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K.S.A. § 76-771 — KS Code / Chapter 76 / Article 7 / Section 76-771
76-771 - Core indicators of quality performance; data management system; quality performance grants, eligibility and amount.
Status: in_force

76-771. Core indicators of quality performance; data management system; quality performance grants, eligibility and amount. (a) The state board of regents shall identify and approve core indicators of quality performance for the state educational institutions and shall establish and implement a data management system that includes a process and format for collecting, aggregating and reporting common and institution-specific information documenting effectiveness of the institutions in meeting the role and mission thereof.

(b) In each fiscal year, commencing with the 2003 fiscal year, each state educational institution is eligible to receive a quality performance grant from the state general fund. If the state board determines that the state educational institution has demonstrated effectiveness in complying with its role and mission statement and has met or exceeded the core indicators of quality performance for the state educational institutions identified and approved by the state board, the state educational institution shall receive a quality performance grant in an amount that shall be determined by the state board by computing 2% of the amount of the institution's appropriation from the state general fund for the preceding fiscal year. The computed amount is the amount of the quality performance grant the state educational institution shall receive for the fiscal year.
K.S.A. § 68-1017 — KS Code / Chapter 68 / Article 10 / Section 68-1017
68-1017 - Designation of Smoky Hill trail; marking.
Status: in_force

68-1017. Designation of Smoky Hill trail; marking. That Smoky Hill trail, also commonly called Butterfield trail and Old Denver trail, through the seven counties of Ellsworth, Russell, Ellis, Trego, Gove, Logan and Wallace from Fort Ellsworth to the Colorado state line, a distance of about two hundred twenty miles, be and is hereby designated as "Smoky Hill trail" in the state of Kansas. That said "Smoky Hill trail" should be and will hereafter be marked thereby preserving its exact location.
K.S.A. § 12-519 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 5 / Section 12-519
12-519 - Definitions.
Status: in_force

12-519. Definitions. As used in this act: (a) "Tract" means a single unit of real property under one ownership, outside the corporate limits of a city, which may be platted or unplatted, title to which is publicly or privately held by an owner as defined by subsection (c).

(b) "Land" means a part of a tract or one or more tracts.

(c) "Owner" means the one who has record title to a tract. In the event two or more persons have record title to a tract, "owner" shall be defined as follows: (1) If joint tenants, "owner" means a majority of the number of joint tenants; (2) if tenants in common, "owner" means both a majority of the number of tenants in common and the holders of a majority of the undivided interests in the tract; (3) if the tract is held by a life tenant and a remainderman, "owner" means the life tenant; (4) if the tract is held by a tenant under a recorded lease providing for a lease term of 10 years or longer and a remainderman, "owner" means both such tenant and remainderman; (5) if one holds title to the surface and another holds title to the minerals, "owner" means the surface title holder.

(d) "Adjoins" means to lie upon or touch (1) the city boundary line; or (2) a highway, railway or watercourse which lies upon the city boundary line and separates such city and the land sought to be annexed by only the width of such highway, railway or watercourse.

(e) "Platted" means a tract or tracts mapped or drawn to scale, showing a division or divisions thereof, which map or drawing is filed in the office of the register of deeds by the owner of such tract.

(f) "Land devoted to agricultural use" means land which is devoted to the production of plants, animals or horticultural products, including but not limited to: Forages; grains and feed crops; dairy animals and dairy products; poultry and poultry products; beef cattle, sheep, swine and horses; bees and apiary products; trees and forest products; fruits, nuts and berries; vegetables; or nursery, floral, ornamental and greenhouse products. Land devoted to agricultural use shall not include those lands which are used for recreational purposes, suburban residential acreages, rural home sites or farm home sites and yard plots whose primary function is for residential or recreational purposes even though such properties may produce or maintain some of those plants or animals listed in the foregoing definition.

(g) "Qualified elector" means any owner of land, as defined under this section, within the area proposed to be annexed under the provisions of K.S.A. 12-521, and amendments thereto.

(h) "Area proposed to be annexed" means the area approved for annexation by the board of county commissioners under provisions of K.S.A. 12-521, and amendments thereto.

