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K.S.A. § 50-1302 — KS Code / Chapter 50 / Article 13 / Section 50-1302
50-1302 - Definitions.
Status: in_force

50-1302. Definitions. As used in the successor corporation asbestos-related liability fairness act:

(a) "Asbestos claim" means the same as in K.S.A. 60-4901, and amendments thereto. "Asbestos claim" also means any claim for damage or loss caused by the installation, presence or removal of asbestos.

(b) "Corporation" means a corporation for profit, including a domestic corporation organized under the laws of this state or a foreign corporation organized under laws other than the laws of this state.

(c) "Successor" means a corporation that assumes or incurs or has assumed or incurred successor asbestos-related liabilities that is a successor and became a successor before January 1, 1972, or is any of that successor corporation's successors.

(d) "Successor asbestos-related liabilities" means any liabilities, whether known or unknown, asserted or unasserted, absolute or contingent, accrued or unaccrued, liquidated or unliquidated, or due or to become due, which are related in any way to asbestos claims and were assumed or incurred by a corporation as a result of or in connection with a merger or consolidation, or the plan of merger or consolidation related to the merger or consolidation with or into another corporation, or that are related in any way to asbestos claims based on the exercise of control or the ownership of stock of the corporation before the merger or consolidation. The term includes liabilities that, after the time of the merger or consolidation for which the fair market value of total gross assets is determined under K.S.A. 50-1305, and amendments thereto, were or are paid or otherwise discharged, or committed to be paid or otherwise discharged, by or on behalf of the corporation, or by a successor of the corporation, or by or on behalf of a transferor, in connection with settlements, judgments or other discharges in this state or another jurisdiction.

(e) "Transferor" means a corporation from which successor asbestos-related liabilities are or were assumed or incurred.
K.S.A. § 66-1278 — KS Code / Chapter 66 / Article 12 / Section 66-1278
66-1278 - Same; agents of commission; right of ingress and egress; restoration of premises.
Status: in_force

66-1278. Same; agents of commission; right of ingress and egress; restoration of premises. (a) In performing investigations or administrative functions relating to prevention of pollution of the soil or waters of the state, the commission or the commission's duly authorized representative may enter any property or facility which is subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 66-1274, and amendments thereto, for the purpose of observing, monitoring, collecting samples, examining records and facilities to determine compliance or noncompliance with state laws and rules and regulations relating to air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution or public health or safety.

(b) The representatives of the commission shall have the right of ingress and egress upon any lands to clean up pollution from the storage of compressed air over which the commission has jurisdiction pursuant to K.S.A. 66-1274, and amendments thereto. Such representatives shall have the power to occupy such land if necessary to investigate and clean up such pollution or to investigate and plug any such compressed air energy storage well. Any representative entering upon any land to investigate and clean up such pollution or to investigate and plug any such compressed air energy storage well shall not be liable for any damages necessarily resulting therefrom, except damages to growing crops, livestock or improvements on the land. Upon completion of activities on such land, such representative shall restore the premises to the original contour and condition as nearly as practicable.
K.S.A. § 60-1004 — KS Code / Chapter 60 / Article 10 / Section 60-1004
60-1004 - Occupying claimants.
Status: in_force

60-1004. Occupying claimants. (a) Right to reimbursement. Where any person while peacefully occupying realty under color of title in good faith, including mineral leases, has in good faith made improvements thereon or paid obligations in connection therewith, such person shall not be dispossessed by a party, establishing a superior right, claim or title until he or she is fully compensated therefor.

(b) Procedure. If in any action the judge concludes that the occupying claimant should be dispossessed, the judge shall before entering final judgment determine the compensation due the occupying claimant under the provisions of section 1 of this article* or if requested by either party he or she shall submit the question to a jury for determination.
K.S.A. § 58-5113 — KS Code / Chapter 58 / Article 51 / Section 58-5113
58-5113 - Trust for beneficiary with a disability.
Status: in_force

58-5113. Trust for beneficiary with a disability. (a) As used in this section:

(1) "Beneficiary with a disability" means a beneficiary of a first trust who the special-needs fiduciary reasonably believes may qualify for governmental benefits based on disability, whether or not the beneficiary currently receives those benefits or is an individual who has been adjudicated as incapacitated.

(2) "Governmental benefits" means financial aid or services from a state, federal or other public agency.

(3) "Special-needs fiduciary" means, with respect to a trust that has a beneficiary with a disability:

(A) A trustee or other fiduciary, other than a settlor, that has discretion to distribute part or all of the principal of a first trust to one or more current beneficiaries;

(B) if no trustee or fiduciary has discretion under subparagraph (A), a trustee or other fiduciary, other than a settlor, that has discretion to distribute part or all of the income of the first trust to one or more current beneficiaries; or

(C) if no trustee or fiduciary has discretion under subparagraphs (A) and (B), a trustee or other fiduciary, other than a settlor, that is required to distribute part or all of the income or principal of the first trust to one or more current beneficiaries.

