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K.S.A. § 65-5115 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 51 / Section 65-5115
65-5115 - Home health aides; requirements for employment; instruction and examination; examination fee, disposition.
Status: in_force

65-5115. Home health aides; requirements for employment; instruction and examination; examination fee, disposition. (a) The secretary may require, as a condition to continued employment by a home health agency that home health aides, within 90 days of employment, successfully complete an approved course of instruction and take and satisfactorily pass an examination prescribed by the secretary.

(b) A course of instruction for home health aides may be prepared and administered by any home health agency or by any other qualified person. A course of instruction prepared and administered by a home health agency may be conducted on the premises of the home health agency that prepared and will administer the course of instruction. The secretary shall not require home health aides to enroll in any particular approved course of instruction, but the secretary shall prepare guidelines for the preparation and administration of courses of instruction and shall approve or disapprove courses of instruction.

(c) The secretary shall not require that home health aides complete the course of instruction and pass the examination established pursuant to K.S.A. 39-936(c)(5), and amendments thereto, before enrolling in an approved course of instruction authorized by this section. Home health aides may enroll in any approved course of instruction.

(d) The examination required by this section shall be prescribed by the secretary and shall be reasonably related to the duties performed by home health aides. The same examination shall be given by the secretary to all home health aides.

(e) The secretary shall fix, charge and collect an examination fee to cover all or any part of the cost of the examination required by this section. The examination fee shall be fixed by rules and regulations of the secretary. The examination fee shall be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the state general fund.
K.S.A. § 76-715 — KS Code / Chapter 76 / Article 7 / Section 76-715
76-715 - Appointment of employees; compensation.
Status: in_force

76-715. Appointment of employees; compensation. The chief executive officer of each state educational institution shall appoint such employees as are authorized by the board of regents. Employees in the unclassified service shall serve at the pleasure of the chief executive officer of the state educational institution, subject to policies approved by the board of regents. Unclassified employees shall receive such compensation as is prescribed by the chief executive officer of the state educational institution within authorizations by the board of regents. Employees of the state educational institutions, who are not in the unclassified service, shall be in the classified service of the Kansas civil service act.
K.S.A. § 80-932 — KS Code / Chapter 80 / Article 9 / Section 80-932
80-932 - Tax levy for care and maintenance of certain cemeteries.
Status: in_force

80-932. Tax levy for care and maintenance of certain cemeteries. The township board of any township is hereby authorized and empowered to levy an annual tax on all taxable tangible property in such townships, including such property of cities of the third class, for the purpose of providing funds to be used for the care and maintenance of cemeteries in such townships for which no provision is made by law for the levying of taxes for such care and maintenance.
K.S.A. § 75-5036 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 50 / Section 75-5036
75-5036 - Development of state plan.
Status: in_force

75-5036. Development of state plan. The secretary shall develop a plan establishing guidelines for the implementation of this act.
K.S.A. § 46-912 — KS Code / Chapter 46 / Article 9 / Section 46-912
46-912 - Joint committee on special claims against the state; membership; appointment; chairperson; meetings; quorum.
Status: in_force

46-912. Joint committee on special claims against the state; membership; appointment; chairperson; meetings; quorum. There is hereby established the joint committee on special claims against the state which shall have seven members consisting of three members of the senate and four members of the house of representatives. The representative members shall be appointed by the speaker, and the senator members shall be appointed by the senate committee on organization, calendar and rules. Of the members of the house, three members shall be from the majority party with the remaining member from the minority party. Of the members of the senate, two members shall be from the majority party with the remaining member from the minority party. Not less than one representative member shall be a member of the house committee on appropriations and not less than one senator member shall be a member of the senate committee on ways and means. In the biennium commencing with the convening of the regular session of the legislature in 1979, and in the biennium commencing with the convening of the regular session of the legislature each four years thereafter, the chairperson of the joint committee shall be a representative member designated by the speaker of the house of representatives. In the biennium commencing with the convening of the regular session of the legislature in 1981, and in the biennium commencing with the regular session of the legislature each four years thereafter, the senate committee on organization, calendar and rules shall designate a senator member to be the chairperson of the joint committee. If a chairperson shall die, resign or otherwise be incapable of serving as chairperson for the full two-year period, a successor shall be designated to fill the unexpired portion of such period in the same manner as the original chairperson was selected. The joint committee shall meet in the interim between legislative sessions on the call of the chairperson as authorized by the legislative coordinating council. Any four members of the joint committee shall constitute a quorum. Any action of such joint committee may be taken by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members present, if a quorum is present.

