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K.S.A. § 25-2437 — KS Code / Chapter 25 / Article 24 / Section 25-2437
25-2437 - Transmission or delivery of advance voting ballots on behalf of another voter; sworn statement required; limitations; penalties.
Status: in_force

25-2437. Transmission or delivery of advance voting ballots on behalf of another voter; sworn statement required; limitations; penalties. (a) No person shall knowingly transmit or deliver an advance voting ballot to the county election officer or polling place on behalf of a voter who is not such person, unless the person submits a written statement accompanying the ballot at the time of ballot delivery to the county election officer or polling place as provided in this section. Any written statement shall be transmitted or signed by both the voter and the person transmitting or delivering such ballot and shall be delivered only by such person. The statement shall be on a form prescribed by the secretary of state and shall contain:

(1) A sworn statement from the person transmitting or delivering such ballot affirming that such person has not:

(A) Exercised undue influence on the voting decision of the voter; or

(B) transmitted or delivered more than 10 advance voting ballots on behalf of other persons during the election in which the ballot is being cast; and

(2) a sworn statement by the voter affirming that:

(A) The voter has authorized such person to transmit or deliver the voter's ballot to a county election officer or polling place; and

(B) such person has not exercised undue influence on the voting decision of the voter.

(b) (1) No candidate for office shall knowingly transmit or deliver an advance voting ballot to the county election officer or polling place on behalf of a voter who is not such person, except on behalf of an immediate family member of such candidate.

(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term "candidate for office" means an individual who has declared such individual's candidacy pursuant to K.S.A. 25-205 et seq., and amendments thereto, or has been nominated for elected office pursuant to K.S.A. 25-301 et seq., and amendments thereto, in the election for which the voter applied for an advance voting ballot.

(c) No person shall transmit or deliver more than 10 advance voting ballots on behalf of other voters during an election.

(d) (1) A violation of subsection (a) or (b) is a severity level 9, nonperson felony.

(2) A violation of subsection (c) is a class B misdemeanor.
K.S.A. § 65-6903 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 69 / Section 65-6903
65-6903 - Unlawful representations; penalty for violation.
Status: in_force

65-6903. Unlawful representations; penalty for violation. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person who is not licensed under this act as an athletic trainer or whose license has been suspended or revoked to use, in connection with such person's name or place of business, the words: "Athletic trainer" or "athletic trainer licensed" or "licensed athletic trainer" or "certified athletic trainer" or the letters "A.T." or "A.T.L.," "L.A.T." or "ATC," or any other words, letters, abbreviations or insignia indicating or implying that such person is an athletic trainer or who in any way, orally, in writing, in print or by sign, directly or by implication represents oneself as an athletic trainer.

(b) Any violation of this section shall constitute a class B nonperson misdemeanor.
K.S.A. § 8-1916 — KS Code / Chapter 8 / Article 19 / Section 8-1916
8-1916 - Cotton modules; allowable movement.
Status: in_force

8-1916. Cotton modules; allowable movement. (a) Any person issued a special permit under the provisions of K.S.A. 8-1911, and amendments thereto, for the purpose of moving cotton modules on the highways of this state, shall be allowed to move such cotton modules 24-hours per day. Such person shall comply with all applicable provisions of K.S.A. 8-1911, and amendments thereto, and rules and regulations adopted by the secretary.

(b) The gross weight on tandem axles of a cotton module issued a special permit under K.S.A. 8-1911, and amendments thereto, shall not exceed 50,000 pounds. A cotton module with a tandem gross axle weight of 50,000 pounds or less shall not be considered a superload as defined in rules and regulations of the Kansas department of transportation.

(c) This section shall be part of and supplemental to the uniform act regulating traffic on highways.
K.S.A. § 19-3439 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 34 / Section 19-3439
19-3439 - Establishment and change of precinct boundaries in counties where an election commissioner has been appointed; effect of city's proposed annexation ordinance on elections; delay of ordinance's effective date by county election officer; appeal by city.
Status: in_force

