Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 65-163s

  • 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.
  • Secretary: means the secretary of health and environment. See Kansas Statutes 65-1,114

(a) This act constitutes full and complete authority for the purposes set out in this act, and no procedure or proceedings other than those required by this act shall be necessary for the performance of the provisions thereof. The powers conferred by this act shall be in addition and supplemental to and not in substitution for, and the limitations imposed by this act shall not affect, the powers conferred on the secretary by any other law.

(b) The provisions of this act are severable, and if any provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this act, including, but not limited to, the provisions relating to any of the sources of revenues for payment of bonds authorized pursuant to this act are for any reason held to be unconstitutional or otherwise invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this act. The legislature hereby declares that it would have passed this act and each provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more of the same are declared invalid.