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Kansas Statutes 22-4913 - Offender residency restrictions; prohibition from adopting or enforcing; exceptions; definitions

Kansas Statutes > Chapter 22 > Article 49 > § 22-4913 - Offender residency restrictions; prohibition from adopting or enforcing; exceptions; definitions

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(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), on and after the effective date of this act, cities and counties shall be prohibited from adopting or enforcing any ordinance, resolution or regulation establishing residential restrictions for offenders as defined by K.S.A. 22-4902, and amendments thereto.

(b) The prohibition in subsection (a), shall not apply to any city or county residential licensing or zoning program for correctional placement residences that includes regulations for the housing of such offenders.

(c) As used in this section, "correctional placement residence" means a facility that provides residential services for individuals or offenders who reside or have been placed in such facility due to any one of the following situations:

(1) Prior to, or instead of, being sentenced to prison;

(2) received a conditional release prior to a hearing;

(3) as a part of a sentence of confinement of not more than one year;

(4) a privately operated facility housing parolees;

(5) received a deferred sentence and placed in a facility operated by community corrections;

(6) required court-ordered treatment services for alcohol or drug abuse; or

(7) voluntary treatment services for alcohol or drug abuse.

Correctional placement residence shall not include a single or multi-family dwelling or commercial residential building that provides a residence to staff and persons other than those described in paragraphs (1) through (7).

History: L. 2006, ch. 214, § 2; L. 2008, ch. 57, § 1; July 1.

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