Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 3 > Article 1 - Municipal Airports and Fields

• Abuse: means any act or failure to act performed intentionally or recklessly that causes or is likely to cause harm to a resident, including:

  (1) Infliction of physical or mental injury;

  (2) any sexual act with a resident when the resident does not consent or when the other person knows or should know that the resident is incapable of resisting or declining consent to the sexual act due to mental deficiency or disease or due to fear of retribution or hardship;

  (3) unreasonable use of a physical restraint, isolation or medication that harms or is likely to harm a resident;

  (4) unreasonable use of a physical or chemical restraint, medication or isolation as punishment, for convenience, in conflict with a physician's orders or as a substitute for treatment, except where such conduct or physical restraint is in furtherance of the health and safety of the resident or another resident;

  (5) a threat or menacing conduct directed toward a resident that results or might reasonably be expected to result in fear or emotional or mental distress to a resident;

  (6) fiduciary abuse; or

  (7) omission or deprivation by a caretaker or another person of goods or services which are necessary to avoid physical or mental harm or illness. See Kansas Statutes 39-1401

• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Act: means Kan. See Kansas Statutes 39-1430
• Action: shall include nonaction or the failure to take action. See Kansas Statutes 31-402
• Activities of daily living: means those personal, functional activities required by an individual for continued well-being, including, but not limited to, eating, nutrition, dressing, personal hygiene, mobility and toileting. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Adequate consideration: means consideration equal, or reasonably proportioned to the value of that for which it is given. See Kansas Statutes 39-702
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Adult: means a person 18 years of age or older alleged to be unable to protect such person's own interest and who is harmed or threatened with harm, whether financial, mental or physical in nature, through action or inaction by either another individual or through such person's own action or inaction when:

  (A) Such person is residing in such person's own home, the home of a family member or the home of a friend;

  (B) such person resides in an adult family home as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 39-1430

• Adult care home: means any nursing facility, nursing facility for mental health, intermediate care facility for people with intellectual disability, assisted living facility, residential healthcare facility, home plus, boarding care home and adult day care facility; all of which are classifications of adult care homes and are required to be licensed by the secretary for aging and disability services. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Adult care home: means the same as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 39-1401
• Adult day care: means any place or facility operating less than 24 hours a day caring for individuals not related within the third degree of relationship to the operator or owner by blood or marriage and who, due to functional impairment, need supervision of or assistance with activities of daily living. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Adult family home: means a private residence in which care is provided for not less than 24 hours in any week for one or two adult clients who: (1) Are not related within the third degree of relationship to the owner or provider by blood or marriage; and (2) by reason of aging, illness, disease or physical or mental infirmity are unable to live independently but are essentially capable of managing their own care and affairs. See Kansas Statutes 39-1501
• 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.
• Affiliate: means :

  (1) A person who directly or indirectly owns, controls or holds with power to vote, 20% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the debtor, other than a person who holds the securities:

  (A) As a fiduciary or agent without sole discretionary power to vote the securities; or

  (B) solely to secure a debt, if the person has not exercised the power to vote;

  (2) a corporation 20% or more of whose outstanding voting securities are directly or indirectly owned, controlled or held with power to vote, by the debtor or a person who directly or indirectly owns, controls or holds, with power to vote, 20% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the debtor, other than a person who holds the securities:

  (A) As a fiduciary or agent without sole power to vote the securities; or

  (B) solely to secure a debt, if the person has not in fact exercised the power to vote;

  (3) a person whose business is operated by the debtor under a lease or other agreement, or a person substantially all of whose assets are controlled by the debtor; or

  (4) a person who operates the debtor's business under a lease or other agreement or controls substantially all of the debtor's assets. See Kansas Statutes 33-201

• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Agency: means and includes county health departments, area offices of the Kansas department for children and families or the Kansas department for aging and disability services, district offices of the department of health and environment, local offices of the department of labor, boards of education of public school districts, community mental health centers, community facilities for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, or both, district courts, county commissions and law enforcement agencies. See Kansas Statutes 39-1702
• Agent: means any person authorized by the director to purchase and affix stamps on packages of cigarettes. See Kansas Statutes 31-602
• Agreement: shall mean "contract" and shall include renewals and alterations of a contract. See Kansas Statutes 27-201
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Applicants: means all persons who, as individuals, or in whose behalf requests are made of the secretary for aid or assistance. See Kansas Statutes 39-702
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Artistic or creative services: includes , but is not limited to, services as an actor, actress, dancer, musician, comedian, singer, stunt-person, voice-over artist or other performer or entertainer, or as a song writer, musical producer or arranger, writer, director, producer, production executive, choreographer, composer, conductor or designer. See Kansas Statutes 38-615
• Asset: means property of a debtor. See Kansas Statutes 33-201
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Assistance: includes such items or functions as the giving or providing of money, food assistance, food, clothing, shelter, medicine or other materials, the giving of any service, including instructive or scientific. See Kansas Statutes 39-702
• Assistance dog: means any guide dog, hearing assistance dog or service dog. See Kansas Statutes 39-1113
• Assisted living facility: means any place or facility caring for six or more individuals not related within the third degree of relationship to the administrator, operator or owner by blood or marriage and who, by choice or due to functional impairments, may need personal care and may need supervised nursing care to compensate for activities of daily living limitations and in which the place or facility includes apartments for residents and provides or coordinates a range of services including personal care or supervised nursing care available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for the support of resident independence. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Authority: means a surplus property and public airport authority created pursuant to this act. See Kansas Statutes 27-318
• Authorized agencies: means :

  (1) The office of state fire marshal;

  (2) the office of the attorney general of Kansas;

  (3) the office of a district or county attorney;

  (4) all law enforcement agencies;

  (5) all official fire fighting agencies;

  and solely for the purposes of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 31-402

• Authorized decision makers: means agency representatives who have the authority to commit the resources of the agency they represent in the provision of services to any child or adolescent whose needs are brought before a regional interagency council. See Kansas Statutes 39-1702
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• blind: means not only those who are totally and permanently devoid of vision, but also those persons whose vision is so defective as to prevent the performance of ordinary activities for which eyesight is essential. See Kansas Statutes 39-702
• Board of directors: means the board of directors of the authority. See Kansas Statutes 27-318
• Boarding care home: means any place or facility operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, caring for not more than 10 individuals not related within the third degree of relationship to the operator or owner by blood or marriage and who, due to functional impairment, need supervision of activities of daily living but who are ambulatory and essentially capable of managing their own care and affairs. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Caretaker: means a person or institution who has assumed the responsibility, whether legally or not, for the care of the resident voluntarily, by contract or by order of a court of competent jurisdiction. See Kansas Statutes 39-1401
• Casting agency: means an agency that provides one or more performers for a fee. See Kansas Statutes 38-615
• Center: means a community mental health center or crisis intervention center. See Kansas Statutes 39-2002
• cereal malt beverage: means the same as provided in subsection (a) of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 36-601
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
• Children and adolescents who require multiple levels and kinds of specialized services which are beyond the capability of one agency: means children and adolescents who are residents of Kansas, and with respect to whom there is documentation that: (1) Various agencies have acknowledged the need for a certain type of service and have taken action to provide that level of care; (2) various agencies have collaborated to develop a program plan to meet the needs of the child or adolescent; and (3) various agencies have collaborated to develop programs and funding to meet the need of the child or adolescent, and that existing or alternative programs and funding have been exhausted or are insufficient or inappropriate in view of the distinctive nature of the situation of the child or adolescent. See Kansas Statutes 39-1702
• Cigarette: means any roll for smoking, whether made wholly or in part of tobacco or any other substance, irrespective of size or shape, and irrespective of tobacco or substance being flavored, adulterated or mixed with any other ingredient, if the wrapper is in greater part made of any material except tobacco. See Kansas Statutes 31-602
• City: means a city to which this act applies as provided in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 27-318
• Claim: means a right to payment, whether or not the right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured or unsecured. See Kansas Statutes 33-201
• Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
• Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process.
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Community mental health center: means a center organized pursuant to article 40 of chapter 19 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, or a mental health clinic organized pursuant to article 2 of chapter 65 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto. See Kansas Statutes 39-2002
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• Conservator: means an individual or corporation appointed by the court to act on behalf of a conservatee and possessed of some or all of the powers and duties set out in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• county: means a county to which this act applies as provided in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 27-329
• Creditor: means a person who has a claim. See Kansas Statutes 33-201
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dangerous regulated animal: means a live or slaughtered parts of:

  (1) Lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and mountain lions, or any hybrid thereof;

