall provide or furnish transportation under authority of this section for pupils attending private or parochial schools, such transportation shall be provided or furnished to such pupils under the same terms and conditions as are imposed upon pupils attending the public schools.
K.S.A. § 74-49,103 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 49 / Section 74-49,103
74-49,103 - Prior and participating service credit, prior service salary and account interest for members under K.S.A. 74-4999.
Status: in_force

74-49,103. Prior and participating service credit, prior service salary and account interest for members under K.S.A. 74-4999. Each person who is a member of the Kansas public employees retirement system pursuant to subsection (b) of K.S.A. 74-4999 shall:

(a) Receive prior service credit thereunder for all service credited prior to January 1, 1962, under the provisions of K.S.A. 20-2701 to 20-2713, inclusive, as the same existed prior to the effective date of this act;

(b) receive participating service credit thereunder for all service credited on and after January 1, 1962, under the provisions of K.S.A. 20-2701 to 20-2713, inclusive, as the same existed prior to the effective date of this act;

(c) have a prior service salary thereunder which is the greater of either the amount which is provided for in K.S.A. 74-4902(27) or the compensation paid for the last full year of service as an official court reporter prior to January 1, 1962; and

(d) have interest first credited to their individual accounts in the Kansas public employees retirement fund on July 1, 1976.
K.S.A. § 74-510 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 5 / Section 74-510
74-510 - Information and assistance to chief engineer.
Status: in_force

74-510. Information and assistance to chief engineer. It is hereby made the duty of all departments of the state government and of the university of Kansas and Kansas state university of agriculture and applied science and its branches and experiment stations to furnish information and assistance to such chief engineer upon his request therefor.
K.S.A. § 74-8950 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 89 / Section 74-8950
74-8950 - Division of housing established; director, appointment.
Status: in_force

74-8950. Division of housing established; director, appointment. There is hereby established within the Kansas development finance authority, a division of housing to be organized and administered by the Kansas development finance authority. The head of the division shall be the director of housing, who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the president of the Kansas development finance authority. The director of housing shall administer the division of housing.
K.S.A. § 75-3321 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 33 / Section 75-3321
75-3321 - Same; purchase of products or services by state or school district.
Status: in_force

75-3321. Same; purchase of products or services by state or school district. The director of purchases and any person or officer authorized to purchase materials, supplies and services for any state agency or unified school district shall purchase, except as otherwise provided in this section, the products and services on the list certified by the director of purchases from qualified vendors, when those products are to be procured by or for the state or unified school district or when those services are to be procured by or for the state. Services offered for purchase are not required to be purchased by a unified school district. The person or officer authorized to purchase materials, supplies and services for any municipality may purchase the products and services on the list certified by the director of purchases for qualified vendors.
K.S.A. § 2-1325 — KS Code / Chapter 2 / Article 13 / Section 2-1325
2-1325 - Unlawful acts; disposal of screenings and materials.
Status: in_force

2-1325. Unlawful acts; disposal of screenings and materials. It shall be unlawful for any person, company or corporation to sell, offer for sale, barter, give away or otherwise dispose of any screening or offal material containing seeds of weeds mentioned in K.S.A. 2-1314 unless such screenings and materials shall first have been processed by grinding or other adequate means, and the viability of all such weed seeds therein destroyed provided, unprocessed screenings or offal materials may be sold to a commercial processor or commercial feed mixer for processing.
K.S.A. § 19-15,102 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 15 / Section 19-15,102
19-15,102 - No-fund warrants for additional revenue for construction, repair and equipment of courthouse or courthouse and jail in counties between 35,000 and 40,000.
Status: in_force

19-15,102. No-fund warrants for additional revenue for construction, repair and equipment of courthouse or courthouse and jail in counties between 35,000 and 40,000. Any county which has, prior to the effective date of this act, levied taxes for the purpose of providing funds for the construction and equipping of a courthouse, or courthouse and jail, or for the equipping, improving, furnishing and repairing of the courthouse, or for any one or more of such purposes, and which county has accumulated more than six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) from such tax levies, and which amount is insufficient to carry out the purpose of which the tax levies were made, is hereby authorized to issue no-fund warrants, without an election, in an amount not exceeding three hundred sixty thousand dollars ($360,000) for the purpose of providing additional revenue to be used in conjunction with the proceeds of the tax levies to complete the construction, equipping and furnishing of the courthouse and for any and all other purposes for which the tax levies were made.
K.S.A. § 3-150 — KS Code / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 3-150
3-150 - Same; terms; disposition of excess funds.
Status: in_force

