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K.S.A. § 38-619 — KS Code / Chapter 38 / Article 6 / Section 38-619
38-619 - Same; disaffirmance precluded upon judicial approval of contract; approval procedure.
Status: in_force

38-619. Same; disaffirmance precluded upon judicial approval of contract; approval procedure. (a) A contract, otherwise valid, of a type described in K.S.A. 38-618, and amendments thereto, entered into during one's minority, cannot be disaffirmed on that ground, either during the minority of the person entering into the contract or at any time thereafter, if the contract has been approved by the district court in any county in which the minor resides or is employed or in which any party to the contract has its principal office in this state for the transaction of business.

(b) Approval of the district court may be given upon petition of any party to the contract, after such reasonable notice to all other parties to the contract as is fixed by the district court, with opportunity for such other parties to appear and be heard.

(c) Approval of the district court given under this section extends to the whole of the contract and all of its terms and provisions, including, but not limited to, any optional or conditional provisions contained in the contract for extension, prolongation or termination of the term of the contract.

(d) For the purposes of any proceeding under this act, a parent or legal guardian entitled to the physical custody, care and control of the minor child at the time of the proceeding shall be considered the minor child's guardian ad litem for the proceeding, unless the district court shall determine that appointment of a different individual as guardian ad litem is required in the best interests of the minor child.
K.S.A. § 22-4513 — KS Code / Chapter 22 / Article 45 / Section 22-4513
22-4513 - Liability of defendant for expenditures by state board; judgment; determination of amount and method of payment; liability of others for expenditures.
Status: in_force

22-4513. Liability of defendant for expenditures by state board; judgment; determination of amount and method of payment; liability of others for expenditures. (a) If the defendant is convicted, all expenditures made by the state board of indigents' defense services to provide counsel and other defense services to such defendant or the amount allowed by the board of indigents' defense reimbursement tables as provided in K.S.A. 22-4522, and amendments thereto, whichever is less, shall be taxed against the defendant and shall be enforced as judgments for payment of money in civil cases.

(b) In determining the amount and method of payment of such sum, the court shall take account of the financial resources of the defendant and the nature of the burden that payment of such sum will impose. A defendant who has been required to pay such sum and who is not willfully in default in the payment thereof may at any time petition the court which sentenced the defendant to waive payment of such sum or of any unpaid portion thereof. If it appears to the satisfaction of the court that payment of the amount due will impose manifest hardship on the defendant or the defendant's immediate family, the court may waive payment of all or part of the amount due or modify the method of payment.

(c) Whenever any judgment has been entered pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, a sum equal to such judgment may be recovered by the state of Kansas for the benefit of the state general fund from any persons to whom the indigent defendant shall have transferred any of the defendant's property without adequate monetary consideration after the commission of the alleged crime, to the extent of the value of such transfer, and such persons are hereby made liable to reimburse the state of Kansas with interest at 6% per annum. Any action to recover judgment for such expenditures shall be prosecuted by the attorney general, who may require the assistance of the county attorney of the county in which the action is to be filed, and such action shall be governed by the provisions of the code of civil procedure relating to actions for the recovery of money. No action shall be brought against any person under the provisions of this section to recover for sums expended on behalf of an indigent defendant, unless such action shall have been filed within two years after the date of the expenditure by the state board of indigents' defense services.
K.S.A. § 17-4675 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 46 / Section 17-4675
17-4675 - State corporation commission; jurisdiction; approval of merger or consolidation.
Status: in_force

17-4675. State corporation commission; jurisdiction; approval of merger or consolidation. (a) Cooperatives doing business in this state pursuant to the renewable energy electric generation cooperative act shall be subject to the jurisdiction and control of the state corporation commission of this state in those provisions of chapter 66 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated applicable to electric utilities.

(b) No merger or consolidation of any cooperative organized under the provisions of the renewable energy electric generation cooperative act shall become effective until approved by the state corporation commission.
K.S.A. § 74-8015 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 80 / Section 74-8015
74-8015 - Reports of community and economic development grants or loans.
Status: in_force

74-8015. Reports of community and economic development grants or loans. (a) As used in this section "state agency" means any state office or officer, department, board, commission, institution, bureau or any agency, division or unit within any office, department, board, commission or other state authority or any person requesting a state appropriation.