The provisions of article 12 of chapter 46 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, applicable to special committees shall apply to the joint committee on special claims against the state to the extent the same do not conflict with the specific provisions of this act applicable to such committee.
K.S.A. § 9-2214 — KS Code / Chapter 9 / Article 22 / Section 9-2214
9-2214 - Ownership of documents.
Status: in_force

9-2214. Ownership of documents. All original documents provided to the licensee by the borrower or at the expense of the borrower, including any appraisals, are the property of the borrower and at the borrower's request, shall be returned to the borrower without further expense if the loan is not consummated.
K.S.A. § 68-2241 — KS Code / Chapter 68 / Article 22 / Section 68-2241
68-2241 - Acceptance of federal funds.
Status: in_force

68-2241. Acceptance of federal funds. The secretary of transportation may accept any allotment of funds by the United States, or any agency thereof, appropriated to carry out the purposes of section 131 of title 23 of the United States code, and any amendments thereto. The secretary shall take such steps as may be necessary from time to time to obtain from the United States, or the appropriate agency thereof, funds allotted and appropriated pursuant to said section 131 for the purpose of paying the federal government's seventy-five percent (75%) share of the just compensation to be paid to sign owners and owners of real property under the terms of subsection (g) of said section 131 and K.S.A. 68-2238 and K.S.A. 68-2239.

The secretary is authorized to use any funds appropriated to or received by the secretary for matching federal funds or for other lawful purposes of this act.
K.S.A. § 79-2615 — KS Code / Chapter 79 / Article 26 / Section 79-2615
79-2615 - Same; entitlement of lien to be filed.
Status: in_force

79-2615. Same; entitlement of lien to be filed. Certification of notices of liens, certificates or other notices affecting federal liens by the secretary of the treasury of the United States or the secretary's designee, or by any official or entity of the United States responsible for filing or certifying of notice of any other lien, entitles them to be filed and no other attestation, certification or acknowledgment is necessary.
K.S.A. § 83-323 — KS Code / Chapter 83 / Article 3 / Section 83-323
83-323 - Same; resolution of conflicts by governor; succession to property and records.
Status: in_force

83-323. Same; resolution of conflicts by governor; succession to property and records. (a) When any conflict arises as to the disposition of any property, power, duty or function, or the unexpended balance of any appropriation, as a result of any abolition, transfer, attachment or change made by or under authority of this act, such conflict shall be resolved by the governor whose decision shall be final.

(b) The state department of agriculture shall succeed to all property rights and records which were used for or pertain to the performance of the powers, duties and functions transferred to the secretary of agriculture. Any conflict as to the proper disposition of property or records arising under this section and resulting from the transfer, attachment or all or part of the powers, duties and functions of the director of the Kansas state grain inspection department shall be determined by the governor whose decision shall be final.
K.S.A. § 49-418 — KS Code / Chapter 49 / Article 4 / Section 49-418
49-418 - Effect on existing laws.
Status: in_force

49-418. Effect on existing laws. This act shall not be construed as repealing any of the laws of the state relating to the pollution of the waters thereof, any conservation or mining laws, but shall be held and construed as ancillary and supplemental thereto.
K.S.A. § 8-1486 — KS Code / Chapter 8 / Article 14 / Section 8-1486
8-1486 - Certain sections part of uniform act.
Status: in_force

8-1486. Certain sections part of uniform act. K.S.A. 8-1402a, 8-1414a, 8-1439c, 8-1458a, 8-1459a, 8-1475a, 8-1487, 8-1488, 8-1489 and 8-1490, and amendments thereto, and K.S.A. 8-1491, 8-1492, 8-1493, 8-1494, 8-1495, 8-1496, 8-1497, 8-1498* 8-1499, and amendments thereto, shall be a part of and supplemental to the uniform act regulating traffic on highways.
K.S.A. § 66-1711 — KS Code / Chapter 66 / Article 17 / Section 66-1711
66-1711 - Prohibition against certain acts; exception.
Status: in_force

66-1711. Prohibition against certain acts; exception. Unless danger against contact with high voltage overhead lines has been guarded against as provided by K.S.A. 66-1712, no person, individually or through an agent or employee, shall store, operate, erect, maintain, move or transport any tools, machinery, equipment, supplies or materials, within 10 feet of any high voltage overhead line, or perform or require any other person to perform any function or activity if at any time during the performance thereof it is reasonably foreseeable that the person performing the function or activity could move or be placed within 10 feet of any high voltage overhead line.
K.S.A. § 17-4907 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 49 / Section 17-4907
17-4907 - Adverse claims.
Status: in_force

17-4907. Adverse claims. (a) A person asserting a claim of beneficial interest adverse to the transfer of a security pursuant to an assignment by a fiduciary may give the corporation or transfer agent written notice of the claim. The corporation or transfer agent is not put on notice unless the written notice identifies the claimant, the registered owner, and the issue of which the security is a part, provides an address for communications directed to the claimant and is received before the transfer. Nothing in this act relieves the corporation or transfer agent of any liability for making or refusing to make the transfer after it is so put on notice, unless it proceeds in the manner authorized in subsection (b).

