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K.S.A. § 47-611 — KS Code / Chapter 47 / Article 6 / Section 47-611
47-611 - Quarantine and other regulations; notice of quarantine; proclamation by governor; enforcement; direction by governor; assistance of any state agency.
Status: in_force

47-611. Quarantine and other regulations; notice of quarantine; proclamation by governor; enforcement; direction by governor; assistance of any state agency. (a) When the animal health commissioner determines that a quarantine and other regulations are necessary to prevent the spread among domestic animals of any contagious or infectious disease, the commissioner shall notify the governor of such determination, and the governor shall issue a proclamation announcing the boundary of such quarantine and the orders and rules and regulations prescribed by the commissioner. Such proclamation shall be published in the Kansas register, except that the commissioner, if the area affected by the quarantine is limited in extent, may dispense with the proclamation of the governor and give such notice as the commissioner shall deem sufficient to make the quarantine effective.

(b) Upon a determination by the governor that a quarantine or other regulations are necessary to prevent the spread among domestic animals of any contagious or infectious disease, the governor shall direct the commissioner to establish a quarantine pursuant to this section.

(c) The governor may require and direct the cooperation and assistance of any state agency in enforcing such quarantine or other regulations pursuant to subsection (a) or (b).

(d) The commissioner shall establish such quarantine immediately and shall give and enforce such directions, rules and regulations as to separating, isolating, handling and treating, feeding and caring for such diseased animals, animals exposed to the disease and animals within the quarantine which have not been immediately exposed, as the commissioner deems necessary to prevent those classes of animals from coming into contact with one another.

(e) The animal health commissioner or the commissioner's designee is hereby authorized and empowered to enter any grounds and premises to carry out the provisions of this act.
K.S.A. § 8-1419 — KS Code / Chapter 8 / Article 14 / Section 8-1419
8-1419 - "Explosives" defined.
Status: in_force

8-1419. "Explosives" defined. "Explosives" means any chemical compound or mechanical mixture that is commonly used or intended for the purpose of producing an explosion, and which contains any oxidizing and combustive units or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities, or packing that an ignition by fire, by friction, by concussion, by percussion, or by detonator of any part of the compound or mixture may cause such a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the resultant gaseous pressures are capable of producing destructive effects on contiguous objects or of destroying life or limb.
K.S.A. § 68-10,108 — KS Code / Chapter 68 / Article 10 / Section 68-10,108
68-10,108 - Designation of part of K-8 as the home on the range highway.
Status: in_force

68-10,108. Designation of part of K-8 as the home on the range highway. That portion of K-8 highway from the junction of K-8 highway with United States highway 36, north on K-8 highway to the Nebraska state line is hereby designated as the home on the range highway. The secretary of transportation shall place highway signs along the highway right-of-way at proper intervals to indicate that the highway is the home on the range highway, except that such signs shall not be placed until the secretary has received sufficient moneys from gifts and donations to reimburse the secretary for the cost of placing such signs and an additional 50% of the initial cost to defray future maintenance or replacement costs of such signs. The secretary of transportation may accept and administer gifts and donations to aid in obtaining and installing suitable signs.
K.S.A. § 75-7063 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 70 / Section 75-7063
75-7063 - Secretary of corrections; rules and regulations; juvenile intake and assessment; programs.
Status: in_force

75-7063. Secretary of corrections; rules and regulations; juvenile intake and assessment; programs. The secretary of corrections shall promulgate rules and regulations for the juvenile intake an assessment system and programs concerning juvenile offenders in accordance with K.S.A. 75-7023, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 75-4311 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 43 / Section 75-4311
75-4311 - Same; funds withheld until oath subscribed to and filed.
Status: in_force

75-4311. Same; funds withheld until oath subscribed to and filed. A state agency officer disbursing payroll warrants or a treasurer or other disbursing officer of any city, county or any municipality or of any public school district or of any private school, college or university receiving public funds shall not disburse any funds in payment for services to any officer or employee subject to the provisions of this act until the required oath has been duly subscribed and filed by such officer or employee.
K.S.A. § 65-544 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 5 / Section 65-544
65-544 - Prohibition on expending state or federal funds for unfilled child care slots; administration by director of early childhood on and after July 1, 2026.
Status: in_force

65-544. Prohibition on expending state or federal funds for unfilled child care slots; administration by director of early childhood on and after July 1, 2026. (a) To the extent that funds expended for child care services are subject to federal requirements and appropriation acts of the legislature, such funds shall not be expended by any agency or office to reimburse providers for unfilled child care slots, not including reimbursement for a child who is temporarily absent due to illness or other reason and intend to resume receiving child care services.