  (2) bears or any hybrid thereof; and

  (3) all non-native, venomous snakes. See Kansas Statutes 32-1301

• Debt: means liability on a claim. See Kansas Statutes 33-201
• Debtor: means a person who is liable on a claim. See Kansas Statutes 33-201
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Kansas department for children and families or any division thereof. See Kansas Statutes 38-320
• Department: means the department of health and environment. See Kansas Statutes 39-7,116
• Department: means the department for aging and disability services. See Kansas Statutes 39-2002
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Dependent children: means needy children under the age of 18, or who are under the age of 19 and are full-time students in secondary schools or the equivalent educational program who are in the care of a biological or adoptive parent, court appointed guardian, conservator or legal custodian and who are living with any relative, including first cousins, uncles, aunts, and persons of preceding generations are denoted by prefixes of grand, great, or great-great, and including the spouses or former spouses of any persons named in the above groups, in a place of residence maintained by one or more of such relatives as their own home. See Kansas Statutes 39-702
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means a member of the board of directors of the authority. See Kansas Statutes 27-318
• Disabled person: includes incapacitated persons and incompetent persons as defined herein. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Distributor: means any person engaged in the distribution of fireworks of any kind in the state of Kansas to include the following:

  (1) Sells, delivers, transports, consigns, gives, imports, exports or otherwise furnishes consumer fireworks to any person for the purpose of resale to a retailer or any other distributor or reseller within the state of Kansas;

  (2) sells, intends to sell, offer for sale, possess with intent to sell or consigns display fireworks or articles pyrotechnic to any person, distributor, municipality or any other organization within the state of Kansas; or

  (3) produces, conducts or provides a licensed operator or imports any display fireworks or articles pyrotechnic of any kind within the state of Kansas for profit. See Kansas Statutes 31-502

• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Dwelling unit: means a single-family residence, multiple-family residence and each living unit in a mixed-use building. See Kansas Statutes 31-161
• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• Employee: means an employee of the authority created by a city pursuant to the act of which this section is amendatory. See Kansas Statutes 27-318
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Exploitation: means misappropriation of resident property or intentionally taking unfair advantage of an adult's physical or financial resources for another individual's personal or financial advantage by the use of undue influence, coercion, harassment, duress, deception, false representation or false pretense by a caretaker or another person. See Kansas Statutes 39-1401
• Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
• Facility: means any place other than a center or hospital that meets the requirements as set forth by regulations created and adopted by the secretary, where individuals reside and receive treatment or services provided by a person or entity licensed under this act. See Kansas Statutes 39-2002
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Financial exploitation: includes , but is not limited to:

  (1) The use of deception, intimidation, coercion, extortion or undue influence by a person or entity to obtain or use an adult's property, income, resources or trust funds in a manner for the profit of or to the advantage of such person or entity;

  (2) the breach of a fiduciary duty, including, but not limited to, the misuse of a power of attorney, trust or a guardianship or conservatorship appointment, as it relates to the property, income, resources or trust funds of the adult; or

  (3) the obtainment or use of an adult's property, income, resources or trust funds, without lawful authority, by a person or entity who knows or clearly should know that the adult lacks the capacity to consent to the release or use of such adult's property, income, resources or trust funds. See Kansas Statutes 39-1430

