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Statute | Kansas State Legislature 2025-2026 Legislative Sessions Click here to view the 2023-2024 Regular Sessions Home • News • Contact • Audio/Video House Proceedings Audio Stream Senate Proceedings Audio Stream Statehouse Live & Archive House, Senate & Committee Video House Leadership Roster --> Committees Assignments --> Rules Current Events Seating Chart Roster Chief Clerk of the House District Maps Senate Leadership Roster --> Committees Assignments --> Confirmations Rules Current Events Seating Chart Roster Secretary of the Senate District Maps Legislators Find your Legislator (by map) --> House Leadership House Roster Senate Leadership Senate Roster Committees Committees Standing Joint Special and Select Commission Subcommittee Task Force Other Conference Schedules Conference Committees Committee Bill Hearings Bills & Laws Senate Bills House Bills Statute Reports Actions and Subject Index Report How a bill becomes law (pdf) Kansas Constitution Contact the Revisor Journals House Journal Senate Journal What is a Journal? Calendars House Calendar Senate Calendar What Is A Calendar? Research Memos/Reports/Publications Appropriations Revenue/Taxation Redistricting About KLRD Historical 2024 Special Session 2023-2024 Regular Sessions 2021-2022 Regular Sessions 2021 Special Session 2020 Special Session 2019-2020 Regular Sessions 2017-2018 Regular Sessions 2016 Special Session 2015-2016 Regular Sessions 2013-2014 Regular Sessions 2013 Special Session 2011-2012 Regular Sessions 2000 - 2010 Committee Data Find Bill Bill/Resolution Lookup: Find Your Legislator Search by Your Address Legislative Deadlines Legislative Deadlines (PDF) Current Events Statute Legislative Resources Administrative Services Division of Post Audit Information Services Research Department Revisor of Statutes LCC Policies About the Legislature Other State Resources Kansas.gov Ethics Commission How Do I… Become A Legislative Intern Become A Legislative Page Apply For Session Work April 21, 2026 latest news: 5 x scrolling news items --> April 21, 2026 • --> -A +A --> House Status: Adjourned until Monday, January 11, 2027 at 02:00 p.m. Senate Status: Adjourned until Monday, January 11, 2027 at 02:00 p.m. current HB current SB --> --> you are here: Home » Statute » Chapter 25 » Article 27 » Section 11 » Legislators --> 2025 Statute Prev Article 27. - VOTING PLACES AND MATERIALS THEREFOR Next 25-2711. Placement of political signs during election period. No city or county shall regulate or prohibit the placement of or the number of political signs on private property or the unpaved right-of-way for city streets or county roads on private property during the 45-day period prior to any election and the two-day period following any such election. Cities and counties may regulate the size and a set-back distance for the placement of signs so as not to impede sight lines or sight distance for safety reasons. History: L. 2015, ch. 85, § 15; July 1. Prev Article 27. - VOTING PLACES AND MATERIALS THEREFOR Next 2026. Powered by KLISS. Rendered: 2026-04-21T11:38:27. Head Rev No: 854918(I)

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Statute | Kansas State Legislature 2025-2026 Legislative Sessions Click here to view the 2023-2024 Regular Sessions Home • News • Contact • Audio/Video House Proceedings Audio Stream Senate Proceedings Audio Stream Statehouse Live & Archive House, Senate & Committee Video House Leadership Roster --> Committees Assignments --> Rules Current Events Seating Chart Roster Chief Clerk of the House District Maps Senate Leadership Roster --> Committees Assignments --> Confirmations Rules Current Events Seating Chart Roster Secretary of the Senate District Maps Legislators Find your Legislator (by map) --> House Leadership House Roster Senate Leadership Senate Roster Committees Committees Standing Joint Special and Select Commission Subcommittee Task Force Other Conference Schedules Conference Committees Committee Bill Hearings Bills & Laws Senate Bills House Bills Statute Reports Actions and Subject Index Report How a bill becomes law (pdf) Kansas Constitution Contact the Revisor Journals House Journal Senate Journal What is a Journal? Calendars House Calendar Senate Calendar What Is A Calendar? Research Memos/Reports/Publications Appropriations Revenue/Taxation Redistricting About KLRD Historical 2024 Special Session 2023-2024 Regular Sessions 2021-2022 Regular Sessions 2021 Special Session 2020 Special Session 2019-2020 Regular Sessions 2017-2018 Regular Sessions 2016 Special Session 2015-2016 Regular Sessions 2013-2014 Regular Sessions 2013 Special Session 2011-2012 Regular Sessions 2000 - 2010 Committee Data Find Bill Bill/Resolution Lookup: Find Your Legislator Search by Your Address Legislative Deadlines Legislative Deadlines (PDF) Current Events Statute Legislative Resources Administrative Services Division of Post Audit Information Services Research Department Revisor of Statutes LCC Policies About the Legislature Other State Resources Kansas.gov Ethics Commission How Do I… Become A Legislative Intern Become A Legislative Page Apply For Session Work April 21, 2026 latest news: 5 x scrolling news items --> April 21, 2026 • --> -A +A --> House Status: Adjourned until Monday, January 11, 2027 at 02:00 p.m. Senate Status: Adjourned until Monday, January 11, 2027 at 02:00 p.m. current HB current SB --> --> you are here: Home » Statute » Chapter 25 » Article 18 » Section 6 » Legislators --> 2025 Statute Prev Article 18. - VOTING BY NEW AND FORMER STATE RESIDENTS IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS Next 25-1806. Marking and disposition of ballot; declaration on return carrier envelope. (a) The applicant upon receiving the ballot for presidential and vice-presidential electors shall mark the ballot and then fold the ballot and deposit it and seal it in an envelope furnished by the county election officer. (b) The voter shall enclose the envelope containing the ballot in a carrier envelope which shall be securely sealed. There shall be imprinted on the outside of the envelope on a form substantially as follows: DECLARATION OF NEW RESIDENT, FORMER RESIDENT OR RELOCATED RESIDENT VOTER I hereby declare that I have qualified as a new resident voter, a former resident voter or relocated resident voter in this state to vote for presidential and vice-presidential electors. I have not applied nor do I intend to apply for any advance voting voter's ballot from any other state or precinct in the case of a relocated resident. I have not voted and I will not vote otherwise than by this ballot. My legal residence (or last residence in Kansas, if a former resident voter or if a relocated resident) is in the ______________ precinct, township of _______________ (or in the ___________ precinct of the __________ ward, __________ street in the city of __________), in the county of _______________, state of Kansas. Dated: _____________________ ____________________ (Signature of voter) Note: False statement on this declaration is a class C misdemeanor. The voter shall sign the declaration upon the carrier envelope as set forth above, and shall then deliver the sealed carrier envelope to the county election officer, who shall keep the carrier envelope in such officer's office until delivered by such officer to the proper election officials to be canvassed. History: L. 1963, ch. 232, § 6; L. 1972, ch. 137, § 6; L. 1976, ch. 182, § 9; L. 1985, ch. 118, § 6; L. 1995, ch. 192, § 41; July 1. Prev Article 18. - VOTING BY NEW AND FORMER STATE RESIDENTS IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS Next 2026. Powered by KLISS. Rendered: 2026-04-21T11:35:25. Head Rev No: 854918(I)

