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K.S.A. § 74-8809 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 88 / Section 74-8809
74-8809 - Assistant attorneys general.
Status: in_force

74-8809. Assistant attorneys general. (a) The attorney general shall appoint, with the approval of the commission, not more than two assistant attorneys general who shall be assigned to assist the commission in all matters, including the enforcement of this act, the tribal gaming oversight act. Such attorneys shall be in the unclassified service under the Kansas civil service act and shall receive annual salaries fixed by the attorney general, with the approval of the commission, subject to the limitations of appropriations therefor. Such salaries and any subsistence, mileage and other travel expenses of such attorneys general shall be paid from the state racing fund created by K.S.A. 74-8826 and amendments thereto, as an operating expense of the commission, subject to reimbursement from the tribal gaming fund created by K.S.A. 74-9808 and amendments thereto for that portion of any such salary and subsistence, mileage and other travel expenses attributable to work performed relating to tribal gaming matters.

(b) On or before the 15th day of each month, commencing with the month following the first month that salaries or subsistence, mileage or other travel expenses are expended for work performed relating to tribal gaming matters, the director of accounts and reports shall transfer moneys in the tribal gaming fund to the state racing fund in an amount certified monthly by the executive director and determined as equal to the salary and subsistence, mileage and other travel expenses of the commission incurred during the preceding month and attributable to work performed on tribal gaming matters by assistant attorneys general assigned to the commission.
K.S.A. § 29-316 — KS Code / Chapter 29 / Article 3 / Section 29-316
29-316 - Fence may be built on partition line; removal.
Status: in_force

29-316. Fence may be built on partition line; removal. A person building a fence may lay the same upon the line between his own land and the land adjacent, so that the fence may be partly on one side of such line and partly on the other; and the owner shall have the same right to remove it as if it were wholly on his own land.
K.S.A. § 31-512 — KS Code / Chapter 31 / Article 5 / Section 31-512
31-512 - Explosives regulatory and training fund.
Status: in_force

31-512. Explosives regulatory and training fund. There is hereby established in the state treasury a separate, nonlapsing fund to be known as the explosives regulatory and training fund which shall be administered by the state fire marshal. Money deposited to the credit of the fund as provided in K.S.A. 31-505, and amendments thereto, in addition to any other money made available for such purposes, shall be made available to the state fire marshal to support fireworks and explosives regulatory and training programs.
K.S.A. § 32-840 — KS Code / Chapter 32 / Article 8 / Section 32-840
32-840 - Exercise of the right of eminent domain by the secretary; purposes; declaration of public use; action to acquire by condemnation.
Status: in_force

32-840. Exercise of the right of eminent domain by the secretary; purposes; declaration of public use; action to acquire by condemnation. (a) The secretary, in the name of the state of Kansas, may exercise the right of eminent domain in accordance with the eminent domain procedure act, K.S.A. 26-501 et seq., and amendments thereto, for the purpose of acquiring lands, water and water rights necessary to:

(1) Carry out the provisions of the wildlife and parks laws of this state and the purposes for which the department is created; or

(2) protect, add to and improve state parks, state lakes, recreational areas, wildlife areas and sanctuaries, natural areas, fish hatcheries and other lands, waters and facilities provided for by K.S.A. 32-807, and amendments thereto.

(b) The taking, using and appropriating of property as authorized by subsection (a)(2) for the purposes of protecting lands, waters and facilities and their environs and preserving the view, appearance, light, air, health and usefulness thereof by reselling such property with such restrictions in the deeds of resale as will protect the property taken for such purposes is hereby declared to be taking, using and appropriating of such property for public use. The proceeds arising from the resale of any property so taken shall be used by the secretary for the purpose of improving lands, waters and facilities under the jurisdiction and control of the secretary.

(c) Upon request of the secretary, the attorney general shall proceed by proper action to acquire by condemnation all lands, or rights therein or thereon, and all water or water rights required by the department pursuant to this section.
K.S.A. § 28-222 — KS Code / Chapter 28 / Article 2 / Section 28-222
28-222 - Cook and assistant for county jail; feeding prisoners.
Status: in_force

28-222. Cook and assistant for county jail; feeding prisoners. The board of county commissioners may employ a cook and an assistant for the county jail at a reasonable wage and shall pay all expenses for feeding the prisoners in the county jail. No contract shall ever be made with the sheriffs for feeding such prisoners.
K.S.A. § 66-127 — KS Code / Chapter 66 / Article 1 / Section 66-127
66-127 - Dealing in securities of competing utility; prohibited transportation; exemption for certain utilities.
Status: in_force

