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K.S.A. § 59-513 — KS Code / Chapter 59 / Article 5 / Section 59-513
59-513 - Incapacity of person who kills another to take from decedent's estate or property; effect on estates and property of both of suicide by person who kills spouse; order prohibiting disposition of assets until criminal proceedings are completed.
Status: in_force

59-513. Incapacity of person who kills another to take from decedent's estate or property; effect on estates and property of both of suicide by person who kills spouse; order prohibiting disposition of assets until criminal proceedings are completed. (a) No person convicted of feloniously killing, or procuring the killing of, another person shall inherit or take by will, by intestate succession, as a surviving joint tenant, as the designated beneficiary of real or personal property, as a beneficiary under a trust or otherwise from such other person any portion of the estate or property in which the decedent had an interest.

(b) When any person kills or causes the killing of such person's spouse, and then takes such person's own life, the estates and property of both persons shall be disposed of as if their deaths were simultaneous pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 58-708 to 58-718, inclusive, and amendments thereto.

(c) (1) The court may, upon its own motion or upon the written request of any party, prohibit the sale, distribution, spending or use of an asset or interest described in subsection (a), or a portion or proceeds thereof, by a person who has been arrested for or charged with the felonious killing, or procuring the killing of, the decedent.

(2) An order entered pursuant to this subsection may be granted ex parte upon a showing of criminal charges filed against a person interested in the estate.

(3) (A) An order entered pursuant to this subsection shall be in effect until modified or terminated by the court.

(B) Upon the written request of a person subject to an order under this subsection to modify or terminate such order, the court shall fix the time and place for the hearing thereof. Notice of the time and place of the hearing shall be given in such manner and to such persons as the court shall direct.

(C) The court shall terminate such order if the court finds that any of the following events relating to the arrest or charges that were the basis for the order have occurred:

(i) Dismissal of all such charges;

(ii) acquittal as to all such charges;

(iii) conviction or other disposition; or

(iv) expungement of the arrest records by court order pursuant to K.S.A. 22-2410, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 75-4351 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 43 / Section 75-4351
75-4351 - Interpreters appointed for deaf, hard of hearing, speech impaired and persons whose primary language is other than English; proceeding in which appointment authorized.
Status: in_force

75-4351. Interpreters appointed for deaf, hard of hearing, speech impaired and persons whose primary language is other than English; proceeding in which appointment authorized. A qualified interpreter shall be appointed in the following cases for persons whose primary language is one other than English, or who is a deaf, hard of hearing or speech impaired person: (a) In any grand jury proceeding, when such person is called as a witness;

(b) in any court proceeding involving such person and such proceeding may result in the confinement of such person or the imposition of a penal sanction against such person;

(c) in any civil proceeding, whether such person is the plaintiff, defendant or witness in such action;

(d) in any proceeding before a board, commission, agency, or licensing authority of the state or any of its political subdivisions, when such person is the principal party in interest;

(e) prior to any attempt to interrogate or take a statement from a person who is arrested for an alleged violation of a criminal law of the state or any city ordinance.
K.S.A. § 17-1633 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 16 / Section 17-1633
17-1633 - Same; restrictions.
Status: in_force

17-1633. Same; restrictions. This act, or acts amendatory thereto, should not be construed as authorizing the fixing of prices by contract or otherwise in such a manner as to be arbitrary, unjustly discriminatory or otherwise detrimental to the public interest.
K.S.A. § 2-3305 — KS Code / Chapter 2 / Article 33 / Section 2-3305
2-3305 - Functional anti-pollution devices, requirements.
Status: in_force

2-3305. Functional anti-pollution devices, requirements. Functional anti-pollution devices shall be used in the chemigation process according to:

(a) Criteria adopted by the secretary by rules and regulations that, in the secretary's discretion, follow the latest scientific knowledge and technology and that is designed to protect the groundwater and surface water of the state; or

(b) the following criteria:

(1) Waterline check valve shall be an automatic, quick-closing device capable of preventing the backflow of water chemical mixtures into the source of water supply during times of system failure or equipment shutdown;

(2) a chemical injection line check valve shall be used to prevent flow of water from the irrigation system into the chemical supply tank and to prevent gravity flow from the chemical supply tank into the irrigation system;

(3) an interlock system shall be used between the power system of the injection unit, the irrigation pumping plant and the pivot, if involved; the interlock shall function so that if the irrigation pump stops, the injection pump will also stop;

(4) a functional vacuum relief device shall be used between the waterline check valve and the irrigation pump to reduce the chance of chemical being back-siphoned into the water source; and