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Application for presidential ballots; new resident; former resident; relocated resident. (a) A person desiring to qualify under this act as a new resident voter to vote for presidential and vice-presidential electors shall submit not more than 45 days prior to such general presidential election nor later than 12 o'clock noon on the Monday preceding the day of such election an application to the county election officer of such person's new residence in the form of an affidavit executed in duplicate substantially as follows: STATE OF ______________ COUNTY OF ______________, ss. I, ______________, do solemnly swear that: I am a citizen of the United States; Before becoming a resident of this state, I resided at ______________ street, in ______________ (Here insert name of town, township, village or city) of ______________ county of the state of ______________; On the day of the next presidential election, I shall be at least eighteen years of age and I have or will have by the time of such next presidential election resided in this state not more than 45 days next preceding such general presidential election and I am now residing in the __________ precinct, township of ______________ (or in the __________ precinct of the __________ ward, ______________ street in the city of ______________), in the county of ______________, state of Kansas; I believe I am entitled under the law of this state to vote at the presidential election to be held November ______, ______; I hereby make application for a presidential and vice-presidential ballot. I have not voted and will not vote otherwise than by this ballot at that election. Signed (Applicant) Subscribed and sworn to before me this ______________ day of ______________, ______. Signed Title and name of officer authorized to administer oath (b) A person desiring to qualify under this act as a former resident voter to vote for presidential and vice-presidential electors is required to have been registered in this state immediately preceding such person's removal from this state. Not more than 45 days prior to such general presidential election nor later than 12 o'clock noon on the Monday preceding the day of such election, such person shall make an application to the office of the county election officer of the county of such person's former residence, in the form of an affidavit executed in duplicate substantially as follows: STATE OF ______________ COUNTY OF ______________, ss. I, ______________, do solemnly swear that: I am a citizen of the United States; Before removing my residence from the state of Kansas on __________, ______, which was within 45 days next preceding the presidential election to be held November ______, ______, I was a registered voter in the ______ precinct, township of ______________ (or in the ______ precinct of the ______ ward, at ______________ street, in the city of _____________) in the county of ______________, state of Kansas, which was my last place of residence prior to my removal from Kansas; I now reside at ______________ street, in ____________________ (Here insert name of town, township, village or city) On the day of the next presidential election, I shall be at least eighteen years of age; I hereby make application for a presidential and vice-presidential ballot. I have not voted and will not vote otherwise than by this ballot at that election. I hereby make application for a presidential and vice-presidential ballot. I have not voted and will not vote otherwise than by this ballot at that election. Signed (Applicant) Subscribed and sworn to before me this ______________ day of ______________, ______. Signed Title and name of officer authorized to administer oath (c) A person desiring to qualify under this act as a relocated resident voter to vote for presidential and vice-presidential electors is required to be registered in such voter's former precinct of residence in this state. Not more than 20 days prior to such general presidential election nor later than 12 o'clock noon on the Monday preceding the day of such election, such person shall make application with the office of the county election officer of the county of such person's new residence, in the form of an affidavit executed in duplicate as follows: STATE OF _____________ COUNTY OF _____________, ss. I, _____________, do solemnly swear that: I am a citizen of the United States; Before relocating my residence on __________, _____, which was not more than 20 days next preceding the presidential election to be held November ______, _____, I was a registered voter in the ______ precinct, township of _____________ (or in the _______ precinct of the _______ ward, at ______________ street, in the city of _____________) in the county of ______________, state of Kansas, which was my last place of residence prior to my relocation in Kansas; I now reside at __________ street, in _____________________(Here insert name of town, township, village or city) of ______________________ county of the state of Kansas; On the day of the next presidential election, I shall be at least eighteen years of age; I believe I am entitled under the law of this state to vote at the presidential election to be held November _____, ______, in the precinct and county of my new residence as above stated. I hereby make application for a presidential and vice-presidential ballot. I have not voted and will not vote otherwise than by this ballot at that election. . Signed (Applicant) Subscribed and sworn to before me this ______________ day of ______________, ______. Signed Title and name of officer authorized to administer oath History: L. 1963, ch. 232, § 2; L. 1972, ch. 137, § 2; L. 1974, ch. 156, § 4; L. 1985, ch. 118, § 2; L. 2000, ch. 56, § 2; July 1. Prev Article 18. - VOTING BY NEW AND FORMER STATE RESIDENTS IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS Next 2026. Powered by KLISS. Rendered: 2026-04-21T11:35:19. Head Rev No: 854918(I)

Statute | Kansas State Legislature 2025-2026 Legislative Sessions Click here to view the 2023-2024 Regular Sessions Home • News • Contact • Audio/Video House Proceedings Audio Stream Senate Proceedings Audio Stream Statehouse Live & Archive House, Senate & Committee Video House Leadership Roster --> Committees Assignments --> Rules Current Events Seating Chart Roster Chief Clerk of the House District Maps Senate Leadership Roster --> Committees Assignments --> Confirmations Rules Current Events Seating Chart Roster Secretary of the Senate District Maps Legislators Find your Legislator (by map) --> House Leadership House Roster Senate Leadership Senate Roster Committees Committees Standing Joint Special and Select Commission Subcommittee Task Force Other Conference Schedules Conference Committees Committee Bill Hearings Bills & Laws Senate Bills House Bills Statute Reports Actions and Subject Index Report How a bill becomes law (pdf) Kansas Constitution Contact the Revisor Journals House Journal Senate Journal What is a Journal? 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Advance voting; ballots and ballot envelopes; form and contents; numbering; declaration, form. When the names to appear on ballots are definitely known and not later than 20 days prior to any primary, general or question submitted election each county election officer shall cause to be prepared such number of advance voting ballots and ballot envelopes as in the election officer's judgment are necessary to carry out the requirements of this act. Except as otherwise provided in this section, such ballots shall contain the names and cities of residence of all persons who are candidates for all national, state, county, city, township and school offices, which names may be written, typewritten or printed. On the same line with each candidate's name shall be a square in the ordinary form, or parentheses in which the voter can place a cross or check mark. In the case of elections required by law to be conducted on a partisan basis, such ballot shall indicate the political party of each candidate. In all counties in which the same, or reproductions of the same, ballots which are presented to electors at the polls for voting on election day can be used for advance voting, the names of candidates for the offices of precinct committeeman and committeewoman shall be printed on the ballots. In counties in which ballots or reproductions of ballots presented to electors at the polls for voting on election day cannot be used for advance voting, the ballots may contain blank lines for writing in names of candidates for precinct committeemen and committeewomen together with