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K.S.A. § 65-1515 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 15 / Section 65-1515
65-1515 - Immunity from liability in civil actions for reporting, communicating and investigating certain information concerning alleged malpractice incidents and other information; conditions.
Status: in_force

65-1515. Immunity from liability in civil actions for reporting, communicating and investigating certain information concerning alleged malpractice incidents and other information; conditions. (a) No person reporting to the board of examiners in optometry under oath and in good faith any information such person may have relating to alleged incidents of malpractice or the qualifications, fitness or character of a person licensed to practice optometry shall be subject to a civil action for damages as a result of reporting such information.

(b) Any state, regional or local association of licensed optometrists and the individual members of any committee thereof, which in good faith investigates or communicates information pertaining to the alleged incidents of malpractice or the qualifications, fitness or character of any licensee to the board of examiners in optometry or to any committee or agent thereof, shall be immune from liability in any civil action, that is based upon such investigation or transmittal of information if the investigation and communication was made in good faith and did not represent as true any matter not reasonably believed to be true.

(c) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to the optometry law.
K.S.A. § 12-3913 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 39 / Section 12-3913
12-3913 - Same; procedure; resolution, publication; election, when; effective date; initial mill levy of new district.
Status: in_force

12-3913. Same; procedure; resolution, publication; election, when; effective date; initial mill levy of new district. (a) The resolution creating a consolidated fire district as provided by this act, shall be published at least once each week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the area subject to the proposed consolidation. If within 60 days following the last publication of the resolution, a petition in opposition thereto, signed by not less than 5% of the registered voters residing within each of the two or more areas proposed for consolidation is filed with the county election officer, the board shall order an election to be called and held within the areas proposed to be consolidated within 90 days after the filing of such petition in the manner provided for the calling and holding of elections under the general bond law. If a majority of the electors voting at such election shall approve the consolidation of such areas the board of county commissioners, by resolution, shall provide for the consolidation of such areas and define the boundaries of the area as consolidated. Any such consolidation shall be made prior to July 1 of any year to take effect on January 1 of the succeeding year.

(b) Any resolution creating a consolidated fire district shall provide for the dissolution or disorganization of the fire districts as they existed prior to the effective date of the creation of a consolidated fire district. The resolution creating a consolidated fire district also shall fix the amount of tax, not to exceed 15 mills, that may be levied by the governing body of the consolidated fire district.
K.S.A. § 61-4103 — KS Code / Chapter 61 / Article 41 / Section 61-4103
61-4103 - Availability of other relief.
Status: in_force

61-4103. Availability of other relief. If a case arises in which an action or proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a substantive right, or the redress or prevention of a wrong, cannot be had under any specific provisions of the code of civil procedure for limited actions or other statutes, then the court shall proceed as nearly in conformity with the provisions of the code of civil procedure for limited actions as the circumstances permit to do whatever law and justice require for the protection of the parties.
K.S.A. § 65-6010 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 60 / Section 65-6010
65-6010 - Same; withdrawal of blood; confidentiality of information; penalty.
Status: in_force

65-6010. Same; withdrawal of blood; confidentiality of information; penalty. (a) When a court orders a person to submit to infectious disease tests under this act, the withdrawal of the blood may be performed only by: (1) A person licensed to practice medicine and surgery or a person acting under the supervision of any such licensed person; (2) a licensed professional nurse or a licensed practical nurse; or (3) a qualified medical technician. No person authorized by this subsection to withdraw blood, no person assisting in the performance of the infectious disease tests nor any medical care facility where blood is withdrawn or tested that has been ordered by the court to withdraw or test blood shall be liable in any civil or criminal action when the act is performed in a reasonable manner according to generally accepted medical practices.

(b) The results of tests or reports, or information therein, obtained under this act shall be confidential and shall not be divulged to any person not authorized by this act to receive the same. Any violation of this subsection is a class C nonperson misdemeanor.
K.S.A. § 19-3421 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 34 / Section 19-3421
19-3421 - Location of office.
Status: in_force

19-3421. Location of office. The election commissioner shall maintain his office in suitable and convenient quarters in the courthouse or in some other place, to be provided by the board of county commissioners.
K.S.A. § 12-3416 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 34 / Section 12-3416
12-3416 - Port authorities; conditions of bonds; negotiability.
Status: in_force

12-3416. Port authorities; conditions of bonds; negotiability. Bonds and other obligations authorized by this act shall be executed by the chairperson and secretary of the port authority. Such bonds and other obligations may be issued in one or more series, may bear such date or dates, may mature at such time or times not exceeding 40 years from their date, may be in such denominations and in such form, either coupon or registered, may carry such registration and conversion privileges, may be executed in such manner, may be payable in such medium of payment at such place or places, may be subject to such terms of redemption with or without premium, and may bear such rate of interest, and may contain such other terms and conditions not inconsistent with this act, as may be provided by official resolution of the board of directors of such port authority, notwithstanding the provisions of any other statute affecting the issuance of municipal bonds.

