Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 4 > Article 2 - Judicial Districts

• Abuse: means :

  (1) Causing or attempting to cause physical harm;

  (2) placing another person in fear of imminent physical harm;

  (3) causing another person to engage involuntarily in sexual relations by force, threats or duress, or threatening to do so;

  (4) engaging in mental abuse, which includes threats, intimidation and acts designed to induce terror;

  (5) depriving another person of health care, housing, food or other necessities of life; or

  (6) restraining the liberty of another. See Kansas Statutes 44-761

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Adjournment sine die: The end of a legislative session "without day." These adjournments are used to indicate the final adjournment of an annual or the two-year session of legislature.
• 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.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Age: means an age of 40 or more years. See Kansas Statutes 44-1112
• Agency contract: means an agreement in which a student-athlete authorizes a person to negotiate or solicit on behalf of the student-athlete a professional-sports-services contract or an endorsement contract;

  (b) "athlete agent" means an individual who enters into an agency contract with a student-athlete or, directly or indirectly, recruits or solicits a student-athlete to enter into an agency contract. See Kansas Statutes 44-1517

• Agricultural employee: means any individual employed to perform agricultural work, including any individual whose work has ceased as a consequence of, or in connection with, any current labor dispute or because of any prohibited labor practice, who has not obtained any other substantially equivalent employment. See Kansas Statutes 44-819
• Agricultural employer: shall mean any employer engaged in cultivating the soil or in raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity including custom harvesting operators operating wholly within the state of Kansas, and employers engaged in operating stock, dairy, poultry, fruit, furbearing animal, wildlife and truck farms, plantations, ranches, feedlots, ranges, orchards, or other similar agricultural enterprises and who employed six or more employees for 20 or more days of any calendar month in the six months preceding the filing for recognition by such employees as an employee organization as provided for in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 44-819
• Agricultural labor: means any remunerated service:

  (A) On a farm, in the employ of any person, in connection with cultivating the soil, or in connection with raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity, including the raising, shearing, feeding, caring for, training, and management of livestock, bees, poultry, and furbearing animals and wildlife. See Kansas Statutes 44-703

• all-union agreement: shall mean an agreement between an employer and his employees or the duly authorized representative of his employees in a collective bargaining unit whereby all or any of the employees in such unit are required as a condition of continued employment to become or remain members of a single labor organization on or after the sixtieth day following the beginning of such employment or the effective date of such agreement whichever is the later. See Kansas Statutes 44-802
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• alternative base period: means the last four completed quarters immediately preceding the date the qualifying injury occurred. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• 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.
• American aircraft: means any vessel or aircraft documented or numbered or otherwise registered under the laws of the United States; and any vessel or aircraft that is neither documented or numbered or otherwise registered under the laws of the United States nor documented under the laws of any foreign country, if its crew performs service solely for one or more citizens or residents of the United States or corporations organized under the laws of the United States or of any state. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Amusement ride: means any mechanical or electrical device that carries or conveys passengers along, around or over a fixed or restricted route or course or within a defined area for the purpose of giving its passengers amusement, pleasure, thrills or excitement, including, but not be limited to:

  (A) Rides commonly known as ferris wheels, carousels, parachute towers, bungee jumping, reverse bungee jumping, tunnels of love, roller coasters, boat rides, water slides, inflatable devices, commercial zip lines, trampoline courts and go-karts;

  (B) equipment generally associated with winter activities, such as ski lifts, ski tows, j-bars, t-bars, chair lifts and aerial tramways; and

  (C) equipment not originally designed to be used as an amusement ride, such as cranes or other lifting devices, when used as part of an amusement ride. See Kansas Statutes 44-1601

• Annual payroll: means the total amount of wages paid or payable by an employer during the calendar year. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• 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.
• Antique amusement ride: means an amusement ride, as defined in subsection (a)(1), manufactured prior to January 1, 1930. See Kansas Statutes 44-1601
• 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.
• 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
• Approved training: means any vocational training course or course in basic education skills, including a job training program authorized under the federal workforce investment act of 1998, approved by the secretary or a person or persons designated by the secretary. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• athletic director: means an individual responsible for administering the overall athletic program of an educational institution or, if an educational institution has separately administered athletic programs for male students and female students, the athletic program for males or the athletic program for females, as appropriate;

