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K.S.A. § 65-690 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 6 / Section 65-690
65-690 - Same; temporary suspension of license.
Status: in_force

65-690. Same; temporary suspension of license. (a) If the secretary finds that the public health or safety is endangered by the continued operation of a food processing plant or food establishment, the secretary may temporarily suspend the license of such establishment or order the temporary closure of such establishment without notice or hearing in accordance with the emergency provisions of the Kansas administrative procedure act.

(b) In no case shall a temporary suspension of a license or temporary closure under this section be in effect for a period of time in excess of 90 days. At the end of such period of time, the licensee shall be reinstated to full licensure or allowed to reopen unless the secretary has denied, suspended or revoked the license, obtained an injunction against such licensee, or the license has expired as otherwise provided under the Kansas food, drug and cosmetic act, and amendments thereto, or any rules and regulations or orders issued thereunder.

(c) The secretary, after providing notice and opportunity for a hearing in accordance with the provisions of the Kansas administrative procedure act, may deny, suspend, modify, revoke or refuse to renew any license as provided in the food, drug and cosmetic act or rules and regulations adopted thereunder, if the secretary determines that such applicant or licensee has:

(1) Been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a criminal violation of any provision of the food, drug and cosmetic act;

(2) failed to comply with any provision or requirement of the act or any rule and regulation or order adopted or issued thereunder;

(3) interfered with the secretary's ability to carry out inspections or the administration of the act, or any rule and regulation adopted thereunder; or

(4) denied the secretary access to any premises required to be inspected under the provisions of the act or any rule and regulation adopted thereunder.
K.S.A. § 74-3903 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 39 / Section 74-3903
74-3903 - Disposition of moneys received; abstracters' fee fund.
Status: in_force

74-3903. Disposition of moneys received; abstracters' fee fund. The abstracters' board of examiners shall remit all moneys received by or for it from fees, charges or penalties to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury. Ten percent of each such deposit shall be credited to the state general fund and the balance shall be credited to the abstracters' fee fund. All expenditures from such fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the chairperson of the board or by a person or persons designated by [the] chairperson.
K.S.A. § 19-2662 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 26 / Section 19-2662
19-2662 - Disposition of lands acquired for refuse disposal; use of moneys received from sale.
Status: in_force

19-2662. Disposition of lands acquired for refuse disposal; use of moneys received from sale. If the county shall have acquired title to any lands for the purposes hereinbefore authorized and the board of county commissioners shall determine that such property is no longer useful for the purpose for which it was acquired, such board may sell and dispose of the same upon such terms and in such manner as the board may deem to be in the best interest of the county. Moneys received from the sale of any such property shall be placed in a special fund and used for any of the purposes authorized by this act. Moneys may be appropriated from such special fund without regard to limitations prescribed by the budget law.
K.S.A. § 40-4326 — KS Code / Chapter 40 / Article 43 / Section 40-4326
40-4326 - Same; definitions.
Status: in_force

40-4326. Same; definitions. As used in K.S.A. 40-4325 through 40-4331, and amendments thereto:

(a) "Alien" means formed under the laws of any country or jurisdiction other than the United States of America or any of its states, districts, commonwealths or possessions.

(b) "Alien captive insurance company" means any insurance company formed to write insurance business of a nature that the commissioner determines is otherwise permissible under this act and is licensed or authorized pursuant to the laws of an alien jurisdiction that imposes statutory or regulatory standards in a form acceptable to the commissioner on companies transacting business of insurance in such jurisdiction.

(c) "Branch business" means any insurance business transacted by a branch captive insurance company in Kansas.

(d) "Branch captive insurance company" means any alien captive insurance company that has been issued a certificate of authority by the commissioner to transact the business of insurance in Kansas through a business unit with a principal place of business in Kansas, and has not otherwise been issued a certificate of authority by the commissioner to transact insurance under this act.

(5) "Branch operations" means any business operations of a branch captive insurance company in Kansas.

(6) "Principal representative" shall mean a person designated as such by the branch captive insurance company as its principal representative on such forms and with such information as required by the commissioner.
K.S.A. § 41-407 — KS Code / Chapter 41 / Article 4 / Section 41-407
41-407 - Evasion of liquor tax prohibited; penalties.
Status: in_force

41-407. Evasion of liquor tax prohibited; penalties. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to:

(1) Evade, or attempt to evade, the payment of tax or duty on any alcoholic liquor, in any manner whatever. Upon conviction of violation of this subsection, in addition to the penalty prescribed for the violation of this act, the violator shall forfeit and pay, as a part of costs in the action, double the amount of the tax or duty so evaded or attempted to be evaded.

