Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 66-1217

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, evidences of debt and things in action, and digital assets as defined in the revised uniform fiduciary access to digital assets act, Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights to them and interest in them, equitable as well as legal. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC

Any mortgage of real property or of both real property and personal property, including fixtures, or a security interest in fixtures alone, made by a corporation which is a railroad company as defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 66-2,123, and amendments thereto, or a public utility as defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 66-104, and amendments thereto, shall be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county or counties in which the real property is located, and when so recorded shall be a lien on the real property and fixtures described in the mortgage or security agreement from the time of recording. If the instrument so provides, the instrument shall be a lien on any real property and fixtures thereafter acquired subject to the mortgage or security agreement from the time of acquisition. If such mortgage or security agreement includes personal property, a copy of such mortgage or security agreement certified as true by the debtor or creditor, or an officer of either, shall also be filed with the secretary of state in accordance with part 5 of article 9 of the uniform commercial code, and amendments thereto, and accompanied by the form prescribed by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 84-9-521(a), and amendments thereto, which must indicate in box 10 of the form that the lien is filed in accordance with this section. When so filed the mortgage or security agreement shall be a lien on such property described in such mortgage or security agreement from the time of such filing, and if the instrument so provides, shall be a lien on any property thereafter acquired subject to the mortgage or security agreement from the time of acquisition. The lien thereon shall be enforceable in accordance with the laws of this state governing mortgages of real estate. No other recording or filing of any such instrument shall be necessary, notwithstanding the provisions of any other statute. The instrument shall be effective upon the record until terminated and the filing officer shall remove the record one year after termination.