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KS Stat § 73-213 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 2 - Veterans' Preference|73-213 Definitions.

73-213. Definitions. For the purposes of this act, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:(a) "Act" means K.S.A. 73-213 through 73-219, and amendments thereto.(b) "Appointive authority" means the person, board, commission or other authority vested by law with power to appoint a successor for an officer when a vacancy occurs in the office or position held by such officer. If no person, board, commission, or other authority is vested by law with power to appoint a successor for an officer when a vacancy occurs then "appointive authority" means the governor of the state of Kansas.(c) "Military service" means active service in the army, navy, marine corps, air force, coast guard, space force, Kansas army or air national guard or any branch of the military reserves of the United States.(d) "Officer" means any officer or employee of the state of Kansas or any political subdivision thereof.(e) "Temporary vacancy" means a vacancy in an office or position caused by the absence in military service of the officer elected or appointed thereto. If the officer was originally elected or appointed for a definite term, "temporary vacancy" means the period of time beginning with the day such officer enters military service and ending either with the day such officer returns from military service or with the expiration of the appointed or elected term, whichever period of time is shorter. If the officer was originally appointed to the office or position for an indefinite term or for a term expiring at the pleasure of the appointive authority, such "temporary vacancy" means the period of time beginning with the day such officer enters military service and ending either with the day such officer shall return from military service, or with the expiration of the appointive power of the original appointive authority, whichever period of time is shorter.History: L. 1941, ch. 355, § 1; L. 2021, ch. 97, § 5; January 1, 2022.
KS Stat § 73-214 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 2 - Veterans' Preference|73-214 Vacancies that do not create forfeiture or vacancy; references in laws construed.

73-214. Vacancies that do not create forfeiture or vacancy; references in laws construed. The absence of any officer from an office or position caused by military service shall not create a forfeiture of or vacancy in the office or position to which such officer was elected or appointed but shall be construed to create a temporary vacancy. Wherever the terms "forfeiture of office" or "vacancy in office" or other words of like effect are used in any law of this state in relation to an officer such as defined in this act, such terms or words shall be construed in accordance with the provisions of this section and shall not be construed to apply to any absence of such officer who is absent from an office or position by reason of military service.History: L. 1941, ch. 355, § 2; L. 2021, ch. 97, § 6; January 1, 2022.
KS Stat § 73-215 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 2 - Veterans' Preference|73-215 Temporary appointments; military service.

73-215. Temporary appointments; military service. (a) (1) If an officer's military service creates a temporary vacancy that is determined by such officer to require a temporary appointment, such officer shall submit an approved form to the designated office as set out in paragraph (2).(2) (A) If the officer is an elected state official, the form shall be approved by and filed with the secretary of state.(B) If the officer is an elected official of a political subdivision, the form shall be filed with the county clerk of the county containing the largest portion of the territory of the political subdivision.(C) If the officer is an employee who is not an elected official, the form shall be approved by and filed with the employee's human resources department or other official as determined by such officer's employer.(3) The officer shall also submit an approved form to the designated office upon return from military service.(b) If an officer's military service creates a temporary vacancy in an office or position and the form prescribed in (a) has been filed:(1) The appointive authority for a partisan elective office shall appoint a person to temporarily fill such office or position using the procedures in K.S.A. 25-3901 et seq., and amendments there to; and(2) The appointive authority for an elective office that is nonpartisan and for an employee who is not an elected official may appoint a person to temporarily fill such office or position.(c) All such appointees shall hold the office or position during such temporary vacancy.History: L. 1941, ch. 355, § 3; L. 2021, ch. 97, § 7; January 1, 2022.
KS Stat § 73-216 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 2 - Veterans' Preference|73-216 Powers and duties; compensation.

73-216. Powers and duties; compensation. The person appointed in accordance with the provisions of this act to temporarily fill any office or position shall have and may exercise all the rights, powers, authority and jurisdiction and shall perform the duties, vested in, or required by law of the officer whose office or position such person is so appointed to temporarily fill and shall receive the same salary, fees, expenses or other compensation as such officer would be entitled to receive.History: L. 1941, ch. 355, § 4; Feb. 24.
KS Stat § 73-217 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 2 - Veterans' Preference|73-217 Qualifications.