19-3439. Establishment and change of precinct boundaries in counties where an election commissioner has been appointed; effect of city's proposed annexation ordinance on elections; delay of ordinance's effective date by county election officer; appeal by city. Notwithstanding the provisions of any statute to the contrary, in any county where an election commissioner has been appointed all precinct boundary lines shall be established and may be changed from time to time, exclusively by the election commissioner of any such county. No precinct shall be divided by a ward boundary line. Whenever the governing body of any city proposes to adopt an annexation ordinance, at least seven days prior to such adoption, the governing body shall notify the county election officer by transmitting a copy of the proposed ordinance to such officer, together with a statement of the date the proposed ordinance, if passed, will take effect in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 12-523, and amendments thereto. If the county election officer is of the opinion that the date such ordinance takes effect will materially interfere with any election, such officer shall so certify, stating the reasons therefor, to the governing body of such city and deliver a copy of such certificate to the secretary of state. Whenever any such certificate is filed with the governing body of a city and the secretary of state, the ordinance to which it applies shall not take effect until the day after the election with which it will interfere, and if such an ordinance will materially interfere with the primary statewide election in the opinion of the county election officer, such ordinance shall not take effect until the day after the statewide general election. In the event that the governing body of any city that receives a certificate under this section is aggrieved thereby because the reasons for the opinion of the county election officer are deemed incorrect or insufficient, such governing body may appeal the decision to the district court. In any such case the district court shall advance the appeal for immediate determination as the public interest may require. A copy of any such appeal shall be filed with the secretary of state at the time the appeal is made, and the secretary of state shall file a statement of position with respect to the matter in controversy with the district court.
K.S.A. § 75-37,155 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 37 / Section 75-37,155
75-37,155 - Audits; procurement of firm or firms to perform audit work.
Status: in_force

75-37,155. Audits; procurement of firm or firms to perform audit work. (a) In the procurement of a firm or firms to perform an audit required by K.S.A. 75-37,152 and 75-37,153, and amendments thereto, the secretary of administration shall encourage firms engaged in the lawful practice of their professions to place their names on a list maintained by the secretary of firms to receive requests for proposals on audit contracts.

(b) The secretary of administration shall establish specifications for the conduct by a firm or firms of an audit required by K.S.A. 75-37,152 and 75-37,153, and amendments thereto. The specifications shall be used in preparing requests for proposals and evaluating the proposals received.

(c) For all audits required by K.S.A. 75-37,152 and 75-37,153, and amendments thereto, the secretary of administration shall issue a request for proposals to all firms who have requested to be on the firm list and others who request a copy after notice in the Kansas register. The request for proposals shall request information on the firm's qualifications, the qualifications of staff to be assigned to the job, the firm's technical approach to the audit and the fee. The secretary shall evaluate the proposals received in response to the request for proposals and for each audit shall prepare a list of at least three and not more than five firms that are, in the opinion of the secretary, qualified to perform such audit. Such list shall be submitted to the department of administration audit contract committee.
K.S.A. § 22-4521 — KS Code / Chapter 22 / Article 45 / Section 22-4521
22-4521 - eetings; officers; quorum; compensation and allowances.
Status: in_force

22-4521. M eetings; officers; quorum; compensation and allowances. (a) At the first meeting of the state board of indigents' defense services and at the first meeting held each calendar year thereafter, the board shall elect a chairperson and a secretary from among its members.

(b) The board shall meet at least quarterly and at such other times as called by the chairperson. Meetings of the board shall be at such places as the board determines.

(c) Five members of the board constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the affirmative vote of five members of the board is required for any action by the board.

(d) The members of the board shall receive compensation and travel expenses and subsistence expenses or allowances as provided in K.S.A. 75-3212.
K.S.A. § 22-4621 — KS Code / Chapter 22 / Article 46 / Section 22-4621
22-4621 - Submission of sexual assault kits for testing; law enforcement policies, requirements; available for public inspection.
Status: in_force

22-4621. Submission of sexual assault kits for testing; law enforcement policies, requirements; available for public inspection. (a) All law enforcement agencies in this state shall adopt a written policy requiring submission of all sexual assault kits that correspond to a law enforcement report of sexual assault to the Johnson county sheriff's office criminalistics laboratory, Sedgwick county regional forensic science center, the Kansas bureau of investigation or another accredited forensic laboratory.

(b) Such policy shall:

(1) Ensure that all sexual assault kits that correspond to a law enforcement report of sexual assault are submitted to a laboratory described in subsection (a) for analysis within 30 business days from the collection of the kit for examination; and

(2) include a procedure to ensure the examination results are received by the investigating officer upon the completion of the examination.

(c) All law enforcement agencies in this state shall collaborate with the county or district attorneys in the appropriate jurisdiction regarding the contents of the written policies required by this section.

(d) Policies adopted pursuant to this section shall be made available to all law enforcement officers employed by such law enforcement agency and shall be available for public inspection during normal business hours.

