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K.S.A. § 42-372 — KS Code / Chapter 42 / Article 3 / Section 42-372
42-372 - Contracts for works; bids.
Status: in_force

42-372. Contracts for works; bids. When it shall become necessary to build any irrigation works or any portion thereof to supply water for the purpose of irrigating the lands of said irrigation district, the said board of irrigation commissioners shall advertise for sealed bids for the construction of the same by advertisement for three consecutive weeks in the official paper of the county in which said district is situated, and may give such other public notice as they may deem expedient and proper; and shall let the work of constructing the same to the lowest responsible bidder, and in letting said work they may let the whole of said work to any one party, or may let portions of said work to different parties.
K.S.A. § 47-631 — KS Code / Chapter 47 / Article 6 / Section 47-631
47-631 - Rules for tuberculin test.
Status: in_force

47-631. Rules for tuberculin test. (a) The animal health commissioner, whenever the animal health commissioner deems it necessary, shall formulate and announce the rules under which the tuberculin test for tuberculosis in domestic animals shall be applied. For all proceedings pursuant to such application:

(1) No tuberculin shall be used other than that furnished by the United States government;

(2) no person other than one indicated for that purpose by the animal health commissioner shall inject any tuberculin into any animal in this state; and

(3) all charts giving the temperature and conditions existing at the time the animal was tested, accompanied by a history and description of the animal, shall be submitted, immediately after the test is made, to the state animal health commissioner. The animal health commissioner shall then render a decision thereon, which shall be final and shall be recorded in the office of the animal health commissioner.

(b) The state animal health commissioner shall immediately apply the quarantine and other regulations issued under the provisions of this act to animals found infected with tuberculosis.
K.S.A. § 47-1732 — KS Code / Chapter 47 / Article 17 / Section 47-1732
47-1732 - Temporary closing permit; application; effective date; renewal.
Status: in_force

47-1732. Temporary closing permit; application; effective date; renewal. (a) Any licensee or permit holder required to be licensed or obtain a permit under the Kansas pet animal act, who is in the process of ceasing to do business on July 1, may be issued a temporary closing permit at the discretion of the commissioner.

(b) Application for such permit shall be made in writing on a form provided by the commissioner.

(c) The permit will be effective for 30 days. During the 30-day period, the licensee or permit holder shall be required to comply with the Kansas pet animal act and all rules and regulations adopted thereunder. By accepting such permit, the licensee or permit holder agrees to allow an inspection of the facility at the end of the 30-day period to certify that the operation has ceased business. The licensee or permit holder shall provide records as to the disposition of the animals to the commissioner upon request.

(d) The permit may be renewed, at the discretion of the commissioner, for an additional 30-day period.

(e) This section shall be part of and supplemental to the Kansas pet animal act.
K.S.A. § 74-9301 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 93 / Section 74-9301
74-9301 - Information network of Kansas, Inc.; definitions.
Status: in_force

74-9301. Information network of Kansas, Inc.; definitions. As used in this act, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context shall indicate another or different meaning or intent:

(a) The acronym "INK" shall mean the information network of Kansas, Inc., created by K.S.A. 74-9303, or, if INK shall be abolished, the board, body or commission succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to whom the powers given by this act to INK shall be given by law.

(b) The word "gateway" shall mean any centralized electronic information system by which public information shall be provided via dial-in modem or continuous link to the public through subscription or through public libraries.

(c) The term "public information" shall mean any information stored, gathered or generated in electronic or magnetic form by the state of Kansas, its agencies or instrumentalities, which is included within the information deemed to be public pursuant to the Kansas open records act, K.S.A. 45-215 et seq., and amendments thereto.

(d) The word "agency" shall mean any agency or instrumentality of the state of Kansas which stores, gathers or generates public information.

(e) The term "network manager" shall mean the entity or person engaged to manage and run the gateway or network on behalf of INK.

(f) The term "user association" shall mean an association:

(1) Whose membership is identifiable by regular payment of association dues and regularly maintained membership lists;

(2) which is registered with the state or is a Kansas corporation;

(3) which exists for the purpose of advancing the common occupation or profession of its membership; and

(4) which, after the appointment of the initial board of INK, regularly promotes and encourages the subscription of its members to the gateway service provided by INK.
K.S.A. § 21-5829 — KS Code / Chapter 21 / Article 58 / Section 21-5829
21-5829 - Unlawful manufacture or disposal of false tokens.
Status: in_force

21-5829. Unlawful manufacture or disposal of false tokens. (a) Unlawful manufacture or disposal of false tokens is manufacturing for sale, offering for sale or giving away any false token, slug, substance, false or spurious coin or other device intended or calculated to be placed or deposited in any automatic vending machine, coin-operated telephone, parking meter or other such receptacle with intent to cheat or defraud the owner, lessee, licensee or other person entitled to the contents of such automatic vending machine, coin-operated telephone, parking meter or other receptacle designed to receive coins or currency of the United States of America in connection with the sale, use or enjoyment of property or service.

