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K.S.A. § 66-1256 — KS Code / Chapter 66 / Article 12 / Section 66-1256
66-1256 - Renewable energy standards act; renewable energy standard, goal.
Status: in_force

66-1256. Renewable energy standards act; renewable energy standard, goal. (a) K.S.A. 66-1256, 66-1257 and 66-1259, and amendments thereto, shall be known and may be cited as the renewable energy standards act.

(b) The legislature declares that it is in the public interest to promote renewable energy development in order to best utilize the abundant natural resources found in this state. There is hereby established a renewable energy standard for the state. The renewable energy standard shall be a voluntary goal that 20% of a utility's peak demand within the state be generated from renewable energy resources by the year 2020.
K.S.A. § 24-646 — KS Code / Chapter 24 / Article 6 / Section 24-646
24-646 - Same; application of act.
Status: in_force

24-646. Same; application of act. This act shall apply only to such drainage districts which have heretofore issued and delivered bonds, for improvements therein.
K.S.A. § 84-1-204 — KS Code / Chapter 84 / Article 1 / Section 84-1-204
84-1-204 - Value.
Status: in_force

84-1-204. Value. Except as otherwise provided in articles 3 and 4 of chapter 84 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, a person gives value for rights if the person acquires them:

(1) In return for a binding commitment to extend credit or for the extension of immediately available credit, whether or not drawn upon and whether or not a charge-back is provided for in the event of difficulties in collection;

(2) as security for, or in total or partial satisfaction of, a preexisting claim;

(3) by accepting delivery under a preexisting contract for purchase; or

(4) in return for any consideration sufficient to support a simple contract.
K.S.A. § 46-282 — KS Code / Chapter 46 / Article 2 / Section 46-282
46-282 - "Designee" defined.
Status: in_force

46-282. "Designee" defined. "Designee" means:

(a) Any state officer, employee or member of any agency, department, division, bureau or other unit of state government who holds a position: (1) Defined as a major policy making position; (2) responsible for contracting, purchasing or procurement, except persons whose sole responsibility is the purchasing of gasoline or emergency repair for a state vehicle assigned to them for their use or persons whose sole responsibility relating to purchasing or procurement includes only transactions pursuant to preexisting state contracts; (3) responsible for writing or drafting specifications for contracts; (4) responsible for awarding grants, benefits or subsidies; or (5) responsible for inspecting, licensing or regulating any person or entity.

(b) "Designee" does not include any driver's license examiner of the department of revenue or any person performing ministerial functions.
K.S.A. § 26-101 — KS Code / Chapter 26 / Article 1 / Section 26-101
26-101 - Condemnation by corporations and partnerships.
Status: in_force

26-101. Condemnation by corporations and partnerships. Any corporation having the right of eminent domain and any partnership holding a certificate of convenience issued by the state corporation commission and having the right of eminent domain, shall exercise such right in the manner set forth in K.S.A. 26-501 to 26-516, inclusive.
K.S.A. § 40-2,240 — KS Code / Chapter 40 / Article 2 / Section 40-2,240
40-2,240 - Rules and regulations.
Status: in_force

40-2,240. Rules and regulations. The commissioner may adopt rules and regulations to implement and enforce the provisions of this act.
K.S.A. § 19-3547 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 35 / Section 19-3547
19-3547 - Joint exercise of powers by certain public agencies; agreements among agencies, contents; submission to attorney general; filing of agreement.
Status: in_force

19-3547. Joint exercise of powers by certain public agencies; agreements among agencies, contents; submission to attorney general; filing of agreement. (a) Any powers, privileges or authority of a public agency of this state relating to public water supplies may be exercised jointly with any other public agency. Any agency of the state government when acting jointly with any public or private agency may exercise all of the powers, privileges and authority conferred by this act upon a public agency.

(b) Any public agency may enter into agreements with one or more other public agencies for the purpose of organizing a public wholesale water supply district. Appropriate action by ordinance, resolution or otherwise pursuant to law of the governing bodies of the participating public agencies shall be necessary before any such agreement may enter into force.

(c) Any such agreement shall specify the following:

(1) The duration;

(2) the precise organization, composition and nature of the district created thereby together with the powers delegated thereto;

(3) the purpose or purposes;

(4) the manner of financing the district and of establishing and maintaining a budget therefor;

(5) the permissible methods for partial or complete termination of the agreement and for disposing of property upon such partial or complete termination;

(6) the manner of acquiring, holding and disposing of real and personal property of the district;

(7) any other necessary and proper matters.

(d) Any such agreement may be amended to include additional public agencies by consent of 2 / 3 of the signatories to the agreement, if no terms of agreement are changed, otherwise a new agreement with the new public agency shall be drawn.