(b) As soon as practicable after the presentation of a security for transfer pursuant to an assignment by a fiduciary, a corporation or transfer agent which has received notice of a claim of beneficial interest adverse to the transfer may send notice of the presentation by registered or certified mail to the claimant at the address given by him. If the corporation or transfer agent so mails such a notice it shall withhold the transfer for thirty (30) days after the mailing and shall then make the transfer unless restrained by a court order.
K.S.A. § 84-3-307 — KS Code / Chapter 84 / Article 3 / Section 84-3-307
84-3-307 - Notice of breach of fiduciary duty.
Status: in_force

84-3-307. Notice of breach of fiduciary duty. (a) In this section:

(1) "Fiduciary" means an agent, trustee, partner, corporate officer or director, or other representative owing a fiduciary duty with respect to an instrument.

(2) "Represented person" means the principal, beneficiary, partnership, corporation, or other person to whom the duty stated in paragraph (1) is owed.

(b) If (1) an instrument is taken from a fiduciary for payment or collection or for value, (2) the taker has knowledge of the fiduciary status of the fiduciary, and (3) the represented person makes a claim to the instrument or its proceeds on the basis that the transaction of the fiduciary is a breach of fiduciary duty, the following rules apply:

(A) Notice of breach of fiduciary duty by the fiduciary is notice of the claim of the represented person.

(B) In the case of an instrument payable to the represented person or the fiduciary as such, the taker has notice of the breach of fiduciary duty if the instrument is (i) taken in payment of or as security for a debt known by the taker to be the personal debt of the fiduciary, (ii) taken in a transaction known by the taker to be for the personal benefit of the fiduciary, or (iii) deposited to an account other than an account of the fiduciary, as such, or an account of the represented person.

(C) If an instrument is issued by the represented person or the fiduciary as such, and made payable to the fiduciary personally, the taker does not have notice of the breach of fiduciary duty unless the taker knows of the breach of fiduciary duty.

(D) If an instrument is issued by the represented person or the fiduciary as such, to the taker as payee, the taker has notice of the breach of fiduciary duty if the instrument is (i) taken in payment of or as security for a debt known by the taker to be the personal debt of the fiduciary, (ii) taken in a transaction known by the taker to be for the personal benefit of the fiduciary, or (iii) deposited to an account other than an account of the fiduciary, as such, or an account of the represented person.
K.S.A. § 75-1511 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 15 / Section 75-1511
75-1511 - Transfer of jurisdiction, powers and duties.
Status: in_force

75-1511. Transfer of jurisdiction, powers and duties. All the jurisdiction, rights, powers, duties and authority now vested in or imposed upon the Kansas state department of inspections and registration or the director thereof which were transferred to said department or the director thereof from the state fire marshal by the provisions of chapter 285 of the Laws of 1933, and including the jurisdiction, rights, powers, duties and authority conferred, imposed and provided in chapter 31, section 72-4605, 75-1503 and 75-1505 to 75-1509, both sections inclusive, of the General Statutes of 1935 and acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto are hereby transferred to, vested in and imposed upon the state fire marshal created in this act.
K.S.A. § 40-5402 — KS Code / Chapter 40 / Article 54 / Section 40-5402
40-5402 - Definitions.
Status: in_force

40-5402. Definitions. As used in the controlled insurance programs act:

(a) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of insurance.

(b) "Completed operations liability" has the meaning ascribed thereto in K.S.A. 40-4101, and amendments thereto.

(c) The terms "construction," "contract," "contractor," "owner," "person" and "subcontractor" have the meanings ascribed thereto in K.S.A. 16-1802, and amendments thereto.

(d) "Controlled insurance program" means a program of liability or workers compensation insurance coverage, or both, that is established by an owner or contractor who contractually requires participation by contractors or subcontractors who are engaged in work required by a construction contract. Controlled insurance programs shall include, but not be limited to, coverage programs that are for a fixed term of coverage on a single construction site or project or multiple projects, and a consolidated or wrap-up insurance program as the term is used in subsection (b)(3) of K.S.A. 16-1803, and amendments thereto. A controlled insurance program subject to this act shall not include surety or builders risk.

(e) "Participant" means any contractor or subcontractor whose participation in a controlled insurance program is required by a construction contract.

(f) "Sponsoring participant" means the owner or contractor who establishes the controlled insurance program.

