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K.S.A. § 24-1213 — KS Code / Chapter 24 / Article 12 / Section 24-1213
24-1213 - General plan, estimate of costs and information as to benefits; transmittal to chief engineer, when; open to public; report to directors.
Status: in_force

24-1213. General plan, estimate of costs and information as to benefits; transmittal to chief engineer, when; open to public; report to directors. Upon the incorporation of the watershed district the board shall cause work to be commenced on the preparation of a general plan of the district. In addition to the general plan there shall be prepared an estimate of costs as to installation, maintenance and operation of the proposed works and information as to the location and extent of areas that would be benefited by the proposed works. Upon completion of the general plan, estimates of costs and the information as to benefited areas, the board shall carefully examine and consider the same and if they approve the general plan, estimate of cost of proposed works and information on benefited areas, they shall transmit a complete copy thereof to the chief engineer and additional copies shall be made available to him upon request. Copies of such plans, estimates and information, in the office of the chief engineer shall be open to inspection by the public at all reasonable times.

The chief engineer shall examine and study said general plans as to: (1) Feasibility. (2) Co-ordination of the plan with any general plan for the watershed of which the district might be a part. (3) The safety of the works and improvements proposed. (4) Conformity with the intents and purposes of this act. The chief engineer shall transmit a written report of the results of his study and investigation to the board of directors which shall include any changes or modifications which he deems necessary and which shall include a specific approval or disapproval of the general plan.
K.S.A. § 79-3329 — KS Code / Chapter 79 / Article 33 / Section 79-3329
79-3329 - Unconstitutionality of part.
Status: in_force

79-3329. Unconstitutionality of part. If any part or parts of this act are held to be unconstitutional the remaining part thereof shall be unaffected thereby.
K.S.A. § 12-1403 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 14 / Section 12-1403
12-1403 - Same; township tax levy for site; limitation.
Status: in_force

12-1403. Same; township tax levy for site; limitation. For the purpose of providing a fund to obtain land for cemetery purposes, the township trustees shall have authority to levy a tax upon all of the taxable tangible property in such township.
K.S.A. § 8-1454 — KS Code / Chapter 8 / Article 14 / Section 8-1454
8-1454 - "Railroad train" defined.
Status: in_force

8-1454. "Railroad train" defined. "Railroad train" means a steam engine, electric or other motor, with or without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails.
K.S.A. § 15-807 — KS Code / Chapter 15 / Article 8 / Section 15-807
15-807 - Bonds for improving waterworks system.
Status: in_force

15-807. Bonds for improving waterworks system. Any city of the third class owning and operating an electric light plant, sewer system or waterworks plant whose water supply may be insufficient to operate said utilities is by this act authorized to increase its bonded indebtedness above fifteen percent but not exceeding twenty percent of the assessed valuation of all taxable property within said city as shown by the assessment books for the year next preceding the year in which improvements shall be authorized, for the purpose of enlarging, repairing, extending and improving its waterworks system.
K.S.A. § 40-210 — KS Code / Chapter 40 / Article 2 / Section 40-210
40-210 - Foreign companies outside United States; permission to transact business; assets; condition.
Status: in_force

40-210. Foreign companies outside United States; permission to transact business; assets; condition. To determine whether any insurance company organized under the laws of any government or state, other than one of the United States, may be permitted to transact the business of insurance, indemnity or suretyship in this state, the commissioner of insurance shall observe and be governed by the following rule: Such company shall be credited with all assets, at their actual value, which it may have deposited for the security of its policyholders within the United States in the insurance departments or with the chief financial officers of the several states of the United States, and with all assets it may have deposited for like purpose with and in the name of trustees appointed by such company, residents of the United States, approved by the chief officer of the insurance department of the state where such trustees reside or the commissioner of insurance of this state: Provided, That the plainly expressed terms and conditions of the deed or instrument under and by virtue of which such deposit is made and held by trustees are such that, until all liabilities secured by such deposit are canceled, there shall at all times be one or more acting trustees thereunder competent and authorized to hold, control and manage such trust to the full extent and for all the purposes for which it was created.