(5) an automatic low pressure drain shall be used between the waterline valve and the irrigation pump.
K.S.A. § 79-2941 — KS Code / Chapter 79 / Article 29 / Section 79-2941
79-2941 - Warrants for emergencies, when; procedure; limitation of amount; notice and hearing.
Status: in_force

79-2941. Warrants for emergencies, when; procedure; limitation of amount; notice and hearing. Whenever it shall be apparent to a majority of the members of any board authorized to levy taxes in any taxing district in any county adjoining a United States army post or military reservation, or to any officer solely charged with that duty therein, that the rates of levy in the particular taxing district under consideration are so limited as to be insufficient for the raising of funds necessary to supply the needs of such taxing district for general maintenance expenses for the current tax year, such officers or officer shall have the authority to issue warrants to meet such general maintenance expenses for the current tax year to the amount of money not exceeding 50% of the amount of money which can be raised in such taxing district by using the rates limited by law. No such authority to issue warrants shall be exercised until an application for such exercise shall be made to the state board of tax appeals, which body, if the evidence submitted in support of the application shall show an emergency need for the issue of warrants for the additional amount hereby authorized or any part thereof, is hereby empowered to order the issuance of such warrants as may be shown to be necessary, but no order for the issuance of such warrants shall be made without a public hearing before the state board of tax appeals conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Kansas administrative procedure act. In addition to notice to the parties, notice of such hearing shall be published in two issues of a paper of general circulation within the district applying for such authority at least 10 days prior to such hearing.

The notice shall be in such form as the state board of tax appeals shall prescribe, and the expense of such publication shall be borne by the district making application. At no time shall the issuance of such warrants authorized by the state board of tax appeals in any such taxing district exceed in amount 50% of the amount of money that can be raised by taxation in any such district for the current tax year under the existing rates.
K.S.A. § 75-5537 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 55 / Section 75-5537
75-5537 - Overtime compensation, determinations; holidays counted as time worked, when.
Status: in_force

75-5537. Overtime compensation, determinations; holidays counted as time worked, when. (a) Except as otherwise required by federal law or by the provisions of this section, after June 11, 2000, any rule and regulation relating to overtime compensation for state employees adopted by the secretary of administration shall provide that only hours actually worked may be considered in determining whether overtime compensation is due and the amount of overtime compensation due, whether in the form of overtime pay or compensatory time off in lieu of overtime pay. After June 11, 2000, to the extent that any rule and regulation previously adopted by the secretary of administration contains a provision contrary to this section, that portion of the rule and regulation, and documents pertaining to such portion of the rule and regulation, shall have no effect and shall not be enforced.

(b) Each official state holiday which occurs within a regularly scheduled workweek may be counted as time worked in determining the amount of overtime work for state employees.
K.S.A. § 75-2946 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 29 / Section 75-2946
75-2946 - Appointment to classified position for probationary period.
Status: in_force

75-2946. Appointment to classified position for probationary period. Except as otherwise provided in the Kansas civil service act or by rules and regulations adopted thereunder, all appointments within the classified service shall be for a probationary period, the length of which for the several classes in the classified service shall be determined by rules and regulations, but dismissals, suspensions or demotions may be made at any time during such period. At or before the end of the probationary period the appointing authority shall notify the director in writing whether or not the probationer is a satisfactory employee and should receive the status of a permanent employee.
K.S.A. § 60-2303 — KS Code / Chapter 60 / Article 23 / Section 60-2303
60-2303 - Contract for conveyance of homestead.
Status: in_force

60-2303. Contract for conveyance of homestead. No action for the specific performance of a contract for the sale or exchange of real estate in the state of Kansas or for damages by reason of the violation of any contract to sell or exchange lands within the state of Kansas, occupied as a homestead by the owner and his or her family, shall be maintained unless the contract of sale is signed by both the husband and wife, or by an agent or broker duly authorized in writing by both the husband and wife to make such sale or exchange.
K.S.A. § 19-3705 — KS Code / Chapter 19 / Article 37 / Section 19-3705
19-3705 - Adoption of changes or amendments.
Status: in_force

19-3705. Adoption of changes or amendments. Any change or amendment of a sanitary code shall be adopted by following the same procedure as set forth in this act for the initial adoption of the sanitary code.
K.S.A. § 68-2018 — KS Code / Chapter 68 / Article 20 / Section 68-2018
68-2018 - Preliminary expenses of authority; surveys and studies; costs and expenses, how paid.
Status: in_force

68-2018. Preliminary expenses of authority; surveys and studies; costs and expenses, how paid. To provide for the preliminary expenses of the authority in carrying out the provisions of this act, the legislature shall not appropriate any moneys from the state general fund, but shall appropriate such amounts as it may deem necessary, not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for any one fiscal year, from the state highway fund, which sum so appropriated by the legislature, shall be paid to the authority and simultaneously with the delivery of the bonds, the sum so paid shall be reimbursed by the authority to the state for the credit of the highway fund out of the proceeds of any bonds which may be issued by the authority under the provisions of this act.