the number of the precinct or name of the township of such candidate. On the same line with each blank line shall be a square in the ordinary form or parenthesis in which the voter can place the appropriate mark. The county election officer of any county may number such advance voting ballots. If the county election officer of any county elects to prepare advance voting ballots and ballot envelopes without identifying consecutive numbers, such officer shall prepare and distribute such ballots and envelopes in accordance with a plan approved by the secretary of state. If the county election officer elects to number such ballots, all advance voting ballots shall be consecutively numbered, and the ballot envelope for each ballot, if such envelope is required as provided in K.S.A. 25-1123, and amendments thereto, shall bear the same number as the ballot. The ballot envelope shall also bear a declaration in substance as follows: THIS DECLARATION MUST BE COMPLETED AND SIGNED "I ___________________ do hereby declare that I marked the enclosed ballot and that such ballot was enclosed and sealed in this envelope by me. My legal residence is in the _____________ precinct, ______________ township, (or, in the ________________ precinct of the ______________ ward, ______________ street in the city of ______________), in the county of ______________, state of Kansas. (Signed) ______________." The ballot envelope shall also contain a statement advising the voter that the signed envelope will be separated from the ballot to guarantee the confidentiality of the vote cast. The ballot envelope to be used for voting by a former precinct resident shall also state the place of former residence of the voter and the date of removal therefrom to the voter's present residence. History: L. 1967, ch. 208, § 7; L. 1972, ch. 134, § 2; L. 1973, ch. 154, § 1; L. 1978, ch. 137, § 8; L. 1978, ch. 140, § 2; L. 1983, ch. 124, § 1; L. 1990, ch. 123, § 1; L. 1992, ch. 45, § 1; L. 1993, ch. 287, § 5; L. 1995, ch. 192, § 18; July 1. Prev Article 11. - ADVANCE VOTING Next 2026. Powered by KLISS. Rendered: 2026-04-21T11:34:01. 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Statute | Kansas State Legislature 2025-2026 Legislative Sessions Click here to view the 2023-2024 Regular Sessions Home • News • Contact • Audio/Video House Proceedings Audio Stream Senate Proceedings Audio Stream Statehouse Live & Archive House, Senate & Committee Video House Leadership Roster --> Committees Assignments --> Rules Current Events Seating Chart Roster Chief Clerk of the House District Maps Senate Leadership Roster --> Committees Assignments --> Confirmations Rules Current Events Seating Chart Roster Secretary of the Senate District Maps Legislators Find your Legislator (by map) --> House Leadership House Roster Senate Leadership Senate Roster Committees Committees Standing Joint Special and Select Commission Subcommittee Task Force Other Conference Schedules Conference Committees Committee Bill Hearings Bills & Laws Senate Bills House Bills Statute Reports Actions and Subject Index Report How a bill becomes law (pdf) Kansas Constitution Contact the Revisor Journals House Journal Senate Journal What is a Journal? 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Names of candidates printed on primary election ballots; nomination petitions, form and requirements; declarations of intent with fee; deadline for filing nomination petitions and declarations of intention to become candidate; candidates for municipal office; procedures. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the names of candidates for national, state, county and township offices shall be printed upon the official primary ballot when each shall have qualified to become a candidate by one of the following methods and none other: (1) They shall have had filed in their behalf, not later than 12 noon, June 1, prior to such primary election, or if such date falls on Saturday, Sunday or a holiday, then before 12 noon of the next following day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or a holiday, nomination petitions, as provided for in this act; or (2) they shall have filed not later than the time for filing nomination petitions, as above provided, with the proper officer a declaration of intention to become a candidate, accompanied by the fee required by law. Such declaration shall be prescribed by the secretary of state. (b) Nomination petitions shall be in substantially the following form: I, the undersigned, an elector of the county of ______________, and state of Kansas, and a duly registered voter, and a member of ______________ party, hereby nominate ______________, who resides in the township of ______________ (or at number ________ on ______________ street, city of ______________), in the county of ______________ and state of Kansas, as a candidate for the office of (here specify the office) ______________, to be voted for at the primary election to be held on the first Tuesday in August in ______________, as representing the principles of such party; and I further declare that I intend to support the candidate herein named and that I have not signed and will not sign any nomination petition for any other person, for such office at such primary election. (HEADING) Name of Street Number Name of Date ofSigners. or Rural Route City. Signing. (as registered). All nomination petitions shall have substantially the foregoing form, written or printed at the top thereof. No signature shall be counted unless it is upon a sheet having such written or printed form at the top thereof. (c) Each signer of a nomination petition shall sign but one such petition for the same office, and shall declare that such person intends to support the candidate therein named, and shall add to such person's signature and residence, if in a city, by street and number (if any); or, otherwise by post-office address. No signature shall be counted unless the place of residence of the signer is clearly indicated and the date of signing given as herein required and if ditto marks are used to indicate address they shall be continuous and clearly made. Such sheets shall not be cut or pasted together. (d) All signers of each separate nomination petition shall reside in the same county and election district of the office sought. The affidavit described in this paragraph of a petition circulator as defined in K.S.A. 25-3608, and amendments thereto, or of the candidate shall be appended to each petition and shall contain, at the end of each set of documents carried by each circulator, a verification, signed by the circulator or the candidate, to the effect that such circulator or the candidate personally witnessed the signing of the petition by each person whose name appears thereon. (e) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (g), nomination petitions shall be signed: (1) If for a state officer elected on a statewide basis or for the office of United States senator, by voters equal in number to not less than 1% of the total of the current voter registration of the party designated in the state as compiled by the office of the secretary of state; (2) if for a state or national officer elected on less than a statewide basis, by voters equal in number to not less than 2% of the total of the current voter registration of the party designated in such district as compiled by the office of the secretary of state, except that for the office of district magistrate judge, by not less than 2% of the total of the current voter registration of the party designated in the county in which such office is to be filled as certified to the secretary of state in accordance with K.S.A. 25-3302, and amendments thereto; (3) if for a county office, by voters equal in number to not less than 3% of the total of the current voter registration of the party designated in such district or county as compiled by the county election officer and certified to the secretary of state in accordance with K.S.A. 25-3302, and amendments thereto; and (4) if for a township office, by voters equal in number to not less than 3% of the total of the current voter registration of the party designated in such township