(i) "Watercourse" means a natural or manmade course where water may flow on a regular or intermittent basis; a watercourse shall not include a natural or manmade lake, pond or other impoundment of five or more acres of surface area.
K.S.A. § 25-1225 — KS Code / Chapter 25 / Article 12 / Section 25-1225
25-1225 - Rules and regulations.
Status: in_force

25-1225. Rules and regulations. The secretary of state is hereby authorized and empowered to make such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.
K.S.A. § 39-7,152 — KS Code / Chapter 39 / Article 7 / Section 39-7,152
39-7,152 - Execution; arrearages.
Status: in_force

39-7,152. Execution; arrearages. If arrearages have accrued under a support order entered by or registered with a court of this state, the secretary may issue execution pursuant to K.S.A. 60-2401 and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 2-2809 — KS Code / Chapter 2 / Article 28 / Section 2-2809
2-2809 - Misbranded or adulterated, defined.
Status: in_force

2-2809. Misbranded or adulterated, defined. (a) For the purposes of this act, a soil amendment shall be deemed to be misbranded if:

(1) It bears a label which is false or misleading in any particular;

(2) it is distributed under the name of another soil amendment;

(3) it is not labeled in accordance with K.S.A. 2-2804 or rules and regulations adopted under the provisions of this act; or

(4) it purports to be or is represented as being or containing a soil amendment, and does not conform to the standards of identity prescribed by rules and regulations adopted under the provisions of this act.

(b) For the purposes of this act, a soil amendment shall be deemed to be adulterated if:

(1) It contains any deleterious or harmful agent in sufficient amount to render it injurious to beneficial plant, animal or aquatic life when applied in accordance with the directions for use shown on the label, or if adequate warning statements and directions for use which may be necessary to protect plant, animal or aquatic life are not shown on the label;

(2) its composition differs from that which it is purported to possess by its labeling; or

(3) it contains any noxious weed seed.
K.S.A. § 75-5646 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 56 / Section 75-5646
75-5646 - References to crippled and chronically ill children's program apply to services for children with special health care needs.
Status: in_force

75-5646. References to crippled and chronically ill children's program apply to services for children with special health care needs. Whenever the crippled and chronically ill children's program is referred to or designated by statute, contract or other document, such reference or designation shall be deemed to apply to services for children with special health care needs.
K.S.A. § 18-145 — KS Code / Chapter 18 / Article 1 / Section 18-145
18-145 - Jewell.
Status: in_force

18-145. Jewell. The county of Jewell is bounded as follows: Commencing at the northwest corner of Republic county; thence west on the state line thirty miles, to the east line of range eleven west; thence south on said range line, to the first standard parallel; thence east on said standard parallel thirty miles, to the west line of Cloud county; thence north on the west lines of Cloud and Republic counties, to the place of beginning.
K.S.A. § 12-1241 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 12 / Section 12-1241
12-1241 - Same; persons entitled to vote; officers of board; terms of directors; vacancies.
Status: in_force

12-1241. Same; persons entitled to vote; officers of board; terms of directors; vacancies. Any person who shall have been in good faith a resident of said library district for thirty (30) days prior to the date of any district meeting or other election and who possesses the qualifications of a voter at a general election shall be entitled to vote at said meeting or at any bond election. Every library district so created shall be governed by a board of seven (7) directors who shall be qualified voters of such library district. The board of directors shall elect one of their number as chairman of said board and shall also elect from the members of said board a secretary and a treasurer and such other officers as they deem necessary. At each annual meeting, upon the expiration of the term of any director, his or her successor shall be elected for a term of four (4) years, expiring on the first Tuesday of April of the fourth year following his or her election. Vacancies in said board of directors accruing by death, removal, resignation or otherwise shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment made by the chairman of said board, by and with the endorsement and approval of a majority of the remaining board members, and shall be for the unexpired term in like manner as the original elections.
K.S.A. § 68-1414 — KS Code / Chapter 68 / Article 14 / Section 68-1414
68-1414 - Same; changing channel of river or erection of structures; use of funds; bonds.
Status: in_force

68-1414. Same; changing channel of river or erection of structures; use of funds; bonds. Whenever it is necessary to replace, reconstruct, or repair any bridge over any navigable river on any county road, which road connects with a county road of another county within or outside this state, or to protect any such bridge by changing the channel of the river or by the erection of structures, such as levees, jetties or other structures necessary to protect the new channel or such bridge, and which bridge shall have been destroyed or rendered impassable by flood, high water, fire or other casualty, then the board of county commissioners is hereby authorized and empowered to expend not to exceed the sum of $160,000 to pay the entire cost or the county's share of the cost of such replacement, reconstruction or repair of such bridge or such change of channel or erection of the structures hereinbefore described. No such change of channel shall be made without first securing the approval of the chief engineer of the division of water resources of the Kansas department of agriculture. Such expenditure may be made from any unallocated and available funds in the county road and bridge fund or from revenue derived from the issuance of bonds, or from the separate fund for the construction of roads and bridges on the county secondary system or from two or more of such sources, and such county is hereby authorized to issue bonds for such purpose. Such bonds shall be issued, registered, sold, delivered and retired in accordance with the provisions of the general bond law and may be issued without submitting the question of their issuance to a vote of the electors. The board of county commissioners may receive and expend any federal, state, or other funds made available for such improvement which expenditure may be in addition to the amount authorized to be expended by the county. The provisions of K.S.A. 19-214, 19-215 and 19-216, and amendments thereto, shall be applicable to any improvement made under the authority conferred by this section. This act shall be construed as a separate and additional method for the replacement, reconstruction and repair of bridges and no other law of this state except as herein expressly provided shall apply. The total amount expended by any county under the authority conferred by this section plus the amount expended by such county under the authority conferred by K.S.A. 68-1413, and amendments thereto, shall not exceed the sum of $160,000.
K.S.A. § 74-8016 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 80 / Section 74-8016
74-8016 - Cost-benefit model for property tax exemptions.
Status: in_force