3-150. Same; terms; disposition of excess funds. Revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall mature not later than 40 years after the date of issuance. The bonds shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate of interest prescribed by K.S.A. 10-1009, and amendments thereto. In no case where revenue bonds are issued under and by virtue of this act, after the project has been completed, shall the total amount received therefrom be in excess of the actual cost of the project. In the case where bonds are issued prior to completion of the project and the total amount received therefrom exceeds the actual costs of the project when completed, then the excess shall be deposited in a separate fund and shall not be used except for the purpose of paying the principal of and the interest upon the revenue bonds issued under this act. No board or municipality shall have any right or authority to levy taxes to pay any of the principal of or interest on any revenue bonds or any judgment against the issuing board or municipality on account thereof. The provisions of K.S.A. 10-113, and amendments thereto, shall not apply to any bonds issued hereunder.
K.S.A. § 25-1602 — KS Code / Chapter 25 / Article 16 / Section 25-1602
25-1602 - Terms of township officers.
Status: in_force

25-1602. Terms of township officers. Township officers shall serve until their successors are elected, or appointed, and qualified.
K.S.A. § 72-3437 — KS Code / Chapter 72 / Article 34 / Section 72-3437
72-3437 - Crimes committed by child with disability, reports to law enforcement and judicial authorities; transmittal of special education and disciplinary records.
Status: in_force

72-3437. Crimes committed by child with disability, reports to law enforcement and judicial authorities; transmittal of special education and disciplinary records. (a) Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit an agency from reporting a crime committed by a child with a disability to appropriate authorities or to prevent state or local law enforcement and judicial authorities from exercising their responsibilities with regard to the application of federal, state, or local law to crimes committed by a child with a disability.

(b) An agency reporting a crime committed by a child with a disability shall ensure that copies of the special education and disciplinary records of the child are transmitted for consideration by the appropriate authorities to whom it reports the crime.
K.S.A. § 48-293 — KS Code / Chapter 48 / Article 2 / Section 48-293
48-293 - pplication; limitations.
Status: in_force

48-293. A pplication; limitations. The provisions of K.S.A. 48-292, and amendments thereto, shall not apply to any policy or certificate providing coverage for any specified disease, specified accident or accident-only coverage, credit, dental, disability income, hospital indemnity, long-term care, as defined by K.S.A. 40-2227, and any amendments thereto, medicare supplement, as defined by the commissioner of insurance by rules and regulations, vision care, short-term nonrenewable health policy or other limited-benefit supplemental insurance, nor any coverage issued as a supplement to any liability insurance, workers' compensation or similar insurance, or any insurance under which benefits are payable with or without regard to fault, whether written on a group, blanket or individual basis.
K.S.A. § 40-3117 — KS Code / Chapter 40 / Article 31 / Section 40-3117
40-3117 - Tort actions; conditions precedent to recovery of damages for pain and suffering.
Status: in_force

40-3117. Tort actions; conditions precedent to recovery of damages for pain and suffering. In any action for tort brought against the owner, operator or occupant of a motor vehicle or against any person legally responsible for the acts or omissions of such owner, operator or occupant, a plaintiff may recover damages in tort for pain, suffering, mental anguish, inconvenience and other non-pecuniary loss because of injury only in the event the injury requires medical treatment of a kind described in this act as medical benefits, having a reasonable value of $2,000 or more, or the injury consists in whole or in part of permanent disfigurement, a fracture to a weightbearing bone, a compound, comminuted, displaced or compressed fracture, loss of a body member, permanent injury within reasonable medical probability, permanent loss of a bodily function or death. Any person who is entitled to receive free medical and surgical benefits shall be deemed in compliance with the requirements of this section upon a showing that the medical treatment received has an equivalent value of at least $2,000. Any person receiving ordinary and necessary services, normally performed by a nurse, from a relative or a member of such person's household shall be entitled to include the reasonable value of such services in meeting the requirements of this section. For the purpose of this section, the charges actually made for medical treatment expenses shall not be conclusive as to their reasonable value. Evidence that the reasonable value thereof was an amount different from the amount actually charged shall be admissible in all actions to which this subsection applies.
K.S.A. § 60-1401 — KS Code / Chapter 60 / Article 14 / Section 60-1401
60-1401 - Jurisdiction and costs.
Status: in_force

60-1401. Jurisdiction and costs. The district court shall have authority to change the name of any person, township, town or city within this state at the cost of the petitioner without affecting any legal right.
K.S.A. § 12-1798 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 17 / Section 12-1798
12-1798 - Same; amendment to ordinance; effect; protest petition.
Status: in_force

12-1798. Same; amendment to ordinance; effect; protest petition. (a) The ordinance creating the district may be amended, property may be added to the district and the maximum rate of taxes referred to in the ordinance may be increased at any time in the same manner as for the establishment of a district. All property added to a district shall be subject to all taxes currently and thereafter levied.

