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K.S.A. § 12-8,108 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 8 / Section 12-8,108
12-8,108 - Addition of new member cities, procedure; boards of public utilities authorized to participate.
Status: repealed

12-8,108. Addition of new member cities, procedure; boards of public utilities authorized to participate. (a) Any city may become a member of a municipal energy agency or withdraw as a member if membership or withdrawal is authorized by ordinance of the governing body of the city and consented to by resolution of the board of directors of the agency. The governing body of the city and the board of directors of the agency also shall approve by adoption of a resolution, and execute, an amendment to the agreement creating the agency, adding the member city to the agreement or withdrawing the member city. Any other amendment to the agreement creating the agency shall be governed by the provisions of K.S.A. 12-889, and amendments thereto. Any ordinance or resolution adopted and effective prior to the effective date of this act which relates to membership or withdrawal, as provided herein, shall remain in full force and effect and shall constitute an ordinance or resolution required by this act unless specifically repealed prior to the execution by the city of the amendment to the agreement. The amendment shall be submitted to and approved by the attorney general in the manner provided in subsection (b) of K.S.A. 12-888, and amendments thereto.

(b) When a municipal electric generating system in any city is owned or operated by a board of public utilities, the board of public utilities may participate in the creation and become a member of a municipal energy agency under the provisions of this act. In any such case, the board of public utilities shall act for and on behalf of the governing body of the city for which it operates and all appointments, participation and other acts which would otherwise be made by the mayor of the city shall be made by the chairperson or president of the board of public utilities.
K.S.A. § 46-1104 — KS Code / Chapter 46 / Article 11 / Section 46-1104
46-1104 - Expenses and compensation of committee members; approval of vouchers and payrolls.
Status: in_force

46-1104. Expenses and compensation of committee members; approval of vouchers and payrolls. Members of the legislative post audit committee shall receive compensation, travel expenses and subsistence expenses and allowances as provided in K.S.A. 75-3212 and amendments thereto. All compensation and expenses of members of the legislative post audit committee arising out of activities as members of such committee shall be paid from appropriations made for the division of post audit. All compensation and expenses of the post auditor and employees of the division of post audit shall be paid from appropriations made for the division of post audit. All payrolls and vouchers for payment of amounts from appropriations made for the division of post audit shall be approved by the post auditor.
K.S.A. § 58-25,115 — KS Code / Chapter 58 / Article 25 / Section 58-25,115
58-25,115 - Landlord's right to access; limitations.
Status: in_force

58-25,115. Landlord's right to access; limitations. (a) A landlord shall not have the right of access to a mobile home owned by a tenant without consent of the tenant unless it is an extreme hazard involving the potential loss of life or severe property damage.

(b) The landlord may enter onto the mobile home space at reasonable hours in order to inspect the mobile home space, make necessary or agreed repairs or improvements, supply necessary or agreed services or exhibit the mobile home space to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers or contractors.

(c) The landlord shall not abuse the right of access or use it to harass the tenant.
K.S.A. § 12-1252 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 12 / Section 12-1252
12-1252 - Acceptance of gifts for library purposes by cities and boards of education, or jointly; conditions.
Status: in_force

12-1252. Acceptance of gifts for library purposes by cities and boards of education, or jointly; conditions. (a) The board of education of any school district, the governing body of any city, or both jointly are authorized to receive gifts. The gift may be conditioned so that the money will be used only for the purpose of construction and furnishing of a library.

(b) The board of education or the governing body of the city, or both, may by resolution contract and agree to pay the donor during the donor's lifetime interest on the principal sum of the gift at the rate as the donor and the recipient agree upon. The interest agreed upon shall be paid by the school district or city, or both, in periodic semiannual payments in the same manner as interest on bonded indebtedness. The interest may be paid by the school district or city, or both, from bond funds, or from special capital outlay funds, or if there are insufficient amounts in such funds, then from the general operating fund of the school district, or city, or both. The board of education of any school district making an agreement and receiving any gift under this act may make an annual tax levy on the taxable tangible property in the school district in an amount necessary to meet the interest requirements agreed upon in the resolution accepting the gift. Any tax levied under authority of this act shall not be subject to any tax levy limitation, and expenditures for interest paid under authority hereof shall not be counted as operating expenses. The aggregate amount of the periodic payments, using a standard annuity table, shall not at the time of the gift be estimated to exceed the principal amount of the gift.