73-217. Qualifications. Every person who shall be appointed to temporarily fill any office or position shall possess the qualifications prescribed by law, if any, for the regular holder of such office or position.History: L. 1941, ch. 355, § 5; L. 1967, ch. 434, § 22; July 1.
KS Stat § 73-218 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 2 - Veterans' Preference|73-218 Officer absent while in military service is not entitled to compensation; status upon return.

73-218. Officer absent while in military service is not entitled to compensation; status upon return. An officer who is absent from an office or position while in military service shall not be entitled to any compensation as such officer during such absence. If the officer returns before the expiration of the period of the temporary vacancy created by the officer's absence, such officer shall be entitled to immediate possession of such office or position and, upon reassuming the duties of the office, to receive the compensation for the remainder of the term to which the holder thereof is entitled, subject to removal from office according to law.History: L. 1941, ch. 355, § 6; L. 2021, ch. 97, § 8; January 1, 2022.
KS Stat § 73-219 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 2 - Veterans' Preference|73-219 Severability clause for 2021 House Bill No. 2332, chapter 97 of the 2021 Session Laws of Kansas.

73-219. Severability clause for 2021 House Bill No. 2332, chapter 97 of the 2021 Session Laws of Kansas. The provisions of this act are declared to be severable and if any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid for any reason, such invalidity shall not affect the other provisions or applications of this act.History: L. 1941, ch. 355, § 7; L. 2021, ch. 97, § 9; January 1, 2022.
KS Stat § 73-220 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 2 - Veterans' Preference|73-220 Application of certain act [*].

73-220. Application of certain act [*]. The provisions of this act [*] shall apply to all persons who served overseas during world war II and to all persons who served overseas with the armed forces of the United States during the military, naval and air operations in Korea or other places under the flag of the United States and the United Nations or under the flag of the United States alone, as members of the American red cross nurse corps.History: L. 1945, ch. 301, § 11; L. 1951, ch. 429, § 3; June 30.* "Provisions of this act," see, also, 73-201, 73-202, 73-207, 73-304, 73-307, 73-401, 73-417, 73-430, 75-2955.
KS Stat § 73-230 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 2 - Veterans' Preference|73-230 Preference in awarding certain contracts by secretary of administration; disabled veteran businesses in Kansas; report.

73-230. Preference in awarding certain contracts by secretary of administration; disabled veteran businesses in Kansas; report. (a) In awarding any contract for the performance of any job or service for which moneys appropriated are to be expended, the secretary of administration, or the secretary's designee, shall give a preference to disabled veteran businesses doing business as Kansas firms, corporations or individuals, or which maintain Kansas offices or places of business and shall have the goal of awarding at least 3% of all such contracts to disabled veteran businesses.(b) On or before October 1, 2015, the secretary of administration shall file with the Kansas commission on veterans affairs* a report of the number of contracts awarded to disabled veteran businesses during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, and the number of such businesses that responded to solicitations of bids or proposals issued by the department of administration during such fiscal year.(c) As used in this section:(1) "Disabled veteran" means a person who has served in the armed forces of the United States and who is entitled to compensation for a service-connected disability, according to the laws administered by the veterans administration, or who is entitled to compensation for the loss, or permanent loss of use, of one or both feet or one or both hands, or for permanent visual impairment of both eyes to a prescribed degree.(2) "Disabled veteran business" means a business: (A) Not less than 51% of which is owned by one or more disabled veterans or, in the case of a publicly owned business, not less than 51% of the stock of which is owned by one or more disabled veterans; and (B) the management and daily business operations of which are controlled by one or more disabled veterans.History: L. 2014, ch. 129, § 5; July 1.* Kansas commission on veterans affairs should be Kansas commission on veterans affairs office.
KS Stat § 73-231 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 2 - Veterans' Preference|73-231 Permissive preference in private employment.

