Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 32-1078

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

If any provision of the state sovereignty over non-migratory wildlife act or the application to any person or circumstance is held to be invalid in any court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect the other provisions or application of such act. To this end, the provisions of such act are declared to be severable.