as compiled by the county election officer and certified to the secretary of state in accordance with K.S.A. 25-3302, and amendments thereto. (f) Subject to the requirements of K.S.A. 25-202, and amendments thereto, any political organization filing nomination petitions for a majority of the state or county offices, as provided in this act, shall have a separate primary election ballot as a political party and, upon receipt of such nomination petitions, the respective officers shall prepare a separate state and county ballot for such new party in their respective counties or districts thereof in the same manner as is provided for existing parties. (g) In any year in which districts are reapportioned for the offices of representative in the United States congress, senator and representative in the legislature of the state of Kansas or member of the state board of education: (1) If new boundary lines are defined and districts established in the manner prescribed by law on or before May 10, nomination petitions for nomination to such offices shall be signed by voters equal in number to not less than 1% of the total of the current voter registration of the party designated in the district as compiled by the office of the secretary of state. (2) If new boundary lines are defined and districts established in the manner prescribed by law on or after May 11, nomination petitions for nomination to the following offices shall be signed by registered voters of the party designated in the district equal in number to not less than the following: (A) For the office of representative in the United States congress 1,000 registered voters; (B) for the office of member of the state board of education 300 registered voters; (C) for the office of state senator 75 registered voters; and (D) for the office of state representative 25 registered voters. (h) In any year in which districts are reapportioned for the offices of representative in the United States congress, senator and representative in the legislature of the state of Kansas or member of the state board of education: (1) If new boundary lines are defined and districts established in the manner prescribed by law on or before May 10, the deadline for filing nomination petitions and declarations of intention to become a candidate for such office, accompanied by the fee required by law, shall be 12 noon on June 1, or if such date falls on a Saturday, Sunday or a holiday, then before 12 noon of the next following day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or holiday. (2) If new boundary lines are defined and districts established in the manner prescribed by law on or after May 11, the deadline for filing nomination petitions and declarations of intention to become a candidate for such office, accompanied by the fee required by law, shall be 12 noon on June 10, or if such date falls on a Saturday, Sunday or holiday, then before 12 noon of the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or holiday. (i) Primary elections for candidates for municipal office shall be held when otherwise required by law. The names of candidates for municipal offices shall be printed upon the official primary ballot in odd-numbered year elections and in even-numbered years when needed. Persons shall become qualified to become a candidate by one of the following methods: (1) They shall have filed, not later than 12 noon, on June 1, prior to such primary election, or if such date falls on Saturday, Sunday or a holiday, then before 12 noon of the next following day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or a holiday, nomination petitions, as otherwise provided by law; or (2) they shall have filed, not later than the time for filing nomination petitions, as above provided, with the proper officer a declaration of intention to become a candidate, accompanied by the $20 fee required by law. Such declaration shall be prescribed by the secretary of state as provided in K.S.A. 25-21a03, and amendments thereto. History: R.S. 1923, 25-205; L. 1968, ch. 406, § 69; L. 1970, ch. 133, § 1; L. 1971, ch. 125, § 1; L. 1972, ch. 127, § 1; L. 1973, ch. 134, § 30; L. 1976, ch. 180, § 1; L. 1979, ch. 105, § 1; L. 1981, ch. 164, § 1; L. 1982, ch. 154, § 2; L. 1983, ch. 120, § 1; L. 1988, ch. 119, § 1; L. 1989, ch. 106, § 3; L. 1990, ch. 120, § 1; L. 1992, ch. 194, § 1; L. 1992, ch. 237, § 2; L. 1998, ch. 195, § 2; L. 2001, ch. 81, § 1; L. 2001, ch. 211, § 4; L. 2011, ch. 47, § 1; L. 2011, ch. 112, § 4; L. 2014, ch. 98, § 2; L. 2015, ch. 88, § 29; July 1. Prev Article 2. - PRIMARY ELECTIONS Next 2026. Powered by KLISS. Rendered: 2026-04-21T11:32:11. Head Rev No: 854913(I)

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The following terms when used in this act shall be construed to have the meaning ascribed to them in this section: (a) "Person" shall mean any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation; (b) "publication" shall mean the publication in a newspaper or newspapers admitted to the United States mail as second-class matter, of general circulation within the watershed district; (c) "land" shall mean real property as that term is defined by the laws of the state of Kansas, and shall include any road, highway, bridge, street or other right-of-way; (d) "chief engineer" shall mean the chief engineer of the division of water resources of the Kansas department of agriculture; (e) "board" shall mean the board of directors of a watershed district; (f) "district" shall mean an area comprising a watershed or two or more adjoining watersheds exclusive of lands within other organized watershed districts for which organization is proposed or which has been organized under the provisions of article 12 of chapter 24 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto. The district shall not include the territorial limits of any incorporated city unless the petition circulated and filed as provided for in article 12 of chapter 24 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, shall clearly indicate that the territory of such a city is to be included in such watershed district; (g) "specific project" means any project outlined and proposed by the directors and may constitute all or part of a general plan; (h) "watershed" shall mean all of the area within the state draining toward a selected point on any watercourse, stream, lake or depression; (i) "subwatershed" shall mean a division of the district as nearly equal in size to other divisions of the district as feasible and including as nearly as practicable one or more tributaries to the main stream which drains from the district; (j) "qualified voter" shall mean any qualified elector of the district and any person 18 years of age or over owning land within the district, although not a resident therein; (k) "landowner" shall mean the record owner of the fee in any real estate in the district or the fee in the surface rights of any real estate in the district, but the owners of an oil and gas lease, mineral rights or interest, easements or mortgages as such shall not be considered landowners, and school districts, cemetery associations and municipal corporations shall not be considered landowners; (l) "steering committee" shall be the group of qualified voters, not less than the number to be chosen for the board of directors, who shall serve as the governing body of the proposed watershed district until the first board of directors is elected; (m) "general plan" shall mean a preliminary engineering report describing the characteristics of the district, the nature and methods of dealing with the soil and water problems within the district, and the projects proposed to be undertaken by the district. It shall include maps, descriptions and such other data as may be necessary for the location, identification and establishment of the character of the work to be undertaken and such other data and information as the chief engineer may require. History: L. 1953, ch. 477, § 2; L. 1955, ch. 201, § 1; L. 1959, ch. 172, § 1; L. 1961, ch. 193, § 1; L. 1972, ch. 124, § 4; L. 2004, ch. 101, § 73; July 1. Prev Article 12. - WATERSHED DISTRICTS Next 2026. Powered by KLISS. Rendered: 2026-04-21T11:30:49. Head Rev No: 854913(I)