74-8016. Cost-benefit model for property tax exemptions. Subject to appropriations, the secretary of commerce shall develop, adapt or adopt a uniform cost-benefit model for purposes of statewide data collection and for evaluating industrial revenue bond and economic development property tax exemptions. The model shall be made available to all cities and counties free of charge.
K.S.A. § 12-2810 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 28 / Section 12-2810
12-2810 - Investment in bonds or certificates by certain public and private bodies.
Status: in_force

12-2810. Investment in bonds or certificates by certain public and private bodies. The state and all counties, cities, villages, incorporated towns and other municipal corporations, political subdivisions and public bodies, and public officers of any thereof, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business, all insurance companies, insurance associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, may invest any sinking funds, moneys or other funds belonging to them or within their control in any bonds or certificates issued pursuant to this act, it being the purpose of this section to authorize the investment in such bonds or certificates of all sinking, insurance, retirement, compensation, pension and * whether owned or controlled by private or public persons or officers: Provided, however, That nothing contained in this section may be construed as relieving any person, firm, or corporation from any duty of exercising reasonable care in selecting securities for purchase or investment.
K.S.A. § 75-3677 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 36 / Section 75-3677
75-3677 - Same; terms and conditions of repayment of loan; time of payments; period of loan.
Status: in_force

75-3677. Same; terms and conditions of repayment of loan; time of payments; period of loan. Subject to the limitations of this section and K.S.A. 75-3676 the secretary of administration shall determine and certify to the pooled money investment board, on or before the date of the first certification pursuant to subsection (b) of K.S.A. 75-3676, the terms and conditions of repayment of the principal and interest of such loan amounts. Commencing in calendar year 1986, the principal and interest of such loan amounts shall be repaid in payments payable at least annually for a period of not more than 25 years. The repayment amounts shall be recomputed each year to reflect the interest rate prescribed by K.S.A. 75-3676 and shall be calculated each year on a substantially level payment basis based on a total original amortization period of 25 years.
K.S.A. § 20-2618 — KS Code / Chapter 20 / Article 26 / Section 20-2618
20-2618 - Benefits exempt from state and local taxes and legal process and nonassignable, exceptions for decrees for support and maintenance and qualified domestic relations orders and lump-sum death benefit assigned to a funeral establishment.
Status: in_force

20-2618. Benefits exempt from state and local taxes and legal process and nonassignable, exceptions for decrees for support and maintenance and qualified domestic relations orders and lump-sum death benefit assigned to a funeral establishment. Every annuity or other benefit received by any judge or other person pursuant to the retirement system for judges under the acts contained in article 26 of chapter 20 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, is exempt from any tax of the state of Kansas or any political subdivision or taxing body thereof; shall not be subject to execution, garnishment, attachment or except as otherwise provided, any other process or claim whatsoever; and shall be unassignable, except that within 30 days after the death of a retirant the lump-sum death benefit payable to a retirant pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 74-4989, and amendments thereto, may be assignable to a funeral establishment providing funeral services to such retirant by the beneficiary of such retirant. Any annuity or benefit or accumulated contributions due and owing to any judge or any person under the provisions of the retirement system for judges are subject to claims of an alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order. As used in this subsection, the terms "alternate payee" and "qualified domestic relations order" shall have the meaning ascribed to them in section 414(p) of the federal internal revenue code. The provisions of this act shall apply to any qualified domestic relations order which was filed or amended either before or after July 1, 1994. The Kansas public employees retirement system shall not be a party to any action under the Kansas family law code, chapter 23 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, but is subject to orders from such actions issued by the district court of the county where such action was filed and may also accept orders which it deems to be qualified under this subsection from courts having jurisdiction of such actions outside the state of Kansas. Such orders from such actions shall specify either a specific amount or specific percentage of the amount of the pension or benefit or any accumulated contributions due and owing from the system to be distributed by the system pursuant to this act.
K.S.A. § 22-4910 — KS Code / Chapter 22 / Article 49 / Section 22-4910
22-4910 - Effective date of act.
Status: in_force