The authority is hereby authorized and directed to make such surveys and studies of any turnpike project as may be necessary to effect the financing authorized by this act at the earliest practicable time, and for this purpose to employ such consulting engineers, traffic engineers, legal and financial experts and such other employees and agents as it may deem necessary. To effect the purpose of this act the secretary of transportation shall make available to the authority all data in the secretary's possession which may be useful to the authority in making such surveys and studies and said secretary may furnish such assistance in making investigations and in preparing designs for any turnpike project as may be agreed upon between the secretary and the authority, the cost of such surveys and expenses incurred by the secretary to be paid by the authority.
K.S.A. § 73-301 — KS Code / Chapter 73 / Article 3 / Section 73-301
73-301 - Burial of Union soldiers, sailors or marines or their wives or widows.
Status: in_force

73-301. Burial of Union soldiers, sailors or marines or their wives or widows. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners in each of the counties of this state to designate the township trustee or some other suitable person in each township, whose duty it shall be to cause to be decently interred the body of any honorably discharged Union soldier, sailor or marine who served in the Union army or navy in the war of 1861-'65, known as the "civil war," or the body of the wife or widow of any such soldier, sailor, marine, who may hereafter die without leaving sufficient means to defray his or her funeral expenses. Such burial shall not be made in any cemetery or burial ground or that portion of any burial ground used exclusively for the pauper dead. The expenses of any such burial shall in no case be more than one hundred dollars ($100). If the deceased has relatives or friends who desire to conduct the burial they shall be permitted to do so, but if they are unable to pay the expenses thereof, such expense shall be paid by the county in which the deceased soldier, sailor, marine, his wife, or widow, may die, as hereinbefore provided.
K.S.A. § 43-158 — KS Code / Chapter 43 / Article 1 / Section 43-158
43-158 - Same; persons excluded from jury service.
Status: in_force

43-158. Same; persons excluded from jury service. The following persons shall be excused from jury service: (a) Persons unable to understand the English language with a degree of proficiency sufficient to respond to a jury questionnaire form prepared by the commissioner;

(b) persons under adjudication of incompetency;

(c) persons who within 10 years immediately preceding have been convicted of or pleaded guilty, or nolo contendere, to an indictment or information charging a felony;

(d) persons who have served as jurors in the county within one year immediately preceding; and

(e) a mother breastfeeding her child. Jury service shall be postponed until such mother is no longer breastfeeding the child.
K.S.A. § 41-2904 — KS Code / Chapter 41 / Article 29 / Section 41-2904
41-2904 - Same; civil and administrative actions, recovery of fees and costs, when.
Status: in_force

41-2904. Same; civil and administrative actions, recovery of fees and costs, when. In any civil or administrative action brought against a retailer or a retailer's agent or employee for a violation of the beer and cereal malt beverage keg registration act, in which the defendant is the prevailing party, the court or presiding officer may award to the defendant reasonable attorney's fees and all other reasonable costs if the court or presiding officer finds the action was not brought in good faith or was brought without a reasonable basis in fact or law.
K.S.A. § 72-255 — KS Code / Chapter 72 / Article 2 / Section 72-255
72-255 - General powers of state board.
Status: in_force

72-255. General powers of state board. In general, but not by way of limitation, consonant with other applicable statutory provisions, the state board of education shall:

(a) Adopt and maintain standards, criteria, guidelines or rules and regulations for the following:

(1) School libraries and other educational materials with the exception of textbooks;

(2) courses of study and curriculum;

(3) accreditation of schools including elementary and secondary, public and nonpublic;

(4) certification of administrators, teachers, counselors, school nurses and supervisors of school districts and of the state department of education and of teachers and administrators of nonpublic schools; and

(b) administer the laws of this state concerning the matters named in this section and all other matters relating to general supervision of the public schools and institutions under supervision of the state board of education.
K.S.A. § 65-650 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 6 / Section 65-650
65-650 - Medicines, drugs and poisons sold through vending machines, requirements; penalties for violations.
Status: in_force

65-650. Medicines, drugs and poisons sold through vending machines, requirements; penalties for violations. (a) Any person, firm or corporation who offers for sale, sells or distributes any prescription medicine, prescription-only drug, drug which contains ephedrine alkaloids, drug intended for human use by hypodermic injection or poison through or by means of any vending machine or other mechanical device, or who uses any vending machine in or for the sale or distribution of any prescription medicine, prescription-only drug, drug which contains ephedrine alkaloids, drug intended for human use by hypodermic injection or poison, shall be guilty of a class C nonperson misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $500.

