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K.S.A. § 12-2615 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 26 / Section 12-2615
12-2615 - Uninsured risks; payment of; funds.
Status: in_force

12-2615. Uninsured risks; payment of; funds. (a) The governing body of any city, county or school district may pay the costs relating to any uninsured loss. The governing body of a city or county may pay such costs from the risk management reserve fund of the city or county. The board of education of any school district may pay such costs from the special reserve fund of the district. The resolution establishing such risk management reserve fund shall prescribe the purposes for which moneys in the fund may be used, and any expenditure therefrom shall require the approval of the governing body. Moneys may be paid into such risk management reserve fund or special reserve fund from any source which may be utilized for such purposes, including transfers from the general fund, from any special liability expense fund established in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-6110, and amendments thereto, or from any other fund or grant program account of the governmental unit in reasonable proportion to the estimated cost of self insuring the risk losses covered by such funds. Such funds shall not be subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 79-2925 through 79-2937, and amendments thereto. In making the budget of such city, county or school district, the amounts credited to and the amount on hand in such reserve fund, and the amount expended therefrom, shall be included in the annual budget for the information of the residents. Interest earned on the investment of moneys in such reserve fund shall be credited to such fund.

(b) If the governing body of any city, county or school district determines on an actuarial basis that money which has been credited to such fund, or any part thereof, is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was established, the governing body may transfer such amount not needed to the funds or accounts from which the money was received. Any money so transferred shall be budgeted in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 79-2925 through 79-2937, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 25-4610 — KS Code / Chapter 25 / Article 46 / Section 25-4610
25-4610 - Testing of equipment before election; notice; additional tests; disposition of ballots and programs.
Status: in_force

25-4610. Testing of equipment before election; notice; additional tests; disposition of ballots and programs. (a) The optical scanning equipment may be located at any place within the county approved by the county election officer.

(b) Within 30 days prior to the date of the election, the county election officer shall have the optical scanning equipment tested to ascertain that the equipment will correctly count the votes cast for all offices and on all questions submitted. Public notice of the time and place of the test shall be given at least 48 hours prior thereto by publication once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where such equipment is to be used and on the county website, if the county has a website. The test shall be open to representatives of the political parties, candidates, the press and the public. The test shall be conducted by processing a preaudited group of ballots marked to record a predetermined number of valid votes for each candidate and on each question submitted and shall include for each office one or more ballots that have votes in excess of the number allowed by law in order to test the ability of the optical scanning equipment to reject such votes. If any error is detected, the cause therefor shall be ascertained and corrected and an errorless count shall be made before the optical scanning equipment is approved. The test shall be repeated within five business days after the completion of the canvass. The programs and ballots shall be sealed, retained and disposed of in the same manner as paper ballots.
K.S.A. § 25-604 — KS Code / Chapter 25 / Article 6 / Section 25-604
25-604 - Printing of ballots; receipt by county election officers; inspection by candidates and agents; mistakes; sample ballots and lists of candidates and questions, distribution and charges; rules and regulations by secretary of state; delivery of ballots to supervising judges, time and packaging.
Status: in_force

25-604. Printing of ballots; receipt by county election officers; inspection by candidates and agents; mistakes; sample ballots and lists of candidates and questions, distribution and charges; rules and regulations by secretary of state; delivery of ballots to supervising judges, time and packaging. (a) The county election officers shall have charge of the printing of the ballots for all elections, primary, special and general.

(b) Nothing in this subsection shall apply to the printing of ballot labels for use on voting machines.

(c) The ballots shall be printed on paper of sufficient strength as not to be punctured by ordinary pencil marking. Ballots shall be put in the possession of the county election officer at least five days before the election, accompanied by sufficient number, not to exceed 50 for each precinct or area, of exact copies of such ballots, printed on paper of any color, except white, as authorized by rules and regulations adopted by the secretary of state, for the inspection of candidates and agents of the candidates and for distribution through each of the party organizations. If any mistakes are discovered they shall be corrected without delay. County election officers may also obtain and distribute ballots or lists of candidates and other questions to be voted upon on paper of any color authorized by rules and regulations adopted by the secretary of state stamped "SAMPLE BALLOT" in large letters, and these ballots, lists of candidates and other questions to be voted upon shall be used for educational purposes and the distribution shall be for such purpose. The county election officers shall cause to be delivered to the supervising judges, not less than 12 hours before the time fixed by law for the opening of the polls, a number of properly printed ballots fully sufficient to meet the demands and needs of all the voters. Such ballots shall be put in separate sealed packages of 25, 50 or 100 ballots each, with marks on the outside clearly designating the voting place for which they are intended and the number of ballots enclosed. The county election officer shall retain at the county election office an additional supply of ballots to meet any emergency need for such ballots that might arise from loss or destruction of ballots, enlarged vote or any other legitimate cause. The county election officer may make a charge for all sample ballots, lists and materials distributed in an amount not to exceed the actual cost of the materials, printing and the distribution thereof.
K.S.A. § 4-221 — KS Code / Chapter 4 / Article 2 / Section 4-221
4-221 - 20th judicial district.
Status: in_force