Any of the assets of the trust may be released therefrom upon substitution of other legally qualified assets of at least equivalent value. Assets in excess of the deposits required by law may be released from the trust upon the authority of the supervisory official designated in the trust agreement, which trust agreement shall have been approved by the chief officer of the insurance department of the state where such deed is filed or the commissioner of insurance of this state. A statement showing all assets deposited or released from the trust shall be furnished the commissioner of insurance of this state at such times as he, in his discretion may require, but not less than once each year: And provided further, That such company shall only have credit for such assets so deposited as are permitted under the laws of its domicile, but such assets shall be of a quality substantially as high as those permitted for investment by like domestic insurers.
K.S.A. § 74-49,102 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 49 / Section 74-49,102
74-49,102 - Employee contributions for members and special members under K.S.A. 74-4999; payroll deductions.
Status: in_force

74-49,102. Employee contributions for members and special members under K.S.A. 74-4999; payroll deductions. Beginning with the first payroll for services performed after July 1, 1975, of each person who is a member of the Kansas public employees retirement system pursuant to subsection (b) of K.S.A. 74-4999 and amendments thereto, the employer shall deduct from the compensation of such person 4% of such person's compensation as employee contributions. Such deductions shall be remitted quarterly, or as the board of trustees of the Kansas public employees retirement system may otherwise provide, to the executive director of the system for credit to the Kansas public employees retirement fund. Such deductions shall be credited to the members' individual accounts and interest shall be added annually to such accounts beginning as provided in subsection (d) of K.S.A. 74-49,103 and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 4-220 — KS Code / Chapter 4 / Article 2 / Section 4-220
4-220 - 19th judicial district.
Status: in_force

4-220. 19 th judicial district. The county of Cowley shall constitute the 19 th judicial district. There shall be three district judges in such district.
K.S.A. § 60-5505 — KS Code / Chapter 60 / Article 55 / Section 60-5505
60-5505 - Immunity related to qualified products; product liability claims; conditions.
Status: in_force

60-5505. Immunity related to qualified products; product liability claims; conditions. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who designs, manufactures, labels, sells, distributes, provides or donates a qualified product in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency shall be immune from liability in a civil action alleging a product liability claim arising out of such qualified product if:

(a) The product was manufactured, labeled, sold, distributed, provided or donated at the specific request of or in response to a written order or other directive finding a public need for a qualified product issued by the governor, the adjutant general or the division of emergency management; and

(b) the damages are not occasioned by willful, wanton or reckless disregard of a known, substantial and unnecessary risk that the product would cause serious injury to others.
K.S.A. § 12-6,105 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 6 / Section 12-6,105
12-6,105 - Limitation on actions to set aside special assessments under civil rights statute.
Status: in_force

12-6,105. Limitation on actions to set aside special assessments under civil rights statute. (a) It is in the public interest to allow local units of government to finance the costs of public improvements by levying special assessments against the property which benefits from the improvements. It also is in the public interest, following timely notice and the opportunity to protest the levying of special assessments at a public hearing, that all challenges to the validity of the special assessments or to the proceedings relating thereto be commenced and resolved in a prompt and timely manner in order to avoid delay and increased public expense for the public improvements.

(b) No suit, brought under any federal civil rights statute, to set aside any special assessments levied against property pursuant to the laws of this state or to otherwise question the validity of the proceedings relating thereto shall be brought after the expiration of 90 days from the publication of the ordinance, resolution or other order fixing the special assessments.
K.S.A. § 24-647 — KS Code / Chapter 24 / Article 6 / Section 24-647
24-647 - Disorganization of drainage district; petition; nature of hearing; resolution; board of trustees.
Status: in_force

24-647. Disorganization of drainage district; petition; nature of hearing; resolution; board of trustees. Whenever the owners of a majority in interest of the acres of real estate within the boundaries of any drainage district organized under K.S.A. 24-601 to 24-640, which district has not constructed a drainage system, shall file their written petition with the secretary of the board of supervisors of such drainage district asking such board to disorganize and dissolve such drainage district, the board of supervisors of drainage district, upon finding such petition sufficient, shall within 30 days designate a time and place for a public meeting of such board of supervisors to be held within sixty days thereafter to consider such petition and give notice thereof to the owners of land within the drainage district in the same manner as required for an election meeting under K.S.A. 24-606. Said board of supervisors shall hold such meeting and all owners of real estate situated within the drainage district and all other parties interested may attend and shall be heard by the board of supervisors as to any reasons why such drainage district should or should not be disorganized and dissolved. After such hearing the board of supervisors shall have power to adopt a resolution providing that said drainage district (naming it) shall or shall not be disorganized and dissolved. Which resolution shall be sufficient if in substantially the following form: "Be it resolved by the board of supervisors of drainage district No. ____ of ________ county, Kansas, that said drainage district (naming it), (be) or (not be) disorganized and dissolved." A copy of such resolution, certified by the secretary to the board of supervisors as correct, shall be filed promptly with the secretary of state.