(b) On October 1, 1990, and annually thereafter, state agencies making community and economic development grants or loans shall submit to the secretary of commerce in a form prescribed by the secretary of commerce reports detailing community and economic development grants or loans made by such state agencies. Such reports shall include the identity of the recipient of such loans or grants. The secretary of commerce shall provide annually, to the governor and the legislature, a compilation of such reports.
K.S.A. § 40-5803 — KS Code / Chapter 40 / Article 58 / Section 40-5803
40-5803 - Definitions.
Status: in_force

40-5803. Definitions. For the purposes of this act:

(a) "Delivered by electronic means" includes:

(1) Delivery to an electronic mail address at which a party has consented to receive notices or documents; or

(2) posting on an electronic network or site accessible via the internet, mobile application, computer, mobile device, tablet or any other electronic device, together with separate notice of the posting, which shall be provided by electronic mail to the address at which the party has consented to receive notice or by any other delivery method that has been consented to by the party.

(b) "Party" means any recipient of any notice or document required as part of an insurance transaction, including, but not limited to, an applicant, an insured, a policyholder or an annuity contract holder. "Party" does not include a "health benefit plan covered person."

(c) "Health benefit plan" means the same as in K.S.A. 40-4602, and amendments thereto. "Health benefit plan" shall also include any:

(1) Individual health insurance policy;

(2) individual or group dental insurance policy; or

(3) nonprofit dental services corporation.

(d) "Health benefit plan covered person" means a policyholder, subscriber, enrollee or other individual participating in a health benefit plan.

(e) "Insured" means an individual who is covered by an insurance policy, including a health benefit plan.

(f) "Nonprofit dental services corporation" means a nonprofit corporation organized pursuant to the nonprofit dental service corporation act, K.S.A. 40-19a01 et seq., and amendments thereto.

(g) "Plan sponsor" means the:

(1) Employer in the case of an employee benefit plan established or maintained by a single employer;

(2) employee organization in the case of a plan established or maintained by an employee organization; or

(3) association, committee, joint board of trustees or similar group of representatives of the parties who establish or maintain the plan in the case of a plan established or maintained by two or more employers or jointly by one or more employers and one or more employee organizations.
K.S.A. § 40-4370 — KS Code / Chapter 40 / Article 43 / Section 40-4370
40-4370 - Conversion; submission requirements.
Status: in_force

40-4370. Conversion; submission requirements. (a) (1) Upon the application of a protected cell captive insurance company, one of its protected cells may be converted to any form of captive insurance company authorized pursuant to chapter 40 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, with the consent of the commissioner. The commissioner may issue to the converting protected cell a certificate of authority with an effective date of its original date of formation as a protected cell.

(2) The following shall be the criteria for determining the filing or submission requirements of:

(A) A series of a limited liability company, the cell shall file organizational documents with the secretary of state that comply with article 43 of chapter 40 and chapters 17 and 56A of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, as applicable. The organizational documents shall include the date of formation as a series. Upon conversion, the formation date of the series shall be deemed as the formation date of the new entity. The new entity shall possess all assets and liabilities, including outstanding insurance liabilities, owned by the predecessor series;

(B) any other type of incorporated protected cell entity, then the converting protected cell shall submit amended organizational documents to the secretary of state that comply with article 43 of chapter 40 and chapters 17 and 56A of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, as applicable; or

(C) neither a series of a limited liability company nor an incorporated protected cell, the cell shall file organizational documents with the secretary of state that comply with article 43 of chapter 40 and chapters 17 and 56A of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, as applicable, or any other applicable provision governing formation of that type of entity. The organizational documents shall include the date of formation as a cell. Upon conversion, the formation date of the cell shall be deemed as the formation date of the new entity. The new entity shall possess all assets and liabilities, including outstanding insurance liabilities, owned by the predecessor cell.

(b) A captive insurance company may apply to the commissioner for conversion to become a protected cell captive insurance company under any form permitted under this section. Upon compliance with this section, approval by the commissioner and the filing of amended organizational documents with the secretary of state, the captive insurance company shall be issued a revised certificate of authority. The effective date of the revised protected cell captive insurance company's certificate of authority shall remain the same as the effective date of the prior captive insurance company.
K.S.A. § 17-6904 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 69 / Section 17-6904
17-6904 - Filing inventory of corporate assets and list of debts owing and receivable.
Status: in_force

17-6904. Filing inventory of corporate assets and list of debts owing and receivable. As soon as convenient, trustees or receivers shall file in the office of the clerk of the district court of the county in which the proceeding is pending, a full and complete itemized inventory of all the assets of the corporation, which shall show their nature and probable value, and an account of all debts due from and to the corporation, as nearly as the same can be ascertained. They shall make a report to the court of their proceedings whenever and as often as the court shall direct.
K.S.A. § 11-321 — KS Code / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 11-321
11-321 - Data used for congressional redistricting.
Status: in_force

