Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 12 > Article 20 - Franchises

• Access line: shall mean and be limited to retail billed and collected residential lines; business lines; ISDN lines; PBX trunks and simulated exchange access lines provided by a central office based switching arrangement where all stations served by such simulated exchange access lines are used by a single customer of the provider of such arrangement. See Kansas Statutes 12-2001
• Access line count: means the number of access lines serving consumers within the corporate boundaries of the city on the last day of each month. See Kansas Statutes 12-2001
• Access line fee: means a fee determined by a city, up to a maximum as set out in this act and amendments thereto, to be used by a telecommunications local exchange service provider in calculating the amount of access line remittance. See Kansas Statutes 12-2001
• Access line remittance: means the amount to be paid by a telecommunications local exchange service provider to a city, the total of which is calculated by multiplying the access line fee, as determined in the city, by the number of access lines served by that telecommunications local exchange service provider within that city for each month in that calendar quarter. See Kansas Statutes 12-2001
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Commission: means the state corporation commission. See Kansas Statutes 12-2001
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• General election: refers to the election required to be held on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Gross receipts: means only those receipts collected from within the corporate boundaries of the city enacting the franchise and which are derived from the following: (A) Recurring local exchange service for business and residence which includes basic exchange service, touch tone, optional calling features and measured local calls; (B) recurring local exchange access line services for pay phone lines provided by a telecommunications local exchange service provider to all pay phone service providers; (C) local directory assistance revenue; (D) line status verification/busy interrupt revenue; (E) local operator assistance revenue; and (F) nonrecurring local exchange service revenue which shall include customer service for installation of lines, reconnection of service and charge for duplicate bills. See Kansas Statutes 12-2001
• 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.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local exchange service: means local switched telecommunications service within any local exchange service area approved by the state corporation commission, regardless of the medium by which the local telecommunications service is provided. See Kansas Statutes 12-2001
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Municipality: means any county, city, township and other political subdivision or taxing subdivision including any board, bureau, commission, committee or other agency having authority to create, regulate or otherwise impact the delivery of collection services. See Kansas Statutes 12-2035
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Organized collection service: means a system for collecting solid waste, recyclables or both, including franchise, organized collection, or a process in which a municipality goes from multiple haulers to one single contracted hauler in which a specified collector, or a member of an organization of collectors, is authorized to collect from a defined geographic service area or areas some or all of the solid waste or recyclables that is released by generators. See Kansas Statutes 12-2035
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Recyclables: has the meaning as the term is defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 12-2035
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• 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
• small cell facility deployment agreement: means an agreement between a wireless services provider or wireless infrastructure provider and an authority for the deployment of small cell facilities on or adjacent to existing, modified, replacement or new utility poles within the public right-of-way pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 12-2001
• Solid waste: has the meaning as the term is defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 12-2035
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Telecommunications local exchange service provider: means a local exchange carrier and a telecommunications carrier as those terms are defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 12-2001
• Telecommunications services: means providing the means of transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user's choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received. See Kansas Statutes 12-2001