Kansas Statutes 77-531. Service of order or notice
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 77-531
- Order: means a state agency action of particular applicability that determines the legal rights, duties, privileges, immunities or other legal interest of one or more specific persons. See Kansas Statutes 77-502
- Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, political subdivision or unit thereof or public or private organization or entity of any character, and includes another state agency. See Kansas Statutes 77-502
- Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
- Residence: means the place which is adopted by a person as the person's place of habitation and to which, whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention of returning. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
(a) Service of an order or notice shall be made upon the party and the party’s attorney of record, if any, by:
(1) Delivering a copy of the order or notice to the person to be served;
(2) mailing a copy of the order or notice to the person at the person’s last known address; or
(3) transmitting a copy of the order or notice to the person by electronic means, if such person has consented to service by electronic means.
(b) Service shall be presumed if the presiding officer, or a person directed to make service by the presiding officer, makes a written certificate of service. Delivery of a copy of an order or notice means handing the order or notice to the person or leaving the order or notice at the person’s principal place of business or residence with a person of suitable age and discretion who works or resides therein. Service by mail is complete upon mailing. Service by electronic means is complete upon transmission or as otherwise specified in the consent. Any consent to electronic service shall specify when such service is complete. Whenever a party has the right or is required to do some act or take some proceedings within a prescribed period after service of a notice or order and the notice or order is served by mail or electronic means, three days shall be added to the prescribed period.