11-321. Data used for congressional redistricting. Population data used in adopting congressional district boundaries shall be identical to the decennial census data from the actual enumeration conducted by the United States bureau of the census and used for the apportionment of the United States house of representatives. Bureau of the census counts derived by any other means, including the use of statistical sampling, to add or subtract population by inference shall not be used.
K.S.A. § 44-635 — KS Code / Chapter 44 / Article 6 / Section 44-635
44-635 - Interrogatories and testimony; penalty for failure to testify; information deemed confidential; penalty for disclosing.
Status: in_force

44-635. Interrogatories and testimony; penalty for failure to testify; information deemed confidential; penalty for disclosing. The secretary of labor is hereby authorized to furnish and deliver a written or printed list of interrogatories to any person, company, or the proper officer of any corporation operating within the state, and require full and complete answers to be made thereto, and returned under oath. The secretary of labor shall have power to take and preserve testimony, to issue subpoenas and administer oaths, and examine witnesses under oath in all matters relating to the duties herein required by the secretary of labor, such testimony to be taken in some suitable place in the vicinity to which the testimony is applicable. Witnesses subpoenaed and testifying before the secretary of labor shall be paid the same fees as witnesses before the district court; such payment to be made from the incidental fund of the secretary of labor.

Any person duly subpoenaed under the provisions of this act who shall willfully neglect or refuse to attend, or refuse to answer any question propounded to such person concerning the subject of such examination as provided in this act, or if any person to whom a written or printed list of interrogatories has been furnished by the secretary of labor shall neglect or refuse to answer and return the same under oath, such person or persons shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon complaint of the secretary of labor before a court of competent jurisdiction, and upon conviction thereof, such person or persons shall be fined in a sum not less than $25 nor more than $100, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 90 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. No witness shall be compelled to go outside of the county in which such witness resides to testify. In the report of the secretary of labor no use shall be made of the names of individuals, firms or corporations supplying the information called for by this act, unless by written permission, such information being deemed confidential and not for the purpose of disclosing personal affairs; and any officer, agent or employee of the secretary of labor violating this provision shall forfeit a sum not exceeding $500, or be imprisoned not more than one year.
K.S.A. § 19-2668 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 26 / Section 19-2668
19-2668 - Specific powers of museum board.
Status: in_force

19-2668. Specific powers of museum board. Museum boards shall have the following powers and duties:

(a) To make and adopt rules and regulations for the administration of a museum or cultural center;

(b) with the approval of the board of county commissioners, to purchase or lease a site or sites and to lease or erect a building or buildings for the use of the museum or cultural center;

(c) to acquire by purchase, gift or exchange, books, magazines, papers, printed materials, slides, pictures, films, projection equipment, any and all items of a historical interest, and other material and equipment deemed necessary by the board for the maintenance of a museum or cultural center;

(d) to employ a curator or museum or cultural center director and such other employees as the board shall deem necessary and to remove them and to fix their compensation;

(e) to receive and accept any gift or donation to a museum or cultural center and administer the same in accordance with any provision thereof;

(f) to contract with nonprofit corporations for the operation and maintenance of a museum.
K.S.A. § 72-709 — KS Code / Chapter 72 / Article 7 / Section 72-709
72-709 - Same; required contents.
Status: in_force

72-709. Same; required contents. (a) Any agreement entered into under authority of this act shall specify the following:

(1) The home county of the consolidated unified school district.

(2) The date of election for approval thereof.

(3) The method of election and voting plan.

(4) Describe member districts, if needed.

(5) Specify agreement as to the membership of a temporary board of education to serve until a board of education is elected as provided in this act.

(b) Any agreement entered into under the authority of K.S.A. 72-708 et seq., and amendments thereto, may specify that the consolidation is not approved unless a majority of the qualified electors of each school district proposed to be consolidated vote in favor of the consolidation.
K.S.A. § 74-3231 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 32 / Section 74-3231
74-3231 - References to state education commission applied to board of regents.
Status: in_force

74-3231. References to state education commission applied to board of regents. Whenever the state education commission, or words of like effect, is referred to or designated by a statute, contract or other document, such reference or designation shall be deemed to apply to the state board of regents.
K.S.A. § 65-538 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 5 / Section 65-538
65-538 - Professional development requirements to care for children; submission of proof of requirements met; administration by director of early childhood on and after July 1, 2026.
Status: in_force

65-538. Professional development requirements to care for children; submission of proof of requirements met; administration by director of early childhood on and after July 1, 2026. (a) (1) For each licensure year beginning after July 1, 2025, each person who provides care to children in a licensed child care home shall complete professional development training in an amount determined by the secretary of health and environment of up to 10 clock hours per licensure year.