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Hearing and proceedings on the petition; notice; commissioners, bonds, oath and duties; remonstrance by landowners; appeal to supreme court, time. (a) Upon the filing of the petition for drainage, as provided in K.S.A. 24-701, and amendments thereto, in the office of the clerk of the district court, the clerk shall enter a minute of the filing of such petition in the civil appearance docket of the court and shall fix a time for the hearing of such petition by the court, which shall not be less than 45 days nor more than 60 days after the filing of such petition. The clerk shall issue a notice directed to all persons, corporations and municipalities named in the petition as occupants or owners of lands, easements or other property to be affected by such drainage, other than the petitioners themselves, which notice shall be written or printed, and shall set forth the route of the proposed drain, as described in the petition, the fact of the filing and pendency of the petition, and the time when such petition will be heard. (b) The notice, when issued by the clerk, shall be delivered to the sheriff of the county, and it shall be the duty of the sheriff to cause to be published in some newspaper printed and published in the county in which such drain is proposed to be established a copy of the notice, which notice shall be published and proof of publication made in the same manner as is provided by law for the publication of summons for nonresident defendants in civil action, the first publication of such notice to be at least 41 days prior to the day fixed for the hearing of such petition. All persons appearing at the hearing of such petition, and all persons, corporations or municipalities named in the notice published shall thereafter be deemed to have notice of all steps taken in such proceedings. If it appears to the court, at the time fixed for the hearing of such petition, that the publication has been given, the court shall consider such petition and hear any demurrer or written objection to the sufficiency of the petition offered by any person named in such petition, or by any other person who shall satisfy the court, by such showing as the court may require, that such person has an interest that will be affected by such drainage. All questions arising at the hearing of such petition shall be heard and determined by the court. (c) If the court finds the petition defective, the same may be amended, by leave or order of the court, and if not so amended may be dismissed at the cost of the petitioner or petitioners. If, upon the hearing of such petition, the court finds and determines such petition to be sufficient, the court shall appoint two discreet citizens of the county, who, together with a civil engineer, who need not be a resident of the county, also to be appointed by the court, shall be commissioners to manage, control and conduct such proposed drainage, and shall fix a bond to be given by such commissioners, in such sum as the court may deem requisite, and such petition shall be referred to such commissioners for their action thereon. Before entering upon their duties as such commissioners, they shall give a joint and several bond to the state of Kansas in the sum fixed by the court, with one or more good and sufficient sureties thereon, to be approved by the judge of the court, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties as such commissioners, and that they will faithfully account for and pay over all moneys that may come into their hands as such commissioners, and shall take and subscribe an oath before the clerk of the court that they will support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of Kansas, and faithfully perform the duties of commissioners of drainage in such proceeding, and obey and perform all of the orders and directions of the court made therein. All objections to the petition or to any drainage commissioner not made before the reference of the petition to the drainage commissioners shall be deemed waived. (d) The court shall have the power in the interest of justice to adjourn the hearing of such petition from time to time, in order that all persons interested may have an opportunity to be heard before the reference of such petition to the drainage commissioners. In the order of the court appointing such drainage commissioners, the court shall fix a time and place for the meeting of the drainage commissioners, and a time when they shall file their preliminary report. The clerk shall deliver to the commissioners a certified copy of the petition and of the order of their appointment, and they shall meet accordingly. The drainage commissioners shall make a personal inspection of the land described in the petition, and of all other lands likely to be affected by the proposed work. The commissioner who is an engineer shall make the necessary surveys for the purpose of ascertaining the facts from which to make their report, and such commissioners shall, within a reasonable time allowed and fixed by the court, make to the court a preliminary report in which such commissioners shall show: (1) The source or head and general direction and outlet of the drain and of each arm or branch thereof, and average width and the depth, what part is to be opened and what part is to be tiled, if any, and whether it is to be dug by shovel, dredge or otherwise. (2) A description of all lands which will be affected by the proposed drainage, with the names and residence of the owners, if known, and if not, so stating; also the name of any city, school district or other public corporation or highway or street not named in the petition which will be affected by such drainage. (3) Whether such drainage is practicable and will be sufficient properly to drain the lands to be affected. (4) Whether, when accomplished, the proposed drainage will improve the public health, benefit any public highway or grounds in the county, or any street or public grounds of any city therein, or be of public utility. (e) Such report of the drainage commissioners, in all subsequent proceedings, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated. In case any lands not named in the petition and not owned by any person who has appeared in the petition are named in the second item of such preliminary report of the commissioners, notice of such report, setting out the substance thereof, shall be issued by the clerk, and shall be served and published by the sheriff in the same manner as provided for notice of the hearing of the petition. Any petitioner, landowner, corporation or municipality named in the petition, or who has appeared thereto, shall have 20 days from the filing of such preliminary report within which to file any exceptions thereto. Any landowner not named in the petition and whose lands are not described therein, but who is named in such report and lands therein described, and any city, school district or other municipality so brought in, shall have the same time for filing exceptions to such preliminary report as is required to be given of the time and place of the hearing of the petition. (f) If the court, on examination of the preliminary report of the commissioners, finds that such drainage is not practicable, and will not be sufficient to properly drain the lands to be affected by it, or that it will not improve the public health, nor benefit any public highway or grounds in the county, or streets or public ground in any city, or be of public utility, or if 2 / 3 of the landowners affected, as shown by such preliminary report, within 20 days after the filing of such report, remonstrates against the construction of such proposed drain, the petition shall be dismissed. The court shall enter judgment against the petitioner or petitioners for all costs and expenses, including all compensation of the drainage commissioners. But if the court finds affirmatively as to each of such items, and if no remonstrance signed by 2 / 3 of the persons to be affected by such drainage is filed, the court shall refer the petition back to the drainage commissioners, with directions to proceed with