Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-269 PDF Download

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A board of county commissioners has statutory duty to view or cause to be viewed a previously vacated road upon presentation of a proper petition to re-open said road. However, a district court may refuse to issue an order in mandamus for the performance of such duty if its performance would constitute a useless or futile act or an act of no public benefit. Cited herein: K.S.A. 68-104.

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Neither the provisions of K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 19-1803, nor the common law doctrine of incompatibility of offices, precludes a person from concurrently serving on the board of trustees of a county hospital and on the board of education of a local school district. Cited herein: K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 19-1803.

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To be consistent with requirements of the United States Constitution, the provisions of K.S.A. 72-5393 can, and must, be construed as neither requiring nor authorizing the provision of therapeutic psychological and speech and hearing services, at public expense and by public employees, on parochial school premises. Instead, said provisions must be construed as requiring that such services be provided at the "truly religiously neutral locations" specified in the statute, i.̲e̲.̲, in the public schools of the school district, in public centers, or in mobile units located off the parochial school premises. Cited herein: K.S.A. 72-5392, 73-5393, U.S. Const., Amend. I, XIV.

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Under the provisions of K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 22-4504 (as amended by L. 1981, ch. 157, sec. 1), the board of supervisors of panels to aid indigent defendants is empowered to adopt rules and regulations concerning the ability of a defendant in a criminal action to retain counsel to assist in his defense. Such rules and regulations specifically relate to the income, assets and anticipated costs of representation of a defendant. Pursuant to the 1981 amendment, such rules and regulations are controlling on any determination by a judge or magistrate as to whether a defendant is financially unable to employ counsel. Moreover, these rules and regulations are adopted in accordance with K.S.A. 77-415 e̲t̲ s̲e̲q̲., thus allowing the legislature to modify or reject them through the adoption of a concurrent resolution (K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 77-426). Insofar as the making of indigency determinations involves the resolution of questions of fact, which is a judicial and not a legislative function, control by the legislature over such determinations is an impermissible interference with the authority of another department of government. Accordingly, those provisions of L. 1981, ch. 157 which require the submission of such rules and regulations to the legislature and which make any rules and regulations so adopted binding on district courts are unconstitutional as violative of the separation of powers doctrine. Cited herein: K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 22-4501, 22-4504 (as amended by L. 1981, ch. 157, section 1), 22-4507, K.S.A. 22-4512, K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 22-4514, 77-415 (as amended by L. 1981, ch. 157, section 3), Kansas Constitution, Article 3, Section 1, United States Bill of Rights, Sixth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment.

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The statutory requirements for the execution of deeds and other instruments for the conveyance of a corporation's real property or an interest therein are prescribed by K.S.A. 17-6003(g). As long as there is compliance with such requirements, provisions in the corporation's bylaws requiring execution of such instruments by officers of the corporation in addition to those specified in said statute are permissible. However, failure to comply with these bylaw requirements does not, as a general rule, affect the validity of a conveyance made in compliance with the statutory requirements. Cited herein: K.S.A. 17-6003, K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 17-6009, G.S. 1868, ch. 23, section 38.

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Through the imposition of fines for unlawful conduct, K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 8-1901(d) imposes criminal liability. In addition, subsection (a) of that statute does not appear to violate the United States Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, although it only imposes liability upon a limited class of persons. Moreover, that subsection appears to convey a sufficiently definite warning as to the conduct proscribed therein, so as to avoid being unconstitutionally vague and uncertain. Cited herein: K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 8-1901, 8-1909, K.S.A. 8-2116, 8-2204, 21-3105, K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 21-4503, U.S. Const., Amend. XIV.

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K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 31-134(b) provides that the rules and regulations adopted by the state fire marshal shall be of uniform force and effect throughout the state. Pursuant to this statute, K.A.R. 1980 Supp. 22-3-1 adopts by reference the 1976 edition of the Life Safety Code, containing sections which regulate structures having combined mercantile and residential occupancies. For the purposes of enforcement, K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 31-139 gives the state fire marshal and those persons designated by K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 31-137, the authority to inspect buildings subject to the code. If admittance to a building subject to the Code is denied, a search warrant, which may be issued ex parte, must be obtained prior to entry. Cited herein: K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 31-133, 31-134, 31-137, 31-139, K.A.R. 1980 Supp. 22-3-1, U.S. Const., Amend. IV.

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The provisions of the Kansas Open Meetings Law preclude the election of the acting president of the City Council of Merriam by secret ballot. Cited herein: K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 75-4318.

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1981 Senate Bill No. 430 (L. 1981, ch. 48) is applicable to licensed real estate brokers and salespersons regularly participating in the sales, negotiation of sales, or the bringing together of parties to sales of mobile homes. Where such a transaction is a single or isolated occurence, a real estate broker or salesperson need not comply with the requirements of 1981 Senate Bill No. 430. Cited herein: K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 8-126, 8-2401, 8-2402, 58-3034, 58-3035, K.S.A. 79-340, L. 1981, ch. 48.

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Prearranged gatherings of a majority of a quorum of a city governing body with local special interest groups may constitute meetings subject to the Kansas Open Meetings Act when the purpose of the gathering is the discussion of issues of concern to the governing body. Cited herein: K.S.A. 75-4317, 75-4317a, K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 75-4318, L. 1981, Ch. 344.