• Financial institution: means any bank, trust company, escrow company, finance company, saving institution, credit union or fiduciary financial institution, chartered and supervised under state or federal law. See Kansas Statutes 39-1401
• Fireworks display: means a private or public production of display fireworks or articles pyrotechnic, or both, which are intended for use and designed to produce visible or audible effects for entertainment purposes by combustion, deflagration or detonation. See Kansas Statutes 31-502
• Fireworks season: means a period in time as set forth in the regulations authorized to be adopted by the state fire marshal during a calendar year in which seasonal retailers are permitted to sell consumer fireworks to the public. See Kansas Statutes 31-502
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Functional impairment: means an individual has experienced a decline in physical, mental and psychosocial well-being and as a result, is unable to compensate for the effects of the decline. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• 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
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governing body: shall mean the board, body, or persons in which the powers of a political subdivision as a body corporate, or otherwise, are vested. See Kansas Statutes 27-201
• Governing body: shall be construed and held to mean board of county commissioners of any county, mayor and councilmen or board of commissioners of any city, and any other governing body or board of a municipality having authority under the laws of this state to create indebtedness against the municipality. See Kansas Statutes 3-119a
• Governmental assistance provider: means an agency, or employee of such agency, which is funded solely or in part to provide assistance within the Kansas senior care act, Kan. See Kansas Statutes 39-1401
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Gross earnings: means an amount of $5,000 or more paid directly to the minor pursuant to the contract, including the payment of any advances to the minor pursuant to the contract, but excluding deductions to offset those advances or other expenses incurred by the employer pursuant to the contract. See Kansas Statutes 38-615
• Guardian: means an individual or a nonprofit corporation certified in accordance with Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Guide dog: means a dog which has been specially selected, trained and tested for the purpose of guiding a person who is legally blind. See Kansas Statutes 39-1113
• Health care provider: means a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery by the state board of healing arts, a person who holds a temporary permit to practice medicine and surgery issued by the state board of healing arts, a person engaged in a postgraduate training program in medicine and surgery approved by the state board of healing arts, a medical care facility licensed by the department of health and environment, a health maintenance organization issued a certificate of authority by the commissioner of insurance, a licensed professional nurse, a licensed practical nurse, a licensed physician assistant, a professional corporation organized pursuant to the professional corporation law of Kansas by persons who are authorized by such law to form such a corporation and who are health care providers as defined by this subsection, a Kansas limited liability company organized for the purpose of rendering professional services by its members who are health care providers as defined by this subsection and who are legally authorized to render the professional services for which the limited liability company is organized, a partnership of persons who are health care providers as defined by this subsection or a Kansas not-for-profit corporation organized for the purpose of rendering professional services by persons who are health care providers as defined by this subsection. See Kansas Statutes 38-135
• Hearing assistance dog: means a dog which is specially selected, trained and tested to alert or warn individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to specific sounds. See Kansas Statutes 39-1113
• Hobbyist manufacturer: means any person who manufactures consumer fireworks, display fireworks or articles pyrotechnic for their personal use. See Kansas Statutes 31-502
• Home plus: means any residence or facility caring for not more than 12 individuals not related within the third degree of relationship to the operator or owner by blood or marriage unless the resident in need of care is approved for placement by the secretary for children and families, and who, due to functional impairment, needs personal care and may need supervised nursing care to compensate for activities of daily living limitations. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Hospital: means a psychiatric hospital. See Kansas Statutes 39-2002
• hospitalization: shall mean the routine services ordinarily rendered in a hospital as a hospital is defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 39-415
• Hotel: means the same as provided in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 36-601
• Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
• In need of protective services: means that a resident is unable to perform or obtain services which are necessary to maintain physical or mental health, or both. See Kansas Statutes 39-1401
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Individual: means a person who is the recipient of behavioral health, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities or other disability services as set forth in this act. See Kansas Statutes 39-2002
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• innkeeper: means the owner, operator, manager or keeper of a hotel;

  (c) "minor" means an unemancipated person under the age of 18 years;

  (d) "alcoholic liquor" means the same as provided in subsection (b) of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 36-601

• Insider: includes :

  (1) If the debtor is an individual:

  (A) A relative of the debtor or of a general partner of the debtor;

  (B) a partnership in which the debtor is a general partner;

  (C) a general partner in a partnership described in clause (B); or

  (D) a corporation of which the debtor is a director, officer or person in control;

  (2) if the debtor is a corporation:

  (A) A director of the debtor;

  (B) an officer of the debtor;

  (C) a person in control of the debtor;

  (D) a partnership in which the debtor is a general partner;

  (E) a general partner in a partnership described in clause (D); or

  (F) a relative of a general partner, director, officer or person in control of the debtor;

  (3) if the debtor is a partnership:

  (A) A general partner in the debtor;

  (B) a relative of a general partner in, a general partner of, or a person in control of the debtor;

  (C) another partnership in which the debtor is a general partner;

  (D) a general partner in a partnership described in clause (C); or

  (E) a person in control of the debtor;

  (4) an affiliate, or an insider of an affiliate as if the affiliate were the debtor; and

