Kansas Statutes 58-2560. Failure by landlord to deliver possession; remedies
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 58-2560
- Action: includes recoupment, counterclaim, setoff, suit in equity and any other proceeding in which rights are determined, including an action for possession. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Dwelling unit: means a structure or the part of a structure that is used as a home, residence or sleeping place by one person who maintains a household or by two or more persons who maintain a common household; but such term shall not include real property used to accommodate a manufactured home or mobile home, unless such manufactured home or mobile home is rented or leased by the landlord. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
- Good faith: means honesty in fact in the conduct of the transaction concerned. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
- Landlord: means the owner, lessor or sublessor of the dwelling unit, or the building of which it is a part, and it also means a manager of the premises who fails to disclose as required by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
- Person: includes an individual or organization. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
- Rent: means all payments to be made to the landlord under the rental agreement, other than the security deposit. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
- Rental agreement: means all agreements, written or oral, and valid rules and regulations adopted under Kan. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
- Security deposit: means any sum of money specified in a rental agreement, however denominated, to be deposited with a landlord by a tenant as a condition precedent to the occupancy of a dwelling unit, which sum of money, or any part thereof, may be forfeited by the tenant under the terms of the rental agreement upon the occurrence or breach of conditions specified therein. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
- Tenant: means a person entitled under a rental agreement to occupy a dwelling unit to the exclusion of others. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
If the landlord fails to deliver possession of the dwelling unit to the tenant as provided in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 58-2552, rent abates until possession is delivered and the tenant:
(a) Upon at least five days’ written notice to the landlord, may terminate the rental agreement and upon termination the landlord shall return all of the security deposit; or
(b) may demand performance of the rental agreement by the landlord and, if the tenant elects, maintain an action for possession of the dwelling unit against the landlord, or any person wrongfully in possession, and recover the damages sustained by such tenant.
If a person’s failure to deliver possession is willful and not in good faith, an aggrieved party may recover from such person an amount not more than one and one-half (1?1/2) months’ periodic rent or one and one-half (1?1/2) times the actual damages sustained by such party, whichever is greater.