The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18
fPublisbed in The Topeka State Journal
March Is, 1915
BILL No. &C.,.

SENATE BILL No. &C.,
AN ACT relating to naming and MARKING
of highways and providing penalties for
markings. embIems or designs, or for
the erection of any false or misleading
signs on such highways.
Be it enacted by the Legislature OF the
State of Kansas:
Section l. Any association or corpora
ton organized TO promote the improve rove
ment and marking OF any 1ntefc4um.y ti sea,
highway, may by making application 70
the secretary of state, register in the Oh
bIem and color combination or design,
used in marking said route. together with
map showing IND one aoa shall he in the
form prescribed by the secretary of state,
and shall be duly acknowledged by the
president and secretary OF the ASSOCIATION
or CORPORATION, and be accompanied by a
fee of five dollars ($5.00) which fee shall
be used to pay the tn te eEpe ea -
Sec. g. In any case where any assoc1a,
ton corporation has heretofore adopted
a name emblem and color scheme, and
caused the same to be used along an estab-
lished line of travel, suck association or
corporation shall have the prior right
thereto.
Sec T. The secretary of state shall have
power to determine priority or right to
the use of the name, emblem, color com.
bination and design. If the secretary of
state shall after Investigation adjudge the
anpIication meritorious and the route to
be worthy of the protection of this act, he
shall issue to the association or corpora
ton a certificate, which shall designate
the name emblem, color combination and
designs authorized to be used in marking
said highway, together with a map show
shall be filed in the office of the secretary
of state 1t shall be unlawful for any per-
son. association corporation to use the
name color combination, emblem or ueslgh
so authorized on any other road.
Sec D. 1t shall be unlawful for any per-
son, persons, to injure, destroy, or re-
oryfn h1pml designs.
so authorized erected along the highway to
which they belong, or to erect any false or
tion of any road connected Herewith, and
upon conviction thereof, shall be adjudged
guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less
than five dollars $500 nor more than
fifty dollars (SJOOO)-
See G. When any highway has been
established and registered for period OF
five years or more, it shall be the duty of
the county or township board having
jurisdiction of said road to thereafter
maintain the markings and emblems deslg-
mating said highway.
Sec 4 BY and with the consent of the
secretary of state, said association or cor
poration may modify or change the loca-
ton thereof and cause the signs and en-
bIems to be changed from the old to the
sec s. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its publication in
the official state paper.
/ hereby certify that the above Bill orig
mated in the Senate, and passed that body
March 4th, 1915.
House amendments.
W. Y. MORGAN.
President of the Senate
BURT +. BROWN,
Secretary of the Senate.
Passed the House March 10th, 1915.
ROBERT STONE.
Speaker of the House.
l. E. LAMBERT.
Chief Clerk of the House.
Approved March 16, 1915.
ARTHUR CAPPER. Governor.
State of Kansas.
Office of Secretary of State.
l. J. T. BOTKIN, Secretary of State of
the State of Kansas, do hereby certify that
the above and foregoing is correct copy
of the original enrolled bill now file in
my office.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, / have
hereunto subscribed my name
ISealI and affixed my official seal. this
18th day of March. 1915.
J. L. BOTKIN. Secretary of State.
By T.. A. CORNELL.
Asst. Secretary of State.