  (d) "contact" means a communication, direct or indirect, between an athlete agent and a student-athlete, to recruit or solicit the student-athlete to enter into an agency contract;

  (e) "endorsement contract" means an agreement under which a student-athlete is employed or receives consideration to use on behalf of the other party any value that the student-athlete may have because of publicity, reputation, following or fame obtained because of athletic ability or performance;

  (f) "intercollegiate sport" means a sport played at the collegiate level for which eligibility requirements for participation by a student-athlete are established by a national association for the promotion or regulation of collegiate athletics;

  (g) "person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, public corporation or any other legal or commercial entity;

  (h) "professional-sports-services contract" means an agreement under which an individual is employed, or agrees to render services, as a player on a professional sports team, with a professional sports organization or as a professional athlete;

  (i) "record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form;

  (j) "registration" means registration as an athlete agent pursuant to this act;

  (k) "state" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States; and

  (l) "student-athlete" means an individual who engages in, is eligible to engage in or may be eligible in the future to engage in, any intercollegiate sport. See Kansas Statutes 44-1517

• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
• Automated license plate recognition system: means one or more high-speed cameras combined with computer algorithms used to convert images of license plates into computer readable data. See Kansas Statutes 45-217
• Average annual payroll: means the average of the annual payrolls of any employer for the last three calendar years immediately preceding the computation date as hereinafter defined if the employer has been continuously subject to contributions during those three calendar years and has paid some wages for employment during each of such years. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Balanced budget: A budget in which receipts equal outlays.
• 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.
• base period: includes the alternative base period. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• 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}
• Benefit cost payments: means payments made to the employment security fund by a governmental entity electing to become a rated governmental employer. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Benefits: means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this act, with respect to such individual's unemployment. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Board: means the state records board established pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 45-402
• Board: means the agricultural labor relations board established pursuant to this act. See Kansas Statutes 44-819
• Boiler: means a closed vessel in which water or other liquid is heated, steam or vapor is generated or steam is superheated, or in which any combination of these functions is accomplished, under pressure or vacuum, for use internal or external to itself, by the direct application of energy from the combustion of fuels or of electric or solar power. See Kansas Statutes 44-914
• Business day: means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or day designated as a holiday by the congress of the United States, by the legislature or governor of this state or by the respective political subdivision of this state. See Kansas Statutes 45-217
• Calendar quarter: means the period of three consecutive calendar months ending March 31, June 30, September 30 or December 31, or the equivalent thereof as the secretary may by rules and regulations prescribe. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Captured license plate data: means the global positioning device coordinates, date and time, photograph, license plate number and any other data captured by or derived from an automated license plate recognition system. See Kansas Statutes 45-217
• Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
• Certificate inspection: means an inspection, the report of which is used by the chief inspector to determine whether or not an inspection certificate shall be issued as provided by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 44-914
• Certificate of inspection: means a certificate, signed and dated by a qualified inspector, showing that an amusement ride has satisfactorily passed inspection by such inspector. See Kansas Statutes 44-1601
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• 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: means minor persons under the age of fourteen (14) years. See Kansas Statutes 44-637
• Clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy: means revealing information that would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, including information that may pose a risk to a person or property and is not of legitimate concern to the public. See Kansas Statutes 45-217
• Client lessee: means any individual, organization, partnership, corporation or other legal entity leasing employees from a lessor employing unit. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• collective bargaining unit: shall mean all the employees of one employer which are employed within the state where a majority of whom have voted by secret ballot as provided and in accordance with rules set up in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 44-802
• Commission: means the Kansas human rights commission created pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 44-1112
• Commission: means the Kansas human rights commission created by this act. See Kansas Statutes 44-1002
• Commission salesperson: means a person who contracts with and is authorized by a principal to solicit within this state wholesale orders for that principal for merchandise to be shipped into this state or services to be performed within this state and who is compensated therefor by commission. See Kansas Statutes 44-341
• 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.
• 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.
• Conditions of employment: means salaries, wages, hours of work, vacation allowances, sick and injury leave, number of holidays, retirement benefits, insurance benefits, wearing apparel, premium pay for overtime, shift differential pay, jury duty and grievance procedures. See Kansas Statutes 44-819
• 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.
• Contractual relationship: means the relationship between a principal and a commission salesperson based on a contract between them providing for the commission salesperson to solicit and make sales within this state of merchandise to be shipped into or services to be performed within this state. See Kansas Statutes 44-341
• Contributing employer: means any employer other than a reimbursing employer or rated governmental employer. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Contributions: means the money payments to the state employment security fund that are required to be made by employers on account of employment under Kan. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• 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.
• Crew chief: means any person, other than an employer, who brings a crew or group of migrant workers into the state of Kansas or is responsible for finding employment for them but shall not mean any custom combine operator. See Kansas Statutes 44-125
• crew leader: means an individual who:

  (i) Furnishes individuals to perform services in agricultural labor for any other person;

  (ii) pays, either on such individual's own behalf or on behalf of such other person, the individuals so furnished by such individual for the services in agricultural labor performed by them; and

  (iii) has not entered into a written agreement with such other person under which such individual is designated as an employee of such other person. See Kansas Statutes 44-703

• Criminal investigation records: means :

  (1) Every audio or video recording made and retained by law enforcement using a body camera or vehicle camera as defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 45-217

• Cross examine: Questioning of a witness by the attorney for the other side.
• Custodian: means the official custodian or any person designated by the official custodian to carry out the duties of custodian of this act. See Kansas Statutes 45-217
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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 department of labor. See Kansas Statutes 44-1601
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• detention: includes the duties of employees assigned to guard individuals incarcerated in any penal institution. See Kansas Statutes 44-1112
• direct seller: means any person if:

  (i) Such person:

  (a) Is engaged in the trade or business of selling or soliciting the sale of consumer products to any buyer on a buy-sell basis or a deposit-commission basis for resale, by the buyer or any other person, in the home or otherwise rather than in a permanent retail establishment; or

  (b) is engaged in the trade or business of selling or soliciting the sale of consumer products in the home or otherwise than in a permanent retail establishment;

  (ii) substantially all the remuneration whether or not paid in cash for the performance of the services described in subparagraph (i) is directly related to sales or other output including the performance of services rather than to the number of hours worked;

  (iii) the services performed by the person are performed pursuant to a written contract between such person and the person for whom the services are performed and such contract provides that the person will not be treated as an employee for federal and state tax purposes;

  (iv) for purposes of this act, a sale or a sale resulting exclusively from a solicitation made by telephone, mail, or other telecommunications method, or other nonpersonal method does not satisfy the requirements of this subsection;

  (W) services performed as an election official or election worker, if the amount of remuneration received by the individual during the calendar year for services as an election official or election worker is less than $1,000;

  (X) services performed by agricultural workers who are aliens admitted to the United States to perform labor pursuant to section 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a) of the immigration and nationality act;

  (Y) services performed by an owner-operator of a motor vehicle that is leased or contracted to a licensed motor carrier with the services of a driver and is not treated under the terms of the lease agreement or contract with the licensed motor carrier as an employee for purposes of the federal insurance contribution act, 26 U. See Kansas Statutes 44-703

• Disability: means , with respect to an individual:

  (1) A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual;

  (2) a record of such an impairment; or

  (3) being regarded as having such an impairment. See Kansas Statutes 44-1002

• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Discriminatory housing practice: means any act that is unlawful under Kan. See Kansas Statutes 44-1015
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Domestic service: means any services for a person in the operation and maintenance of a private household, local college club or local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority, as distinguished from service as an employee in the pursuit of an employer's trade, occupation, profession, enterprise or vocation. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Domestic violence: means abuse committed against an employee or an employee's spouse or dependent child by:

  (1) A current or former spouse of the employee;

  (2) a person with whom the employee shares parentage of a child in common;

  (3) a person who is cohabitating with, or has cohabitated with, the employee;

  (4) a person who is related by blood or marriage; or

  (5) a person with whom the employee has or had a dating or engagement relationship. See Kansas Statutes 44-761

• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• dues check-off: means the practice of an employer to deduct from the salary of an employee, with his consent, an amount for the payment of such employee's membership dues in an employee organization. See Kansas Statutes 44-819
• earned commissions: means commissions with respect to services or merchandise which actually has been delivered or furnished to, accepted by and paid for by the customer by the last day of the commission salesperson's contractual relationship. See Kansas Statutes 44-341
• Educational institution: means any institution of higher education, as defined in subsection (u), or any institution, except private for profit institutions, in which participants, trainees or students are offered an organized course of study or training designed to transfer to them knowledge, skills, information, doctrines, attitudes or abilities from, by or under the guidance of an instructor or teacher and that is approved, licensed or issued a permit to operate as a school by the state department of education or other government agency that is authorized within the state to approve, license or issue a permit for the operation of a school or to an Indian tribe in the operation of an educational institution. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Employee: means any person allowed or permitted to work by an employer. See Kansas Statutes 44-313
• Employee organization: means any organization which includes employees of an agricultural employer and which has as one of its primary purposes representing such employees in dealings with that agricultural employer over conditions of employment and grievances. See Kansas Statutes 44-819
• Employer: means any person in this state who employs four or more persons and any person acting directly or indirectly for such a person, and includes the state and all political subdivisions of the state. See Kansas Statutes 44-1112
• Employer: means any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, corporation, limited liability company or other organization, the administrator or executor of the estate of a deceased individual, or the receiver, trustee, or successor of any of the same, the state of Kansas or any department, agency or authority of the state, any city, county, school district or other political subdivision, municipality or public corporation and any instrumentality thereof, employing any person. See Kansas Statutes 44-313
• Employer: means :

  (1) (A) Any employing unit for which agricultural labor as defined in subsection (w) is performed and during any calendar quarter in either the current or preceding calendar year paid remuneration in cash of $20,000 or more to individuals employed in agricultural labor or for some portion of a day in each of 20 different calendar weeks, whether or not such weeks were consecutive, in either the current or the preceding calendar year, employed in agricultural labor 10 or more individuals, regardless of whether they were employed at the same moment of time. See Kansas Statutes 44-703

• Employer: includes any person in this state employing four or more persons and any person acting directly or indirectly for an employer, labor organizations, nonsectarian corporations, organizations engaged in social service work and the state of Kansas and all political and municipal subdivisions thereof, but shall not include a nonprofit fraternal or social association or corporation. See Kansas Statutes 44-1002
• Employing unit: means any individual or type of organization, including any partnership, association, limited liability company, agency or department of the state of Kansas and political subdivisions thereof, trust, estate, joint-stock company, insurance company or corporation, whether domestic or foreign including nonprofit corporations, or the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee or successor thereof, or the legal representatives of a deceased person, that has in its employ one or more individuals performing services for it within this state. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• employment: includes services described in paragraphs (i) and (ii) above only if:

  (a) The contract of service contemplates that substantially all of the services are to be performed personally by such individual;

  (b) the individual does not have a substantial investment in facilities used in connection with the performance of the services, other than in facilities for transportation; and

  (c) the services are not in the nature of a single transaction that is not part of a continuing relationship with the person for whom the services are performed. See Kansas Statutes 44-703

• Employment agency: includes any person or governmental agency undertaking, with or without compensation, to procure opportunities to work or to procure, recruit, refer or place employees. See Kansas Statutes 44-1002
• Employment agency: includes any person or governmental agency undertaking with or without compensation to procure opportunities to work, or to procure, recruit, refer or place employees. See Kansas Statutes 44-1112
• Employment office: means any office operated by this state and maintained by the secretary of labor for the purpose of assisting persons to become employed. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Employment security administration fund: means the fund established by this act, from which administrative expenses under this act shall be paid. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Engrossed bill: The official copy of a bill or joint resolution passed by a chamber of the legislature.
• Enrolled bill: The final copy of a bill or joint resolution which has passed both chambers in identical form. It is printed on parchment paper, signed by appropriate officials, and submitted to the President/Governor for signature.
• 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}
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Executor: includes an administrator where the subject matter applies to an administrator. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• extra: means an individual who pantomimes in the background, adds atmosphere to the set and performs such actions without speaking and "employer" shall not include any employer that is a governmental entity or any employer described in section 501(c)(3) of the federal internal revenue code of 1986 that is exempt from income taxation under section 501(a) of the code;

  (S) services performed by an oil and gas contract pumper. See Kansas Statutes 44-703

• Factory: means any premises where steam, water or other mechanical power is used in aid of any manufacturing process. See Kansas Statutes 44-637
• Familial status: means having one or more individuals less than 18 years of age domiciled with:

  (1) A parent or another person having legal custody of such individual or individuals; or

  (2) the designee of such parent or other person having such custody, with the written permission of such parent or other person. See Kansas Statutes 44-1015

• Family: includes a single individual. See Kansas Statutes 44-1015
• farm: includes stock, dairy, poultry, fruit, fur-bearing animal, and truck farms, plantations, ranches, nurseries, ranges, greenhouses, or other similar structures used primarily for the raising of agricultural or horticultural commodities, and orchards. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Farm: means an agricultural operation out of one headquarters and may include separate tracts of land within the state of Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 44-819
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Firefighter: means an employee, the duties of whose position are primarily to perform work directly connected with the control and extinguishment of fires or the maintenance and use of firefighting apparatus and equipment, including an employee engaged in this activity who is transferred to a supervisory or administrative position. See Kansas Statutes 44-1112
• 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}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fraud Alert: A key provision of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 is the consumer's ability to place a fraud alert on their credit record. A consumer would use this option if they believe they were a victim of identity theft. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fund: means the employment security fund established by this act, to which all contributions and reimbursement payments required and from which all benefits provided under this act shall be paid and including all money received from the federal government as reimbursements pursuant to section 204 of the federal-state extended compensation act of 1970, and amendments thereto. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• 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
• Genetic screening or testing: means a laboratory test of a person's genes or chromosomes for abnormalities, defects or deficiencies, including carrier status, that are linked to physical or mental disorders or impairments, or that indicate a susceptibility to illness, disease or other disorders, whether physical or mental, which test is a direct test for abnormalities, defects or deficiencies, and not an indirect manifestation of genetic disorders. See Kansas Statutes 44-1002
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Government records: means all volumes, documents, reports, maps, drawings, charts, indexes, plans, memoranda, sound recordings, microfilms, photographic records and other data, information or documentary material, regardless of physical form or characteristics, storage media or condition of use, made or received by an agency in pursuance of law or in connection with the transaction of official business or bearing upon the official activities and functions of any governmental agency. See Kansas Statutes 45-402
• Government records with enduring value: means all government records which merit preservation for historical, legal, fiscal or administrative reasons, or for research purposes. See Kansas Statutes 45-402
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Grievance: means a statement of dissatisfaction by an agricultural employee, employee organization or agricultural employer concerning interpretation of a memorandum of agreement or traditional work practice. See Kansas Statutes 44-819
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Heating boiler: means a steam or vapor boiler operating at pressures not exceeding 15 pounds per square inch gauge or a hot water heating boiler operating at pressures not exceeding 160 pounds per square inch gauge or temperatures not exceeding 250° Fahrenheit. See Kansas Statutes 44-914
• 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.
• Incapacitated person: means an individual whose ability to receive and evaluate relevant information, or to effectively communicate decisions, or both, even with the use of assistive technologies or other supports, is impaired to the degree that the person lacks the capacity to manage the person's estate, or to meet essential needs for the person's physical health, safety or welfare, as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• 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.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Inspection fee: means any inspection fees collected pursuant to subsection (a) of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 44-914
• Insured work: means employment for employers. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Integrated setting: means with respect to an employment outcome, a setting typically found in the community in which applicants or eligible individuals interact with non-disabled individuals, other than non-disabled individuals who are providing services to those applicants or eligible individuals, to the same extent that non-disabled individuals in comparable positions interact with other persons. See Kansas Statutes 44-1136
• 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}
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• investigating committee: means any of the following:

  (a) A standing, special or select committee of either the house of representatives or the senate, a joint committee of both houses of the legislature, or an authorized subcommittee of any such committee; or

  (b) The legislative coordinating council, the legislative budget committee, the joint committee on special claims against the state, the joint committee on administrative rules and regulations, the legislative post audit committee, any special or select committee appointed by the legislative coordinating council, or any authorized subcommittee of any such committee or said council; or

  (c) Any committee, commission or board created by the legislature by concurrent resolution or enactment when, as one or all of its duties, it is to perform an inquiry, study or investigation for the legislature, except that an advisory committee is not an investigating committee; or

  (d) Any committee heretofore or hereafter created by law or resolution of either house of the legislature or by concurrent resolution, when all of the members of such committee, who are authorized to vote on actions of the committee, are legislators. See Kansas Statutes 46-1001