(2) Have in such person's possession any cask or package of alcoholic liquor, without having thereon each mark required therefor by law, and any such cask or package not having thereon each such mark shall be forfeited to the state of Kansas.

(b) Nothing contained in this section shall make unlawful the possession and transportation of wine imported solely for use by a church or religious organization for sacramental purposes and uses.

(c) Violation of any provision of this section is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding $500 or imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both, and in proper cases the trial court may order and direct the confiscation of the liquor involved in the violation as part of the judgment of conviction.
K.S.A. § 75-1005 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 10 / Section 75-1005
75-1005 - Printing and binding by division of printing; by state institution or commercial printer, when; printing and binding services for secretary of state.
Status: in_force

75-1005. Printing and binding by division of printing; by state institution or commercial printer, when; printing and binding services for secretary of state. (a) Except as provided by subsection (b), the division of printing shall do all of the public printing and binding required by the legislature, the supreme court, the governor or any state agency. Any state institution where a printing plant is already established may be permitted to do printing for the institution when approved by the director of printing. When the director of printing is of the opinion that a particular printing job should be obtained in the commercial market, such director, unless otherwise instructed by the secretary of administration, may authorize any state agency to so obtain such printing in accordance with laws relating to purchasing.

(b) The secretary of state may obtain printing or binding services as provided by K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 75-449, and amendments thereto, in the commercial market in accordance with laws related to purchasing and procurement by state agencies. The secretary of state shall not be required to obtain the authorization of the director of printing or of the secretary of administration otherwise required for state agencies under subsection (a) to obtain such printing or binding services.
K.S.A. § 12-1259 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 12 / Section 12-1259
12-1259 - Topeka public library; issuance of bonds; purpose; election; tax levy.
Status: in_force

12-1259. Topeka public library; issuance of bonds; purpose; election; tax levy. The board of directors of the Topeka public library may issue general obligation bonds of the Topeka public library for the purpose of constructing, reconstructing, repairing, remodeling, furnishing and equipping any buildings or additions thereto, together with sites therefor, for library purposes. No bonds shall be issued until the question of their issuance and the amount of such issuance has been submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the city of Topeka at any special, general or primary election, and a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon votes in favor thereof. The election shall be called and held and the bonds shall be issued, sold, delivered, registered and retired in the manner provided by the general bond law. Bonds issued pursuant to this section shall not be subject to or within any bonded debt limit of the city of Topeka. The board of directors of the Topeka public library shall have the power to levy a tax against all taxable, tangible property in the city of Topeka for the purpose of paying the principal of, redemption premium, if any, and interest on any bonds issued pursuant to this section.
K.S.A. § 40-5205 — KS Code / Chapter 40 / Article 52 / Section 40-5205
40-5205 - Same; rights of policyholders.
Status: in_force

40-5205. Same; rights of policyholders. (a) Policyholders shall have the right to reject the transfer and novation of their contracts of insurance. Policyholders electing to reject the assumption transaction shall return to the transferring insurer the pre-addressed, postage-paid response card or other written notice and indicate thereon that the assumption is rejected (collectively referred to as the "response card").

(b) Payment of any premium to the assuming company during the 24-month period after notice is received shall be deemed to indicate the policyholder's acceptance of the transfer to the assuming insurer and a novation shall be deemed to have been effected, provided that the premium notice clearly states that payment of the premium to the assuming insurer shall constitute acceptance of the transfer. However, the premium notice shall also provide a method for the policyholder to pay the premium while reserving the right to reject the transfer. With respect to any home service business or any other business not using premium notices, the disclosures and procedural requirements of this subsection are to be set forth in the notice of transfer required by K.S.A. 40-5202, and amendments thereto, and in the assumption certificate.

(c) After no fewer than 24 months from the mailing of the initial notice of transfer required under K.S.A. 40-5202, and amendments thereto, if positive consent to, or rejection of, the transfer and assumption has not been received or consent has not been deemed to have occurred under subsection (b) of this section, the transferring company shall send to the policyholder a second and final notice of transfer as specified in K.S.A. 40-5202, and amendments thereto. If the policyholder does not accept or reject the transfer during the one-month period immediately following the date on which the transferring insurer mails the second and final notice of transfer, the policyholder's consent will be deemed to have occurred and novation of the contract will be effected. With respect to the home service business, or any other business not using premium notices, the 24-month and one-month periods shall be measured from the date of delivery of the notice of transfer pursuant to subsection (a) of K.S.A. 40-5203, and amendments thereto.