22-4910. Effective date of act. K.S.A. 22-4901 through 22-4910 shall be effective on and after July 1, 1993.
K.S.A. § 48-1307 — KS Code / Chapter 48 / Article 13 / Section 48-1307
48-1307 - Duty of emergency interim successor.
Status: in_force

48-1307. Duty of emergency interim successor. Each emergency interim successor shall keep himself or herself generally informed as to the duties, procedures, practices and current business of the legislature, and each legislator shall assist his or her emergency interim successors to keep themselves so informed.
K.S.A. § 41-718 — KS Code / Chapter 41 / Article 7 / Section 41-718
41-718 - Sale only in original package; refilling prohibited; application of law to certain sales.
Status: in_force

41-718. Sale only in original package; refilling prohibited; application of law to certain sales. (a) No person except a manufacturer, distributor, microbrewery, microdistillery, farm winery or wholesaler shall fill or refill, in whole or in part, any original package of alcoholic liquor with the same or any other kind or quality of alcoholic liquor.

(b) No person shall have in the person's possession for sale at retail any bottles, casks or other containers containing alcoholic liquor, except in original packages.

(c) This section shall not apply to the sale of beer, domestic beer or cereal malt beverage by a retailer in accordance with K.S.A. 41-308(c)(8), and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 12-843 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 8 / Section 12-843
12-843 - Same; bonds; election; limitation; use of surplus revenues.
Status: in_force

12-843. Same; bonds; election; limitation; use of surplus revenues. For any and all indebtedness, obligation or liability contracted for or created for any of the purposes mentioned in K.S.A. 12-842, any such city, acting under the provisions thereof, is hereby granted full power and authority to issue bonds of the city to an amount equal to such indebtedness, obligation, or liability; the power to create or incur such indebtedness, obligation, or liability, and to issue bonds as herein provided, being independent of and in addition to like and other powers heretofore granted such cities; and such bonds may be sold as provided by law, and the proceeds thereof used in the payment of such indebtedness, obligation, or liability; such bonds shall not be used or sold except as directed by the governing body of said city, and such bonds shall not be issued to an aggregate amount exceeding fifteen percent of the assessed value of such city as shown by the assessment last preceding the issuance thereof: Provided, That no bonds shall be issued except upon a vote of a majority of the qualified electors of such city: And provided further, That any such city shall have full power and authority to use any surplus arising from the proceeds of any such plant or plants for the purpose of bettering, constructing or installing any such plant that such city may have or may desire to acquire by construction or purchase.
K.S.A. § 19-305 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 19-305
19-305 - Records and accounts.
Status: in_force

19-305. Records and accounts. It shall be the general duty of the county clerk: First, to record, in a book to be provided for that purpose, all proceedings of the board; second, to make regular entries of their resolutions and decisions in all questions concerning the raising of money; third, to record the vote of each commissioner on any question submitted to the board, if required by any member; fourth, sign all orders issued by the board for the payment of money; fifth, to preserve and file all accounts acted upon by the board, with their action thereon; and he shall perform such special duties as are required of him by law.
K.S.A. § 60-1301 — KS Code / Chapter 60 / Article 13 / Section 60-1301
60-1301 - Appointment.
Status: in_force

60-1301. Appointment. A justice of the supreme court, a judge of the court of appeals or a district judge, or in the district judge's absence from the county a district magistrate judge, shall have authority to appoint a receiver in conformity with the provisions of K.S.A. 60-1302 and 60-1303, and amendments thereto, whose duty it shall be to keep, preserve, and manage all property and protect any business or business interest entrusted to the receiver pending the determination of any proceeding in which such property or interest may be affected by the final judgment. A person who has an interest in property or in the outcome of the proceeding shall not be appointed or continued as a receiver if objection is made thereto by another interested party unless the judge finds and rules that such objection is arbitrary or unreasonable.
K.S.A. § 61-3603 — KS Code / Chapter 61 / Article 36 / Section 61-3603
61-3603 - Exemption from seizure and sale.
Status: in_force

61-3603. Exemption from seizure and sale. The provisions of article 23 of chapter 60 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, relating to exemptions from seizure and sale, shall apply to attachments, executions and other process issued from any court in this state pursuant to the code of civil procedure for limited actions.