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

(c) 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. § 75-128 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 1 / Section 75-128
75-128 - Governor's residence; designation.
Status: in_force

75-128. Governor's residence; designation. The official home of the governor of the state of Kansas is hereby designated as the governor's residence.
K.S.A. § 65-2813 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 28 / Section 65-2813
65-2813 - State board of healing arts; qualifications of members.
Status: in_force

65-2813. State board of healing arts; qualifications of members. Five members of the board shall hold a degree of doctor of medicine from an accredited medical school and shall be residents of and have been actively engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in the state of Kansas under license issued in this state, for a period of at least six consecutive years immediately preceding their appointment; three members shall hold a degree of doctor of osteopathy from an accredited school of osteopathic medicine and surgery and shall be residents of and have been actively engaged in the practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery in the state of Kansas under license issued in this state, for a period of at least six consecutive years immediately preceding their appointment; three members shall hold a degree of doctor of chiropractic from an accredited school of chiropractic and shall be residents of and have been actively engaged in the practice of chiropractic in the state of Kansas under license issued in this state, for a period of at least six consecutive years immediately preceding their appointment; one member shall be a licensed podiatrist and shall be a resident of and have been actively engaged in the practice of podiatry in the state of Kansas under license issued in this state for a period of at least six consecutive years immediately preceding appointment; and three members shall be appointed to represent the general public of this state. Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 1992 Supp. 75-4315c, no two of the members representing the general public shall be from the same United States congressional district. No member representing the general public shall be the spouse of a licensee of the healing arts or a person or the spouse of a person who has a financial interest in any person's practice of the healing arts.
K.S.A. § 60-5402 — KS Code / Chapter 60 / Article 54 / Section 60-5402
60-5402 - Immunity from liability in certain civil actions for public utilities that authorize the use of law enforcement equipment on utility structures.
Status: in_force

60-5402. Immunity from liability in certain civil actions for public utilities that authorize the use of law enforcement equipment on utility structures. (a) Any public utility that authorizes a law enforcement agency or enters into an agreement with a law enforcement agency to authorize the law enforcement agency to attach, access, operate, maintain or remove law enforcement equipment on any utility pole or other structure that is owned or operated by the public utility shall be immune from liability in any civil action that is based upon or arises from such authorization or agreement.

(b) As used in this section:

(1) "Law enforcement agency" means a city police department, a county sheriff's department or a county police department.

(2) "Public utility" means any public utility as defined in K.S.A. 66-104, and amendments thereto, municipally owned or operated public utility or electric cooperative public utility.
K.S.A. § 65-2412 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 24 / Section 65-2412
65-2412 - Registration of deaths and stillbirths; official death records; use of verified forms; establishment and collection of fee; duties of cause of death certifier; filing of certificates; Kansas electronic death registration system.
Status: in_force

65-2412. Registration of deaths and stillbirths; official death records; use of verified forms; establishment and collection of fee; duties of cause of death certifier; filing of certificates; Kansas electronic death registration system. (a) A death certificate or stillbirth certificate for each death or stillbirth that occurs in this state shall be filed with the state registrar within three days after such death and prior to removal of the body from the state and shall be registered by the state registrar if such death certificate or stillbirth certificate has been completed and filed in accordance with this section. If the place of death is unknown, a death certificate shall be filed indicating the location where the body was found as the place of death. A certificate shall be filed within three days after such occurrence; if death occurs in a moving conveyance, the death certificate shall record the location where the dead body was first removed from such conveyance as the place of death.

(b) (1) The funeral director or person acting as such who first assumes custody of a dead body shall file the death certificate. Such person shall obtain the personal data from the next of kin or the best qualified person or source available and shall obtain the certification of cause of death from the cause of death certifier who was last in attendance prior to burial.