(c) The donor and the board of education or the governing body, or both, may agree upon additional conditions.
K.S.A. § 74-9906 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 99 / Section 74-9906
74-9906 - Appointment of technical advisors and assistants.
Status: in_force

74-9906. Appointment of technical advisors and assistants. The executive director of the advisory commission may appoint, subject to the approval of the advisory commission and the governor, technical advisors and assistants to develop, assist and cooperate with local organizations and associations on African-American concerns.
K.S.A. § 38-2224 — KS Code / Chapter 38 / Article 22 / Section 38-2224
38-2224 - Same; employer prohibited from imposing sanctions on employee making report or cooperating in investigation; penalty.
Status: in_force

38-2224. Same; employer prohibited from imposing sanctions on employee making report or cooperating in investigation; penalty. (a) No employer shall terminate the employment of, prevent or impair the practice or occupation of, or impose any other sanction on, any employee because the employee made an oral or written report to, or cooperated with an investigation by, a law enforcement agency or the secretary relating to harm inflicted upon a child which was suspected by the employee of having resulted from the physical, mental or emotional abuse or neglect or sexual abuse of the child.

(b) Violation of this section is a class B misdemeanor.
K.S.A. § 68-1107 — KS Code / Chapter 68 / Article 11 / Section 68-1107
68-1107 - Classification of bridges and culverts.
Status: in_force

68-1107. Classification of bridges and culverts. Bridges and culverts located on public roads or highways of this state shall be classified as follows:

(a) All bridges located on county or township roads shall be known as "county bridges";

(b) all culverts located on county roads or within the right of way lines of a county road shall be known as "county culverts";

(c) all culverts located on township roads with a required opening of twenty-five (25) square feet or more, as determined by the county engineer, shall be known as "county culverts";

(d) all culverts located on township roads having a required opening of less than twenty-five (25) square feet, as determined by the county engineer, shall be known as "township culverts."
K.S.A. § 46-1127 — KS Code / Chapter 46 / Article 11 / Section 46-1127
46-1127 - Contract audit committee to monitor conduct of audit; written audit report; duty of confidentiality.
Status: in_force

46-1127. Contract audit committee to monitor conduct of audit; written audit report; duty of confidentiality. (a) The contract audit committee shall monitor the performance of the firm or firms conducting an audit pursuant to a contract entered into under K.S.A. 46-1126, and amendments thereto, to insure that such audit is performed in accordance with the specifications developed for the conduct of such audit. The firm or firms selected to perform such audit shall submit a written audit report at the conclusion of the audit to the post auditor who shall distribute the complete audit report to members of the legislative post audit committee, the governor, the director of accounts and reports, the director of the budget, the secretary of administration, any state agency which is audited and other persons or agencies as may be required by the specifications.

(b) In the performance of such audit, the officers and employees of the firm or firms performing the audit shall be subject to the same duty of confidentiality applicable to the post auditor and officers and employees of the division of post audit under the legislative post audit act and shall have access to all books, accounts, records, files, documents and correspondence, confidential or otherwise, of any person or state agency subject to the audit.
K.S.A. § 41-343 — KS Code / Chapter 41 / Article 3 / Section 41-343
41-343 - Same; definitions.
Status: in_force

41-343. Same; definitions. As used in K.S.A. 41-342 through 41-345, "nonalcoholic malt beverage" means a beverage containing less than .5% alcohol by volume obtained by alcohol fermentation of an infusion or coction of barley, or other grain, malt and hops in water and includes beer, ale, stout, lager beer, porter and similar beverages having such alcoholic content.
K.S.A. § 76-478 — KS Code / Chapter 76 / Article 4 / Section 76-478
76-478 - International meat and livestock program established; purpose; advisory committee.
Status: in_force

76-478. International meat and livestock program established; purpose; advisory committee. (a) There is hereby established the international meat and livestock program. Such program shall be administered by the head of the animal science and industry department of Kansas state university. The primary purpose of such program shall be to assist producers of Kansas livestock, meat products and commodities in the foreign marketing thereof, and to provide research and technical assistance to foreign buyers. In order to accomplish such purpose, it shall be the policy of such programs to develop strategies relating to education and technology in animal agriculture including genetics, health, nutrition, marketing, reproduction, management and animal food products.

(b) In order to assist in the implementation of the international meat and livestock program there is hereby established an advisory committee to be composed of 11 members as follows:

(1) One member from the Kansas sheep association appointed by the Kansas sheep association;

(2) one member from the Kansas pork producers council appointed by the Kansas pork producers council;

(3) one representative of the Kansas dairy industry appointed by the interbreed dairy council;

(4) one member from the cow-calf division of the Kansas livestock association appointed by the Kansas livestock association;

(5) one member from the feedlot division of the Kansas livestock association appointed by the Kansas livestock association;

(6) one member from the Kansas meat processing association appointed by the Kansas meat processing association;

(7) one member from the national meat packers association appointed by the national meat packers association;

(8) the chairpersons of the standing agriculture committees of the Kansas legislature;