  (5) a managing agent of the debtor. See Kansas Statutes 33-201

• Insolvent: means that the adult care home, or any individual or entity that operates an adult care home or appears on the adult care home license, has stopped paying debts in the ordinary course of business or is unable to pay debts as they come due in the ordinary course of business. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Insurance company: includes the Kansas Fair Plan. See Kansas Statutes 31-402
• Intake office: means the place where the secretary shall maintain an office for receiving applications. See Kansas Statutes 39-702
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Intermediate care facility for people with intellectual disability: means any place or facility operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, caring for four or more individuals not related within the third degree of relationship to the administrator or owner by blood or marriage and who, due to functional impairments caused by intellectual disability or related conditions, need services to compensate for activities of daily living limitations. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Involved adult: means the adult who is the subject of a report of abuse, neglect or financial exploitation under this act. See Kansas Statutes 39-1430
• Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
• 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.
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• Kitchen: means a food preparation area that includes a sink, refrigerator and a microwave oven or stove. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Law enforcement: means the public office which is vested by law with the duty to maintain public order, make arrests for crimes and investigate criminal acts, whether that duty extends to all crimes or is limited to specific crimes. See Kansas Statutes 39-1401
• 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}
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Legal representative: means an agent designated in a durable power of attorney, power of attorney or durable power of attorney for health care decisions or a court appointed guardian, conservator or trustee. See Kansas Statutes 39-1401
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensee: means any person or persons acting jointly or severally who are licensed by the secretary for aging and disability services pursuant to the adult care home licensure act, Kan. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Licensee: means one or more persons or entities licensed by the secretary under this act. See Kansas Statutes 39-2002
• Licensing agency: means the secretary for aging and disability services. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Licensing agency: means the secretary for aging and disability services. See Kansas Statutes 39-2002
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lien: means a charge against or an interest in property to secure payment of a debt or performance of an obligation, and includes a security interest created by agreement, a judicial lien obtained by legal or equitable process or proceedings, a common-law lien or a statutory lien. See Kansas Statutes 33-201
• Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local animal control authority: means an agency of the county or city that is responsible for animal control operations in such governmental entity's jurisdiction and includes the animal control officer, as defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 32-1301
• Manufactured home: means a structure which:

  (1) Is transportable in one or more sections which, in the traveling mode, is 8 body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein; and

  (2) is subject to the federal manufactured home construction and safety standards established pursuant to 42 U. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

• Manufacturer: means any person engaged in the manufacture of fireworks of any kind in the state of Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 31-502
• Manufacturer: means :

  (1) Any entity which manufactures or otherwise produces cigarettes or causes cigarettes to be manufactured or produced anywhere that such manufacturer intends to be sold in this state, including cigarettes intended to be sold in the United States through an importer;

  (2) the first purchaser anywhere that intends to resell in the United States cigarettes manufactured anywhere that the original manufacturer or maker does not intend to be sold in the United States; or

  (3) any entity that becomes a successor of an entity described in paragraph (1) or (2). See Kansas Statutes 31-602

• Medicaid program: means the Kansas program of medical assistance for which federal or state moneys, or any combination thereof, are expended, or any successor federal or state, or both, health insurance program or waiver granted thereunder. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Medical assistance: means the payment of all or part of the cost of necessary: (1) Medical, remedial, rehabilitative or preventive care and services that are within the scope of services to be provided under a medical care plan developed by the secretary pursuant to this act and furnished by health care providers who have a current approved provider agreement with the secretary; and (2) transportation to obtain care and services that are within the scope of services to be provided under a medical care plan developed by the secretary pursuant to this act. See Kansas Statutes 39-702
• Medical care facility: means a facility licensed under Kan. See Kansas Statutes 39-1401
• medically indigent: shall mean a person who is unable to pay for hospitalization and who is not receiving or who is not eligible for medical assistance under Kan. See Kansas Statutes 39-415
• Mentally ill person: means a mentally ill person as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Minor: means any person defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Minor child: means any unemancipated child in the period of minority as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 38-615
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Mistrial: An invalid trial, caused by fundamental error. When a mistrial is declared, the trial must start again from the selection of the jury.
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• 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.
• Municipal: means pertaining to a municipality as herein defined. See Kansas Statutes 3-119a
• Municipality: means any incorporated city, any county or any other political subdivision of this state. See Kansas Statutes 31-132
• Municipality: shall be construed and held to mean county, city. See Kansas Statutes 3-119a
• Neglect: means the failure or omission by one's self, caretaker or another person with a duty to provide goods or services which are reasonably necessary to ensure safety and well-being and to avoid physical or mental harm or illness. See Kansas Statutes 39-1401
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Non-cooperation: means the failure of the applicant or recipient to comply with all requirements provided in state and federal law, rules and regulations and agency policy. See Kansas Statutes 39-702
• Nursing facility: means any place or facility operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, caring for six or more individuals not related within the third degree of relationship to the administrator or owner by blood or marriage and who, due to functional impairments, need skilled nursing care to compensate for activities of daily living limitations. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Nursing facility for mental health: means any place or facility operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, caring for six or more individuals not related within the third degree of relationship to the administrator or owner by blood or marriage and who, due to functional impairments, need skilled nursing care and special mental health services to compensate for activities of daily living limitations. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Oath: includes an affirmation in all cases where an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in similar cases "swear" includes affirm. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• 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.
• Operate an adult care home: means to own, lease, sublease, establish, maintain, conduct the affairs of or manage an adult care home, except that for the purposes of this definition the word "own" and the word "lease" shall not include hospital districts, cities and counties that hold title to an adult care home purchased or constructed through the sale of bonds. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Operator: means an individual registered pursuant to the operator registration act, Kan. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Other disabilities: means any condition for which individuals receive home and community based waiver services. See Kansas Statutes 39-2002
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Paid nutrition assistant: means an individual who is paid to feed residents of an adult care home, or who is used under an arrangement with another agency or organization, who is trained by a person meeting nurse aide instructor qualifications as prescribed by 42 C. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Parent: means :