(e) Prior to taking effect, every agreement made hereunder shall be submitted to the attorney general who shall determine whether the agreement is in proper form and compatible with the laws of this state. The attorney general shall approve any agreement submitted hereunder unless the attorney general finds that it does not meet the conditions set forth herein and shall detail in writing addressed to the governing bodies of the public agencies concerned the specific respects in which the proposed agreement fails to meet the requirements of law. Failure to disapprove an agreement submitted hereunder within 90 days of its submission shall constitute approval thereof.

(f) Prior to taking effect, an agreement made hereunder shall be filed with the register of deeds of the county or counties wherein the district is to be located and such agreement also shall be filed with the secretary of state, accompanied by a certificate from the register of deeds of each county where filed, stating that such agreement has been filed in such county.
K.S.A. § 76-1722 — KS Code / Chapter 76 / Article 17 / Section 76-1722
76-1722 - Sale by state board of certain sewer and water lines to city of Atchison; conditions.
Status: in_force

76-1722. Sale by state board of certain sewer and water lines to city of Atchison; conditions. The state board of social welfare is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into agreements with the city of Atchison or any agency or instrumentality thereof whereby the said board of social welfare shall agree to sell and convey to the city of Atchison or any agency or instrumentality thereof the present sewer and water lines owned by the state of Kansas, which connects the Kansas children's receiving home and the sewer and water lines of the city of Atchison or any agency or instrumentality thereof, upon the conditions that the city or any agency or instrumentality thereof shall thereafter agree to maintain said lines and to provide the Kansas children's receiving home with adequate sewage disposal facilities and water supply for current and future needs of the Kansas children's receiving home. Upon the execution of such agreement, the state board of social welfare shall sell and convey such sewer and water lines, together with all easements in connection therewith to the city of Atchison or any agency or instrumentality thereof, and the said city of Atchison or any agency or instrumentality thereof is authorized and empowered to accept such sewer or water lines subject to the conditions hereinbefore specified, and to provide for the maintenance thereof, even though a part of such sewer or water line is located outside of such city. The board is authorized to enter into separate agreements pursuant to this act regarding the sewer line and the water line and each separate agreement when entered into shall become effective separate from any agreement with respect to the other utility line.
K.S.A. § 40-4327 — KS Code / Chapter 40 / Article 43 / Section 40-4327
40-4327 - Same; capital requirements; exemptions.
Status: in_force

40-4327. Same; capital requirements; exemptions. (a) No branch captive insurance company shall be issued a certificate of authority unless it shall possess and thereafter maintain, as security for the payment of liabilities attributable to the branch operations:

(1) Minimum capital and surplus of an amount equal to the amount set forth in K.S.A. 40-4304, and amendments thereto, as the minimum capital requirement for a pure captive insurance company; and

(2) reserves on such insurance policies or such reinsurance contracts as may be issued or assumed by the branch captive insurance company through its branch operations, including reserves for losses, allocated loss adjustment expenses, incurred but not reported losses, and unearned premiums with regard to business written through the branch operations, except that, the commissioner may permit a branch captive insurance company to credit against any such reserve requirement in accordance with K.S.A. 40-221a, and amendments thereto.

(b) Subject to the prior approval of the commissioner, the amounts required in subsection (a) may be held in the form of:

(1) A trust formed under a trust agreement and funded by assets acceptable to the commissioner;

(2) an irrevocable letter of credit issued or confirmed by a bank approved by the commissioner; or

(3) any combination thereof.

(c) The commissioner may, on a case-by-case basis, exempt a branch captive insurance company from any or all of the requirements of this section, provided the commissioner finds satisfactory evidence of the branch captive insurer's financial stability.
K.S.A. § 65-6211 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 62 / Section 65-6211
65-6211 - Same; notice of assessment; method of payment; assessment adjustment when a hospital ceases operations.
Status: in_force

65-6211. Same; notice of assessment; method of payment; assessment adjustment when a hospital ceases operations. (a) After December 31 of each year, except as otherwise provided in this subsection, and on or before March 31 of the succeeding year, the department shall send a notice of assessment to every hospital provider subject to assessment under this act.

(b) The hospital provider notice of assessment shall notify the hospital provider of its assessment for the state fiscal year commencing on the next July 1.

(c) If a hospital provider operates, conducts or maintains more than one licensed hospital in the state, the hospital provider shall pay the assessment for each hospital separately.

(d) Notwithstanding any other provision in this act, in the case of a person who ceases to operate, conduct or maintain a hospital in respect of which the person is subject to assessment in K.S.A. 65-6208, and amendments thereto, as a hospital provider, the assessment for the state fiscal year in which the cessation occurs shall be adjusted by multiplying the assessment computed under K.S.A. 65-6208, and amendments thereto, by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of the days during the year during which the provider operates, conducts or maintains a hospital and the denominator of which is 365. Immediately upon ceasing to operate, conduct or maintain a hospital, the person shall pay the adjusted assessment for that state fiscal year, to the extent not previously paid.