(9) the director of the international meat and livestock program; and

(10) the secretary of agriculture, who shall serve as chairperson of the committee.
K.S.A. § 66-2302 — KS Code / Chapter 66 / Article 23 / Section 66-2302
66-2302 - Definitions.
Status: in_force

66-2302. Definitions. As used in this act:

(a) "Armed nuclear security guard" means a security guard who works at a nuclear generating facility, who is employed as part of the security plan approved by the nuclear regulatory commission and who meets the requirements mandated by the nuclear regulatory commission for carrying a firearm;

(b) "nuclear generating facility" means an electric power generating facility that is owned by an electric utility or a consortium of electric utilities and that produces electricity by means of a nuclear reactor and includes the property on which the facility is located;

(c) "electric utility" means every public utility as defined by K.S.A. 66-104, and amendments thereto, which owns, controls, operates or manages any equipment, plant or generating machinery for the production, transmission, delivery or furnishing of electricity or electric power;

(d) "enter" means the intrusion of any part of any instrument or any part of a person's body inside of a nuclear generating facility or a structure or fenced yard of a nuclear generating facility;

(e) "entering or remaining unlawfully" means an act by a person who enters or remains in or on a nuclear generating facility or a structure or fenced yard of a nuclear generating facility if that person's intent for entering or remaining is not licensed, authorized or otherwise privileged;

(f) "structure or fenced yard" means any structure, fenced yard, wall, building or other similar barrier or any combination of structures, fenced yards, walls, buildings or other barriers that surrounds a nuclear generating facility and that is posted with signage indicating it is a felony to trespass.
K.S.A. § 24-418 — KS Code / Chapter 24 / Article 4 / Section 24-418
24-418 - Improvements authorized; estimate; construction; bonds; election.
Status: in_force

24-418. Improvements authorized; estimate; construction; bonds; election. The board of directors may cause any or all natural watercourses within the district to be widened and deepened, walls, embankments and levees to be constructed along the banks, and obstructions and sand bars to be removed from the channel thereof, or such other improvements, including detention dams and reservoirs in areas adjacent to such watercourses, to be made thereto as may be deemed necessary to prevent the overflow of such watercourses or protect property from damage thereby. Before any such work shall be contracted for, plans and specifications for such work and an estimate of the cost thereof shall be made under oath by a competent engineer appointed for the purpose and embodied in a written report and filed with the secretary. If, upon consideration of such report and such other information as the board of directors may obtain, it shall be determined by the board of directors that the improvement of any natural watercourse by the removal of obstructions from the channel thereof or otherwise or the construction of any levee, levees, system of levees or detention dams and reservoirs will prevent the overflow of such natural watercourse, and thereby protect all of the lands within the drainage district from injury therefrom, and will be conducive to the public health, convenience or welfare, the board of directors shall have power to cause such levee, levees or such detention dams and reservoirs to be constructed and such other improvement and work to be done, and to issue bonds not exceeding in amount 20% on the taxable property of the district as shown by the assessment and tax rolls of the next preceding year to pay the cost thereof, such bonds to be paid by a general tax to be levied upon all of the taxable property within the drainage district issuing the same, except that: (1) Such improvement shall not be made until it has been authorized by a vote of the taxpayers of the district, at a special election to be called and held for that purpose at such time and place and in such manner as the board of directors may prescribe by an order entered upon its journal; and (2) the board of directors of the drainage district shall have no power to remove, lower or injure any dam constructed by any city in this state in or across any nonnavigable natural watercourse for the purpose of holding or storing water for the use of the city and its inhabitants, or to make any excavation or ditch to permit the flow of water around or by said dam, without first filing an application with the division of water resources of the Kansas department of agriculture pursuant to K.S.A. 82a-301, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 21-6619 — KS Code / Chapter 21 / Article 66 / Section 21-6619
21-6619 - Automatic review by and appeal to supreme court.
Status: in_force

21-6619. Automatic review by and appeal to supreme court. (a) A judgment of conviction resulting in a sentence of death shall be subject to automatic review by and appeal to the supreme court of Kansas in the manner provided by the applicable statutes and rules of the supreme court governing appellate procedure. The review and appeal shall be expedited in every manner consistent with the proper presentation thereof and given priority pursuant to the statutes and rules of the supreme court governing appellate procedure.

(b) The supreme court of Kansas shall consider the question of sentence as well as any errors asserted in the review and appeal and shall be authorized to notice unassigned errors appearing of record if the ends of justice would be served thereby.

(c) With regard to the sentence, the court shall determine:

(1) Whether the sentence of death was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice or any other arbitrary factor; and

(2) whether the evidence supports the findings that an aggravating circumstance or circumstances existed and that any mitigating circumstances were insufficient to outweigh the aggravating circumstances.