Upon adoption of a resolution to disorganize and dissolve such a drainage district it shall thereupon cease to exist and function as a corporation and the then board of supervisors shall become and continue a board of trustees with power to and shall conclude and finally terminate all the affairs of the drainage district. A copy of such resolution together with a statement of the names of the members of the board and the name of the secretary to such board shall be filed promptly and the names of their successors, if any, kept on file in the office of the clerk of the district court in which the decree incorporating the district was rendered, which papers together with all others pertaining thereto shall be docketed, filed and preserved by the clerk of such court under the title, "In re dissolution of drainage district No. ____ of ________ county, Kansas," (naming it).
K.S.A. § 65-6137 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 61 / Section 65-6137
65-6137 - Violations; misdemeanor.
Status: in_force

65-6137. Violations; misdemeanor. Any person violating any provision of this act or any rule and regulation issued hereunder shall be deemed guilty of a class B misdemeanor.
K.S.A. § 2-3909 — KS Code / Chapter 2 / Article 39 / Section 2-3909
2-3909 - Disposal of waste by-products.
Status: in_force

2-3909. Disposal of waste by-products. (a) (1) All solid waste, as defined in K.S.A. 65-3402, and amendments thereto, and all hazardous waste, as defined in K.S.A. 65-3430, and amendments thereto, resulting from the cultivation, production or processing of industrial hemp under the commercial industrial hemp act shall be managed in accordance with all applicable solid and hazardous waste laws and regulations and the requirements of subsection (a)(2).

(2) (A) If any such waste can be used in the same manner as, or has the appearance of, a controlled substance, as defined in K.S.A. 65-4101, and amendments thereto, all such waste shall be rendered unusable and unrecognizable before the waste is transported or disposed.

(B) This requirement shall not apply to waste that is managed as a hazardous waste and sent to a hazardous waste facility, as defined in K.S.A. 65-3430, and amendments thereto.

(3) For the purposes of this section, "unusable and unrecognizable" means that such waste can not be used in the same manner as, and does not have the appearance of, a controlled substance, as defined in K.S.A. 65-4101, and amendments thereto.

(b) Any violation of this section shall be considered an unlawful act for the purposes of K.S.A. 65-3409, and amendments thereto.

(c) 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. § 68-2008 — KS Code / Chapter 68 / Article 20 / Section 68-2008
68-2008 - Bonds payable solely or partly from revenues; expenses.
Status: in_force

68-2008. Bonds payable solely or partly from revenues; expenses. Revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall not be deemed to constitute a debt of the state or of any political subdivision thereof or a pledge of the faith and credit of the state or of any such political subdivision thereof, but all such bonds shall be payable solely or partly from the funds provided from revenues. All such revenue bonds shall contain on the face a statement to the effect that neither the state nor the authority shall be obligated to pay the same or the interest thereon except from revenues of the project or projects for which they are issued and that neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the state or any political subdivision thereof is pledge to the payment of the principal of or the interest on such bonds.

All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be payable solely or partly from funds provided under the authority of this act and no liability or obligation shall be incurred by the authority beyond the extent to which moneys shall have been provided under the provisions of this act.
K.S.A. § 59-2310 — KS Code / Chapter 59 / Article 23 / Section 59-2310
59-2310 - Authorization of conveyance or lease of real estate.
Status: in_force

59-2310. Authorization of conveyance or lease of real estate. Upon the filing of a petition by any person claiming to be entitled to a conveyance from a decedent or conservatee bound by written instrument to make a conveyance or lease, or by the personal representative, setting forth a description of the real estate and the facts upon which such claim for conveyance or lease is based, the court shall fix the time and place for the hearing thereof, notice of which shall be given to such persons and in such manner as the court shall direct. Upon proof of the petition, the court may order the personal representative to execute and deliver a deed of conveyance or lease upon performance of the contract.
K.S.A. § 8-1427 — KS Code / Chapter 8 / Article 14 / Section 8-1427
8-1427 - "Implement of husbandry" defined.
Status: in_force