Such bonds may be sold in such manner and at such price or prices, not less than par plus accrued interest to date of delivery, as provided in K.S.A. 12-3428, and amendments thereto. Bonds issued under this act are declared to be negotiable instruments.
K.S.A. § 71-205 — KS Code / Chapter 71 / Article 2 / Section 71-205
71-205 - Off-campus instruction at Fort Leavenworth military reservation.
Status: in_force

71-205. Off-campus instruction at Fort Leavenworth military reservation. For the purpose of offering and providing off-campus instruction and courses of study at the Fort Leavenworth military reservation, any community college board of trustees is hereby authorized to enter into agreements with the United States of America or any department or agency thereof. Credit for such study shall be given and accredited in the same manner and to the same extent as other community college credit is given and accredited.
K.S.A. § 25-2429 — KS Code / Chapter 25 / Article 24 / Section 25-2429
25-2429 - Destruction of election papers.
Status: in_force

25-2429. Destruction of election papers. Destruction of election papers is intentionally destroying any certificate of nomination or nomination papers or any letter of withdrawal of a candidate.

Destruction of election papers is a severity level 9, nonperson felony.
K.S.A. § 76-345 — KS Code / Chapter 76 / Article 3 / Section 76-345
76-345 - Exchange of land between board of regents and Kansas university endowment association; definitions.
Status: in_force

76-345. Exchange of land between board of regents and Kansas university endowment association; definitions. As used in this act: (a) "Board" means the Kansas state board of regents.

(b) "Association" means the Kansas university endowment association.

(c) "University lands" means the following described real property commonly known as the "Robinson farm," and all of which is located in Douglas county, Kansas: The east one-half (1/2) of the southeast quarter (1/4) of section eight (8), township twelve (12) south, range twenty (20) east, containing eighty (80) acres more or less; the southeast quarter (1/4) of the northeast quarter (1/4) of section eight (8), township twelve (12) south, range twenty (20) east; section seventeen (17), township twelve (12) south, range twenty (20) east, less the west sixty (60) acres of the south one-half (1/2) of the southwest quarter (1/4) of said section, said tract containing five hundred eighty (580) acres more or less; and section four (4), township twelve (12) south, range twenty (20) east, less the southwest quarter (1/4) of the southwest quarter (1/4) of said section four (4) and less the southwest quarter (1/4) of the northwest quarter (1/4) of the southwest quarter (1/4) of said section four (4), containing five hundred ninety (590) acres more or less.

(d) "Association lands" means the following described real property: All of lots 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 in block seventeen (17), and all of lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 in block eighteen (18), and all of lots 1, 2, 7, and 8 in block nineteen (19), and all of lots 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 in block twenty (20), and all of lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 17, 18, 19, and 20 in block twenty-one (21), and all of lots 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 in block twenty-two (22), and all of lots 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 in block twenty-three (23), all of which lots are situated in University Place Annex, an addition to the city of Lawrence, Douglas county, Kansas. Also, a tract of 5.280 acres, more or less, in University Place Annex, an addition to the city of Lawrence, Douglas county, Kansas, described as follows: Beginning at a point forty (40) feet north of the south line and twenty-three and one-fourth (23 1/4) chains west of the east line of the northeast quarter (1/4), section one (1), township thirteen (13), range nineteen (19); thence running north twenty-one and seventy-seven hundredths (21.77) chains; thence west four and seventy-five hundredths (4.75) chains; thence south eleven and one hundredth (11.01) chains; thence east four and seventy-five hundredths (4.75) chains. Also, a tract of land in the city of Lawrence, Douglas county, Kansas, described as follows: The east one-half (1/2) of the south sixty (60) acres of the northwest quarter (1/4) of section one (1), township thirteen (13) south, range nineteen (19) east, less the east three hundred twenty (320) feet thereof.
K.S.A. § 58-2604 — KS Code / Chapter 58 / Article 26 / Section 58-2604
58-2604 - Heirs of deceased partner to join with surviving partners in conveyances.
Status: in_force