4-221. 20 th judicial district. The counties of Stafford, Barton, Russell, Ellsworth and Rice shall constitute the 20 th judicial district. There shall be three district judges in such district. The judge holding one of the district judge positions shall be a resident of Stafford, Russell, Ellsworth or Rice county and the judge holding another such position shall be a resident of Barton county. The position of the third district judge shall be in Barton county.
K.S.A. § 65-485 — KS Code / Chapter 65 / Article 4 / Section 65-485
65-485 - Authorization to contract for federal reimbursement.
Status: in_force

65-485. Authorization to contract for federal reimbursement. All rural emergency hospitals, including city, county, hospital district or other governmental or quasi-governmental hospitals, shall be authorized to enter into any contracts required to be eligible for federal reimbursement as a rural emergency hospital.
K.S.A. § 25-2901 — KS Code / Chapter 25 / Article 29 / Section 25-2901
25-2901 - Occupation of voting booths, time limit; voting marks.
Status: in_force

25-2901. Occupation of voting booths, time limit; voting marks. When a voter receives a ballot, or set of ballots, such voter shall go promptly and directly to one of the voting booths and mark the ballots therein. No voter shall be allowed to occupy a booth already occupied by another voter. No voter shall be allowed to occupy a booth more than 10 minutes if other voters are waiting to occupy the same. The voter shall mark the ballot by making a cross or check mark in the voting squares at the left of the names of candidates.
K.S.A. § 25-4167 — KS Code / Chapter 25 / Article 41 / Section 25-4167
25-4167 - Failure to file a campaign finance report; misdemeanor.
Status: in_force

25-4167. Failure to file a campaign finance report; misdemeanor. Failure to file a campaign finance report is (a) the intentional failure of any person required to make any report, amended report or statement by the campaign finance act to file the same with the secretary of state or county election officer at the time specified in the campaign finance act or (b) the intentional failure of any person required by K.S.A. 25-4172, and amendments thereto, to submit a statement to a treasurer to submit the same.

Failure to file a campaign finance report is a class A misdemeanor.
K.S.A. § 17-1754 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 17 / Section 17-1754
17-1754 - Same; transfer when church extinct; determination.
Status: in_force

17-1754. Same; transfer when church extinct; determination. Any Free Methodist Church of North America in this state: (a) Which has ceased or failed to maintain religious worship or services, or to use its property for religious worship or services according to the tenets, usages and customs of the churches in this state for a period of two consecutive years immediately prior thereto; or

(b) whose members have so diminished in numbers or in financial strength as to render it impossible or impracticable for any such church or society to: (1) Maintain religious worship or services, or to maintain its organization;

(2) protect its property from exposure, waste and dilapidation; or

(3) fulfill the purposes for which it was organized, created or incorporated, shall be deemed and taken to be extinct and may by an order of the district court of the county in which such church or society has been theretofore situated to be so declared extinct and dissolved, and thereupon all the property of every kind of such church or society or property which may be held in trust for such church or society shall be transferred to, and the title and possession thereof vested absolutely in the Great Plains Annual Conference of the Free Methodist Church of North America, a corporation.
K.S.A. § 75-1128 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 11 / Section 75-1128
75-1128 - Unlawfully acting as licensed public accountant; penalties.
Status: in_force

75-1128. Unlawfully acting as licensed public accountant; penalties. Any person representing to the public that such person is a licensed municipal public accountant under the laws of this state, or any person, except an assistant to a licensed municipal public accountant or an assistant to a certified public accountant, who accepts any fee or other compensation from any municipality for services as a public auditor or public accountant and who has not received such license or whose license has expired or has been revoked is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be subject to a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 for each offense. Any person convicted under this section shall be ineligible to obtain renewal of a license as a licensed municipal public accountant.
K.S.A. § 58-1014 — KS Code / Chapter 58 / Article 10 / Section 58-1014
58-1014 - Legislative findings.
Status: in_force

58-1014. Legislative findings. The legislature finds:

(a) There are greater opportunities for deception and fraud in public auction sales of new goods, wares and merchandise by itinerant merchants than in public auction sales of new goods, wares and merchandise by established places of business;

(b) that itinerant merchants who conduct such public auction sales require more policing and regulation and are a greater burden to the communities where such sales are held since they assume little or no responsibility for the welfare of such communities as do established businesses;

(c) that public auction sales by itinerant merchants of new goods, wares and merchandise might be used to dispose of stolen new goods, wares and merchandise and thus require more policing and regulation since itinerant merchants are usually one place one day and gone from such place on the following day; and

(d) that itinerant merchants conducting public auction sales of new goods, wares and merchandise frequently leave the state without paying to the director of revenue the Kansas retailers' sales tax which they have or should have collected at the time of making sales at such public auction sales.
K.S.A. § 31-401 — KS Code / Chapter 31 / Article 4 / Section 31-401
31-401 - Title.
Status: in_force

31-401. Title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Kansas arson reporting-immunity act."
K.S.A. § 12-12,111 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 12 / Section 12-12,111
12-12,111 - Citation of act.
Status: in_force

12-12,111. Citation of act. K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 12-12,104 through 12-12,111, and amendments thereto, shall be known and may be cited as the Arkansas city area public library district act.
K.S.A. § 44-502 — KS Code / Chapter 44 / Article 5 / Section 44-502
44-502 - Reservation of penalties.
Status: in_force

44-502. Reservation of penalties. Nothing in this act shall affect the liability of the employer or employee to a fine or penalty under any other statute.
K.S.A. § 60-601 — KS Code / Chapter 60 / Article 6 / Section 60-601
60-601 - Actions concerning real property.
Status: in_force

60-601. Actions concerning real property. The term real property, as used in this section, includes any interest or estate created by an oil, gas or mineral lease, or an oil, gas or mineral royalty. Actions concerning real property must be brought in the county designated in this section.

(a) Eminent domain actions. Eminent domain actions must be brought in the county in which the real estate is situated, except if it be an entire tract situated in two or more counties and there is common ownership, the action may be brought in any county in which a part thereof is situated.

(b) Generally. The following actions must be brought in the county in which the real estate is situated, except if it be an entire tract situated in two or more counties, or if it consists of separate tracts situated in two or more counties, the action may be brought in any county in which any tract or parts thereof is situated:

(1) Actions in ejectment or for the recovery of real property or any estate or interest therein, or to determine adverse claims.

(2) Actions for the partition of real estate or any estate or interest therein.

(3) Actions for the sale of real property or any estate or interest therein, under a mortgage, lien or other encumbrance or charge.

(4) Actions to compel the specific performance of a contract for the sale of real property, or any estate or interest therein. Such action may also be brought in any county where the defendant or any one of the defendants may reside.

(c) Transcript to other counties. Immediately after final judgment the clerk of the district court in which the action was brought shall transmit a transcript of the proceedings to the clerk of the district court in any other county wherein any real property may be affected by such proceedings where the same shall be docketed and filed. The cost of such transcript and filing shall be taxed as costs of the case.
K.S.A. § 17-2033 — KS Code / Chapter 17 / Article 20 / Section 17-2033
17-2033 - mendments to trust instruments; filing fees.
Status: in_force

17-2033. A mendments to trust instruments; filing fees. The trust instrument by which the business trust was created may be amended in the manner specified therein or in such manner as is valid under the common law applicable to business trusts, except that no such amendment adopted subsequent to the preliminary filings required by K.S.A. 17-2030, and amendments thereto, shall be legally effective in this state until an executed copy thereof has been filed in the office of the secretary of state, accompanied by a fee of $20.
K.S.A. § 25-4323 — KS Code / Chapter 25 / Article 43 / Section 25-4323
25-4323 - Same; petition; filing, when; limitations.
Status: in_force

25-4323. Same; petition; filing, when; limitations. (a) No petition for recall of a local officer may be filed during the first one hundred and twenty (120) days of the term of office of the local officer sought to be recalled or within less than one hundred and eighty (180) days of the termination of the term of office of the local officer sought to be recalled.

(b) Only one recall election may be held to recall a particular local officer in a single term of office, and no petition for a second recall election within a single term shall be approved or circulated.