66-127. Dealing in securities of competing utility; prohibited transportation; exemption for certain utilities. No common carrier or public utility governed by the provisions of this act, domestic or foreign, shall hereafter purchase or acquire, take or hold any part of the capital stock, bonds or other forms of indebtedness of any competing public utility or common carrier, either as owner or pledgee, unless authorized by the commission. Any common carrier engaged in intrastate commerce in this state is prohibited in the transportation of such commerce, articles or commodities under the following circumstances and conditions:

(a) When the article or commodity has been manufactured, mined or produced by a carrier or under its authority and at the time of the transportation the carrier has not in good faith, before the act of transportation, disassociated itself from such article or commodity;

(b) when the carrier owns the article or commodity to be transported, in whole or part;

(c) when the common carrier at the time of transportation has a legal or equitable interest, directly or indirectly, in the article or commodity, except materials and supplies for its own use.

Every public utility is prohibited from engaging in any business in this state which is not in conformity with its charter or in which it is not permitted to engage under the laws of the state of Kansas, except that this section shall not apply to ownership by railroads of the stock, bonds, or other forms of indebtedness of union depot or terminal railroad properties used in common by two or more such railroads. The provisions of this section shall not apply to resellers of telecommunications services, local exchange carriers that have elected price cap regulation pursuant to subsection (b) of K.S.A. 66-2005, and amendments thereto, unless a transaction subject to this section is solely between such carrier and a local exchange carrier that has elected rate of return regulation pursuant to subsection (b) of K.S.A. 66-2005, and amendments thereto, operating wholly within this state, or interexchange carriers.
K.S.A. § 72-2161 — KS Code / Chapter 72 / Article 21 / Section 72-2161
72-2161 - Prohibition from adoption of certain rules and regulations concerning licensure of administrators, teachers or instructors or conditions of employment at two-year colleges or community junior colleges.
Status: in_force

72-2161. Prohibition from adoption of certain rules and regulations concerning licensure of administrators, teachers or instructors or conditions of employment at two-year colleges or community junior colleges. The state board of education is hereby prohibited from adopting rules and regulations which require licensure of administrators, teachers or instructors in any community college or which require any such administrators, teachers or instructors to meet any other conditions for qualification for employment in any such community college.
K.S.A. § 41-601 — KS Code / Chapter 41 / Article 6 / Section 41-601
41-601 - Manufacturers, distributors, microbreweries, microdistilleries and farm wineries; monthly reports.
Status: in_force

41-601. Manufacturers, distributors, microbreweries, microdistilleries and farm wineries; monthly reports. Every manufacturer, distributor, microbrewery that sells any beer to a beer distributor at wholesale, microdistillery that sells any spirits to a spirits distributor at wholesale and farm winery that sells any wine to a distributor at wholesale shall between the 1 st and 15 th day of each calendar month, make return under oath to the director of all alcoholic liquor manufactured and sold by the manufacturer, distributor, microbrewery, microdistillery or farm winery in the course of business during the preceding calendar month. In the case of a distributor or microbrewery, the return shall also show: (a) The total amount of liquor purchased by the distributor or microbrewery during the preceding calendar month, the names of the distillers or distributors from whom purchased, the quantity of each brand and the price paid therefor; and (b) the names and locations of the retailers to whom alcoholic liquor was sold by the distributor or microbrewery during the preceding calendar month, the quantity of each brand and the price charged therefor. The return shall be made upon forms prescribed and furnished by the director and shall contain such other information as the director reasonably requires.
K.S.A. § 23-36,101 — KS Code / Chapter 23 / Article 36 / Section 23-36,101
23-36,101 - Citation of act.
Status: in_force

23-36,101. Citation of act. This act may be cited as the uniform interstate family support act.
K.S.A. § 79-32,189 — KS Code / Chapter 79 / Article 32 / Section 79-32,189
79-32,189 - Application of act.
Status: in_force

79-32,189. Application of act. Except as otherwise more specifically provided, the provisions of this act shall be applicable to all taxable years commencing after December 31, 1988.
K.S.A. § 20-912 — KS Code / Chapter 20 / Article 9 / Section 20-912
20-912 - Rules for granting certificates for appointment as official reporters.
Status: in_force

20-912. Rules for granting certificates for appointment as official reporters. It shall be the duty of the supreme court of Kansas, under such rules as the court shall deem necessary, and in substantially the same manner as attorneys at law are licensed to practice law, to grant certificates of eligibility for appointment as official reporters of the district courts.
K.S.A. § 38-1717 — KS Code / Chapter 38 / Article 17 / Section 38-1717
38-1717 - Exemption of third person from liability.
Status: in_force