(b) Unlawful manufacture or disposal of false tokens is a class B nonperson misdemeanor.

(c) The manufacture for sale, advertising, offering for sale or distribution of any such false token, slug, substance, false or spurious coin or other device shall be prima facie evidence of an intent to cheat or defraud within the meaning of this section.
K.S.A. § 19-1402 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 14 / Section 19-1402
19-1402 - Deputies; liability for acts.
Status: in_force

19-1402. Deputies; liability for acts. Each county surveyor, after being duly qualified as provided in the foregoing section, may appoint such number of deputy surveyors under him as he may think proper, being responsible for the correctness of their official acts, which deputies shall, respectively, before they enter upon the duties of their office, take a similar oath or affirmation to that required of the county surveyor; and all official duties performed and surveys made by a deputy surveyor shall be signed by him officially, and shall be as good and valid in every respect as if the same had been done by the county surveyor.
K.S.A. § 79-3630 — KS Code / Chapter 79 / Article 36 / Section 79-3630
79-3630 - Authorization to enjoin certain persons from engaging in business; restraining order; bond.
Status: in_force

79-3630. Authorization to enjoin certain persons from engaging in business; restraining order; bond. The secretary of revenue or the secretary's designee is hereby authorized to enjoin any person from engaging in the business of selling tangible personal property at retail or rendering or furnishing things or services taxable under the provisions of the Kansas retailers' sales tax act who is found to be in violation of such act and the secretary or the secretary's designee shall be entitled, in any proceeding brought for such purpose to have an order restraining such person from engaging in such business in violation of the provisions of K.S.A. 79-3601 et seq., and amendments thereto, and no bond shall be required for any such restraining order, nor for any temporary or permanent injunction issued in such proceedings.
K.S.A. § 13-3114 — KS Code / Chapter 13 / Article 31 / Section 13-3114
13-3114 - Same; tax exemptions for bonds.
Status: in_force

13-3114. Same; tax exemptions for bonds. Bonds issued under this act and all interest thereon shall be exempt from all taxes imposed by this state or any of its political subdivisions.
K.S.A. § 17-4616 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 46 / Section 17-4616
17-4616 - Change of location of principal office.
Status: in_force

17-4616. Change of location of principal office. A cooperative, upon authorization of its board of trustees or its members, may change the location of its principal office any place within the state of Kansas by filing a certificate reciting such change of principal office, executed by its president or vice-president and attested by its secretary, in the office of the secretary of state.
K.S.A. § 38-2370 — KS Code / Chapter 38 / Article 23 / Section 38-2370
38-2370 - Good time credits; rules and regulations.
Status: in_force

38-2370. Good time credits; rules and regulations. (a) For purposes of determining release of a juvenile offender, a system shall be developed whereby good behavior is the expected norm and negative behavior will be punished.

(b) The commissioner shall adopt rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this section regarding good time calculations. Such rules and regulations shall provide circumstances upon which a juvenile offender may earn good time credits through participation in programs which may include, but not be limited to, education programs, work participation, treatment programs, vocational programs, activities and behavior modification. Such good time credits may also include the juvenile offender's willingness to examine and confront the past behavior patterns that resulted in the commission of the juvenile's offense.
K.S.A. § 17-78,403 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 78 / Section 17-78,403
17-78,403 - Approval of conversion.
Status: in_force

17-78-403. Approval of conversion. (a) An agreement of conversion is not effective unless it has been approved:

(1) By a domestic converting entity:

(A) In accordance with the requirements, if any, in its organic rules for approval of a conversion;

(B) if its organic rules do not provide for approval of a conversion, in accordance with the requirements, if any, in its organic law and organic rules for approval of:

(i) In the case of an entity that is not a corporation, a merger, as if the conversion were a merger; or

(ii) in the case of a corporation, a merger requiring approval by a vote of the interest holders of the corporation, as if the conversion were that type of merger; or

(C) if neither its organic law nor organic rules provide for approval of a conversion or a merger described in subparagraph (B), by all of the interest holders of the entity entitled to vote on or consent to any matter; and

(2) in a record, by each interest holder of a domestic converting entity that will have interest holder liability for liabilities that arise after the conversion becomes effective, unless, in the case of an entity that is not a corporation:

(A) The organic rules of the entity provide in a record for the approval of a conversion or a merger in which some or all of its interest holders become subject to interest holder liability by the vote or consent of fewer than all of the interest holders; and

(B) the interest holder voted for or consented in a record to that provision of the organic rules or became an interest holder after the adoption of that provision.