8-1427. "Implement of husbandry" defined. "Implement of husbandry" means every vehicle designed or adapted and used exclusively for agricultural operations and only incidentally moved or operated upon the highways. Such term shall include, but not be limited to, a fertilizer spreader or nurse tank used exclusively for dispensing or spreading water, dust or liquid fertilizers or agricultural chemicals, as defined in K.S.A. 2-2202, and amendments thereto, regardless of ownership. For the purpose of this section or for the purpose of the act of which this section is a part, "implement of husbandry" shall not include: (a) A truck mounted with a fertilizer spreader used or manufactured principally to spread animal dung; (b) a mixer-feed truck owned and used by a feedlot, as defined by K.S.A. 47-1501, and amendments thereto, and specially designed and used exclusively for dispensing feed to livestock in such feedlot; or (c) a truck permanently mounted with a spreader used exclusively for dispensing or spreading water, dust or liquid fertilizers or agricultural chemicals, as defined in K.S.A. 2-2202, and amendments thereto, regardless of ownership.
K.S.A. § 42-392 — KS Code / Chapter 42 / Article 3 / Section 42-392
42-392 - Superintendent of ditch or works; service of process upon; certification of name to district court; vacancies.
Status: in_force

42-392. Superintendent of ditch or works; service of process upon; certification of name to district court; vacancies. The proprietors of every ditch, conduit, reservoir or other works for the diversion, carrying or storage of water for irrigation, now in existence, shall within thirty days after the approval of this act, and the proprietors of every such works hereafter formed shall, immediately upon the commencement of the construction of such works, cause to be chosen a superintendent of such ditch, conduit or other works, upon whom may be served processes in actions wherein may be brought in question the right of such ditch, conduit, reservoir or other works to the waters appropriated, carried or stored by means thereof, and all notices required by this act to be served upon the proprietors of such works in any proceedings for the adjudication of the rights and priorities to the use of water among the several appropriators, and all notices touching the administration of such works.

They shall forthwith cause the name and address of such superintendent to be certified in writing to the clerk of the district court in and for each county in which such works or any part thereof shall be situated. In case of the death, resignation or removal of any such superintendent from his office, the proprietors of every such works shall forthwith choose some other person in his stead, and certify his name and address in like manner as herein above provided.
K.S.A. § 74-5,119 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 5 / Section 74-5,119
74-5,119 - Powers, duties and functions of animal health department transferred to department of agriculture; appointment of animal health commissioner.
Status: in_force

74-5,119. Powers, duties and functions of animal health department transferred to department of agriculture; appointment of animal health commissioner. (a) The division of animal health is hereby established within the Kansas department of agriculture. The division of animal health shall be a continuation of the Kansas animal health department and the animal health commissioner shall be a continuation of the livestock commissioner of the Kansas animal health department. The division shall be administered under the supervision of the secretary of agriculture, by the animal health commissioner, who shall be the chief administrative officer of the division. On the effective date of K.S.A. 74-5,112 through 74-5,132, and amendments thereto, the secretary of agriculture shall appoint the animal health commissioner. Thereafter, upon a vacancy in the office of animal health commissioner, the Kansas animal health board shall submit three nominations to the secretary of agriculture for the office of animal health commissioner, and the secretary of agriculture shall choose one of the three nominations to appoint as the animal health commissioner. The animal health commissioner shall serve at the pleasure of the secretary and the animal health board. The animal health commissioner shall be in the unclassified service under the Kansas civil service act and shall receive an annual salary fixed by the secretary of agriculture, with the approval of the governor.

(b) All of the powers, duties and functions of the existing Kansas animal health department and the existing livestock commissioner of the Kansas animal health department are hereby transferred to and imposed upon the animal health division within the Kansas department of agriculture and the animal health commissioner, respectively.

(c) The secretary of agriculture shall appoint such employees as may be needed to carry out the powers and duties of the program, and all such officers and employees shall be within the classified or unclassified service.
K.S.A. § 58-3076 — KS Code / Chapter 58 / Article 30 / Section 58-3076
58-3076 - Referral fees, solicitation of; relocation benefits, threats to reduce or withhold; terminating or amending agency agreements.
Status: in_force

58-3076. Referral fees, solicitation of; relocation benefits, threats to reduce or withhold; terminating or amending agency agreements. (a) A licensee or anyone on behalf of any such licensee or firm, whether licensed in this state or in another state shall not solicit a referral fee without reasonable cause. Reasonable cause shall not exist unless one of the following conditions exists:

(1) An actual introduction of business has been made;

(2) a contractual referral fee relationship exists; or

(3) a contractual cooperative brokerage relationship exists.

(b) A licensee or anyone on behalf of any such licensee or firm, whether licensed in this state or in another shall not:

(1) Threaten to reduce or withhold employee relocation benefits or take other action adverse to the interest of a client or customer of a real estate licensee; or

(2) counsel a client or customer of another real estate licensee on how to terminate or amend an existing agency agreement or sales contract. Communicating corporate relocation policy or benefits to a transferring employee shall not be considered a violation of this paragraph, as long as the communication does not involve advice or encouragement on how to terminate or amend an existing agency contract.