the work and make their final report, as provided in K.S.A. 24-705, and amendments thereto. Such order and judgment of the court in dismissing the petition or in referring it back to the drainage commissioners for a final report, and of prior rulings and orders of the court in relation to such drainage, shall be conclusive, unless proceedings in error be prosecuted therefrom to the supreme court, as hereinafter provided. Any person, corporation or municipality who is aggrieved by such judgment or dismissal or order of reference, or by any prior ruling or order of the court, may at the time of the ruling of the court on the preliminary report of the commissioners prosecute proceedings in error to the supreme court for the purpose of reversing any judgment, order or ruling of the court by which the party may feel aggrieved, by filing a written notice of such appeal within three days after the final order of the court made on the hearing of the preliminary report, and by filing with the clerk of the court, within 30 days thereafter, a bond, the amount to be fixed by the order of the court, or of the judge in vacation, conditioned that such person prosecuting error will pay all costs, expenses, damages and loss occasioned by such party proceeding in error, and by perfecting such party proceedings in error by filing in the supreme court such party's petition in error, with a case-made or transcript of the record thereof attached, within 90 days after the rendition of the judgment and the order of the court upon the hearing of the preliminary report of the commissioners. (g) All parties affected by such proceedings shall take notice of such proceeding in error and be bound thereby, and all proceedings in the matter of such drainage shall be stayed until the determination of such proceeding in error. The rule of procedure for extending time for making a case, for suggesting amendments thereto and for settling and signing the same shall be the same as in ordinary civil actions. No appeal from the judgment or orders of the court made upon the hearing of the preliminary report of the commissioners shall be taken unless the same shall be perfected within 90 days after such judgment or order, but upon perfecting such proceeding in error, all previous orders and rulings of the court, made at any time in the proceedings, may be reviewed. History: L. 1907, ch. 197, § 2; L. 1909, ch. 129, § 2; L. 1911, ch. 171, § 1; R.S. 1923, 24-702; L. 1992, ch. 314, § 5; July 1. Prev Article 7. - DRAINAGE ON PETITION TO COURT Next 2026. Powered by KLISS. 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Application to district court for drainage in certain cases; petition; bond. (a) Whenever any owner or owners of land which would be benefited by drainage, which cannot be accomplished in the best and cheapest manner without affecting the lands of others, shall desire such drainage; or whenever any township board shall desire to provide for the drainage of a public highway; or whenever any school-district board shall desire to provide for the drainage of the grounds of a public school, which drainage shall affect the lands of others; or whenever the mayor and council of any city shall find it necessary for the successful drainage of such city to construct any drain as an inlet or outlet leading into or out of such city, or to construct drains outside such city to prevent the flooding of such city, which drain, inlet or outlet cannot be constructed without affecting the lands of others, such owner or owners, township board, school-district board, or mayor and council of any city, as the case may be, may apply for such drainage by petition to the district court of the county in which any of the lands of the petitioner or petitioners are situated; or, in case of a township board or school-district board or the mayor and council of a city, to the district court of the county in which such township, school district or city is located. (b) The petition shall: (1) Describe the lands which will be affected by such drain in tracts of 40 acres according to the government survey, or in smaller fractions of a section if owned in smaller tracts; (2) describe by metes and bounds all lands not susceptible of description as fractions of a section; (3) give the name or names of the occupant or occupants and of the owner or owners of each tract, if known, and if not known shall so state; (4) name any township and highway and grounds of any public school by the appropriate number of the district and appropriate description of the grounds; and (5) list the name of any city which it is believed would be benefited by such drainage or in which the drainage of a public highway, the grounds of a public school or street would be improved. If any of the lands to be so benefited or damaged lie within the corporate limits of any city or town, the same shall be described by lots or blocks, by their appropriate numbers, when such lots or blocks are numbered on the plat books in the office of the register of deeds of the county. If the right of way of any railroad, interurban railway or street-car company is believed to be affected, it shall be sufficient to describe it as the right of way of such railroad or company, naming it, through the sections, townships and ranges on which it is located, giving the number of the same. (c) Such petition shall be sufficient to give the court jurisdiction over all lands described therein, and power to fix a lien thereon, if they are described as belonging to the persons who appear to be the owners, according to the last assessment roll or record of transfers kept by the county clerk of the county in which such lands are situated. The petition shall also state that in the opinion of the petitioner or petitioners the public health will be improved, or that one or more public highways in the county, or streets in a city or town therein, will be benefited by the proposed drainage, or that the proposed work will be of public utility. The petition shall further state, generally, the method by which it is believed such drainage can be accomplished in the cheapest and best manner, and the belief of the petitioner or petitioners that the cost, damages and expenses of such drainage will be less than the benefits which will result to the owners of the lands and other properties and easements, and to such lands, easements and other properties and to municipalities likely to be benefited thereby. Such petition shall be verified by the affidavit of one or more of the petitioners. (d) At the time of filing the petition the petitioner or petitioners shall also give bond, payable to the state of Kansas, with one or more sureties to be approved by the judge of the district court, conditioned for the payment of all expenses in the event the court shall not establish such proposed work of drainage. History: L. 1907, ch. 197, § 1; L. 1909, ch. 129, § 1; R.S. 1923, 24-701; L. 1992, ch. 314, § 4; July 1. Prev Article 7. - DRAINAGE ON PETITION TO COURT Next 2026. Powered by KLISS. Rendered: 2026-04-21T11:29:46. Head Rev No: 854913(I)