(e) Policies required by this section shall be adopted and implemented by all law enforcement agencies in this state prior to January 31, 2023.
K.S.A. § 14-606 — KS Code / Chapter 14 / Article 6 / Section 14-606
14-606 - Same; vacancies.
Status: in_force

14-606. Same; vacancies. Vacancies in the board of trustees, occasioned by removals, resignations or otherwise, shall be reported to the governing body, and be filled in like manner as original appointments, appointees to hold office until the next following city election, when such vacancies shall be filled by election in the usual manner.
K.S.A. § 76-3309 — KS Code / Chapter 76 / Article 33 / Section 76-3309
76-3309 - Transfer or lease of hospital assets to authority from regents; compensation of authority for service by medical center; agreement; liabilities.
Status: in_force

76-3309. Transfer or lease of hospital assets to authority from regents; compensation of authority for service by medical center; agreement; liabilities. (a) Following the creation of the authority and on the transfer date or transfer dates under this act, the regents shall have the authority to lease, convey, or otherwise transfer to the authority some or all hospital assets, except land which may be leased to the authority for a nominal amount for a term not to exceed 99 years. Any such lease, conveyance or transfer shall be on such terms as may be approved by the regents, in exchange for the authority's agreement to assume the hospital obligations and to support the education, research, patient care, care to the medically indigent and public service activities of the university of Kansas medical center. The authority may be compensated by the university of Kansas medical center for such services from moneys appropriated by the legislature to the university of Kansas medical center for such purposes or directly to the authority for such services.

(b) Any such lease, conveyance or transfer of hospital assets to the authority shall be conditioned upon the existence of a binding agreement between the regents and the authority which provides that effective on the transfer date under this act and thereafter, the authority shall assume responsibility for and shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless the regents and the state and the university of Kansas and its officers and directors with respect to:

(1) Liabilities and duties of the regents pursuant to contracts, agreements and leases for commodities, services, and supplies utilized by university hospital, including real property leases;

(2) claims related to the employment relationship between employees of the authority and the authority on and after the transfer date under this act;

(3) claims for breach of contract resulting from the authority's action or failure to act on and after the transfer date under this act; and

(4) claims related to the authority's errors and omissions including, but not limited to: Medical malpractice; directors and officers liability; workers' compensation; automobile liability; and premises, completed operations and products liability.

(c) Any lease, conveyance or transfer of hospital assets to the authority shall be further conditioned upon the existence of a binding agreement between the regents and the authority by which the authority shall accept and agree to abide by the provisions set forth in K.S.A. 76-3302, and amendments thereto, concerning the mission of the authority and the provisions in K.S.A. 76-3311, and amendments thereto, concerning employees of the university hospital.

(d) Any disputes that arise in the transfer of property from the university to the authority shall be resolved by the governor.
K.S.A. § 32-1309 — KS Code / Chapter 32 / Article 13 / Section 32-1309
32-1309 - Selling or transferring animals.
Status: in_force

32-1309. Selling or transferring animals. Nothing in this act shall preclude a person who holds a valid United States department of agriculture license from selling or transferring the entire business and the dangerous regulated animals covered by such license to another person who holds a valid United States department of agriculture license.
K.S.A. § 17-4619 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 46 / Section 17-4619
17-4619 - Effect of consolidation or merger.
Status: in_force

17-4619. Effect of consolidation or merger. (a) In the case of a consolidation the existence of the consolidating cooperatives shall cease and the articles of consolidation shall be deemed to be the articles of incorporation of the new cooperative; and in case of a merger the separate existence of the merging cooperatives shall cease and the articles of incorporation of the surviving cooperatives shall be amended to the extent, if any, that changes therein are necessary in the articles of merger;

(b) all the rights, privileges, immunities and franchises and all property, real and personal, including applications for membership, all debts due on whatever account and all other choses in action, of each of the consolidating or merging cooperatives shall be deemed to be transferred to and vested in the new or surviving cooperative without further act or deed;

(c) the new or surviving cooperative shall be responsible and liable for all the liabilities and obligations of each of the consolidating or merging cooperatives and any claim existing or action or proceeding pending by or against any of the consolidating or merging cooperatives may be prosecuted as if the consolidation or merger had not taken place, but the new or surviving cooperative may be substituted in its place; and

(d) neither the rights of creditors nor any liens upon the property of any such cooperatives shall be impaired by such consolidation or merger.
K.S.A. § 12-825 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 8 / Section 12-825
12-825 - Technical service and advice from state commission.
Status: in_force

