Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 19 - GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS COMMISSION › Article 41 - STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL INTERESTS › Section 19-41-1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
For the purposes of this article, the following words and
				phrases are defined below.
(a) "Blind trust" means a trust established by a state officer
				or state employee or the individual's spouse for the purpose of divestiture of
				all control and knowledge of assets.
(b) "Combination of businesses" means any two or more
				businesses owned or controlled directly by the same interests.
(c) "Description of interests" means the type of ownership
				interest held, including common stock, preferred stock, stock option and
				limited partnership.
(d) "Equitable interest" means an actual beneficial ownership,
				though legal title may not be shown on public, partnership or corporate
				re-cords.
(e) "General counsel" means any attorney for a state agency to
				whom the agency turns for legal advice concerning the general operation of the
				agency. This definition shall include any private attorney hired on a contract
				basis to give legal advice, as well as any in-house counsel for the state
				agency who is the chief legal counsel for the agency. The definition shall not
				include any attorney assigned to an agency by the attorney general from the
				attorney general's staff to serve as the the agency's primary legal advisor,
				unless the attorney is budgeted for by a separate agency or division, has
				permanent offices within the agency or division, or unless the individual falls
				under any other provision of K.S.A. 1991 Supp. 46-247. The definition shall not
				apply to any private attorney who is retained solely to handle specific
				litigation for an agency. Any in-house counsel other than the head of the legal
				division of a specific agency shall not be required to file unless the
				individual falls under any other provision of K.S.A. 1991 Supp. 46-247.
(f) "Members of state councils, commissions and boards" means
				members of state authorities, compacts and committees or similar state agencies
				who receive compensation from the state when such member is engaged in
				performing a function or duty for such council, commission, board, authority,
				compact or committee or similar state agency. Excluded from this definition are
				entities of the judicial branch or any member of a board, council or commission
				who is appointed by the supreme court or who is elected or appointed to
				exercise duties pertaining to functions of the judicial branch, when such
				person is engaged in performing a function or duty for the judicial branch.
(g) "Other business interest" means any endeavor which produces
				income, including appraisals, consulting, authorships, inventing or the sale of
				goods and services. It is unnecessary, for the purposes of this definition,
				that the interest have a formal business name or formal business structure.
(h) "Ownership interest" means a legal or equitable interest in
				any business or combination of businesses.
(i) "Trust" means a trust in which any state officer or
				employee or the individual's spouse has a present or future interest which
				exceeds five percent of the value of the trust or exceeds five thousand
				dollars, whichever is less, but does not include blind trusts.
(j) "Type of business" means the nature of the business
				activity in which the entity engages, including construction, retailing and
				manufacturing.