Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 75-7b03

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Detective business: means the furnishing of, making of or agreeing to make any investigation for the purpose of obtaining information with reference to:

    (1) Crime or wrongs done or threatened against the United States or any state or territory of the United States, or any political subdivision thereof when furnished or made by persons other than law enforcement officers;

    (2) the identity, habits, conduct, business, occupation, honesty, integrity, credibility, knowledge, trustworthiness, efficiency, loyalty, activity, movement, whereabouts, affiliations, associations, transactions, acts, reputation or character of any person;

    (3) the location, disposition or recovery of lost or stolen property;

    (4) the cause or responsibility for fires, libels, losses, frauds, accidents or damage or injury to persons or to property; or

    (5) securing evidence to be used before any court, board, officer or investigating committee. See Kansas Statutes 75-7b01

  • 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.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Person: means an individual or organization. See Kansas Statutes 75-7b01
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, evidences of debt and things in action, and digital assets as defined in the revised uniform fiduciary access to digital assets act, Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Private patrol operator: means a person who, for any consideration whatsoever, agrees to furnish or furnishes a watchman, guard, patrolman or other person to protect persons or property or to prevent the theft, unlawful taking, loss, embezzlement, misappropriation or concealment of any goods, wares, merchandise, money, bonds, stocks, notes, documents, papers or property of any kind, or performs the service of such watchman, guard, patrolman or other person for any such purposes. See Kansas Statutes 75-7b01
  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

The following persons shall not be deemed to be engaging in detective business:

(a) A person employed exclusively and regularly by one employer in connection only with the internal affairs or investigations of such employer and where there exists an employer-employee relationship;

(b) any officer or employee of the United States, or of this state or a political subdivision thereof while engaged in the performance of the officer’s or employee’s official duties;

(c) a person engaged exclusively in the business of obtaining and furnishing information as to the financial rating of persons except that this exemption does not include a person preparing an investigative consumer report as defined by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 50-702, and amendments thereto;

(d) a charitable philanthropic society or association duly incorporated under the laws of this state which is organized and maintained for the public good and not for private profit;

(e) an attorney performing duties as an attorney or a person employed exclusively and regularly by an attorney or law firm performing duties exclusively on behalf of the attorney or law firm;

(f) a licensed collection agency or an employee thereof while acting within the scope of employment, while making an investigation incidental to the business of the agency, including an investigation of the location of a debtor or a debtor’s property where the contract with an assignor creditor is for the collection of claims owed or due or asserted to be owed or due or the equivalent thereof;

(g) admitted insurers, agents and insurance brokers licensed by the state, performing duties in connection with insurance transacted by them;

(h) the legal owner of personal property which has been sold under a conditional sales agreement or a mortgagee under the terms of a chattel mortgage in connection with the recovery of such personal property;

(i) any bank subject to the jurisdiction of the state bank commissioner of the state of Kansas or the comptroller of currency of the United States;

(j) a person engaged solely in the business of securing information about persons or property from public records;

(k) an insurance adjuster which, for the purpose of this act, means any person who, for any consideration whatsoever, adjusts or otherwise participates in the disposal of any claim under or in connection with a policy of insurance or engages in soliciting insurance adjustment business;

(l) a private patrol operator while actually engaged in providing private patrol services on the property to which private patrol services are being provided; or

(m) a person engaged in market research.