73-231. Permissive preference in private employment. (a) As used in this section, "veteran" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in K.S.A. 73-201, and amendments thereto.(b) There is hereby established a permissive preference in private employment for veterans.(c) A private employer may adopt an employment policy that gives preference in hiring to a veteran, provided that the veteran meets the requirements of the vacant position.(d) Such employment policy shall be:(1) In writing; and(2) applied consistently to all decisions regarding initial employment.(e) The veteran shall submit proof of such veteran's military service and honorable discharge or general discharge under honorable conditions to a private employer with such veterans preference employment policy to establish eligibility for the preference.History: L. 2015, ch. 76, § 1; July 1.
KS Stat § 73-301 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 3 - Burial|73-301 Burial of Union soldiers, sailors or marines or their wives or widows.

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.History: L. 1885, ch. 184, § 1; L. 1907, ch. 376, § 1; R.S. 1923, 73-301; L. 1927, ch. 284, § 1; June 1.
KS Stat § 73-302 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 3 - Burial|73-302 Same; marking of graves.

73-302. Same; marking of graves. The grave of any such deceased soldier, sailor or marine shall be marked by a headstone containing the name of deceased, and the organization to which he belonged or in which he served in the Union army or navy: Provided, That such headstone shall not cost more than the sum of twenty dollars, and shall be of such design and material as may be approved by the board of county commissioners.History: L. 1885, ch. 184, § 2; Mar. 14; R.S. 1923, 53-302.
KS Stat § 73-303 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 3 - Burial|73-303 Same; payment by county.

73-303. Same; payment by county. The expenses of such burial and headstones shall be paid by the county in which such soldier, sailor or marine resided in the time of his death; and the board of county commissioners of such county is authorized and directed to audit the account and pay the said expenses in a similar manner as other accounts against such county are audited and paid.History: L. 1885, ch. 184, § 3; Mar. 14; R.S. 1923, 73-303.
KS Stat § 73-304 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 3 - Burial|73-304 Burial of certain veterans, spouses or parents.

73-304. Burial of certain veterans, spouses or parents. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners in each of the counties of this state to cause to be decently interred the body of any honorably discharged person who served in the armed forces of the United States during the Spanish-American war, the Philippine insurrection, the expedition to China, world war I or world war II, or who served with the armed forces of the United States during the military, naval and air operations in Korea or other places under the flags of the United States and the United Nations or under the flag of the United States alone, or the body of the spouse or parent of any such honorably discharged person, who may hereafter die without leaving sufficient means to defray funeral expenses; or to cause the removal of the body of any member of the armed forces as above defined buried in grounds reserved exclusively for pauper dead to other portions of cemeteries or burial grounds. Such burial shall not be made in any cemetery or burial ground or that portion of the burial ground used exclusively for the burial of pauper dead: Provided, That in case surviving relatives of the deceased shall desire to conduct the funeral, and are unable or unwilling to pay the charges therefor, they shall be permitted to do so, and the expense shall be paid in the amount and manner provided by K.S.A. 39-713(l) of the General Statutes Supplement of 1955 or amendments thereto [*].History: L. 1907, ch. 375, § 1; R.S. 1923, 73-304; L. 1927, ch. 284, § 2; L. 1945, ch. 301, § 5; L. 1951, ch. 429, § 4; L. 1957, ch. 421, § 1; June 29.* Section now repealed.
KS Stat § 73-305 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 3 - Burial|73-305 Same; payment by county.

73-305. Same; payment by county. The expenses for the burial or removal of any soldier, as provided for in K.S.A. 73-304, shall be paid by the county wherein such burial or removal takes place.History: L. 1907, ch. 375, § 2; May 27; R.S. 1923, 73-305.
KS Stat § 73-306 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 3 - Burial|73-306 Removal of remains of deceased ex-soldiers from abandoned cemetery or pauper burying ground.