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Topographical survey; classification and basis for assessment of benefits; maps and profile; engineer. The board of supervisors of any drainage district organized as aforesaid shall from time to time cause topographical surveys to be made of the district by an engineer licensed under the laws of this state. Such engineer shall make a complete topographical survey of said district and submit the same to the board of supervisors with maps and profiles of said survey and a full and complete plan of draining, reclaiming, and protecting the lands in the said district from the overflow of or damage by water, or floods; and also the physical characteristics and location of any right-of-way, roadbed, bridge or bridges and other property or improvements in said district belonging to or under the control of any railroad company; and shall also report the location of any and all public highways, which may be crossed by the right-of-way of any ditch, levee or other improvement planned for said district. The said engineer shall also make an estimate of the cost of the entire drainage works and improvements required in said district to protect and reclaim said lands and property, showing the several items of the same. The said engineer shall go over and inspect and examine the lands in said district, the railroad rights-of-way, roadbeds, bridges, culverts, depot grounds, grades and all other railroad, telephone and telegraph property in said district; and shall also inspect and examine all other improvements, streets, highways and bridges belonging to any county, municipal or other corporation and which may be affected by the proposed drainage and reclamation works and improvements, and shall also examine the streams, watercourses, ditches, ponds, lakes and bayous within the district or which may be partly within and partly without said district. Such engineer shall assess, as hereinafter directed and according to the rules hereinafter prescribed the amount of the benefits which will accrue to each tract or parcel of land and corporate property above named by virtue of the works and improvements of said drainage district. Each tract or parcel of land, rights-of-way, and railroad bed, bridges, culverts and depot grounds within the district shall bear its share of the entire cost and expenses incurred by said district in making said works and improvements in proportion to the benefits assessed whether such improvements be made on the tract or parcel of land, rights-of-way, or railroad roadbed or not. The engineer, in estimating the benefits to lands, streets, highways, railroad property, rights-of-way, railroad roadbeds, not traversed by such works and improvements, shall not consider what benefits will be derived by said lands after other ditches, improvements, or drainage plan shall be constructed, but only the benefits which will be derived by the construction of the aforesaid works and improvements as they afford drainage or an outlet for drainage, or protection from overflow or damage by water. No assessment shall be made of benefits to any lands upon any other principle than that of benefits derived, but all assessments shall be made upon the basis of benefits derived and secured by reason of the construction of said improvements and works affording drainage, for giving an outlet for drainage, protection from overflow, and damage from water. The benefits of public streets and highways, railroad property, rights-of-way and roadbed shall be assessed according to the increased efficiency and value added thereto by reason of and the protection derived from the aforesaid drainage works and improvements. Said engineer shall also classify said lots, tracts, lands, and other property according to the benefits that each may receive from said drainage improvement. The lots, tracts and lands receiving the greatest percentage of benefits shall be classified at 100, those receiving a less percentage of benefits at such less number as its benefit may determine. The property of public and private corporations may be classified in a list by themselves, each according to the relation its total benefits bear to the total benefit in the district. The maps herein provided for shall be drawn upon a scale sufficiently large to represent all of the meanderings of the proposed improvements, and shall show the boundary lines of each lot, or tract of land, and each street, road, or railroad to be benefited thereby, the name of the owner of each lot, or tract of land, as it then appeared on the deed records, the authority or company having in charge or controlling each public or corporate street, road, or railroad, the distance in feet through each tract or parcel of land, the acreage thereof and such other matters as the surveyor or engineer deems material. The profile shall show the surface, the grade lines, gradients, fixed and working sections and said report shall be filed with the board of supervisors of said district within sixty (60) days after making said survey unless such period of time is extended by the board, provided that in any drainage district in which a topographical survey has already been made the board may employ an engineer to do only such work as they may deem necessary. History: L. 1911, ch. 168, § 9; L. 1911, H.J.R. No. 15, p. 277; R.S. 1923, 24-609; L. 1977, ch. 126, § 1; July 1. Prev Article 6. - DRAINAGE IN ONE OR MORE COUNTIES Next 2026. Powered by KLISS. Rendered: 2026-04-21T11:28:14. Head Rev No: 854913(I)

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Powers of drainage districts. Each drainage district incorporated pursuant to K.S.A. 24-401 et seq., and amendments thereto, shall be a body politic and corporate. Subject to the superior jurisdiction of the United States over navigable waters, the governing body of each drainage district shall have exclusive control of the beds, channels, banks and of all lands the title to which is vested in the state of Kansas lying between the banks at high water mark of all natural watercourses within the district. The board of directors of every drainage district incorporated under the provisions of K.S.A. 24-401 et seq., and amendments thereto, shall have the power: (1) To adopt a seal. (2) To sue and be sued by its corporate name. (3) To purchase, hold, sell and convey real estate and personal property necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of the district. (4) To take charge of and exercise exclusive control of all natural watercourses within the district, and widen, deepen, establish, regulate and maintain the channels thereof, construct and maintain levees along the banks thereof and detention dams and reservoirs in areas adjacent thereto which are necessary to prevent or restrain overflow or lessen the volume thereof or the injury likely to result therefrom. The board may construct ditches, drains, sewers and canals through lands subject to overflow, and may purchase, install and operate pumps necessary to remove, carry off and prevent water from standing or remaining in pools or ponds and becoming stagnant upon overflowed lands or necessary for sanitary purposes or conducive to the public health, convenience and welfare. The board may alter, change or abandon the channel or any part of the channel of any natural watercourse and relocate or excavate and establish a new channel for such watercourse or any part thereof located within the district. The board may take private property for public use by exercise of the right of eminent domain and may condemn and remove obstructions in such watercourses. The board may acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation lands for the purpose of constructing levees along or widening, deepening, changing or otherwise improving the channels of watercourses or for relocating, excavating and establishing new channels or constructing cutoffs, detention dams and reservoirs in areas adjacent to all such watercourses. (5) To prescribe, regulate and fix the height of the superstructures above the water, the length of all spans and the location of the piers of all bridges across watercourses located within the district. (6) To construct levees across the rights-of-way, roadbeds, tracks and lands of railroad companies and street-railroad companies. The board may condemn and appropriate by the exercise of the right of eminent domain sufficient rights-of-way or other lands of any railroad company or street-railroad company necessary for constructing and maintaining a continuous levee of uniform height across the same. (7) To fix, regulate and change the grade or elevation of all public highways, railroads and street-railroads at points where any levee may cross or intersect the same. (8) To require all railroad companies to elevate their tracks at all points where intersected by any levee so that the tracks will not interfere with the construction or maintenance of the levee as a continuous and effective work of uniform height to prevent the overflow of any natural watercourse. (9) To maintain in any court of competent jurisdiction suits to enforce the reasonable orders of its directors, enjoin the placing or maintenance in any natural watercourse of any unauthorized bridge, embankment, pier or other work or