38-1717. Exemption of third person from liability. A third person in good faith and without court order may act on the instructions of or otherwise deal with any person purporting to make a transfer or purporting to act in the capacity of a custodian and, in the absence of knowledge, is not responsible for determining:

(1) The validity of the purported custodian's designation;

(2) the propriety of, or the authority under this act for, any act of the purported custodian;

(3) the validity or propriety under this act of any instrument or instructions executed or given either by the person purporting to make a transfer or by the purported custodian; or

(4) the propriety of the application of any property of the minor delivered to the purported custodian.
K.S.A. § 24-653 — KS Code / Chapter 24 / Article 6 / Section 24-653
24-653 - Same; final report and discharge of trustees.
Status: in_force

24-653. Same; final report and discharge of trustees. When the board of trustees has finally closed the affairs of the drainage district they shall file their report, so stating, with the clerk of the district court in which the district was incorporated and apply to the court for their discharge. If the court finds the report substantially correct and the affairs of the district closed it shall make an order discharging the trustees.
K.S.A. § 3-130 — KS Code / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 3-130
3-130 - Same; rules and regulations; claims and accounts; powers.
Status: in_force

3-130. Same; rules and regulations; claims and accounts; powers. The board of public utilities may establish all reasonable rules and regulations to protect the property rights vested in the city and under control of the board of public utilities. The board of public utilities may issue vouchers or warrants in payment of all claims and accounts incurred by said board for said municipal airport and municipal fields for aviation purposes, which vouchers or warrants when approved by the board of public utilities shall be authority to the city treasurer, ex officio treasurer of the board of public utilities, to pay and charge the same against the proper funds. The board of public utilities shall have such other powers as may be necessary for the proper discharge of its duties in the management, operation and control of the municipal airport and municipal fields for aviation purposes.
K.S.A. § 42-617 — KS Code / Chapter 42 / Article 6 / Section 42-617
42-617 - Sale of irrigation farm at Selkirk.
Status: in_force

42-617. Sale of irrigation farm at Selkirk. That the governor of the state is hereby directed, within thirty (30) days after the taking effect of this act, to execute a deed in behalf of the state of Kansas, conveying to the board of county commissioners in Wichita county, Kansas, the tract of land in the southwest quarter (S.W. 1/4) of section nineteen (19), township eighteen (18), range thirty-eight (38) west, of the 6th principal meridian, described as follows:

Beginning at the southwest corner of said section nineteen (19), thence north along the boundary of said section nineteen (19), seventeen and thirteen one hundredths (17.13) chains to the right of way of the Missouri Pacific railroad, thence in a northeasterly direction along the south line of said right of way twenty-one and thirty-seven one hundredths (21.37) chains, thence south twenty-one (21) chains to the south line of said section nineteen (19), thence west along the south line of said section nineteen (19) to the place of beginning, containing forty (40) acres, more or less, in Wichita county, Kansas, together with all improvements placed thereon by the state of Kansas. The same being land owned by the state for irrigation demonstration purposes and no longer used by the state for such purposes.
K.S.A. § 68-2017 — KS Code / Chapter 68 / Article 20 / Section 68-2017
68-2017 - Project to become part of state highway system after retirement of bonds; operation by secretary of transportation; continuation of tolls for other projects, when.
Status: in_force

68-2017. Project to become part of state highway system after retirement of bonds; operation by secretary of transportation; continuation of tolls for other projects, when. Except as hereinafter provided in this section, when all bonds issued under the provisions of K.S.A. 68-2001 to 68-2020, inclusive, and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, in connection with any turnpike project and the interest thereon shall have been paid or a sufficient amount for the payment of all such bonds and the interest thereon to the maturity thereof shall have been set aside in trust for the benefit of the bondholders, such project, if then in good condition and repair, shall become a part of the state highway system and shall thereafter be maintained by the department of transportation.

The secretary of transportation, when such project becomes a part of the state highway system, shall have the same power as vested in the authority by K.S.A. 68-2009, to fix, revise, charge and collect tolls for the use of such turnpike project and to contract for the use of any part thereof and to fix the terms, conditions, rents and rates of charges for such use; and such tolls, rents and rates of charges shall be sufficient to provide enough revenue to maintain, repair, operate, regulate and police such turnpike.

The authority may, however, at any time prior thereto covenant to continue tolls for the use of such project and pledge such tolls to the payment of bonds issued under the provisions of K.S.A. 68-2001 to 68-2020, inclusive, and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, or K.S.A. 68-2030 to 68-2049, inclusive, and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, or K.S.A. 68-2044 and amendments thereto and statutes supplemental thereto, in connection with another turnpike project or projects, but any such pledge of tolls of a turnpike project to the payment of bonds issued in connection with another project or projects shall not be effectual until the principal of and the interest on the bonds issued in connection with the first and second mentioned project shall have been paid or provision made for their payment.
K.S.A. § 61-3202 — KS Code / Chapter 61 / Article 32 / Section 61-3202
61-3202 - Trial of actions by court or jury; evidence.
Status: in_force

61-3202. Trial of actions by court or jury; evidence. (a) If a case is not settled or otherwise disposed of at the pretrial hearing, the case shall be set for trial by the court.