  (1) A minor's parent by birth or adoption;

  (2) a minor's legal guardian; or

  (3) any person who under court order is authorized to give consent for a minor. See Kansas Statutes 38-135

• Parent: means a natural parent, an adoptive parent, a stepparent, a foster care provider of a child or adolescent for whom services are needed from more than one agency or a person acting as parent of a child or adolescent for whom services are needed from more than one agency. See Kansas Statutes 39-1702
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation or other association. See Kansas Statutes 31-132
• Person: means any individual, partnership, firm, company, association, corporation, not-for-profit organization, municipality or limited liability corporation. See Kansas Statutes 31-502
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, municipality or other business entity. See Kansas Statutes 32-1301
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust or any other legal or commercial entity. See Kansas Statutes 33-201
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association or joint-stock association, and the legal successor thereof. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Person acting as parent: means a guardian or conservator, or a person, other than a parent, who is liable by law to maintain, care for or support a child or adolescent, who has actual care and custody of the child or adolescent and is contributing the major portion of the cost of support of the child or adolescent, who has actual care and control of the child or adolescent with the written consent of a person who has legal custody of the child or adolescent or who has been granted custody of the child or adolescent by a court of competent jurisdiction. See Kansas Statutes 39-1702
• Personal care: means care provided by staff to assist an individual with, or to perform activities of daily living. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• 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.
• Physician: means a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery. See Kansas Statutes 39-7,116
• Physician: means any person licensed by the state board of healing arts to practice medicine and surgery. See Kansas Statutes 39-1501
• place of assembly: means any public building, resort, hotel, as such term is defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 36-131
• Place or facility: means a building or any one or more complete floors of a building, or any one or more complete wings of a building, or any one or more complete wings and one or more complete floors of a building, and the term "place or facility" may include multiple buildings. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Plea agreement: An arrangement between the prosecutor, the defense attorney, and the defendant in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for special considerations. ^Source:
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Political subdivision: shall mean any agency or unit of this state which now is, or hereafter shall be, authorized to levy taxes or empowered to cause taxes to be levied. See Kansas Statutes 27-201
• Possess: means to own, care for, have custody of or control. See Kansas Statutes 32-1301
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
• 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.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Professional therapy dog: means a dog which is selected, trained and tested to provide specific physical or therapeutic functions, under the direction and control of a qualified handler who works with the dog as a team, and as a part of the handler's occupation or profession. See Kansas Statutes 39-1113
• Project: shall mean any resettlement project or rural rehabilitation project for resettlement purposes of the United States located within a political subdivision, and shall include the persons inhabiting such projects. See Kansas Statutes 27-201
• Property: means any interest in any real or personal property within or without the city acquired by said city or available for acquisition by the authority from:

  (1) The United States or any of its agencies pursuant to the federal property and administrative services act of 1949, as amended, the surplus property act of 1944, as amended, the federal airport act of 1946, as amended, and any other federal law relating to disposition of property owned or held by the United States or any of its agencies;

  (2) The state of Kansas, any political subdivision thereof, or any municipality therein under the provisions of any applicable statutes of the state of Kansas or municipal ordinances; or