(c) The number of local officers serving on the same governing body which may be subject to recall at the same time shall not exceed a majority of the members of the governing body minus one, and no petition for recall of a local officer serving on a governing body shall be approved if petitions for the recall of other local officers serving on the same governing body have been properly filed and elections thereon have not been held and the number of such other local officers equals a majority of the members of the governing body minus one.
K.S.A. § 12-1747 — KS Code / Chapter 12 / Article 17 / Section 12-1747
12-1747 - Same; revenue bonds defined; recitals.
Status: in_force

12-1747. Same; revenue bonds defined; recitals. Revenue bonds, as the term is used in this act, are defined to be bonds issued by any such city or county to be paid exclusively from the revenue produced by the facilities purchased, acquired, constructed, reconstructed, improved, equipped, furnished, repaired, enlarged or remodeled by the proceeds of such revenue bonds. The revenue bonds shall not be general obligations of the city or county, and shall not contain the recitals set forth in K.S.A. 10-112, or any amendments thereto. The revenue bonds shall, however, contain the following recitals, viz.: Such bonds shall recite the authority under which such revenue bonds are issued, and that they are issued in conformity with the provisions, restrictions and limitations thereof, and that such bonds and the interest thereon are to be paid from the money and revenue received from the fees charged and rental received for the use of the property and facilities purchased, acquired, constructed, reconstructed, improved, equipped, furnished, repaired, enlarged or remodeled by the proceeds, in whole or in part, of such revenue bonds when issued and sold.
K.S.A. § 40-2,214 — KS Code / Chapter 40 / Article 2 / Section 40-2,214
40-2,214 - Same; prescribing of drugs via telemedicine.
Status: in_force

40-2,214. Same; prescribing of drugs via telemedicine. (a) The state board of healing arts, following consultation with the state board of pharmacy and the board of nursing, shall adopt rules and regulations relating to the prescribing of drugs, including controlled substances, via telemedicine. Such rules and regulations shall be adopted by December 31, 2018.

(b) The state board of healing arts shall adopt such rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of Kansas telemedicine act. Such rules and regulation*, shall be adopted by December 31, 2018.

(c) The behavioral sciences regulatory board shall adopt such rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of Kansas telemedicine act. Such rules and regulations shall be adopted by December 31, 2018.
K.S.A. § 34-285 — KS Code / Chapter 34 / Article 2 / Section 34-285
34-285 - Endorser not a guarantor.
Status: in_force

34-285. Endorser not a guarantor. The endorsement of a receipt shall not make the endorser liable for any failure on the part of the warehouseman or previous endorsers of the receipt to fulfill their respective obligations.
K.S.A. § 44-1036 — KS Code / Chapter 44 / Article 10 / Section 44-1036
44-1036 - Severability.
Status: in_force

44-1036. Severability. If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the act and the application of the provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
K.S.A. § 8-257 — KS Code / Chapter 8 / Article 2 / Section 8-257
8-257 - Surrender of license; division authorized to destroy; application.
Status: in_force

8-257. Surrender of license; division authorized to destroy; application. (a) The division, upon suspending or revoking a license, shall require that such license shall be surrendered to the division.

(b) Upon the receipt of any Kansas driver's license or permit that has been surrendered under any provision of law, and notwithstanding any other provision of law that requires the division to retain the license or permit, the division may destroy such license or permit.

(c) For purposes of this section, the term "surrendered" shall include, but not be limited to, Kansas drivers' licenses and permits received by the division due to the application of the following statutes: K.S.A. 8-246, 8-250, 8-253, 8-255, 8-260, 8-292, 8-298, 8-2,142, 8-1002, 8-1567a, 8-1599 and 8-2117 and K.S.A. 38-2361, and amendments thereto.
K.S.A. § 9-1138 — KS Code / Chapter 9 / Article 11 / Section 9-1138
9-1138 - School savings deposit program; requirements; definitions.
Status: in_force

9-1138. School savings deposit program; requirements; definitions. (a) As used in this section:

(1) "Accredited school" means any school operated by a public school district organized under the laws of this state and any nonpublic school accredited by the state board of education.

(2) "Board" means the board of education of a school district and the governing authority of an accredited nonpublic school.

(b) In order to encourage savings among school children, a bank may enter into a written agreement with a board of an accredited elementary or secondary school to establish a school savings deposit program. Such program shall be limited to the opening of accounts and the periodic collection, by bank employees or school personnel, of deposits from school children for deposit in such bank accounts.

(c) No such program shall be implemented until the executed agreement and any information deemed necessary has been submitted to the commissioner. If the commissioner determines the agreement and proposed program primarily promote educational objectives and the purpose of this section, the commissioner shall provide the bank with written approval to implement the program.

(d) Any bank participating in such school savings deposit program shall have the bank's main or branch office located in the same county as the participating school, or if no bank in the county wants to participate in such program, then banks in any contiguous county may participate.