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K.S.A. § 17-1618 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 16 / Section 17-1618
17-1618 - Business entity information report; report fee.
Status: in_force

17-1618. Business entity information report; report fee. Each association formed under this act shall prepare and make a written business entity information report to the secretary of state, and pay the required fee, as prescribed by K.S.A. 17-7504, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 43-160 — KS Code / Chapter 43 / Article 1 / Section 43-160
43-160 - Same; taxpayers of municipality not excluded from jury service in actions against municipality.
Status: in_force

43-160. Same; taxpayers of municipality not excluded from jury service in actions against municipality. In all actions brought by or against any county, city or other municipal corporations, inhabitants of the same may be jurors if otherwise competent and qualified and may not be disqualified from serving as jurors in any such action for the sole reason of being taxpayers thereof.
K.S.A. § 60-3320 — KS Code / Chapter 60 / Article 33 / Section 60-3320
60-3320 - Definitions.
Status: in_force

60-3320. Definitions. As used in this act, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) "Improper means" includes theft, bribery, misrepresentation, breach or inducement of a breach of a duty to maintain secrecy, or espionage through electronic or other means.

(2) "Misappropriation" means:

(i) acquisition of a trade secret of another by a person who knows or has reason to know that the trade secret was acquired by improper means; or

(ii) disclosure or use of a trade secret of another without express or implied consent by a person who

(A) used improper means to acquire knowledge of the trade secret; or

(B) at the time of disclosure or use, knew or had reason to know that his knowledge of the trade secret was

(I) derived from or through a person who had utilized improper means to acquire it;

(II) acquired under circumstances giving rise to a duty to maintain its secrecy or limit its use; or

(III) derived from or through a person who owed a duty to the person seeking relief to maintain its secrecy or limit its use; or

(C) before a material change of his position, knew or had reason to know that it was a trade secret and that knowledge of it had been acquired by accident or mistake.

(3) "Person" means a natural person, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision or agency, or any other legal or commercial entity.

(4) "Trade secret" means information, including a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process, that:

(i) derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use, and

(ii) is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy.
K.S.A. § 10-505 — KS Code / Chapter 10 / Article 5 / Section 10-505
10-505 - Commission.
Status: in_force

10-505. Commission. The state treasurer shall collect for receiving and disbursing such funds, for the uses of the state, a commission of one-eighth of one percent but not to exceed the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents ($1.25) for each bond, which commission shall be a charge against the county, township, school district or municipality on account of which such commission accrued.
K.S.A. § 50-1202 — KS Code / Chapter 50 / Article 12 / Section 50-1202
50-1202 - Legislative declaration.
Status: in_force

50-1202. Legislative declaration. The legislature declares that the authority for K.S.A. 50-1201 through 50-1211, and amendments thereto, is the following:

(a) The tenth amendment to the constitution of the United States guarantees to the states and their people all powers not granted to the federal government elsewhere in the constitution and reserves to the state and people of Kansas certain powers as they were understood at the time that Kansas was admitted to statehood in 1861. The guaranty of those powers is a matter of contract between the state and people of Kansas and the United States as of the time that the compact with the United States was agreed upon and adopted by Kansas in 1859 and the United States in 1861.

(b) The ninth amendment to the constitution of the United States guarantees to the people rights not granted in the constitution and reserves to the people of Kansas certain rights as they were understood at the time that Kansas was admitted to statehood in 1861. The guaranty of those rights is a matter of contract between the state and people of Kansas and the United States as of the time that the compact with the United States was agreed upon and adopted by Kansas in 1859 and the United States in 1861.

(c) The second amendment to the constitution of the United States reserves to the people, individually, the right to keep and bear arms as that right was understood at the time that Kansas was admitted to statehood in 1861, and the guaranty of that right is a matter of contract between the state and people of Kansas and the United States as of the time that the compact with the United States was agreed upon and adopted by Kansas in 1859 and the United States in 1861.