(g) "Substantial completion" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in K.S.A. 16-1902, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 2-3911 — KS Code / Chapter 2 / Article 39 / Section 2-3911
2-3911 - Effective disposal of industrial hemp; requirements; criminal history record check.
Status: in_force

2-3911. Effective disposal of industrial hemp; requirements; criminal history record check. (a) Whenever a person licensed under the commercial industrial hemp act is required to conduct effective disposal of industrial hemp pursuant to standards established by the controlled substances act, 21 U.S.C. 13 et seq., or under regulations adopted by the United States drug enforcement administration, the Kansas department of agriculture shall notify state or local law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction in the area in which the industrial hemp was grown that effective disposal is required.

(b) The department shall develop a plan for effective disposal of industrial hemp in coordination with the state or local law enforcement agency notified pursuant to subsection (a).

(c) (1) In order to carry out the provisions of this section, the department is authorized to perform any action necessary to ensure that effective disposal of industrial hemp occurs, including, but not limited to:

(A) Taking temporary possession of the industrial hemp;

(B) destroying the industrial hemp; or

(C) supervising and directing any appropriate method of effective disposal.

(2) The state or local law enforcement agency shall approve in advance any such action taken by the department or any person under the department's direction or supervision.

(d) The secretary may require a hemp destruction employee to be fingerprinted and to submit to a state and national criminal history record check annually in accordance with K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 22-4714, and amendments thereto. The secretary may use the information obtained from fingerprinting and the criminal history record check to verify the identity of the employee or agent and determine whether the employee or agent has been convicted of a felony violation of article 57 of chapter 21 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, or a substantially similar offense in another jurisdiction, within the 10 years immediately preceding submission of such criminal history record check.

(e) The department and the appropriate state or local law enforcement agency may seek reimbursement from any individual licensed under the commercial industrial hemp act for any costs incurred in conducting effective disposal of industrial hemp.

(f) The department shall have no authority to conduct effective disposal for any industrial hemp or cannabis plant produced by individuals not licensed under the commercial industrial hemp act.

(g) Nothing in this section shall limit the jurisdiction or authority of state or local law enforcement to enforce article 57 of chapter 21 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto.

(h) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to the commercial industrial hemp act, K.S.A. 2-3901 et seq., and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 73-2201 — KS Code / Chapter 73 / Article 22 / Section 73-2201
73-2201 - Official soil of Kansas.
Status: in_force

73-2201. Official soil of Kansas. The soil known as Harney silt loam is hereby designated as and declared to be the official soil of the state of Kansas.
K.S.A. § 44-577 — KS Code / Chapter 44 / Article 5 / Section 44-577
44-577 - Same; claims for compensation by state employees; service of claims; defense of fund; regional emergency medical response team.
Status: in_force

44-577. Same; claims for compensation by state employees; service of claims; defense of fund; regional emergency medical response team. (a) All claims for compensation under the workers compensation act against any state agency for claims arising on and after July 1, 1974, and claims for compensation remaining from the self-insurance program which existed prior to July 1, 1974, for institutional employees of the commission of community services and programs of the Kansas department for aging and disability services shall be made against the state workers compensation self-insurance fund. Such claims shall be served upon the secretary of health and environment in the secretary's capacity as administrator of the state workers compensation self-insurance fund in the manner provided for claims against other employers under the workers compensation act. The chief attorney for the department of health and environment, or another attorney of the department of health and environment designated by the chief attorney, shall represent and defend the state workers compensation self-insurance fund in all proceedings under the workers compensation act.

(b) The secretary of health and environment shall investigate, or cause to be investigated, each claim for compensation against the state workers compensation self-insurance fund. For the purposes of such investigations, the secretary of health and environment is authorized to obtain expert medical advice regarding the injuries, occupational diseases and disabilities involved in such claims. If, based upon such investigation and any other available information, the secretary of health and environment finds that there is no material dispute as to any issue involved in the claim, that the claim is valid and that the claim should be settled by agreement, the secretary of health and environment may proceed to enter into such an agreement with the claimant, for the state workers compensation self-insurance fund. Any such agreement may provide for lump-sum settlements subject to approval by the director and all such agreements shall be filed in the office of the director for approval as provided in K.S.A. 44-527, and amendments thereto. All other claims for compensation against such fund shall be paid in accordance with the workers compensation act pursuant to final awards or orders of an administrative law judge or the board or pursuant to orders and findings of the director under the workers compensation act.

(c) For purposes of the workers compensation act, a volunteer member of a regional emergency medical response team as provided in K.S.A. 48-928, and amendments thereto, shall be considered a person in the service of the state in connection with authorized training and upon activation for emergency response, except when such duties arise in the course of employment or as a volunteer for an employer other than the state.