• 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.
• 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.
• Jury list: means a list of those persons qualified for jury duty in a county as such list is prepared in accordance with this act;

  (b) "Commissioner" or "jury commissioner" means the judge or judges of the district court in each county, or a person appointed to serve as jury commissioner by a district court;

  (c) "Wheel" means a container in which may be placed cards bearing the names of persons on the jury list of a county. See Kansas Statutes 43-157

• labor organization: means any organization of any kind, or any agency or employee representation committee or plan, which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work. See Kansas Statutes 44-802
• Labor organization: includes any organization which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment or of other mutual aid or protection in relation to employment. See Kansas Statutes 44-1002
• Labor organization: includes any organization which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment, or of other mutual aid or protection in relation to employment. See Kansas Statutes 44-1112
• Law enforcement officer: means an employee, the duties of whose position are primarily the investigation, apprehension or detention of individuals suspected or convicted of offenses against the criminal laws of Kansas or of offenses against any ordinance or resolution which imposes criminal sanctions and is adopted by a city, county or other political subdivision of Kansas, including an employee engaged in this activity who is transferred to a supervisory or administrative position. See Kansas Statutes 44-1112
• 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 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).
• Lessor employing unit: means any independently established business entity that engages in the business of providing leased employees to a client lessee. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Limited-use amusement ride: means an amusement ride, as defined in subsection (a)(1), owned and operated by a nonprofit, community-based organization that is operated for less than 20 days, or 160 hours, in a year and is operated at only one location each year. See Kansas Statutes 44-1601
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local agency: means any department, board, commission, officer or authority of a county, city, township, school district or other tax-supported governmental subdivision of the state. See Kansas Statutes 45-402
• Lockout: means action taken by the employer to provoke interruptions or to prevent the continuity of work normally and usually performed by the employees for the purpose of coercing the employees into relinquishing rights guaranteed by this act. See Kansas Statutes 44-819
• Magistrate judges: Judicial officers who assist U.S. district judges in getting cases ready for trial, who may decide some criminal and civil trials when both parties agree to have the case heard by a magistrate judge instead of a judge.
• Major life activities: means :

  (1) Major life activities include, but are not limited to, caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working. See Kansas Statutes 44-1002

• Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
• Member of the military: means a member of the armed forces or national guard on active duty or a member of an active reserve unit in the armed forces or national guard. See Kansas Statutes 44-1125
• Memorandum of agreement: means a written memorandum of understanding arrived at by the representatives of the agricultural employers and a recognized employee organization. See Kansas Statutes 44-819
• Migrant worker: means any person who is a nonresident of Kansas and who is employed temporarily in agriculturally-related work involving seasonal labor requiring his migration from one area to another in order to gain employment but shall not mean any person who is employed by any custom combine operator. See Kansas Statutes 44-125
• minerals: includes oil, natural gas or petroleum. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Minor: means any person defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Minor: means a person under the age of eighteen (18) years. See Kansas Statutes 44-637
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• 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.
• Motor vehicle: means any automobile, truck-trailer, semitrailer, tractor, motor bus or any other self-propelled or motor-driven vehicle used upon any of the public highways of Kansas for the purpose of transporting persons or property; (ii) "licensed motor carrier" means any person, firm, corporation or other business entity that holds a certificate of convenience and necessity or a certificate of public service from the state corporation commission or is required to register motor carrier equipment pursuant to 49 U. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• 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.
• Noncurrent government records: means all government records which no longer are necessary for the handling of ordinary official public business by the agency and which are not required by law to be retained in the immediate custody of the agency for a longer period of time. See Kansas Statutes 45-402
• Nondestructive testing: means the development and application of technical methods in accordance with ASTM F747 standards such as radiographic, magnetic particle, ultrasonic, liquid penetrant, electromagnetic, neutron radiographic, acoustic emission, visual and leak testing to:

  (1) Examine materials or components in ways that do not impair the future usefulness and serviceability in order to detect, locate, measure and evaluate discontinuities, defects and other imperfections;

