Kansas Statutes 74-32,453. Contracts; indemnification or hold harmless provisions, void
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 74-32,453
- Board: means the board of education of any school district or the board of trustees of any community college. See Kansas Statutes 74-32,253
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- Technical college: means an educational institution that formerly was an area vocational school or an area vocational-technical school and that has been converted to, established as, and officially designated a technical college under authority of this act. See Kansas Statutes 74-32,407
(a) It is the public policy of the state of Kansas that all contracts entered into by the governing body of a technical college, or any officers or employees thereof acting on behalf of the governing body, provide that the technical college and the governing body thereof shall be responsible solely for the technical college’s or board‘s actions or failure to act under a contract.
(b) The governing body of a technical college and any officers or employees thereof acting on behalf of the governing body shall not have the authority to enter into a contract under which the technical college or the governing body agrees to, or is required to, indemnify or hold harmless against damages, injury or death resulting from the actions or failure to act on the part of any party to a contract other than the governing body or the technical college.
(c) The provisions of any contract entered into in violation of this section shall be contrary to the public policy of the state of Kansas and shall be void and unenforceable.