(d) The court shall be authorized to enter such orders as are necessary to effect a proper and complete disposition of the review and appeal.
K.S.A. § 9-2318 — KS Code / Chapter 9 / Article 23 / Section 9-2318
9-2318 - Indemnification of trust advisor; exceptions.
Status: in_force

9-2318. Indemnification of trust advisor; exceptions. An instrument may relieve and indemnify a trust advisor and a fiduciary financial institution that serves as trustee of a fidfin trust or alternative asset custody account from liability for a breach of fiduciary duty. Any such provision is unenforceable to the extent that it relieves the trust advisor or fiduciary financial institution from liability for a breach of fiduciary duty committed:

(a) In bad faith;

(b) intentionally; or

(c) with reckless indifference to the interest of a beneficiary.
K.S.A. § 13-10,140 — KS Code / Chapter 13 / Article 10 / Section 13-10,140
13-10,140 - Establishment of special improvement fund by certain cities; amount; expenditures, purposes, conditions and limitations; certain moneys may be credited to fund.
Status: in_force

13-10,140. Establishment of special improvement fund by certain cities; amount; expenditures, purposes, conditions and limitations; certain moneys may be credited to fund. Any city having a commission form of government and a population of more than one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) and less than two hundred thousand (200,000) may, by ordinance, establish a special improvement fund in the city treasury, of not to exceed five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000). Such fund shall be used to pay the preliminary cost of any improvement to be financed under a special assessment law or to be financed by general obligation bonds. Such preliminary costs shall include planning, engineering or architect fees and the initial cost of such improvements when ordered by the governing body of the city and until temporary notes, improvement bonds or general obligation bonds have been issued and sold: Provided, That such fund shall be reimbursed from the proceeds of such temporary notes, improvement bonds or general obligation bonds.

Such fund need not be budgeted for expenditures during any year, but the amount thereof shall be stated in the public budget of expenditures. All grants-in-aid or contributions made to the city for planning and preparation of plans for improvements to be financed, or partially financed, by special assessment bonds or general obligation bonds may be credited to the special improvement fund, and the amount of such aid or contribution shall be in addition to the amount of such fund otherwise limited by this section: Provided, That where an election is required to authorize the issuance of bonds by the city, no expenditures shall be made from the special improvement fund until the city has held an election and been authorized to issue bonds; and where bonds may be issued without an election, no expenditures shall be made from this fund until the proper proceedings have been taken to initiate and authorize the bonds.
K.S.A. § 44-828 — KS Code / Chapter 44 / Article 8 / Section 44-828
44-828 - Prohibited practices.
Status: in_force

44-828. Prohibited practices. (a) The commission of any prohibited practice, as defined in this section, among other actions, shall constitute evidence of bad faith in meet and confer proceedings.

(b) It shall be a prohibited practice for an agricultural employer or such employer's designated representative willfully to:

(1) Interfere, restrain or coerce agricultural employees in the exercise of rights granted in this act; except, that the expression of views by any means, as long as the expressions do not contain threats of reprisal or promises of benefits, shall not be prohibited or grounds for setting aside a representative election;

(2) dominate, interfere or assist in the formation, existence, or administration of any employee organization;

(3) encourage or discourage membership in any employee organization, committee, association or representation plan by discrimination in hiring, tenure or other conditions of employment, or by blacklisting;

(4) discharge or discriminate against an employee because such employee has filed any affidavit, petition or complaint or given any information or testimony under this act, or because such employee has formed, joined or chosen to be represented by any employee organization;

(5) refuse to meet and confer in good faith with representatives of certified or formally recognized employee organizations;

(6) deny the rights accompanying certification or formal recognition granted in K.S.A. 44-824, and amendments thereto; or

(7) institute or attempt to institute a lockout.

(c) It shall be a prohibited practice for agricultural employees or employee organizations willfully to:

(1) Interfere with, restrain, discriminate against or coerce agricultural employees in the exercise of any of the rights granted to agricultural employees in this act;

(2) interfere with, restrain or coerce an agricultural employer with respect to management rights granted in K.S.A. 44-822, and amendments thereto, or with respect to selecting a representative for the purposes of meeting and conferring or the adjustment of grievances;

(3) cause or attempt to cause an employer to discriminate against an employee because of membership or nonmembership in any employee organization;

(4) establish or maintain organizational pickets at an agricultural employer's residence, place of business or situs of such employer's products;

(5) refuse to meet and confer in good faith with an agricultural employer as required by this act;

(6) engage in a strike during periods of marketing of livestock or during a critical period of production or harvesting of crops; or

(7) engage in a secondary boycott.