58-2604. Heirs of deceased partner to join with surviving partners in conveyances. The heirs at law of every deceased partner shall fulfill the agreement of their ancestor so devoting land to division and sale, by joining with the surviving partner or partners, or with the trustee or trustees, if any, holding the title, or with both the survivors and trustees, as may be necessary, in executing, acknowledging and delivering all deeds of conveyance necessary to convey to the purchasers of such lots, blocks or shares the parcels so purchased by them respectively, whether the agreement with such purchasers to sell the same were made by the copartnership during the lifetime of the said ancestor, or by the surviving partner or partners after his or her death, and whether the same were made before or since the taking effect of this act.
K.S.A. § 68-1024 — KS Code / Chapter 68 / Article 10 / Section 68-1024
68-1024 - Designation of part of highway No. 15 as "the Eisenhower memorial highway."
Status: in_force

68-1024. Designation of part of highway No. 15 as "the Eisenhower memorial highway." Kansas highway No. 15 from the Nebraska-Kansas boundary line , then south to the southern city limits of Clay Center, then south from the junction with K-82 highway to the Kansas-Oklahoma boundary line is hereby designated as "the Eisenhower memorial highway." The secretary of transportation shall place markers along the highway right-of-way at proper intervals to indicate that the highway is the Eisenhower memorial highway.
K.S.A. § 55-174 — KS Code / Chapter 55 / Article 1 / Section 55-174
55-174 - Penalty for failure to notify of intent to drill.
Status: in_force

55-174. Penalty for failure to notify of intent to drill. (a) Any person, firm, association or corporation who fails to comply with the requirement to give notice to the state corporation commission of intent to drill a seismic, core or exploratory hole for the purpose of exploration, discovery or production of oil or natural gas in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 55-151, and amendments thereto, and who has been convicted twice of violating such requirement, shall be prohibited from drilling a seismic, core or exploratory hole in this state for the purpose of exploration, discovery or production of oil or natural gas within the six-month period of time following the date of the second conviction of violating such requirement. Any such person, firm, association or corporation who has been convicted more than twice of violating such requirement shall be prohibited from drilling a seismic, core or exploratory hole in this state for the purpose of exploration, discovery or production of oil or natural gas within the one-year period of time following the date of the third or later conviction of violating such requirement.

(b) Any person, firm, association or corporation who shall violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a class B misdemeanor.
K.S.A. § 8-1026 — KS Code / Chapter 8 / Article 10 / Section 8-1026
8-1026 - Ignition interlock device restriction; reinstatement of driver's license without completion; ignition interlock device program, when; procedures and eligibility.
Status: in_force

8-1026. Ignition interlock device restriction; reinstatement of driver's license without completion; ignition interlock device program, when; procedures and eligibility. (a) Any person whose license is restricted to operating only a motor vehicle with an ignition interlock device installed and who meets the requirements of subsection (b) may request reinstatement of such person's driver's license by submitting a request to the division in a form and manner prescribed by the division.

(b) The division shall approve the request for reinstatement of the person's driver's license if the division determines all the following conditions are met:

(1) The person's ignition interlock device restriction period has been extended at least five years, not including any period of incarceration, beyond the initial ignition interlock device restriction period required by law due to the person's failure to provide the division with proof of completion of the ignition interlock device program as required by K.S.A. 8-1015, and amendments thereto;

(2) during the person's ignition interlock device restriction period and any extension thereof, the person has not had an alcohol or drug-related conviction or occurrence, as those terms are defined by K.S.A. 8-1013, and amendments thereto, or a conviction of a violation of K.S.A. 8-1017, and amendments thereto, or of a law of another state, or of a political subdivision thereof, that prohibits the acts prohibited by K.S.A. 8-1017, and amendments thereto;

(3) during the person's ignition interlock device restriction period and any extension thereof, the person has not had any of the following:

(A) Conviction of a violation of K.S.A. 8-1599, and amendments thereto;

(B) conviction of a violation of K.S.A. 41-727, and amendments thereto;

(C) conviction of any violation listed in K.S.A. 8-285(a), and amendments thereto;

(D) conviction of two or more moving traffic violations committed on separate occasions; or

(E) revocation, suspension, cancellation or withdrawal of the person's driving privileges due to another action by the division or a court; and

(4) at the time of submitting the request to the division, the person does not have any pending charges or proceedings involving any violation listed in subsection (b)(2) or (3).
K.S.A. § 66-1326 — KS Code / Chapter 66 / Article 13 / Section 66-1326
66-1326 - Contracts between state agencies; centralized issuance of permits.
Status: in_force