  (3) Any other source authorized by this act. See Kansas Statutes 27-318

• Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership. See Kansas Statutes 33-201
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Protective services: means services provided by the state or other governmental agency or any private organizations or individuals which are necessary to prevent abuse, neglect or exploitation. See Kansas Statutes 39-1401
• Provider: means a person, partnership or corporation employing or contracting with appropriately credentialed persons that provide behavioral health, excluding substance use disorder services for purposes of this act, intellectual disability, developmental disability or other disability services in accordance with the requirements as set forth by rules and regulations created and adopted by the secretary. See Kansas Statutes 39-2002
• Psychiatric hospital: means an institution, excluding state institutions as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 39-2002
• Psychiatric residential treatment facility: means any non-hospital facility with a provider agreement with the licensing agency to provide the inpatient services for individuals under the age of 21 who will receive highly structured, intensive treatment for which the licensee meets the requirements as set forth by regulations created and adopted by the secretary. See Kansas Statutes 39-2002
• Public airport: means a public airport as defined in the federal airport act of 1946, as amended, and shall include such property which in the determination of the administrator of the federal aviation agency is essential, suitable or desirable for the development, improvement, operation or maintenance of such public airport or reasonably necessary to fulfill the immediate and foreseeable future requirements of such public airport for the development, improvement, operation or maintenance of such public airport, including property needed to develop sources of revenue from nonaviation businesses at such public airport. See Kansas Statutes 27-318
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Quality control and quality assurance program: means the laboratory procedures implemented to ensure that operator bias, systematic and non-systematic methodological errors and equipment-related problems do not affect the results of the testing. See Kansas Statutes 31-602
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Ranking minority member: The highest ranking (and usually longest serving) minority member of a committee or subcommittee.
• real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights to them and interest in them, equitable as well as legal. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Recipient: means a person who has received assistance under the terms of this act. See Kansas Statutes 39-702
• Registered designated handler: means a person who is registered or would be required to be registered pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 32-1301
• Relative: means an individual related by consanguinity within the third degree as determined by the common law, a spouse or an individual related to a spouse within the third degree as so determined, and includes an individual in an adoptive relationship within the third degree. See Kansas Statutes 33-201
• Relevant: means information having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the investigation or determination of the issue more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence. See Kansas Statutes 31-402
• 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.
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Repeatability: means the range of values within which the repeat results of cigarette test trials from a single laboratory will fall 95% of the time. See Kansas Statutes 31-602
• Report: means a description or accounting of an incident or incidents of abuse, neglect or exploitation under this act and for the purposes of this act shall not include any written assessment or findings. See Kansas Statutes 39-1401
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• 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
• Resident: means all individuals kept, cared for, treated, boarded or otherwise accommodated in any adult care home. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Resident: means :

  (1) Any resident, as defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 39-1401