(b) A conversion of a foreign converting entity is not effective unless it is approved by the foreign entity in accordance with the law of the foreign entity's jurisdiction of organization.
K.S.A. § 75-6119 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 61 / Section 75-6119
75-6119 - Exception from liability for members of governing body, appointive board, commission, committee or council of a municipality.
Status: in_force

75-6119. Exception from liability for members of governing body, appointive board, commission, committee or council of a municipality. (a) A member of a governing body of a municipality who is acting within the scope of such member's office and without actual fraud or actual malice shall not be liable for damages caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of such member or governing body.

(b) A member of any appointive board, commission, committee or council of a municipality who is acting within the scope of such member's office and without actual fraud or actual malice shall not be liable for damages caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of such member or board, commission, committee or council.

(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the liability of a municipality for damages caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of the governing body, or any appointive board, commission, committee or council, of the municipality, or any member thereof, and the negligence or wrongful act or omission of any member of such a governing body, board, commission, committee or council, when acting as such, shall be imputed to the municipality for the purpose of apportioning liability for damages to a third party pursuant to K.S.A. 60-258a and amendments thereto.

(d) This section shall be part of and supplemental to the Kansas tort claims act.
K.S.A. § 24-614 — KS Code / Chapter 24 / Article 6 / Section 24-614
24-614 - Who may file objections to report; adjournments of hearings.
Status: in_force

24-614. Who may file objections to report; adjournments of hearings. The drainage district by its attorney or any owner of land or other property in said district whose land or property may be affected thereby may file objections to said report or to any item of the classification or the assessment of benefits therein set out, within ten days after the last day of publication of the notice provided for in the preceding section. All objections shall be heard by the board of supervisors fully and fairly and as speedily as may be to carry out liberally the purposes and needs of such drainage district. It shall not be necessary for said drainage district to file any answer or other pleadings to the objections, claims or other pleadings filed by said persons in answer to said proposed assessments as provided in this section, but said matters shall be deemed denied and said drainage district shall have the right to interpose any matters in defense thereto which it may have: Provided further, That said board of supervisors may adjourn any hearing or hearings for good cause from day to day, or to some future day as they may deem best, and that said property owners for good cause shown by affidavit of themselves or agents may have said hearings adjourned for a period not to exceed two weeks.
K.S.A. § 48-241 — KS Code / Chapter 48 / Article 2 / Section 48-241
48-241 - Ordering militia into active service.
Status: in_force

48-241. Ordering militia into active service. The commander in chief shall have power to order into the active service of the state any or all of the units of the national guard, any active or retired member of the national guard or other militia or military organizations of the state that the commander in chief deems necessary in case of: (1) A request by civil authorities to support federal or state law enforcement agencies in counter-drug and drug interdiction operations when such request is approved by the commander in chief; (2) a need for personnel to support the adjutant general's department during a local, state or federal disaster or other mission; or (3) breaches of the peace, tumult, riot, resistance to process in this state, public disaster or imminent danger thereof. All members of the national guard or other militia or military organization who are ordered out by proper authority for such duty shall not be liable to civil prosecution for any act or acts done by them except for willful misconduct beyond the scope of their official duties.
K.S.A. § 34-2,109 — KS Code / Chapter 34 / Article 2 / Section 34-2,109
34-2,109 - Warehouseman's annual statement of depositor's grain.
Status: in_force

34-2,109. Warehouseman's annual statement of depositor's grain. (a) Every public warehouseman shall submit, annually, to each depositor of open storage or grain bank grain, a statement of grain stored in the public warehouse. The statement shall include, but not be limited to, the following information:

(1) Type of grain deposited;

(2) the total bushels or pounds stored;

(3) the year storage of grain began; and

(4) the storage rate.

(b) The provisions of this section are supplemental to the provisions of chapter 34 of Kansas Statutes Annotated.
K.S.A. § 19-3604 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 36 / Section 19-3604
19-3604 - Disorganization or alteration of district; inclusion of new lands; procedures.
Status: in_force

19-3604. Disorganization or alteration of district; inclusion of new lands; procedures. (a) Any fire district may be disorganized by the board of county commissioners at any time after four years from the date of the publication of the final resolution for the first organization of such district upon a petition to the board and the making of an order in like manner as in the case of organizing any fire district under K.S.A. 19-3603, and amendments thereto.