(d) Section 4 of the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas clearly secures to Kansas citizens, and prohibits government interference with, the right of individual Kansas citizens to keep and bear arms. This constitutional protection is unchanged from the constitution of the state of Kansas, which was approved by congress and the people of Kansas, and the right exists as it was understood at the time that the compact with the United States was agreed upon and adopted by Kansas in 1859 and the United States in 1861.
K.S.A. § 74-50,111 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 50 / Section 74-50,111
74-50,111 - Annual report of IMPACT program activities.
Status: in_force

74-50,111. Annual report of IMPACT program activities. The secretary of commerce shall annually report on activities under the IMPACT act, pursuant to K.S.A. 74-5049, and amendments thereto. Each report shall contain information regarding the number and characteristics of the new jobs created or jobs retained in Kansas for which SKILL projects or major project investments have been financed under this act, including a report on any such new or retained jobs which do not continue to exist and the circumstances and effect of any such discontinuances.
K.S.A. § 25-3201 — KS Code / Chapter 25 / Article 32 / Section 25-3201
25-3201 - State board of canvassers; membership.
Status: in_force

25-3201. State board of canvassers; membership. The governor, secretary of state and attorney general, or such officers' designee, shall constitute the state board of canvassers. Any two of such members may act for such board.
K.S.A. § 77-502 — KS Code / Chapter 77 / Article 5 / Section 77-502
77-502 - Definitions.
Status: in_force

77-502. Definitions. As used in this act:

(a) "State agency" means any officer, department, bureau, division, board, authority, agency, commission or institution of this state, except the judicial and legislative branches of state government and political subdivisions of the state, which is authorized by law to administer, enforce or interpret any law of this state.

(b) "Agency head" means an individual or body of individuals in whom the ultimate legal authority of the state agency is vested by any provision of law.

(c) "License" means a franchise, permit, certification, approval, registration, charter or similar form of authorization required by law for a person to engage in a profession or occupation.

(d) "Order" means a state agency action of particular applicability that determines the legal rights, duties, privileges, immunities or other legal interest of one or more specific persons.

(e) "Party to state agency proceedings," or "party" in context so indicating, means:

(1) A person to whom an order is specifically directed; or

(2) a person named as a party to a state agency proceeding or allowed to intervene as a party in the proceeding.

(f) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, political subdivision or unit thereof or public or private organization or entity of any character, and includes another state agency.

(g) "Political subdivision" means political or taxing subdivisions of the state, including boards, commissions, authorities, councils, committees, subcommittees and other subordinate groups or administrative units thereof, receiving or expending and supported in whole or in part by public funds.

(h) "Writing," "written," or "in writing" means any worded or numbered expression that can be read, reproduced and later communicated, and includes electronically transmitted and stored information.
K.S.A. § 66-1,161 — KS Code / Chapter 66 / Article 1 / Section 66-1,161
66-1,161 - Same; appointment of counsel to represent landowners' interests; counsel for individual landowners; intervening parties.
Status: in_force

66-1,161. Same; appointment of counsel to represent landowners' interests; counsel for individual landowners; intervening parties. The commission shall appoint an attorney to represent the interests of the landowners at the hearing and shall allow a reasonable attorney's fee, which shall be taxed as part of the costs thereof. Landowners, at their own expense, may retain counsel to represent their individual interests at such hearing. The chief administrative officer, or any other person or persons designated by such officer, of any governmental board or agency affected by the siting of the proposed nuclear generation facility shall be deemed to meet the requirement for intervention contained in subsection (a)(2) of K.S.A. 77-521, and amendments thereto. Any owner or lessee of land whose estate or interest in such land would not be acquired by the electric utility but would be affected in some other manner by the construction, operation or maintenance of the facility may petition for intervention in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 77-521, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 75-5293 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 52 / Section 75-5293
75-5293 - Payment for expenses of corrections advisory board of county or group of cooperating counties without an approved plan.
Status: in_force

75-5293. Payment for expenses of corrections advisory board of county or group of cooperating counties without an approved plan. In order to assist a county or group of cooperating counties which has established a corrections advisory board but which does not have a comprehensive plan which has been approved by the secretary of corrections and which requires financial aid to defray all or part of the expenses incurred by corrections advisory board members in discharging their official duties pursuant to K.S.A. 75-5299, and amendments thereto, the secretary of corrections, upon receipt of resolutions by the board or boards of county commissioners, or the administrative authority established by cooperating counties, certifying the need for and inability to pay such expenses, may pay quarterly to the county or counties an amount determined by the secretary.
K.S.A. § 12-5376 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 53 / Section 12-5376
12-5376 - Provision of 911 service; limitation on liability.
Status: in_force