• Residential care facility: means any place or facility, or a contiguous portion of a place or facility, providing services for two or more individuals not related within the third degree of relationship to the administrator, provider or owner by blood or marriage and who, by choice or due to functional impairments, may need personal care and supervised nursing care to compensate for activities of daily living limitations, and which place or facility includes individual living units and provides or coordinates personal care or supervised nursing care available on a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week basis for the support of an individual's independence, including crisis residential care facilities. See Kansas Statutes 39-2002
• Residential healthcare facility: means any place or facility, or a contiguous portion of a place or facility, caring for six or more individuals not related within the third degree of relationship to the administrator, operator or owner by blood or marriage and who, by choice or due to functional impairments, may need personal care and may need supervised nursing care to compensate for activities of daily living limitations and in which the place or facility includes individual living units and provides or coordinates personal care or supervised nursing care available on a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week basis for the support of resident independence. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• road: include public bridges and may be construed to be equivalent to "county way" "county road" "common road" "state road" and "territorial road. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• school building: means any building or structure operated or used for any purpose by, or located upon the land of, any school district, community college district, area vocational school, area vocational-technical school, institution under the state board of regents or any private or nonpublic school, college or university, whether or not operated for profit. See Kansas Statutes 31-144
• seal: includes an impression of the seal upon the paper alone, as well as upon wax or a wafer affixed to the paper. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Seasonal retailer: means a person who receives consumer fireworks and sells, delivers, consigns, gives or otherwise furnishes consumer fireworks only to the public for their personal use and only during a fireworks season. See Kansas Statutes 31-502
• Secretary: means the secretary for children and families or the secretary's designee. See Kansas Statutes 38-320
• Secretary: means the secretary for children and families, unless otherwise specified. See Kansas Statutes 39-702
• Secretary: means the secretary for children and families. See Kansas Statutes 39-1430
• Secretary: means the secretary for aging and disability services. See Kansas Statutes 39-1501
• Secretary: means the secretary for aging and disability services. See Kansas Statutes 39-2002
• Sell: means to sell, or to offer or agree to do the same. See Kansas Statutes 31-602
• Sequester: To separate. Sometimes juries are sequestered from outside influences during their deliberations.
• Service dog: means a dog which has been specially selected, trained and tested to perform a variety of tasks for persons with disabilities. See Kansas Statutes 39-1113
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Services: shall mean such public and municipal functions as are performed for property in, and for persons residing within, a political subdivision. See Kansas Statutes 27-201
• Services: means the following types of behavioral health, intellectual disability, developmental disability and other disability services, including, but not limited to: Residential supports, day supports, care coordination, case management, workshops, sheltered domiciles, education, therapeutic services, assessments and evaluations, diagnostic care, medicinal support and rehabilitative services. See Kansas Statutes 39-2002
• Services that are necessary to maintain physical or mental health or both: include , but are not limited to, the provision of medical care for physical and mental health needs, the relocation of an adult to a facility or institution able to offer such care, assistance in personal hygiene, food, clothing, adequately heated and ventilated shelter, protection from health and safety hazards, protection from maltreatment the result of which includes, but is not limited to, malnutrition, deprivation of necessities or physical punishment and transportation necessary to secure any of the above stated needs, except that this term shall not include taking such person into custody without consent except as provided in this act. See Kansas Statutes 39-1430
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Skilled nursing care: means services performed by or under the immediate supervision of a registered professional nurse and additional licensed nursing personnel. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Smoke detector: means a device or combination of devices which operate from a power supply in the dwelling unit or at the point of installation for the purpose of detecting visible or invisible particles of combustion. See Kansas Statutes 31-161
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• State institution for people with intellectual disability: means Kansas neurological institute and Parsons state hospital and training center. See Kansas Statutes 39-1401
• State psychiatric hospital: means Larned state hospital, Osawatomie state hospital and Rainbow mental health facility. See Kansas Statutes 39-1401
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Storage: means the safekeeping of fireworks in a warehouse or magazine or comparable appropriate depository. See Kansas Statutes 31-502
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supervised nursing care: means services provided by or under the guidance of a licensed nurse with initial direction for nursing procedures and periodic inspection of the actual act of accomplishing the procedures; administration of medications and treatments as prescribed by a licensed physician or dentist and assistance of residents with the performance of activities of daily living. See Kansas Statutes 39-923
• Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transfer: means every mode, direct or indirect, absolute or conditional, voluntary or involuntary, of disposing of or parting with an asset or an interest in an asset, and includes payment of money, release, lease, and creation of a lien or other encumbrance. See Kansas Statutes 33-201
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Undertaking: means a promise or security in any form where required by law. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• usual place of abode: when applied to the service of any process or notice, means the place usually occupied by a person. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Victim Impact Statement: A written or spoken statement by the victim or his or her representative about the physical, emotional, and financial impact of a crime on the victim. The statement is given to the court before sentencing.
• Voir dire: The process by which judges and lawyers select a petit jury from among those eligible to serve, by questioning them to determine knowledge of the facts of the case and a willingness to decide the case only on the evidence presented in court. "Voir dire" is a phrase meaning "to speak the truth."
• Ward: means a person who has a guardian. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Wildlife sanctuary: means a not-for-profit organization exempt from federal income taxation pursuant to section 501 (c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as in effect on July 1, 2006, that:

  (1) Operates a place of refuge where abused, neglected, unwanted, impounded, abandoned, orphaned or displaced dangerous regulated animals are provided care for such animal's lifetime;

  (2) does not conduct any commercial activity with respect to any dangerous regulated animal possessed by the organization;

  (3) does not sell, trade, auction, lease or loan dangerous regulated animals, or parts thereof, which the organization possesses;

  (4) does not breed any dangerous regulated animal of which the organization possesses, except as an integral part of the species survival plan of the American zoo and aquarium association;

  (5) does not conduct any activity that is not inherent to the dangerous regulated animal's nature;

  (6) does not use the dangerous regulated animal for any type of entertainment purposes; and

  (7) operates a refuge in compliance with regulations promulgated by the United States department of agriculture for dangerous regulated animals, except non-native, venomous snakes, under the animal welfare act, public law 89-544, as amended and in effect on July 1, 2006, and the regulations and standards adopted under such act in effect on July 1, 2006, relating to operations, animal health and husbandry. See Kansas Statutes 32-1301

• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Youth: means child adjudicated to be a delinquent child, miscreant child, wayward child, traffic offender, truant, deprived child, child in need of care or juvenile offender. See Kansas Statutes 38-553