66-1326. Contracts between state agencies; centralized issuance of permits. The secretary of revenue, the secretary of transportation, the superintendent of the Kansas highway patrol and the state corporation commission are hereby authorized, empowered and instructed to enter into any contracts or agreements appropriate to establish centralized issuance of any or all permits and licenses provided for by K.S.A. 8-1911, and amendments thereto, and by this act. The heads of such agencies shall enter into any contracts or agreements necessary to provide for a centralized coordinating authority for the issuance of licenses and permits provided in this act and in K.S.A. 8-1911, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 19-4714 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 47 / Section 19-4714
19-4714 - Notice to appear; when used.
Status: in_force

19-4714. Notice to appear; when used. A notice to appear shall be used in all cases involving the violation of a county code or resolution.
K.S.A. § 19-2123 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 21 / Section 19-2123
19-2123 - Homes for aged; revenue bonds for acquisition of site, construction, equipping and furnishing addition; resolution, publication.
Status: in_force

19-2123. Homes for aged; revenue bonds for acquisition of site, construction, equipping and furnishing addition; resolution, publication. The board of county commissioners of any county is hereby authorized to issue and sell revenue bonds for the purpose of acquiring a site for, constructing, equipping and furnishing an addition to a county home for the aged. Before any such bonds shall be issued, the board of county commissioners shall publish a resolution declaring its intention to issue such bonds, stating the purpose for which such bonds are to be issued and the amount thereof. Such resolution shall be published once each week for three (3) consecutive weeks in the official county newspaper, or if there is no such official county newspaper, a newspaper published as provided in K.S.A. 64-101.
K.S.A. § 19-1202 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 12 / Section 19-1202
19-1202 - Deputy registers of deeds; duties; meetings and seminars; budget; limitation of personnel action.
Status: in_force

19-1202. Deputy registers of deeds; duties; meetings and seminars; budget; limitation of personnel action. (a) The register of deeds may appoint a deputy register of deeds. The appointment shall be in writing, filed and recorded in the office of the register of deeds. In addition to the deputy, the register also may appoint, promote, demote and dismiss any assistants necessary to carry out the duties of the office. The register shall supervise all assistants in the performance of their duties. The register's surety shall be responsible under the register's official bond for the acts of the deputy and any assistants. Within the limitations of the budget for the financing of the operation of the register's office as approved by the board of county commissioners, the register of deeds may attend and may require the deputy and any assistants to attend any meetings or seminars which the register determines will be beneficial to the operation of the register's office.

(b) The register of deeds shall submit a budget for the financing of the operation of the register's office to the board of county commissioners for their approval.

(c) Any personnel action taken by the register of deeds under this section shall be subject to the following: (1) Personnel policies and procedures established by the board of county commissioners for all county employees other than elected officials; (2) any pay plan established by the board of county commissioners for all county employees other than elected officials; (3) any applicable collective bargaining agreements or civil service system; and (4) the budget for the financing of the operation of the register's office as approved by the board of county commissioners.
K.S.A. § 58-5008 — KS Code / Chapter 58 / Article 50 / Section 58-5008
58-5008 - Duty and liability of trust director.
Status: in_force

58-5008. Duty and liability of trust director. (a) Subject to subsection (b), with respect to a power of direction or further power under K.S.A. 58-5006(b)(1), and amendments thereto:

(1) A trust director has the same fiduciary duty and liability in the exercise or nonexercise of the power:

(A) If the power is held individually, as a sole trustee in a like position and under similar circumstances; or

(B) if the power is held jointly with a trustee or another trust director, as a cotrustee in a like position and under similar circumstances; and

(2) the terms of the trust may vary the director's duty or liability to the same extent the terms of the trust could vary the duty or liability of a trustee in a like position and under similar circumstances.

(b) Unless the terms of a trust provide otherwise, if a trust director is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by law other than the Kansas uniform directed trust act to provide health care in the ordinary course of the director's business or practice of a profession, to the extent the director acts in that capacity, the director has no duty or liability under this act.

(c) The terms of a trust may impose a duty or liability on a trust director in addition to the duties and liabilities under this section.
K.S.A. § 12-2714 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 27 / Section 12-2714
12-2714 - Municipalities and corporations not deemed common carriers and not subject to utility regulation.
Status: in_force

12-2714. Municipalities and corporations not deemed common carriers and not subject to utility regulation. Any municipality or corporation entering into an agreement under the authority of this act or validated by this act shall not be deemed to be a common carrier with respect to the water transportation facilities established thereunder and shall not be deemed subject to any utility regulation by reason of its participation in so providing facilities for a water supply, water distribution system, or waterworks system.