Kansas Statutes 12-1679. Merchant or security police; fingerprints required; municipal license or permit prohibited if vehicles not registered in Kansas
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 12-1679
- city: means a city located within Crawford county. See Kansas Statutes 12-16,116
- 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.
- Municipality: means any city, county or other political or taxing subdivision of the state. See Kansas Statutes 12-1677d
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, joint venture or other association of persons;
(b) "Hotel, motel or tourist court" means any structure or building which contains rooms furnished for the purposes of providing lodging, which may or may not also provide meals, entertainment or various other personal services to transient guests, and which is kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public as a place where sleeping accommodations are sought for pay or compensation by transient or permanent guests and having more than two bedrooms furnished for the accommodation of such guests;
(c) "Transient guest" means a person who occupies a room in a hotel, motel or tourist court for not more than 28 consecutive days;
(d) "Business" means any person engaged in the business of renting, leasing or letting living quarters, sleeping accommodations, rooms or a part thereof in connection with any motel, hotel or tourist court;
(e) "Convention and tourism promotion" means: (1) Activities to attract visitors into the community through marketing efforts, including advertising, directed to at least one of the five basic convention and tourism market segments consisting of group tours, pleasure travelers, association meetings and conventions, trade shows and corporate meetings and travel; and (2) support of those activities and organizations which encourage increased lodging facility occupancy; and
(f) "Accommodations broker" means any business which maintains an inventory of two or more rooms in one or more locations which are offered for pay to a person or persons for not more than 28 consecutive days. See Kansas Statutes 12-1692
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
(a) As used in this act: (1) “Municipality” shall mean any incorporated city or county of this state;
(2) “Merchants or security policeman” or “merchants or security police force or agency” shall mean any person engaged for hire in the business of guarding, watching, patrolling or otherwise attempting to provide security for the real or personal property of another person; and
(3) “Person” shall mean any individual, partnership, association, firm, corporation or other business entity.
(b) Every municipality which requires a license pursuant to this act shall acquire or collect the fingerprints of any person who applies for a merchants or security policeman’s license from such municipality. The municipality shall submit the applicant’s fingerprints to the Kansas bureau of investigation and to the federal bureau of investigation for the purpose of determining whether the applicant has a criminal record.
(c) No municipality shall license, permit or otherwise authorize or allow any person to do business within such municipality as a merchants or security policeman or as a merchants or security police force or agency, unless every motor vehicle, as defined by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 8-1437, and amendments thereto, which is used in any way by such person while doing business as a merchants or security policeman or police force or agency is properly registered.