12-825. Technical service and advice from state commission. Cities may, upon proper application to the secretary of the corporation commission of the state, obtain the technical services and advice, pertaining to any public utility operated within said city whether the same be publicly or privately owned, of any expert or other employee of said commission. The city obtaining such service or advice shall pay to said commission the actual expenses necessarily incurred by it in supplying said services or advice.
K.S.A. § 48-3809 — KS Code / Chapter 48 / Article 38 / Section 48-3809
48-3809 - Severability clause.
Status: in_force

48-3809. Severability clause. K.S.A. 48-3801 through 48-3808, and amendments thereto, are declared severable. Any provision of K.S.A. 48-3801 through 48-3808, and amendments thereto, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance that is held to be unconstitutional or invalid shall not affect the validity of any remaining provisions of K.S.A. 48-3801 through 48-3808, and amendments thereto, or the applicability of such provisions to any person or circumstance.
K.S.A. § 8-604 — KS Code / Chapter 8 / Article 6 / Section 8-604
8-604 - Same; prima facie evidence of sale prohibited under K.S.A. 8-603.
Status: in_force

8-604. Same; prima facie evidence of sale prohibited under K.S.A. 8-603. Any threat, expressed or implied, made directly or indirectly to any dealer by any manufacturer, or by any person who is engaged in the business of financing the purchase or sale of motor vehicles or other specific commodities and is affiliated with or controlled by any manufacturer, that such manufacturer will cease to sell, or will terminate or refuse to enter into a contract to sell motor vehicles or such other specific commodities to such dealer unless such dealer finances the purchase or sale of any such motor vehicle or vehicles or such other specific commodities only with or through a designated person, shall be presumed to be made at the direction of and with the authority of such manufacturer and shall be prima facie evidence of the fact that such manufacturer has sold or intends to sell such motor vehicle or vehicles or other specific commodities on the condition or under the agreement prohibited in K.S.A. 8-603.
K.S.A. § 58-3408 — KS Code / Chapter 58 / Article 34 / Section 58-3408
58-3408 - Certain interests not barred or extinguished.
Status: reserved

58-3408. Certain interests not barred or extinguished. This act shall not be applied to bar or extinguish:

(a) The right to possession of any lessor or any lessor's successor, as a reversioner, on the expiration of any lease;

(b) the rights in and to any lease of any lessee or any lessee's successor;

(c) any interest of a mortgagee, or interest in the nature of that of a mortgagee, until after the instrument under which the interest is claimed becomes due and payable, except that, where the instrument has no due date expressed, the twenty-five-year period shall commence to run from the date of recording of the instrument;

(d) any mineral interest which has been severed from the fee simple title of the land;

(e) any easement or interest in the nature of an easement, or any rights granted, reserved or excepted by any instrument creating such an easement or interest;

(f) use restrictions or area agreements which are part of a plan for subdivision development;

(g) the rights of any reversioner or remainderman upon the expiration of any life estate or trust;

(h) rights of reverter or rights of entry for condition broken; or

(i) any right, title or interest of the United States or the state of Kansas by reason of failure to file the notice required by this act.
K.S.A. § 12-16,143 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 16 / Section 12-16,143
12-16,143 - Racial or other biased-based policing prohibited; filing of complaints.
Status: in_force

12-16,143. Racial or other biased-based policing prohibited; filing of complaints. It is unlawful to use racial or other biased-based policing in the enforcement of federal immigration law and communications with federal agencies within the scope of this act. As used in this section, "racial or other biased-based policing" means the same as defined in K.S.A. 22-4606, and amendments thereto. Any person who believes such person has been subjected to racial or other biased-based policing by a law enforcement officer or agency in violation of this section may file a complaint pursuant to K.S.A. 22-4611, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 65-1452 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 14 / Section 65-1452
65-1452 - Subpoenas and testimony.
Status: in_force

65-1452. Subpoenas and testimony. In all matters pending before it, the board shall have the power to issue subpoenas and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of all necessary papers, books and records, documentary evidence and materials. Any person failing or refusing to appear or testify regarding any matter about which such person may be lawfully questioned or to produce any papers, books, records, documentary evidence or materials in the matter to be heard, after having been required by order of the board or by a subpoena of the board to do so may, upon application to any district judge of the state of Kansas be ordered to comply therewith, and upon failure to comply with the order of district judge, the court may compel obedience by attachment as for contempt as in case of disobedience of a similar order or subpoena issued by said court. A subpoena may be served upon any person named therein, anywhere within the state of Kansas with the same fees and mileage by any officer authorized to serve subpoenas in civil actions, in the same manner as is prescribed by the code of civil procedure for subpoenas issued out of the district courts of this state.