12-5376. Provision of 911 service; limitation on liability. Except as provided by the Kansas tort claims act, and except for action or inaction that constitutes gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct, the LCPA, PSAPs, and each provider, and their employees, agents, suppliers and subcontractors, and each seller, and their employees, agents, suppliers and subcontractors, shall not be liable for the payment of damages resulting directly or indirectly from the total or partial failure of any transmission to an emergency communication service or for damages resulting from the performance of installing, maintaining or providing 911 service.
K.S.A. § 22-2726 — KS Code / Chapter 22 / Article 27 / Section 22-2726
22-2726 - Written waiver of extradition proceeding; duty of judge.
Status: in_force

22-2726. Written waiver of extradition proceeding; duty of judge. Any person arrested in this state charged with having committed any crime in another state or alleged to have escaped from confinement or broken the terms of such person's bail, probation, assignment to a community correctional services program, postrelease supervision or parole, or alleged to be under sentence, some part of which remains unexecuted, from which such person has not been paroled, placed on postrelease supervision, discharged or otherwise released, may waive the issuance and service of the warrant provided for in K.S.A. 22-2707 and 22-2708, and amendments thereto, and all other procedure incidental to extradition proceedings, by executing or subscribing in the presence of a judge of any court of record within this state a writing which states that such person consents to return to the demanding state, except that before such waiver is executed or subscribed by such person it shall be the duty of such judge to inform such person of the person's rights to the issuance and service of a warrant of extradition and to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as provided for in K.S.A. 22-2710 and amendments thereto.

If and when such consent has been duly executed it shall forthwith be forwarded to the office of the governor of this state and filed therein. The judge shall direct the officer having such person in custody to deliver forthwith such person to the duly accredited agent or agents of the demanding state, and shall deliver or cause to be delivered to such agent or agents a copy of such consent.

Nothing in this section shall be deemed to limit the rights of the accused person to return voluntarily and without formality to the demanding state, nor shall this waiver procedure be deemed to be an exclusive procedure or to limit the powers, rights or duties of the officers of the demanding state or of this state.
K.S.A. § 80-2514 — KS Code / Chapter 80 / Article 25 / Section 80-2514
80-2514 - Same; construction projects; bids.
Status: in_force

80-2514. Same; construction projects; bids. No hospital building or addition shall be erected or constructed until the plans and specifications have been made therefor, adopted by the board, and bids advertised for according to law for county buildings.
K.S.A. § 65-5313 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 53 / Section 65-5313
65-5313 - Violations; criminal penalties.
Status: in_force

65-5313. Violations; criminal penalties. (a) Any individual person or business entity who willfully violates any provision of this act or any rules and regulations adopted under this act is guilty:

(1) For a first offense, of a class C misdemeanor; and

(2) for a second offense, of a class B misdemeanor.
K.S.A. § 58-3951 — KS Code / Chapter 58 / Article 39 / Section 58-3951
58-3951 - Advertising of unclaimed property; information required.
Status: in_force

58-3951. Advertising of unclaimed property; information required. (a) Within the calendar year next following the year in which unclaimed property has been paid or delivered to the administrator, the administrator shall advertise the unclaimed property in such form as in the discretion of the administrator is likely to attract the attention of the apparent owner of the unclaimed property. It shall contain the following information:

(1) The name of each person appearing to be the owner of property presumed abandoned, as set forth in the report filed by the holder;

(2) the last known address or location of each person appearing to be the owner of property presumed abandoned, if an address or location is set forth in the report filed by the holder;

(3) a statement explaining that property of the owner has been presumed to be abandoned and has been taken into the protective custody of the administrator; and

(4) a statement that information about the abandoned property and its return to the apparent owner can be obtained at any time by a person having a legal or beneficial interest in that property by making an inquiry to the administrator.

(b) The administrator shall not be required to advertise the name and address or location of an owner of abandoned property having a total value less than $100, nor information concerning travelers checks and money orders.
K.S.A. § 17-1753 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 17 / Section 17-1753
17-1753 - Title to property of Free Methodist Church of North America.
Status: in_force

17-1753. Title to property of Free Methodist Church of North America. The title to all abandoned property, both real, personal and mixed, belonging to or held in trust for or by any religious organization known as the Free Methodist Church of North America that has or shall become extinct shall vest in and become the property of the Great Plains Annual Conference of the Free Methodist Church of North America, a corporation, and its successors and assigns. This act shall not affect the reversionary interest of any person or persons, or corporation, now existing in any such property or any valid lien now existing thereon.
K.S.A. § 60-470 — KS Code / Chapter 60 / Article 4 / Section 60-470
60-470 - Title.
Status: in_force

60-470. Title. The rules contained in this article 4 may be known and cited as the rules of evidence.
K.S.A. § 65-34,145 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 34 / Section 65-34,145
65-34,145 - Registration; fee; posting.
Status: in_force

65-34,145. Registration; fee; posting. (a) Each owner of an operating drycleaning facility shall register annually with the department on a form provided by the department. The registration shall be accompanied by a fee of $100 for each operating drycleaning facility owned by the owner. The secretary shall remit the fees paid pursuant to this section to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the fund.