(2) Such training shall consist of a minimum of eight hours of training specified by the secretary.

(3) As part of the professional development training required under this subsection:

(A) Each person who provides care to children in a licensed child care home shall submit to the secretary proof of completion of up to four hours of such outside training in child care or any related subject. The secretary shall retain records of such person's compliance with this requirement; and

(B) a person who maintains a licensed child care home with one provider, if such provider provides care simultaneously to four infants at any time during the licensure year, shall submit to the secretary proof of completion of at least three hours of such professional development training in an infant-specific subject. The secretary shall retain records of such person's compliance with this requirement.

(b) The secretary shall update rules and regulations to not require licensure for an individual who provides care for less than 35 hours, unless otherwise increased by the secretary, to four or fewer children, not more than two of whom may be infants who are not related to the individual by blood, marriage or legal adoption, nor to individuals who provide care for children in such child's own home or when care is arranged between friends and neighbors on an irregular basis.

(c) The secretary shall update rules and regulations regarding child ratios on or before October 1, 2025.

(d) On and after July 1, 2026, this section shall be administered by the director of early childhood.

(e) From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, this section shall be a part of and supplemental to article 5 of chapter 65 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 42-382 — KS Code / Chapter 42 / Article 3 / Section 42-382
42-382 - Same; procedure.
Status: in_force

42-382. Same; procedure. That all petitions, reports, election returns, bonds, moneys and other matters that are directed to be presented, returned, paid to or deposited with the board of county commissioners or other county officers by the inhabitants, landowners, the board of irrigation commissioners or other officers of an irrigation district by the provisions of K.S.A. 42-357 to 42-380, shall, when such district is located or proposed to be located in two or more counties, be presented, returned, paid to or deposited with the board of county commissioners or other county officers of the county in which the greater part of the territory of such district is located or proposed to be located.
K.S.A. § 55-1,122 — KS Code / Chapter 55 / Article 1 / Section 55-1,122
55-1,122 - epresentatives of secretary; right of ingress and egress.
Status: in_force

55-1,122. R epresentatives of secretary; right of ingress and egress. (a) In performing investigations or administrative functions relating to surface and subsurface water pollution, soil pollution and public health or safety, the secretary or the secretary's duly authorized representatives may enter any property or facility which is subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 55-1,117 or 55-1,120, and amendments thereto, for the purpose of observing, monitoring, collecting samples, examining records and facilities to determine compliance or noncompliance with state laws and rules and regulations relating to water pollution, soil pollution or public health or safety.

(b) The representatives of the secretary shall have the right of ingress and egress upon any lands to cleanup pollution, over which the secretary has jurisdiction pursuant to K.S.A. 55-1,117 through 55-1,119, and amendments thereto, or to plug any well as authorized by K.S.A. 55-1,120, and amendments thereto. Such representatives shall have the power to occupy such land if necessary to investigate and cleanup such pollution or to investigate and plug such well. Any representative entering upon any land to conduct such clean-up or well-plugging shall not be liable for any damages necessarily resulting therefrom, except damages to growing crops, livestock or improvements on the land. Upon completion of activities on such land, such representative shall restore the premises to the original contour and condition as nearly as practicable.
K.S.A. § 74-32,177 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 32 / Section 74-32,177
74-32,177 - Prohibited acts; criminal penalty; revocation or condition of certificate.
Status: in_force

74-32,177. Prohibited acts; criminal penalty; revocation or condition of certificate. (a) No person shall:

(1) Operate an institution without a certificate of approval;

(2) accept contracts or enrollment applications from a representative who is not registered as required by this act;

(3) use fraud or misrepresentation to obtain a certificate of approval;

(4) use fraud or misrepresentation in advertising or in procuring enrollment of a student;

(5) use the term "accredited" in the name or advertisement of the institution unless such institution is accredited as defined in this act; or

(6) use the term "university" in the name or advertisement of the institution unless such institution is a university as defined by this act.

(b) Violation of any provision of subsection (a) or any other provision of this act is a class C nonperson misdemeanor.

(c) The state board may revoke or condition a certificate of approval for any violation of subsection (a) or any other provision of this act.