Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 74-515a

  • 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.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

All the powers, duties, authority, and jurisdiction now vested in and imposed upon the state entomological commission and its secretary by articles 4, 7, 21, and 24,chapter 2 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, are hereby transferred to and conferred upon the Kansas department of agriculture and its secretary, and the secretary of agriculture is hereby empowered and directed to do all things necessary and convenient for the proper exercise of all such powers, duties, authority and jurisdiction. The state entomological commission is hereby abolished.