(b) The owner of a drycleaning facility shall post the owner's registration number, in a manner prescribed by the secretary, in the public area of each operating drycleaning facility owned by the owner.
K.S.A. § 19-27,195 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 27 / Section 19-27,195
19-27,195 - Districts in or adjacent to cities.
Status: in_force

19-27,195. Districts in or adjacent to cities. The governing body shall be authorized to create a benefit district in any portion of the unincorporated area of the county. If the benefit district either overlaps or abuts the city limits of any incorporated city, then no such benefit district shall be created without the city's consent. The provisions of K.S.A. 19-270, and amendments thereto, shall not apply to the creation of a benefit district pursuant to this act.
K.S.A. § 77-703 — KS Code / Chapter 77 / Article 7 / Section 77-703
77-703 - Definitions.
Status: in_force

77-703. Definitions. On and after January 1, 1996, as used in this act, unless the context requires otherwise:

(a) "Take" or "taking" means, due to a governmental action, private property is taken or its use is restricted or limited by a governmental action such that compensation to the owner of the property is required by the fifth or 14th amendment of the constitution of the United States or section 18 of the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas.

(b) (1) "Governmental action" means any of the following actions by a state agency which may constitute a taking:

(A) Proposed legislation;

(B) proposed rules and regulations or directives; or

(C) proposed agency guidelines and procedures concerning the process of issuing licenses or permits;

(2) "Governmental action" does not include:

(A) Activity in which the power of eminent domain is formally exercised;

(B) the repeal of rules and regulations, elimination of governmental programs, or amendment of rules and regulations such that limitations on the use of private property are reduced or removed;

(C) law enforcement activities involving seizure or forfeiture of private property for violations of law or as evidence in criminal proceedings; and

(D) state agency action, authorized by statute or by valid court order, in response to a violation of state law.

(c) "Private property" means any real property or interest arising from or relating to any real property in this state that is protected by the fifth or 14th amendment of the constitution of the United States or section 18 of the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas.

(d) "State agency" means an officer, department, division or unit of the executive branch of the state of Kansas authorized to propose, adopt or enforce rules and regulations. "State agency" shall not include the legislative or judicial branches of the state of Kansas or any political or taxing subdivision of the state of Kansas.
K.S.A. § 75-146 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 1 / Section 75-146
75-146 - Same; legal proceedings not affected by transfer.
Status: in_force

75-146. Same; legal proceedings not affected by transfer. (a) No suit, action, or other proceeding, judicial or administrative, lawfully commenced, or which could have been commenced, by or against any state agency or program mentioned in K.S.A. 75-141 through 75-147, and amendments thereto, or by or against any officer of the state in such officer's official duties, shall abate by reason of the governmental reorganization effected under the provisions of K.S.A. 75-141 through 75-147, and amendments thereto. The court may allow any such suit, action, or other proceeding to be maintained by or against the successor of any such state agency or any officer affected.

(b) No criminal action commenced or which could have been commenced by the state shall abate by the taking effect of K.S.A. 75-141 through 75-147, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 46-1011 — KS Code / Chapter 46 / Article 10 / Section 46-1011
46-1011 - Record of testimony; filing and preservation of transcript; filing or determination of availability of documents.
Status: in_force

46-1011. Record of testimony; filing and preservation of transcript; filing or determination of availability of documents. Whenever testimony given under oath is received by an investigating committee, a verbatim record shall be made thereof by a certified shorthand reporter, and the transcript of such record shall be filed with the division of legislative administrative services and be preserved for at least five (5) years. Whenever any document has been received by an investigating committee and included in the record by reference or otherwise, such document shall not be required to be filed with the transcript of the record as required by this section, if the investigating committee determines that the document will be reasonably available without such filing.