(b) At any time prior to amendment of the ordinance creating the district by the governing body of the city, the entire matter of amending such ordinance shall be withdrawn from consideration if a petition is filed with the city clerk containing the signatures of at least 40% of all owners of property representing 40% or more of the assessed value of all property within the district and all property proposed to be included.
K.S.A. § 72-2235 — KS Code / Chapter 72 / Article 22 / Section 72-2235
72-2235 - Prohibited practices; evidence of bad faith.
Status: reserved

72-2235. Prohibited practices; evidence of bad faith. (a) The commission of any prohibited practice, as defined in this section, among other actions, shall constitute evidence of bad faith in professional negotiation.

(b) It shall be a prohibited practice for a board of education or its designated representative willfully to:

(1) Interfere with, restrain or coerce professional employees in the exercise of rights granted in K.S.A. 72-2219;

(2) dominate, interfere or assist in the formation, existence, or administration of any professional employees' organization;

(3) discriminate in regard to hiring or any term or condition of employment to encourage or discourage membership in any professional employees' organization;

(4) discharge or discriminate against any professional employee because such professional employee has filed any affidavit, petition or complaint or given any information or testimony under this act, or because such professional employee has formed, joined or chosen to be represented by any professional employees' organization;

(5) refuse to negotiate in good faith with representatives of recognized professional employees' organizations as required in K.S.A. 72-2228, and amendments thereto;

(6) deny the rights accompanying recognition of a professional employees' organization which are granted in K.S.A. 72-2220;

(7) refuse to participate in good faith in the mediation as provided in K.S.A. 72-2232 or fact-finding efforts as provided in K.S.A. 72-2233 or arbitration pursuant to an agreement entered into pursuant to K.S.A. 72-2229; or

(8) institute or attempt to institute a lockout.

(c) It shall be a prohibited practice for professional employees or professional employees' organizations or their designated representatives willfully to:

(1) Interfere with, restrain or coerce professional employees in the exercise of rights granted in K.S.A. 72-2219;

(2) interfere with, restrain or coerce a board of education with respect to rights or duties which are reserved thereto under K.S.A. 72-2228, and amendments thereto, or with respect to selecting a representative for the purpose of professional negotiation or the adjustment of grievances;

(3) refuse to negotiate in good faith with the board of education or its designated representatives as required in K.S.A. 72-2228, and amendments thereto;

(4) refuse to participate in good faith in the mediation as provided in K.S.A. 72-2232 or fact-finding efforts as provided in K.S.A. 72-2233 or arbitration pursuant to an agreement entered into pursuant to K.S.A. 72-2229; or

(5) authorize, instigate, aid or engage in a strike or in picketing of any facility under the jurisdiction and control of the board of education.
K.S.A. § 74-542 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 5 / Section 74-542
74-542 - Program to assist farmers home administration in processing farm loan applications and counseling borrowers; expenses of volunteers; contracts.
Status: in_force

74-542. Program to assist farmers home administration in processing farm loan applications and counseling borrowers; expenses of volunteers; contracts. The secretary of agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to coordinate a program with the Kansas bankers association and other such nonprofit organizations and associations in which persons who have an agricultural lending background and experience are encouraged to volunteer to assist the federal farmers home administration in the processing of farm loan applications and counseling borrowers on financial and technical matters related thereto. Within the limits of appropriations therefor and subject to the provisions of appropriations acts relating thereto, the secretary of agriculture may provide reimbursement of necessary mileage and may pay subsistence expenses to persons participating in such programs of providing voluntary assistance to the federal farmers home administration in the processing of farm loan applications. The amount of payment for mileage and subsistence expenses provided to any person under this section shall not exceed the amounts authorized to be paid for mileage and subsistence expenses under K.S.A. 75-3223, and amendments thereto. The secretary may enter into contracts to carry out the purposes of this act. These contracts shall not be subject to the competitive bidding requirements of K.S.A. 75-3739, and amendments thereto.