(b) Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-270, the territory of any organized fire district may be subsequently altered by the inclusion of new lands or by the exclusion of lands therein upon a petition to the board of county commissioners signed by the owners of at least 10% of the area of the lands sought to be included or excluded, which petition shall conform, as near as may be possible, to the petition required for the organization of a fire district. If the board of county commissioners finds the petition is sufficient, the board may adopt and publish a resolution attaching or detaching the lands described in the petition to or from the fire district. The resolution shall be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the area where the lands are located. Such publication shall include a map showing the territory of the district and the lands proposed to be attached to or detached therefrom. If within 30 days after the last publication of the resolution and map, a petition protesting the inclusion or detachment of such lands, signed by the owners, whether residents of the county or not, of more than 19% of the area of the lands sought to be included in or excluded from the fire district is filed with the county clerk, the resolution shall have no force or effect. If such a protest petition shall not be filed within such time, the resolution shall become final, and the lands shall thereupon be deemed attached to or detached from the fire district. In any case where lands are included in or excluded from a fire district as provided herein, the board shall declare the new boundary of the district by the adoption and publication of a resolution in like manner as the boundaries were declared at the time of the original organization thereof.
K.S.A. § 14-674 — KS Code / Chapter 14 / Article 6 / Section 14-674
14-674 - Bonds for construction and equipment of addition or annex to city hospital, when; limitations; election; petition.
Status: in_force

14-674. Bonds for construction and equipment of addition or annex to city hospital, when; limitations; election; petition. The governing body of any city of the second class may construct, build, erect, furnish and equip an addition or annex to any hospital being operated and maintained by such city or enlarge, add to, reconstruct or rebuild said hospital or nurses' home used in connection with said hospital, whenever such governing body shall determine that the existing hospital facilities are inadequate and such addition or annex or other improvement is necessary and needed, and such governing body may issue bonds of such city in such amount, not exceeding the limit of bonded indebtedness of said city, as may be necessary for such purpose: Provided, No such bonds shall be issued pursuant to the provisions hereof until the issuance of such bonds and the amount thereof, has been authorized by a majority vote of the electors, voting at a general city election or at a special election called for that purpose. Said election may be called by the governing body of said city upon its own motion, and shall be called upon petition of twenty-five percent (25%) of the duly registered electors of said city.
K.S.A. § 23-3306 — KS Code / Chapter 23 / Article 33 / Section 23-3306
23-3306 - Definitions.
Status: in_force

23-3306. Definitions. As used in this act:

(a) "Child" means an unemancipated individual who is less than 18 years of age.

(b) "Compensation" means wages or other remuneration paid in exchange for care of a child. "Compensation" does not include reimbursement of expenses for care of the child, including payment for food, clothing and medical expenses.

(c) "Consistent caretaker" means a nonparent who meets the requirements of section 4(b), and amendments thereto.

(d) "Custody" means physical custody, legal custody or both.

(e) "Harm to a child" means significant adverse effect on a child's physical, emotional or psychological well-being.

(f) "Legal custody" means the right to make significant decisions regarding a child, including decisions regarding a child's education, healthcare and scheduled activity.

(g) "Nonparent" means an individual, other than a parent or person acting as a parent of a child. "Nonparent" includes a grandparent, sibling or stepparent of a child.

(h) "Parent" means an individual recognized as a parent under the laws of Kansas.

(i) "Person" means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, instrumentality or other legal entity.

(j) "Person acting as a parent" means a person, other than a parent, who:

(1) Has physical custody of the child or has had physical custody for a period of six consecutive months, including any temporary absence, within one year immediately preceding the commencement of a child custody proceeding; and

(2) has been awarded legal custody by a court or claims a right to legal custody under the laws of Kansas.

(k) "Physical custody" means living with a child and exercising day-to-day care of the child.

(l) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.

(m) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. "State" includes a federally recognized Indian tribe.

(n) "Substantial relationship with the child" means a relationship between a nonparent and child that meets the requirements of K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 23-3308(c), and amendments thereto.

(o) "Visitation" means the right to spend time with a child who is living with another person and may include an overnight stay.
K.S.A. § 47-1301 — KS Code / Chapter 47 / Article 13 / Section 47-1301
47-1301 - Garbage defined.
Status: in_force

47-1301. Garbage defined. As used in article 13 of chapter 47 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, "garbage" means all waste material derived in whole or in part from the meat of any animal, including fish and poultry, other waste animal material, and other refuse of any character whatsoever that has been associated with any such material, resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking or consumption of food. For the purposes of article 13 of chapter 47 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, "garbage" shall not be deemed to include pasteurized dairy products.