The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-31
SENATE BILL NO. 5o7.

AN ACT Prohibiting Business Colleges,
or Commercial Departments from Send
State to Sell Tuition or Scholarships
Without First Obtaining Permission
from the State Superintendent of Public
instruction, and Providing a Penalty for
the Violation of the act.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
Section /. That it shall be unlawful for
any representative or any agent of any
business ss eolege OF s9mmercial deparit +,
the state of Kansas for the purpose of
selling tuition in advance, or to contract,
or to secure their note for any tuition be-
fore the registration of said student in the
college register at the college, without the
school first making application to the
and receiving from him a written permit
granting such school this privilege. The
state superintendent of public instruction,
before granting such a permit, publish
notice of said application in the official
the end of which time, he shall grant the
school. making application, such permit;
ha n6 to m
ter a diligent inquiry, that said school, or
business college, or commercial depart
course of instruction as it advertises, or
that the moral surroundings of the. in
stitution are not good. or that the prem
said institution use INTERPRETATIONS
tracts. notes, or cash from prospective
students, and in either of these cases, he
shall refuse to grant them permit.
ness college. commercial school. or com
mercial department of any other school
permit to ae vas and soGn school sha al
secure a permit, then the state superin-
tendent of public instruction shall revoke
to that school until he is satisfied that
they will comply with the foregoing re-
quirements.
Sec. 8. Any agent representative Of
any such school doing business within the
state, or without the state, when !operat-
ing within the state of Kansas, SHALL upon
request of any person. show a permit or
certified copy thereof, showing that the
e eh9el ne Mtp fbs sta has
Sec. 4. Any person who shall violate
this act by canvassing for students with
the intention of selling tuition for cash,
contract, or note for any business college.
commercial school. or any commercial de-
partment OF any other school s without inst
tendent of public instruction, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof, shall be punished
by fine of not less than one hundred
dollars and not more than five hundred
dollars or by Imprisonment not to exceed
thirty days, or by both such fine and i'm
prisonment.
Sec. 8. Any note or contract taken by
cial department of any other school or
their agents or REPRESENTATIVES. for tut
ton without first having compiled with
the provisions of this act shall be void.
Sec 6. This act shall take effect and be
in full force from and after it publication
in the official state paper.
hereby certify that the above bill orig
mated in the Senate, and passed that body
March 4, 1909.
W. ]. FITZGERALD,
President of the Senate.
z. E. WYANT.
Secretary of the Senate.
Passed the House March s. 1909
j.. N. DOLLEY.
Speaker of the House.
c. H BRILLIANT,
Asst Chief Clerk of the House.
Approved March IL, 1909.
w. r. STUBBS,
STATE OF KANSAS.
Office of the Secretary of State.
I, C. E. DENTON, Secretary of State Of
the State of Kansas, do hereby certify
that the above and foregoing is a correct
copy. OF the original enrolled bill now on
file in my office
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF. I have
hereunto subscribed my name and affixed
my official seal, this 18th day of March.
1909
(SeaI) c. E. DENTON.
Secretary Of State.