(e) Notwithstanding any other provision in this act, a person who commences operating, conducting or maintaining a hospital shall pay the assessment computed under subsection (a) of K.S.A. 65-6208, and amendments thereto, in installments on the due dates stated in the notice and on the regular installment due dates for the state fiscal year occurring after the due dates of the initial notice.
K.S.A. § 74-8301 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 83 / Section 74-8301
74-8301 - Citation of act.
Status: in_force

74-8301. Citation of act. The provisions of this act shall be cited as the "Kansas venture capital company act."
K.S.A. § 40-2,216 — KS Code / Chapter 40 / Article 2 / Section 40-2,216
40-2,216 - Same; nonseverability clause.
Status: in_force

40-2,216. Same; nonseverability clause. If any provision of the Kansas telemedicine act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid or unconstitutional by court order, then the remainder of the Kansas telemedicine act and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby and it shall be conclusively presumed that the legislature would have enacted the remainder of the Kansas telemedicine act without such invalid or unconstitutional provision, except that the provisions of K.S.A. 40-2,215, and amendments thereto, are expressly declared to be nonseverable.
K.S.A. § 42-364 — KS Code / Chapter 42 / Article 3 / Section 42-364
42-364 - Qualifications of voters and officers; election precincts in districts; returns of election; annual election; notice.
Status: in_force

42-364. Qualifications of voters and officers; election precincts in districts; returns of election; annual election; notice. At all elections held in said irrigation district for the purpose of electing officers, providing for the issuance of bonds, or any other purpose, all persons possessing the qualifications of electors who are residents of the county in which said district is located and owners of land within said district shall be deemed qualified voters, and qualified to hold office as members of the board of irrigation commissioners of such district. Such elections shall be conducted in all respects as general elections in the state of Kansas. After the creation of said district, as hereinbefore provided, the board of irrigation commissioners shall provide in such irrigation district one or more convenient election precincts for all the purposes of this act, and shall designate the voting places in said precincts, and shall make report in writing to the board of county commissioners of said county of such election precincts and voting places, which said report shall be filed with the county clerk and a minute thereof made upon the journal of the board of county commissioners, and if any change shall be made in such voting precincts or voting places by said board of irrigation commissioners, the same shall in like manner be reported to the board of county commissioners, filed and minuted as aforesaid.

It shall be the duty of the county clerk of the county in which such irrigation district is located to cause a notice of each annual election in said district to be published in the official county paper of said county for three consecutive weeks prior to the date of such election, which notice shall designate the voting place in each voting precinct in said district. The board of county commissioners shall designate three judges and two clerks for each election precinct in said district, who shall each be a qualified voter of the county in which said district is located, and who shall receive the same compensation as is provided by law for judges and clerks at general elections. All expenses of conducting such elections shall be paid by the treasurer of said irrigation districts out of the funds of said district. The returns of such elections shall be made to the board of county commissioners of such county, and such board shall meet on the next Friday thereafter and canvass the returns of said election and declare the results.
K.S.A. § 75-4253 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 42 / Section 75-4253
75-4253 - Same; investment of surplus proceeds or reserves.
Status: in_force

75-4253. Same; investment of surplus proceeds or reserves. Whenever any state agency or authority has issued any bonds in connection with which there exists surplus proceeds or surplus reserves, the director of investments shall have management responsibility to invest the same as required by this act, unless the applicable bond statute, trust agreement, indenture or resolution requires a different management responsibility, in which case the person or agency so specified to have such management responsibility shall invest such surplus proceeds or surplus reserves as provided in this act.
K.S.A. § 60-508 — KS Code / Chapter 60 / Article 5 / Section 60-508
60-508 - Persons under legal disabilities.
Status: in_force

60-508. Persons under legal disabilities. (a) Effect. If any person entitled to bring an action for the recovery of real property or for the determination of any adverse claim or interest therein be, at the time the cause of action accrued, or at any time during the period the statute of limitations is running, within the age of eighteen (18) years, or an incapacitated person, or imprisoned for a term less than his or her natural life, such person shall be entitled to bring such action within two (2) years after the disability is removed; but no such action shall be maintained by or on behalf of any person under the disabilities specified after twenty-three (23) years from the time the cause of action shall have accrued. The provisions of this subsection as it was constituted prior to the effective date of this act shall continue in force and effect with respect to any person who was at least eighteen (18) years of age and not more than twenty-one (21) years of age on the effective date of this act.