(b) All lawsuits filed under this act shall be tried by the court, unless a trial by jury is demanded by one of the parties. Demand for jury trial shall be made on or before the date of the pretrial conference.

(c) A lawsuit tried by jury pursuant to the code of civil procedure for limited actions shall be tried to a jury composed of six persons having the same qualifications of jurors as other jurors in district court, unless the parties agree on a lesser number. The court shall summon not less than 12 prospective jurors from the source and in the manner provided for the summoning of petit jurors in the district court. When there is more than one plaintiff or more than one defendant in such action, the court shall summon three additional prospective jurors for each such additional plaintiff or defendant. Each juror shall be paid as specified in K.S.A. 43-171, and amendments thereto, for each day of attendance and shall receive mileage at the rate prescribed in K.S.A. 75-3203, and amendments thereto. Such jury fees shall be paid by the county. The provisions of K.S.A. 60-247, subsections (b) through (h) of K.S.A. 60-248, K.S.A. 60-250 and 60-251, and amendments thereto, shall be applicable to actions pursuant to the code of civil procedure for limited actions insofar as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

(d) In all trials pursuant to the code of civil procedure for limited actions, the testimony of witnesses shall be taken orally in open court, unless otherwise provided by this act. All matters relating to witnesses and the admission of evidence shall be governed by article 4 of chapter 60 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 23-2607 — KS Code / Chapter 23 / Article 26 / Section 23-2607
23-2607 - Marriage settlements or contracts.
Status: in_force

23-2607. Marriage settlements or contracts. Nothing in this act contained shall invalidate any marriage settlement or contract now made or to be hereafter made.
K.S.A. § 74-50,235 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 50 / Section 74-50,235
74-50,235 - Definitions.
Status: in_force

74-50,235. Definitions. As used in this section and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 74-50,236, and amendments thereto:

(a) "Eligible institution of higher education" means:

(1) (A) A state educational institution as defined in K.S.A. 76-711, and amendments thereto; or

(B) any private, independent college with its primary location in Kansas that is a member of the Kansas independent college association as of July 1, 2023; and

(2) that has an engineering program accredited by the accreditation board for engineering and technology.

(b) "Engineering program" or "accredited engineering program" means an engineering program accredited by the accreditation board for engineering and technology and includes, but is not limited to, a program in computer engineering or computer science.

(c) "Qualified eligible institution of higher education" means an eligible institution of higher education that has certified to the secretary that, in the immediately preceding academic year, at least the following number of students have graduated with baccalaureate degrees from an engineering program or programs with respect to each institution:

(1) Kansas state university, 586 graduates;

(2) university of Kansas, 419 graduates;

(3) Wichita state university, 360 graduates;

(4) any other state educational institution as defined in K.S.A. 76-711, and amendments thereto, with an accredited engineering program, one or more graduates; and

(5) private, independent colleges, one or more graduates.

(d) "Secretary" means the secretary of commerce.
K.S.A. § 4-3,862 — KS Code / Chapter 4 / Article 3 / Section 4-3,862
4-3,862 - Same; attachment of territory to district.
Status: in_force

4-3,862. Same; attachment of territory to district. (a) If a county, voting district, tract, block group or block is not included within a representative district established by this act, such county, voting district, tract, block group or block shall be attached to the representative district to which such county, voting district, tract, block group or block is contiguous and, if contiguous to more than one representative district, such county, voting district, tract, block group or block shall be attached to the contiguous representative district that has the least total population.

(b) If a county, voting district, tract, block group or block is included in two or more representative districts established by this act, such county, voting district, tract, block group or block shall be attached to and become a part of the representative district that has the least total population.
K.S.A. § 17-2038 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 20 / Section 17-2038
17-2038 - nvalidity of part.
Status: in_force

17-2038. I nvalidity of part. If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase of this act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect the constitutionality or validity of the remaining portion or portions of this act.
K.S.A. § 65-1951 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 19 / Section 65-1951
65-1951 - Same; moneys received by board deposited in state treasury; credited to state general fund and cosmetology fee fund.
Status: in_force

65-1951. Same; moneys received by board deposited in state treasury; credited to state general fund and cosmetology fee fund. The board, the director or a person authorized by the board 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 cosmetology fee fund.