structure constituting to any extent whatever an obstruction to the flow of the water, restrain all other wrongful or unauthorized encroachments upon or interference with the channel of the watercourse and to have all obstructions wrongfully placed in the channel of natural watercourses adjudged public nuisances and abated as such. (10) To maintain actions in any court of competent jurisdiction to recover and hold exclusive possession of all land located between the banks of natural watercourses at high water mark, the title to which is vested in the state of Kansas. If the channel of any watercourse is altered, changed or abandoned, in whole or in part, the governing body may sell, convey and give good title to the land constituting the abandoned channel and apply the proceeds thereof to the cost of a new channel or for other improvement of the watercourse. (11) To annually levy a tax not exceeding five mills on the assessed value of all tangible taxable property within the district to create a general fund. If the board determines that a higher tax levy limit is necessary, it may adopt a resolution proposing to raise the limitation. Any proposed increase of the levy limitation shall be submitted for approval by the qualified voters of the drainage district. The election shall be called and held in the manner provided by the general bond law. If a majority of the voters voting on the question votes in favor thereof, the levy limitation may be increased. (12) To levy special assessments against all real property located within the district that may be benefited to pay the costs of the construction and maintenance of levees or other works or improvements to prevent the overflow of natural watercourses, or provide drainage of overflowed lands therein or that may be conducive to the public health, convenience or welfare. (13) To issue negotiable bonds to pay the costs of widening, deepening and otherwise improving the channels and constructing embankments, drains, levees and other works along the banks of natural watercourses, to pay the cost of constructing detention dams and reservoirs in areas adjacent to all such watercourses, to pay for the purchase or condemnation of land necessary therefor or to prevent overflow and protect the property located within the district from damage and injury thereby. The bonds shall be payable by general taxation of all property located within the district if it is determined that all property located within the district will be benefited thereby or that such work or improvement is necessary or will be conducive to the public health, convenience or welfare and beneficial to all of the inhabitants of the district. No bonds shall be issued until authorized by a vote of the taxpayers. (14) To contract with other drainage districts or with public corporations organized for similar purposes in any adjoining state for cooperation or joint action in constructing detention dams and reservoirs in areas adjacent to any natural watercourse or in constructing levees along the banks or otherwise improving any natural watercourse to prevent its overflow where the overflow is likely to cause injury or damage to lands located within the territorial limits of all the cooperating districts or corporations. The board may contract and cooperate with private corporations and individuals owning lands located outside of the district or state which are subject to injury by overflow in common with lands located within the district. The board may contract for and receive aid and contributions from the United States, and from all public corporations the property within which will be benefited and with all private corporations and individuals whose property will be benefited by the improvement, whether the property is located within the district or within some other district or state. (15) To enter contracts and exercise any of its corporate, legislative or administrative powers necessary to accomplish the purpose of the district's organization. (16) To do all other acts necessary to carry out and execute the general powers granted under the provisions of K.S.A. 24-401 et seq., and amendments thereto, although not specially enumerated. Before any drainage district constructs or modifies any dam, the drainage district shall file an application with the division of water resources of the Kansas department of agriculture pursuant to K.S.A. 82a-301, and amendments thereto. History: R.S. 1923, 24-407; L. 1929, ch. 174, § 1; L. 1951, ch. 262, § 2; L. 1975, ch. 427, § 63; L. 1983, ch. 118, § 5; L. 2004, ch. 101, § 69; July 1. Prev Article 4. - DRAINAGE DISTRICTS WITHIN COUNTIES OR CITIES Next 2026. Powered by KLISS. Rendered: 2026-04-21T11:25:43. Head Rev No: 854913(I)

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The following unlawful activities and the use of real or personal property in maintaining and carrying on such activities are hereby declared to be common nuisances: (a) Commercial gambling; (b) dealing in gambling devices; (c) possession of gambling devices; (d) promoting obscenity; (e) promoting the sale of sexual relations; (f) commercial sexual exploitation of a child; (g) violations of any law regulating controlled substances; (h) habitual violations of any law regulating the sale or exchange of alcoholic liquor or cereal malt beverages, by any person not licensed pursuant to chapter 41 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto; (i) habitual violations of any law regulating the sale or exchange of cigarettes or tobacco products, by any person not licensed pursuant to article 33 of chapter 79 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto; (j) any felony committed for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with any criminal street gang, with the specific intent to promote, further or assist in any criminal conduct by gang members. As used in this subsection, "criminal street gang" means any organization, association or group, whether formal or informal: (1) Consisting of three or more persons; (2) having as one of its primary activities the commission of one or more person felonies, person misdemeanors, felony violations of K.S.A. 2010 Supp. 21-36a01 through 21-36a17, prior to their transfer, article 57 of chapter 21 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, any felony violation of any provision of the uniform controlled substances act prior to July 1, 2009, or the comparable juvenile offenses, which if committed by an adult would constitute the commission of such felonies or misdemeanors; (3) which has a common name or common identifying sign or symbol; and (4) whose members, individually or collectively engage in or have engaged in the commission, attempted commission, conspiracy to commit or solicitation of two or more person felonies, person misdemeanors, felony violations of K.S.A. 2010 Supp. 21-36a01 through 21-36a17, prior to their transfer, article 57 of chapter 21 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, any felony violation of any provision of the uniform controlled substances act prior to July 1, 2009, or the comparable juvenile offenses, which if committed by an adult would constitute the commission of such felonies or misdemeanors, or any substantially similar offense from another jurisdiction; or (k) use of pyrotechnics, pyrotechnic devices or pyrotechnic materials in violation of K.S.A. 31-170, and amendments thereto. Any real property used as a place where any such activities are carried on or permitted to be carried on and any effects, equipment, paraphernalia, fixtures, appliances, musical instruments or other personal property designed for and used on such premises in connection with such unlawful activities are subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 22-3902, 22-3903 and 22-3904, and amendments thereto. History: L. 1970, ch. 129, § 22-3901; L. 1990, ch. 114, § 1; L. 2002, ch. 18, § 1; L. 2004, ch. 1, § 4; L. 2006, ch. 194, § 11; L. 2009, ch. 32, § 43; L. 2010, ch. 74, § 10; L. 2012, ch. 150, § 44; L. 2013, ch. 120, § 28; July 1. Prev Article 39. - ABATEMENT OF COMMON NUISANCES Next 2026. Powered by KLISS. Rendered: 2026-04-21T11:13:55. Head Rev No: 854909(I)