(b) Death of person under disability. If any person entitled to bring such action dies during the continuance of any disability specified in subsection (a) of this section and no determination be had of the title, claim, interest, or action to such person accrued, his or her heirs, or any person entitled to claim, from, by or under him or her, may commence such action after the time specified as a limitation, and within two (2) years after his or her death, but not after that period.
K.S.A. § 12-893 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 8 / Section 12-893
12-893 - Same; minutes, records, books of account; public inspection.
Status: in_force

12-893. Same; minutes, records, books of account; public inspection. The board of directors shall cause to be kept accurate minutes of their meetings and accurate records and books of account clearly setting out and reflecting the operation, management and business of the agency. Such books and records shall be open to public inspection at reasonable business hours.
K.S.A. § 46-128 — KS Code / Chapter 46 / Article 1 / Section 46-128
46-128 - Deposition; power of judge to prevent abuse of privileges.
Status: in_force

46-128. Deposition; power of judge to prevent abuse of privileges. Any deposition taken during the time mentioned and referred to in K.S.A. 46-125, without leave of court shall not be read in evidence on behalf of the party taking the same without the consent of any such attorney: Provided, That the judge shall have full discretionary power to prevent any abuse of the privileges herein granted.
K.S.A. § 80-1113 — KS Code / Chapter 80 / Article 11 / Section 80-1113
80-1113 - Same; disposition of books, records and assets; payment of outstanding indebtedness.
Status: in_force

80-1113. Same; disposition of books, records and assets; payment of outstanding indebtedness. All books, papers, records, moneys and other assets belonging to any township disorganized under the provisions of this act shall be delivered by the officers thereof to the board of county commissioners. The board of county commissioners shall dispose of any assets of such township and shall dispose of the proceeds thereof in the manner hereinafter provided. If any township shall at the time of its disorganization have any outstanding indebtedness, the board of county commissioners shall place any moneys together with the proceeds of any assets of such township into a special fund which shall be used for the purpose of paying such indebtedness. Moneys in excess of that required for the payment of outstanding indebtedness shall be disposed of in like manner as that provided for the disposal of moneys of townships having no outstanding indebtedness at the time of their disorganization. If any township shall at the time of its disorganization have no outstanding indebtedness, the board of county commissioners shall, if all of the territory of such township is attached to a single township, place all moneys and proceeds of assets to the disorganized township into the treasury of the township to which it is attached, or if the territory of such township is attached to two or more townships all moneys and proceeds of assets of the disorganized township shall be disposed of in the manner provided by K.S.A. 80-102.
K.S.A. § 38-1725 — KS Code / Chapter 38 / Article 17 / Section 38-1725
38-1725 - Severability.
Status: in_force

38-1725. Severability. If any provisions of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end provisions of this act are severable.
K.S.A. § 59-2248 — KS Code / Chapter 59 / Article 22 / Section 59-2248
59-2248 - Determination of advancements.
Status: in_force

59-2248. Determination of advancements. All questions as to advancements made, or alleged to have been made, by the intestate to any heir shall be heard and determined by the court at the time of settlement, and every such advancement shall be specified in the decree distributing and assigning the estate. For the purpose of determining what proportion any one who has received an advancement is entitled to receive from the estate, the court shall ascertain the value of the entire residue of such estate, by ordering an appraisement or in such other manner as it may deem best.
K.S.A. § 60-5302 — KS Code / Chapter 60 / Article 53 / Section 60-5302
60-5302 - Definitions.
Status: in_force

60-5302. Definitions. As used in the Kansas preservation of religious freedom act:

(a) "Burden" means any government action that directly or indirectly constrains, inhibits, curtails or denies the exercise of religion by any person or compels any action contrary to a person's exercise of religion, and includes, but is not limited to, withholding benefits, assessing criminal, civil or administrative penalties, or exclusion from government programs or access to government facilities.

(b) "Compelling governmental interest" includes, but is not limited to, protecting the welfare of a child from abuse and neglect as defined by state law.

(c) "Exercise of religion" means the practice or observance of religion under section 7 of the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas and the free exercise clause of the first amendment to the constitution of the United States and includes the right to act or refuse to act in a manner substantially motivated by a sincerely-held religious tenet or belief, whether or not the exercise is compulsory or a central part or requirement of the person's religious tenets or beliefs.

(d) "Fraudulent claim" means a claim that is dishonest in fact or that is made principally for a patently improper purpose, such as to harass the opposing party.

(e) "Government" includes the executive, legislative and judicial branches and any and all agencies, boards, commissions, departments, districts, authorities or other entities, subdivisions or parts whatsoever of state and local government as well as any person acting under color of law.

(f) "Person" means any legal person or entity under the laws of the state of Kansas and the laws of the United States.