(2) The death certificate filed with the state registrar shall be the official death record, except that a funeral director licensed pursuant to K.S.A. 65-1714, and amendments thereto, may verify as true and accurate information pertaining to a death on a form provided by the state registrar, and any such form, verified within 21 days of date of death, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts pertaining to establishing such death.

(3) The secretary of health and environment shall fix and collect a fee for each form provided to a funeral director pursuant to this subsection. The fee shall be collected at the time the form is provided to the funeral director and shall be in the same amount as the fee for a certified copy of a death certificate.

(c) When death occurred without medical attendance or when inquiry is required by the laws relating to postmortem examinations, the coroner shall investigate the cause of death and shall complete and sign the certification of cause of death within 24 hours after receipt of the death certificate or as provided in K.S.A. 65-2414, and amendments thereto.

(d) In every instance a certificate shall be filed prior to interment or disposal of the body.

(e) Any death certificate, stillbirth certificate or certification of cause of death required to be filed by this section shall be filed through the Kansas electronic death registration system maintained by the Kansas department of health and environment.
K.S.A. § 75-1127 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 11 / Section 75-1127
75-1127 - Reimbursement of municipality by subdivision thereof.
Status: in_force

75-1127. Reimbursement of municipality by subdivision thereof. Boards, commissions, committees, bureaus or departments of a municipality having independent control of the disbursing of funds for their activities shall reimburse the municipality for their part of the cost of any examination or audit made of the municipality pursuant to this act.
K.S.A. § 61-2806 — KS Code / Chapter 61 / Article 28 / Section 61-2806
61-2806 - Construction.
Status: in_force

61-2806. Construction. The provisions of this act shall be liberally construed to secure the just, speedy and inexpensive determination of every action or proceeding.
K.S.A. § 40-2005 — KS Code / Chapter 40 / Article 20 / Section 40-2005
40-2005 - Invalidity of part.
Status: in_force

40-2005. Invalidity of part. If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this act are declared to be severable.
K.S.A. § 24-668 — KS Code / Chapter 24 / Article 6 / Section 24-668
24-668 - Dissolution of portion of joint district; petition, contents; hearing; findings; report; certificate of dissolution; powers and duties of chief engineer.
Status: in_force

24-668. Dissolution of portion of joint district; petition, contents; hearing; findings; report; certificate of dissolution; powers and duties of chief engineer. The chief engineer of the division of water resources shall have power upon proper petition being presented for that purpose to dissolve a portion of a joint drainage district organized and incorporated under the provisions of K.S.A. 24-656 to 24-666, both sections inclusive, or any amendments thereto. The petition for dissolution of a portion of a joint drainage district shall be addressed to the chief engineer of the division of water resources and shall: (1) Describe the territory to be dissolved by section numbers and fractions thereof and other platted areas as appropriate; (2) contain a prayer that the territory described therein be dissolved from the joint drainage district, naming it; (3) show that the dissolution is being sought by either a majority of the board of the joint drainage district or a majority of the landowners in the territory to be dissolved. Whenever a petition in conformity with this section is received by the chief engineer it shall be his duty forthwith to fix a time for the hearing of such petition and to give notice thereof which shall be published by the affected joint drainage district at their expense at least twenty (20) days before the date fixed for the hearing. It shall be the duty of the petitioners to show satisfactory evidence in support of the requested dissolution.

If after such hearing the chief engineer finds that the exclusion of the territory described in the petition would leave within the district an area in conformance with the findings considered for the organization of a district as prescribed in K.S.A. 24-661, as amended, and that the exclusion of the territory described in the petition would not substantially impair the effectiveness of the remaining area as a joint drainage district, he shall transmit a written report of his findings on the petition, together with his written approval or disapproval of the petition, to the secretary of state and the secretary of the board. Upon receipt of such report and approval of the petition the secretary of state shall thereupon issue and deliver to the secretary of the board a certificate of dissolution as to the lands which are to be excluded from the district fixing the effective date of such dissolution. A certified copy of the certificate of dissolution shall be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of each county in which any portion of the district is located.
K.S.A. § 76-773 — KS Code / Chapter 76 / Article 7 / Section 76-773
76-773 - Kansas partnership for faculty of distinction program; definitions.
Status: in_force

76-773. Kansas partnership for faculty of distinction program; definitions. As used in this act:

(a) "Eligible educational institution" means any state educational institution, municipal university, community college, technical college or vocational education school under the governance or coordination of the state board of regents.