(4) "Special-needs trust" means a trust the trustee believes would not be considered a resource for purposes of determining whether a beneficiary with a disability is eligible for governmental benefits.

(b) A special-needs fiduciary may exercise the decanting power under K.S.A. 58-5111, and amendments thereto, over the principal of a first trust as if the fiduciary had authority to distribute principal to a beneficiary with a disability subject to expanded distributive discretion if:

(1) A second trust is a special-needs trust that benefits the beneficiary with a disability; and

(2) the special-needs fiduciary determines that exercise of the decanting power will not be inconsistent with a material purpose of the first trust.

(c) In an exercise of the decanting power under this section, the following rules apply:

(1) Notwithstanding K.S.A. 58-5111(c)(2), and amendments thereto, the interest in the second trust of a beneficiary with a disability may:

(A) Be a pooled trust as defined by medicaid law for the benefit of the beneficiary with a disability under 42 U.S.C. § 1396p(d)(4)(C); or

(B) contain payback provisions complying with reimbursement requirements of medicaid law under 42 U.S.C. § 1396p(d)(4)(A).

(2) K.S.A. 58-5111(c)(3), and amendments thereto, does not apply to the interests of the beneficiary with a disability.

(3) Except as affected by any change to the interests of the beneficiary with a disability, the second trust, or if there are two or more second trusts, the second trusts in the aggregate, shall grant each other beneficiary of the first trust beneficial interests in the second trusts that are substantially similar to the beneficiary's beneficial interests in the first trust.
K.S.A. § 65-433 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 4 / Section 65-433
65-433 - Inspections and investigations; rules and regulations; consultations.
Status: in_force

65-433. Inspections and investigations; rules and regulations; consultations. The licensing agency shall make or cause to be made such inspections and investigations as deemed necessary. The authorized agents and representatives of the licensing agency shall conduct inspections of each medical care facility not accredited by the joint commission on accreditation of health care organizations or the American osteopathic association at such intervals as the secretary determines necessary to protect the public health and safety and to carry out the risk management provisions of K.S.A. 65-4921 et seq., and amendments thereto. The licensing agency may prescribe by rules and regulations that any licensee or applicant desiring to make specified types of alteration or additions to its facilities or to construct new facilities shall before commencing such alteration, addition or new construction, submit plans and specifications therefor to the licensing agency for preliminary inspection and approval or recommendations with respect to compliance with the rules and regulations and standards herein authorized. Necessary conferences and consultations may be provided.
K.S.A. § 79-1117 — KS Code / Chapter 79 / Article 11 / Section 79-1117
79-1117 - Credit against tax for making certain property used in trade or business or held for production of income accessible to persons with a disability; amount; carryover to subsequent taxable years.
Status: in_force

79-1117. Credit against tax for making certain property used in trade or business or held for production of income accessible to persons with a disability; amount; carryover to subsequent taxable years. Any taxpayer who makes expenditures for the purpose of making all or any portion of an existing building or facility accessible to persons with a disability, which building or facility is on real property located in this state and used in a trade or business or held for the production of income, shall be entitled to claim a tax credit in an amount equal to 50% of such expenditures or, the amount of $10,000, whichever is less, against the tax liability imposed against such taxpayer pursuant to K.S.A. 79-1106 to 79-1116, inclusive, and amendments thereto. Such tax credit shall be deducted from the taxpayer's tax liability for the taxable year following the year in which the expenditures are made by the taxpayer. If the amount of such tax credit exceeds the taxpayer's tax liability for such taxable year, the amount thereof which exceeds such tax liability may be carried over for deduction from the taxpayer's tax liability in the next succeeding taxable year or years until the total amount of the tax credit has been deducted from tax liability, except that no such tax credit shall be carried over for deduction after the fourth taxable year succeeding the taxable year in which the expenditures are made.
K.S.A. § 24-212 — KS Code / Chapter 24 / Article 2 / Section 24-212
24-212 - Sale of work to lowest bidder.
Status: in_force

24-212. Sale of work to lowest bidder. It shall be the duty of said trustee, upon the expiration of the time specified by him for the opening of such ditch, drain, or watercourse, and upon being satisfied by inspection and view that any section or sections of the same have not been completed, to sell such work by such sections to the lowest bidder by setting up written notices of such sale in at least three of the most public places in such township, specifying the time when such work shall be completed; said notices to be posted up for at least ten days before the day of sale; and said trustee shall take such bond or other security for the performance of such work, as he may deem proper; and such trustee shall make a fair and just estimate of the amount of costs made in all such proceedings, to be paid by each person interested in such proposed ditch, drain, or watercourse, and collect the same as hereinafter provided, and pay out the same in conformity with such estimates.
K.S.A. § 50-1118 — KS Code / Chapter 50 / Article 11 / Section 50-1118
50-1118 - Licensing required to conduct credit services organization business; application.
Status: in_force