(d) The transferring insurer will be deemed to have received the response card on the date it is postmarked. A policyholder may also send its response card by facsimile or other electronic transmission or by registered mail, express delivery or courier service, in which case the response card shall be deemed to have been received by the assuming insurer on the date of actual receipt by the transferring insurer.

(e) This section shall take effect on and after July 1, 2004.
K.S.A. § 20-159 — KS Code / Chapter 20 / Article 1 / Section 20-159
20-159 - Reproduction and preservation of court records; minimum standards.
Status: in_force

20-159. Reproduction and preservation of court records; minimum standards. The supreme court may provide for and authorize any chief judge of a judicial district, to photograph, microphotograph or otherwise reproduce or to have photographed, microphotographed or otherwise reproduced any of the court records, papers or documents which are by law placed in the courts of that judicial district and to acquire necessary facilities and equipment and to acquire, maintain and use all such appropriate containers, files and other methods as shall be necessary to accommodate and preserve the photographs, microphotographs, films or as otherwise reproduced. The photographing, microphotographing, filming or otherwise reproducing may be so authorized for the reproducing of court records, where to do so will promote efficiency in the office, or as a method of preserving old or worn records, papers or documents. The photographic films and prints or reproductions therefrom, shall comply with federal standard no. 125a, dated April 24, 1958, or the latest revision thereof, issued pursuant to the federal property and administrative services act of 1949, and amendments thereto. The device used to reproduce such records on for any type of storage shall be one which accurately reproduces the original thereof in all details. The court may use reproduction methods which include the digital storage and retrieval of official court records.
K.S.A. § 58-5116 — KS Code / Chapter 58 / Article 51 / Section 58-5116
58-5116 - Change in fiduciary's compensation; restrictions.
Status: in_force

58-5116. Change in fiduciary's compensation; restrictions. (a) If a first-trust instrument specifies an authorized fiduciary's compensation, the fiduciary shall not exercise the decanting power to increase the fiduciary's compensation above the specified compensation unless:

(1) All qualified beneficiaries of the second trust consent to the increase in a signed record; or

(2) the increase is approved by the court.

(b) If a first-trust instrument does not specify an authorized fiduciary's compensation, the fiduciary shall not exercise the decanting power to increase the fiduciary's compensation above the compensation permitted by the Kansas uniform trust code, K.S.A. 58a-101 et seq., and amendments thereto, unless:

(1) All qualified beneficiaries of the second trust consent to the increase in a signed record; or

(2) the increase is approved by the court.

(c) A change in an authorized fiduciary's compensation that is incidental to other changes made by the exercise of the decanting power is not an increase in the fiduciary's compensation for purposes of subsections (a) and (b).
K.S.A. § 55-176 — KS Code / Chapter 55 / Article 1 / Section 55-176
55-176 - Commission's costs assessed against operators and agents; disposition of moneys.
Status: in_force

55-176. Commission's costs assessed against operators and agents; disposition of moneys. (a) Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 55-143, and amendments thereto, the commission shall assess operators or their designated agents for all or part of the actual costs and expenses incurred in: (1) The supervision, administration, inspection, investigation; (2) the enforcement of this act and the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this act; and (3) monitoring and inspecting oil and gas lease salt water and oil storage, disposal and emergency facilities.

(b) The commission shall remit all moneys received by or for it for costs or expenses under this section to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury. Ten percent of each such deposit shall be credited to the state general fund and the balance shall be credited to the conservation fee fund created by K.S.A. 55-143, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 23-36,704 — KS Code / Chapter 23 / Article 36 / Section 23-36,704
23-36,704 - Initiation by department for children and families of support proceeding under convention.
Status: in_force

23-36,704. Initiation by department for children and families of support proceeding under convention. (a) In a support proceeding under this part, the department for children and families of this state shall:

(1) Transmit and receive applications; and

(2) initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of this state.

(b) The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the convention:

(1) Recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order;

(2) enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in this state;

(3) establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, if necessary, determination of parentage of a child;

(4) establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under K.S.A. 23-36,708(b)(2), (4) or (9), and amendments thereto;

(5) modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and

(6) modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.

(c) The following support proceedings are available under the convention to an obligor against which there is an existing support order:

(1) Recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support order of a tribunal of this state;

(2) modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and

(3) modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.

