Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 4 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › Article 34 - INDUSTRIAL HEMP › Section 4-34-9 - State educational institution research license

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) Each state educational institution
			 wanting to allow individuals to conduct research pursuant to the pilot program
			 shall authorize this participation and shall be directly responsible for any
			 volunteer, student, employee, or research and extension employee conducting the
			 research.
(b) Each volunteer,
			 student, employee, or research and extension employee of a state educational
			 institution that wants to conduct research pursuant to the pilot program shall
			 submit a completed, accurate, and legible research license application for a
			 state educational institution research license. Each research license
			 application shall designate the individual wanting to be a primary licensee and
			 list all proposed licensees. Each research license application shall include a
			 research proposal and the required state and national criminal history record
			 check.
No application fees or license fees shall be assessed to any
				individuals wanting a state educational institution research license. However,
				the costs associated with fingerprinting and the state and national criminal
				history record check shall be the responsibility of any individual wanting a
				state educational institution research license.
(c) Volunteers, students, employees, and
			 research and extension employees of a state educational institution shall not
			 apply for a license or conduct research without first obtaining written
			 approval from the head of any applicable department stating that the individual
			 wanting to be a primary licensee and the proposed licensees are part of a
			 sanctioned state educational institution research proposal, which shall be
			 submitted with the research license application. Each individual wanting to be
			 the primary licensee on a state educational institution research license shall
			 apply for and obtain that license before conducting research or having
			 industrial hemp plants, plant parts, grain, or seeds at any location in
			 Kansas.
(d) Each individual wanting
			 to be the primary licensee on a state educational institution research license
			 shall identify the following on the research license application:
(1) Each owner of all land, structures, and
			 buildings where any proposed research will be conducted;
(2) each owner of any motor vehicle that will
			 be used to distribute or transport industrial hemp plants, plant parts, grain,
			 or seeds;
(3) each individual that
			 will own 10 percent or more of the industrial hemp plants, plant parts, grain,
			 or seeds being cultivated, planted, or grown;
(4) each individual that will otherwise be
			 involved in the research proposal, including volunteers, students, employees,
			 research and extension employees, and any other individuals that will be
			 engaged in the purchasing, researching, cultivating, planting, growing,
			 handling, harvesting, conditioning, storing, distributing, transporting,
			 processing, studying, analyzing, or selling of industrial hemp plants, plant
			 parts, grain, or seeds; and
(5) all
			 individuals that will have access to any proposed research area.