50-1118. Licensing required to conduct credit services organization business; application. (a) No person shall engage in, or hold such person out as willing to engage in any credit services organization business with a resident of this state without first obtaining licensing from the commissioner. Any person required to be licensed as a credit services organization shall submit to the commissioner an application for licensing on forms prescribed and provided by the commissioner. The application for licensing shall include:

(1) The applicant's name, business address, telephone number and website address, if any;

(2) the name and address of each owner, officer, director, member or partner of the applicant;

(3) a description of the ownership interest of any officer, director, member, partner, agent or employee of the applicant in any affiliate or subsidiary of the applicant or in any other entity that provides any service to the applicant or any consumer relating to the applicant's credit services organization business;

(4) a description of the applicant's consumer education program; and

(5) any other information the commissioner may deem necessary to evaluate the financial responsibility and condition, character, qualifications and fitness of the applicant.

(b) Each application for licensing shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable fee which shall be established by the commissioner through the adoption of rules and regulations .

(c) The application shall be approved and a nontransferable and non-assignable license shall be issued to the applicant provided:

(1) The commissioner has received the complete application and fee required by this section; and

(2) the commissioner determines the financial responsibility and condition, character, qualifications and fitness of the applicant warrants a belief the business of the applicant will be conducted competently, honestly, fairly and in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.

(d) Each credit services organization license issued under this section shall expire on April 30 of each year. A license shall be renewed by filing with the commissioner, at least 30 days prior to the expiration of the license , a complete renewal application, containing information the commissioner requires to determine the existence and effect of any material changes from the information contained in the applicant's original application, annual reports or prior renewal applications. Each renewal shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable renewal fee which shall be established by rules and regulations of the commissioner.

(e) If the commissioner fails to issue a license within 60 days after a filed application is deemed complete by the commissioner, the applicant may make written request for hearing. The commissioner shall conduct a hearing in accordance with the Kansas administrative procedure act.
K.S.A. § 60-1105 — KS Code / Chapter 60 / Article 11 / Section 60-1105
60-1105 - Limitations and amendment.
Status: in_force

60-1105. Limitations and amendment. (a) Limitations. An action to foreclose a lien under this article shall be brought within one year from the time of filing the lien statement, but if a promissory note has been attached to the lien statement in lieu of an itemized statement, the action shall be commenced within one year from the maturity of said note.

(b) Amendment. Where action is brought to enforce a lien the lien statement may be amended by leave of the judge in furtherance of justice, except to increase the amount claimed.
K.S.A. § 65-2303 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 23 / Section 65-2303
65-2303 - White bread or rolls.
Status: in_force

65-2303. White bread or rolls. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, bake, sell or offer for sale, in this state, for human consumption therein, any white bread or rolls unless the same conforms to the definition and standard of identity, then in effect for enriched bread or enriched rolls, as fixed and established by order of the secretary of health and environment pursuant to the provisions of the general food and drug acts.
K.S.A. § 25-2421 — KS Code / Chapter 25 / Article 24 / Section 25-2421
25-2421 - Election suppression.
Status: in_force

25-2421. Election suppression. Election suppression is knowingly: (a) Suppressing any certificate of nomination, nomination papers, petition for nomination or any part thereof which have been duly filed.

(b) Being in possession of any certificate of nomination, nomination papers or petition for candidacy entitled to be filed under any of the election laws of this state and suppressing, neglecting or failing to cause the same to be filed at the proper time in the proper office.

Election suppression is a severity level 10, nonperson felony.
K.S.A. § 19-810 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 8 / Section 19-810
19-810 - Appointment of undersheriff or deputy to be in writing; revocation.
Status: in_force

19-810. Appointment of undersheriff or deputy to be in writing; revocation. Every appointment of an undersheriff or of a deputy sheriff and every revocation of such appointment, shall be in writing, under the hand of the sheriff, and shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county; but this section shall not extend to any person who may be deputized by any sheriff or undersheriff to any particular act only.
K.S.A. § 65-126 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 1 / Section 65-126
65-126 - Quarantine of city, township or county.
Status: in_force

65-126. Quarantine of city, township or county. Whenever the county or joint board of health or the local health officer neglects to properly isolate and quarantine infectious or contagious diseases and persons afflicted with or exposed to such diseases as may be necessary to prevent the spread thereof, the secretary of health and environment may quarantine any area in which any of these diseases may show a tendency to become epidemic.
K.S.A. § 76-7,106 — KS Code / Chapter 76 / Article 7 / Section 76-7,106
76-7,106 - Same; transfers of moneys from statewide maintenance and disaster relief fund.
Status: in_force

76-7,106. Same; transfers of moneys from statewide maintenance and disaster relief fund. (a) On July 1, 2007, or as soon thereafter as sufficient moneys are available, $30,000,000 shall be transferred by the director of accounts and reports from the statewide maintenance and disaster relief fund to the infrastructure maintenance fund established by K.S.A. 76-7,104, and amendments thereto.