(d) A tribunal of this state may not require security, bond or deposit, however described, to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses in proceedings under the convention.
K.S.A. § 65-6707 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 67 / Section 65-6707
65-6707 - Same; severability clause.
Status: in_force

65-6707. Same; severability clause. If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.
K.S.A. § 82-162 — KS Code / Chapter 82 / Article 1 / Section 82-162
82-162 - Bonded warehouseman.
Status: in_force

82-162. Bonded warehouseman. Any warehouseman doing business in this state, other than warehousemen operating under chapter 34, and article 2 of chapter 82, Kansas Statutes Annotated, may become a "bonded warehouseman" and advertise and do business as such upon compliance with the provisions of this act.
K.S.A. § 65-103 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 1 / Section 65-103
65-103 - Special sanitary service.
Status: in_force

65-103. Special sanitary service. The secretary of health and environment shall when he thinks best to do so appoint committees, or engage suitable persons to render special sanitary service, to make or supervise practical or scientific investigations and examinations requiring expert skill, and to prepare plans and report thereon. It is hereby made the duty of all officers and agents having the control, charge or custody of any public structure, work, ground or erection, or any plan, description, outline drawings, charts thereof or relating thereto, made, kept or controlled under any public authority, to permit and facilitate any examination and inspection ordered by said secretary, and such other officer or person as may at any time be by said secretary authorized, may without fee or hindrance enter, examine and survey all grounds, erections, vehicles, structures, apartments, buildings, and places; but the legislature shall first determine the amount which shall be expended during the year for such special sanitary work, and the expenditures shall not exceed the amount thus determined and set apart for the year.
K.S.A. § 21-6002 — KS Code / Chapter 21 / Article 60 / Section 21-6002
21-6002 - Official misconduct.
Status: in_force

21-6002. Official misconduct. (a) Official misconduct is any of the following acts committed by a public officer or employee in the officer or employee's public capacity or under color of the officer or employee's office or employment:

(1) Knowingly using or authorizing the use of any aircraft, as defined by K.S.A. 3-201, and amendments thereto, vehicle, as defined by K.S.A. 8-1485, and amendments thereto, or vessel, as defined by K.S.A. 32-1102, and amendments thereto, under the officer's or employee's control or direction, or in the officer's or employee's custody, exclusively for the private benefit or gain of the officer or employee or another;

(2) knowingly failing to serve civil process when required by law;

(3) using confidential information acquired in the course of and related to the officer's or employee's office or employment for the private benefit or gain of the officer or employee or another or to intentionally cause harm to another;

(4) except as authorized by law, with the intent to reduce or eliminate competition among bidders or prospective bidders on any contract or proposed contract:

(A) Disclosing confidential information regarding proposals or communications from bidders or prospective bidders on any contract or proposed contract;

(B) accepting any bid or proposal on a contract or proposed contract after the deadline for acceptance of such bid or proposal; or

(C) altering any bid or proposal submitted by a bidder on a contract or proposed contract;

(5) except as authorized by law, knowingly destroying, tampering with or concealing evidence of a crime; or

(6) knowingly submitting to a governmental entity a claim for expenses which is false or duplicates expenses for which a claim is submitted to such governmental entity, another governmental or private entity.

(b) (1) Official misconduct as defined in:

(A) Subsections (a)(1) through (a)(4) is a class A nonperson misdemeanor;

(B) subsection (a)(5) is a:

(i) Severity level 8, nonperson felony if the evidence is evidence of a crime which is a felony; and

(ii) class A nonperson misdemeanor if the evidence is evidence of a crime which is a misdemeanor; and

(C) subsection (a)(6) if the claim is:

(i) $25,000 or more is a severity level 7, nonperson felony;

(ii) at least $1,000 but less than $25,000 is a severity level 9, nonperson felony; and

(iii) less than $1,000 is a class A nonperson misdemeanor.

(2) Upon conviction of official misconduct a public officer or employee shall forfeit such officer or employee's office or employment.

(c) The provisions of subsection (a)(1) shall not apply to any use of persons or property which:

(1) At the time of the use, is authorized by law or by formal written policy of the governmental entity; or

(2) constitutes misuse of public funds, as defined in K.S.A. 21-6005, and amendments thereto.

(d) As used in this section, "confidential" means any information that is not subject to mandatory disclosure pursuant to K.S.A. 45-221, and amendments thereto.