(b) "Endowment association" means a not-for-profit endowment association or foundation that is organized and operated exclusively to receive, hold, invest and administer moneys and property as a permanent fund for the support and sole benefit of an eligible educational institution.

(c) "Qualifying gift" means a monetary donation which (1) is a single monetary donation from a single donor or entity or is a joint monetary donation from or on behalf of two or more donors or entities that are directly related or associated or that otherwise are determined by the state board of regents to have common characteristics or similarities such that the joint monetary donation conforms with the purposes of the program, (2) is made in cash or the equivalent of cash, (3) has been received by the endowment association of an eligible educational institution from a single donor or entity for the purpose of endowing a professorship at the eligible educational institution in accordance with the program, and (4) is:

(A) For community colleges, technical colleges and vocational education schools, an aggregate amount of at least $50,000;

(B) for Fort Hays state university, Emporia state university and Pittsburg state university, an aggregate amount of at least $200,000;

(C) for Washburn university, an aggregate amount of at least $300,000;

(D) for Wichita state university, an aggregate amount of at least $350,000; and

(E) for the university of Kansas, the university of Kansas medical center and Kansas state university of agriculture and applied science, an aggregate amount of at least $500,000.

(d) "Endowed professorship" means the position of a professor of the faculty of an eligible educational institution for which a qualifying gift is received by the endowment association of the eligible educational institution in accordance with the Kansas partnership for faculty of distinction program.

(e) "Program" means the Kansas partnership for faculty of distinction program established by this act.

(f) "State educational institution," "municipal university," "community college," "technical college," "vocational education school" and "state board of regents" have the meanings respectively ascribed thereto by K.S.A. 74-3201b, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 65-161 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 1 / Section 65-161
65-161 - Definitions.
Status: in_force

65-161. Definitions. As used in this act:

(a) "Waters of the state" means all streams and springs, and all bodies of surface and subsurface waters within the boundaries of the state;

(b) "discharge" means, when used without qualification, the causing or permitting of sewage to enter, either directly or indirectly, into waters of the state;

(c) "indirect discharge" means the introduction of pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works from any nondomestic source; and

(d) "direct discharge" means the discharge of sewage into waters of the state.
K.S.A. § 68-1039 — KS Code / Chapter 68 / Article 10 / Section 68-1039
68-1039 - Designation of United States highway 66 as a historic highway.
Status: in_force

68-1039. Designation of United States highway 66 as a historic highway. United States highway 66 is hereby designated as a historic highway. The secretary of transportation shall place signs along the highway right-of-way at proper intervals to indicate that the highway is a historic highway. Such signs shall consist of the usual United States highway sign with the words "Historic Route 66" printed on the face of the sign. The secretary of transportation may accept and administer gifts and donations to aid in obtaining and installing suitable highway signs.
K.S.A. § 66-1244 — KS Code / Chapter 66 / Article 12 / Section 66-1244
66-1244 - Same; sale or contract for operation of transmission facilities; approval by KCC; rate-making treatment.
Status: in_force

66-1244. Same; sale or contract for operation of transmission facilities; approval by KCC; rate-making treatment. (a) Upon application, the commission may approve: (1) Any sale of transmission lines and appurtenances to an independent transmission company or system operator which has been approved by the federal energy regulatory commission; and (2) any contract for the operation of transmission lines and appurtenances by an independent transmission system operator or regional transmission organization which has been approved by the federal energy regulatory commission.

(b) The commission shall afford the transactions described in this section with appropriate rate-making treatment, including the reasonable sharing of proceeds from asset sales between ratepayers and the utility.
K.S.A. § 13-1399 — KS Code / Chapter 13 / Article 13 / Section 13-1399
13-1399 - Same; sale restrictions.
Status: in_force

13-1399. Same; sale restrictions. Bonds issued under this act shall not be sold for less than the principal amount thereof and accrued interest thereon and shall not be offered for sale nor purchased by the state school fund commission.