73-306. Removal of remains of deceased ex-soldiers from abandoned cemetery or pauper burying ground. It shall be the duty of the trustees of the several townships of this state, and of the mayors of the cities of the first and second class of this state, to cause to be removed the remains of any deceased ex-soldiers of the civil war of 1861-1865, also ex-soldiers of the Spanish-American war, also members of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Kansas cavalry, which may be buried in any abandoned cemetery, or in any ground set apart for the burial of paupers, in such township or city, from such abandoned cemetery or pauper burying ground to some regularly chartered cemetery, or to some cemetery specially set apart for the burial of deceased ex-soldiers within the same county; and the expense of such removal shall be paid by the county in which such removal is made: Provided, That the expense of such removal shall in no case exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars for each body so removed: And provided further, That no county shall be required to pay the expenses of the removal of any such remains to any place outside of the county in which the same was originally buried.History: L. 1909, ch. 221, § 1; May 29; R.S. 1923, 73-306.
KS Stat § 73-307 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 3 - Burial|73-307 Burial of veterans dying while inmates of state charitable institutions, removal of remains.

73-307. Burial of veterans dying while inmates of state charitable institutions, removal of remains. No ex-soldier of the civil war of 1861-1865, also ex-soldiers of the Spanish-American war, also members of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Kansas cavalry, also honorably discharged persons who served in the armed forces of the United States during world war I, world war II, or during the military, naval and air operations in Korea or other places under the flags of the United States and the United Nations or under the flag of the United States alone, who shall die while an inmate of any of the charitable institutions of this state, unless such ex-soldier shall have so requested in writing and signed by such person or his guardian so requesting, shall be buried in the cemetery of such charitable institution.It shall be the duty of the board of charitable institutions [*] of the state of Kansas to cause all ex-service persons of the civil war and of the Spanish-American war, also members of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Kansas cavalry, also honorably discharged persons who served in the armed forces of the United States during world war I, world war II, or during the military, naval and air operations in Korea or other places under the flags of the United States and the United Nations or under the flag of the United States alone, who shall die while an inmate of any charitable institution of the state, to be buried in some regularly chartered cemetery, or in some burying ground specially set apart for the burial of ex-service persons of the civil war and of the Spanish-American war, or any persons who served in the armed forces of the United States during world war I, world war II or during the military, naval and air operations in Korea or other places under the flags of the United States and the United Nations or under the flag of the United States alone.It shall further be the duty of said board of administration of the charitable institutions [*] of this state to cause to be removed from the cemeteries of all state charitable institutions under its control the remains of any persons having served in any of the wars in which the United States has been engaged, and also members of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Kansas cavalry, which may be buried therein, to some regularly chartered cemetery, or to some burial ground specially set apart for the burial of all persons having served in any of the wars in which the United States has been engaged, and also members of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Kansas cavalry.History: L. 1909, ch. 221, § 2; R.S. 1923, 73-307; L. 1945, ch. 301, § 6; L. 1951, ch. 429, § 5; June 30.* "Charitable institutions" are now under the control of the secretary for aging and disability services. The Kansas soldiers' home is under the control of the Kansas veterans' commission (see 76-1904).
KS Stat § 73-308 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 3 - Burial|73-308 Same; payment by state.

73-308. Same; payment by state. The state director of accounts and reports is hereby authorized to draw his warrants on the treasurer of state for the payment of the necessary expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of K.S.A. 73-307, upon duly verified vouchers approved by the said board of administration of charitable institutions [*] of the state of Kansas.History: L. 1909, ch. 221, § 3; May 29; R.S. 1923, 73-308.* "Charitable institutions" are now under the control of the secretary for aging and disability services (see 76-12a06). The Kansas soldiers' home is under the control of the Kansas veterans' commission (see 76-1904).
KS Stat § 73-309 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems|Article 3 - Burial|73-309 Military honors funeral fund; adjutant general.

73-309. Military honors funeral fund; adjutant general. (a) There is hereby established in the state treasury the military honors funeral fund which shall be administered by the adjutant general. All expenditures of moneys in the military honors funeral fund shall be used for the purpose of providing military honors funerals and shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the adjutant general or by a person or persons designated by the adjutant general. The adjutant general may accept all gifts, grants, donations and bequests to the fund. The adjutant general shall remit all moneys received under this section to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the military honors funeral fund.(b) On or before the 10th of each month, the director of accounts and reports shall transfer from the state general fund to the military honors funeral fund interest earnings based on:(1) The average daily balance of moneys in the military honors funeral fund for the preceding month; and(2) the net earnings rate for the pooled money investment portfolio for the preceding month.History: L. 2014, ch. 129, § 1; July 1.