(b) On January 1, 2008, or as soon thereafter as sufficient moneys are available, $13,000,000 shall be transferred by the director of accounts and reports from the statewide maintenance and disaster relief fund to the infrastructure maintenance fund established by K.S.A. 76-7,104, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 17-4742 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 47 / Section 17-4742
17-4742 - Title of act.
Status: in_force

17-4742. Title of act. This act shall be known and be cited as the "urban renewal law."
K.S.A. § 19-3603 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 36 / Section 19-3603
19-3603 - Petition; contents; resolution; adoption and publication, when.
Status: in_force

19-3603. Petition; contents; resolution; adoption and publication, when. The board of county commissioners shall consider the advisability of organizing any fire district or districts within the county upon the filing of a petition with the county clerk, signed by the residents of the county owning more than sixty percent (60%) of the area of the lands situated within the boundaries of the proposed district. Each such petition shall describe the boundaries of any proposed district as provided in K.S.A. 19-3602 and shall be accompanied by an outline map showing the proposed district and the tracts thereof held by the signers of said petition. Each signer shall, after his name, enter the place of his residence with respect to some city or township within the county, the legal description of his land within the proposed district and his supposed estate therein and if a corporation, the name and home office of the corporation and the title of the officers signing the petition. The board of county commissioners shall determine the sufficiency of any such petition by reference to the records of the county pertaining to any interest in real property. If any such petition shall be found sufficient, said board may adopt and publish a resolution organizing and naming said district and declaring the boundaries thereof as provided in K.S.A. 19-3602: Provided, That nothing herein shall deny the authority of the board to organize a fire district under K.S.A. 19-3602.
K.S.A. § 13-10,117 — KS Code / Chapter 13 / Article 10 / Section 13-10,117
13-10,117 - Same; what improvements include.
Status: in_force

13-10,117. Same; what improvements include. The improvement or reimprovement may include the acquisition of right-of-way to extend or widen the street or for the rounding of corners or for the straightening of the street. The improvement, in addition to permanent construction or reconstruction, may also include necessary bridges, culverts, drainage, gutters, curbing and incidentals. For the purpose of this act, the resolution declaring a street to be a major traffic street shall be conclusive that such street is a major traffic street.
K.S.A. § 8-2004 — KS Code / Chapter 8 / Article 20 / Section 8-2004
8-2004 - Traffic-control devices on state highways; doubling of fine in road construction zone.
Status: in_force

8-2004. Traffic-control devices on state highways; doubling of fine in road construction zone. (a) The secretary of transportation shall place and maintain such traffic-control devices, conforming to the manual and specifications adopted under K.S.A. 8-2003, and amendments thereto, upon all state highways as the secretary shall deem necessary to indicate and to carry out the provisions of this act or to regulate, warn or guide traffic.

(b) No local authority shall place or maintain any traffic-control device upon any highway under the jurisdiction of the secretary of transportation, except by the latter's permission.

(c) The secretary of transportation shall post signs informing motorists that conviction of a traffic infraction, which is defined as a moving violation in accordance with rules and regulations adopted pursuant to K.S.A. 8-249, and amendments thereto, committed within a road construction zone, as defined in K.S.A. 8-1458a, shall result in a fine which is double the fine listed in the uniform fine schedule in K.S.A. 8-2118, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 76-3313 — KS Code / Chapter 76 / Article 33 / Section 76-3313
76-3313 - Tax exemptions.
Status: in_force

76-3313. Tax exemptions. The authority shall be exempt from any general ad valorem taxes upon any property of the authority acquired and used for its public purposes, and from any taxes or assessments upon any projects or upon any operations of the authority or the income therefrom, and from any taxes or assessments upon any project or any property or local obligation acquired or used by the authority under the provisions of this act or upon the income therefrom. Purchases by the authority to be used for its public purposes shall not be subject to sales or use tax under K.S.A. 79-3601 et seq., K.S.A. 79-3701 et seq. and subsection (b) of K.S.A. 79-3606 et seq., and amendments thereto. The exemptions hereby granted shall not extend to persons or entities conducting on the authority's property business for which payment of state and local taxes would otherwise be required.