(b) No nonprescription drugs shall be offered for sale or sold through a vending machine in anything other than the manufacturer's original tamper-evident and expiration-dated packet. No more than 12 different nonprescription drugs products shall be offered for sale or sold through any one vending machine. Any vending machine in which nonprescription drugs are offered for sale or sold shall be located so that the drugs stored in such vending machine are stored in accordance with drug manufacturer's requirements. Drugs offered for sale or sold in such vending machine shall not be older than the manufacturer's expiration date. Each vending machine through which nonprescription drugs are offered for sale or sold shall have an obvious and legible statement on the machine that identifies the owner of the machine, a toll-free telephone number at which the consumer may contact the owner of the machine, a statement advising the consumer to check the expiration date of the product before using the product and the telephone number of the state board of pharmacy. As used in this subsection, "nonprescription drug" does not include any prescription medicine, prescription-only drug, drug which contains ephedrine alkaloids, drug intended for human use by hypodermic injection or poison. A violation of this subsection is a class C nonperson misdemeanor and upon conviction the violator shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $500.
K.S.A. § 8-275 — KS Code / Chapter 8 / Article 2 / Section 8-275
8-275 - Same; qualifications to operate school.
Status: in_force

8-275. Same; qualifications to operate school. In order for a person to qualify to operate a driving school, such person shall meet the following requirements:

(a) Be of good moral character;

(b) maintain an established place of business to the public;

(c) maintain bodily injury and property damage liability insurance on motor vehicles while used in driving instruction, insuring the liability of the driving school, the driving instructors and any person taking instruction in at least the following amounts: $100,000 for bodily injury to or death of one person in any one accident and, subject to such limit for one person, $200,000 for bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident and the amount of $20,000 for damage to property of others in any one accident. Evidence of such insurance coverage in the form of a certificate from the insurance carrier shall be filed with the department of revenue and such certificate shall stipulate that the insurance shall not be canceled except upon 10 days' prior written notice to the department. Such insurance shall be written by a company authorized to do business in this state;

(d) provide a continuous surety company bond in the principal sum of $2,500 for the protection of the contractual rights of students in such form as will meet with the approval of the department and written by a company authorized to do business in this state. However, the aggregate liability of the surety for all breaches of the condition of the bond in no event shall exceed the principal sum of $2,500. The surety on any such bond may cancel such bond on giving 30 days' written notice thereof to the department and shall be relieved of liability for any breach of any condition of the bond that occurs after the effective date of cancellation;

(e) have the equipment necessary to the giving of proper instruction in the operation of motor vehicles as prescribed by the department; and

(f) pay to the department an application fee of $25.
K.S.A. § 74-50,189 — KS Code / Chapter 74 / Article 50 / Section 74-50,189
74-50,189 - Licenses; conditions of issuance.
Status: in_force

74-50,189. Licenses; conditions of issuance. The commission shall not issue any license to hold regulated sports contests in the state of Kansas, unless:

(a) Such regulated sports contests are sponsored by a promoter licensed by the commission;

(b) If required by the governing body of the city, the promoter shall obtain a resolution from the governing body to hold such contest; or if such contests are to be held in the unincorporated area of a county, if required the promoter shall obtain a resolution from the board of county commissioners of such county;

(c) such contests shall be of not more than 12 rounds of three minutes each duration for professional boxing, professional kickboxing and professional full-contact karate and not more than five rounds of five minutes each duration for professional mixed martial arts and not more than five rounds of four minutes each duration for amateur mixed martial arts; and

(d) a license fee, in an amount set by the commission, has been paid by the promoter.
K.S.A. § 22-3222 — KS Code / Chapter 22 / Article 32 / Section 22-3222
22-3222 - Mental examination, commitment to certain institutions.
Status: in_force

22-3222. M ental examination, commitment to certain institutions. In any case in which the defendant is found not guilty of a charged crime, and the special question under K.S.A. 22-3221 is answered in the affirmative and the defendant is also found guilty of a lesser included or otherwise charged offense, the court shall proceed in the manner authorized by K.S.A. 22-3429 et seq., and amendments thereto. The provisions of this section shall be in force and take effect on and after January 1, 1996.