  (2) assess integrity, properties and composition; and

  (3) measure geometrical characters. See Kansas Statutes 44-1601

• nonqualified deferred compensation plan: means any plan or other arrangement for deferral of compensation other than a plan described in subsection (o)(4). See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• 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.
• Official custodian: means any officer or employee of a public agency who is responsible for the maintenance of public records, regardless of whether such records are in the officer's or employee's actual personal custody and control. See Kansas Statutes 45-217
• oil and gas contract pumper: means a person performing pumping and other services on one or more oil or gas leases, or on both oil and gas leases, relating to the operation and maintenance of such oil and gas leases, on a contractual basis for the operators of such oil and gas leases and "services" shall not include services performed for a governmental entity or any organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the federal internal revenue code of 1986 that is exempt from income taxation under section 501(a) of the code;

  (T) service not in the course of the employer's trade or business performed in any calendar quarter by an employee, unless the cash remuneration paid for such service is $200 or more and such service is performed by an individual who is regularly employed by such employer to perform such service. See Kansas Statutes 44-703

• Operator: means a person actually supervising, or engaged in or directly controlling the operations of an amusement ride. See Kansas Statutes 44-1601
• other papers: means such papers ordered to be enrolled. See Kansas Statutes 45-301
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: means a person who owns, leases, controls or manages the operations of an amusement ride and may include the state or any political subdivision of the state. See Kansas Statutes 44-1601
• owner-operator: means a person, firm, corporation or other business entity that is the owner of a single motor vehicle that is driven exclusively by the owner under a lease agreement or contract with a licensed motor carrier; and

  (Z) services performed by a petroleum landman on a contractual basis. See Kansas Statutes 44-703

• Parent or guardian: means any parent, guardian or custodian responsible for the control, safety, training or education of a minor or an adult or minor with an impairment in need of a guardian or a conservator, or both, as those terms are defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 44-1601
• 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.
• Patron: means any individual who is:

  (A) Waiting in the immediate vicinity of an amusement ride to get on the ride;

  (B) getting on an amusement ride;

  (C) using an amusement ride;

  (D) getting off an amusement ride; or

  (E) leaving an amusement ride and still in the immediate vicinity of the ride. See Kansas Statutes 44-1601

• pay period: means a period, of not more than 31 consecutive days, for which a payment of remuneration is ordinarily made to the individual by the person employing such individual. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Payments in lieu of contributions: means the money payments to the state employment security fund from employers that are required to make or that elect to make such payments under Kan. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Person: means individual, partnership, association, organization, corporation, legal representative, trustee, trustee in bankruptcy or receiver. See Kansas Statutes 44-1112
• Person: means any individual, association, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, government or other entity. See Kansas Statutes 44-1601
• Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, company, agency, institution or association. See Kansas Statutes 44-637
• person: when used in this act shall mean and apply to every individual, association, partnership, corporation, employer, employee, collective bargaining unit, labor organization or business agent. See Kansas Statutes 44-802
• Person: includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, organizations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy or receivers. See Kansas Statutes 44-1002
• Person aggrieved: means any person who claims to have been injured by a discriminatory housing practice or believes that such person will be injured by a discriminatory housing practice that is about to occur. See Kansas Statutes 44-1015
• petroleum landman: means an individual performing services on a contractual basis who is not an individual who is an active officer of a corporation as described in subsection (i)(1)(A) that may include:

  (i) Negotiating for the acquisition or divestiture of mineral rights;

  (ii) negotiating business agreements that provide exploration for or development of minerals;

  (iii) determining ownership in minerals through the research of public and private records;

  (iv) reviewing the status of title, curing title defects, providing title due diligence and otherwise reducing title risk associated with ownership in minerals or the acquisition and divestiture of mineral properties;

  (v) managing rights or obligations derived from ownership of interests in minerals; or

  (vi) unitizing or pooling of interests in minerals. See Kansas Statutes 44-703

• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• 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.
• Pocket veto: In the U.S. Constitution grants the President 10 days to review a measure passed by the Congress. If the President has not signed the bill after 10 days, it becomes law without his signature. However, if Congress adjourns during the 10-day period, the bill does not become law. Many states have similar provisions in their constitutions.
• 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.
• Predecessor employer: means an employer, as described in subsection (h), who has previously operated a business or portion of a business with employment to which another employer has succeeded. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• 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.
• Pressure vessel: means a vessel or container used for the containment of pressure either internal or external in which the pressure is obtained from an external source of vapor, liquid or gas. See Kansas Statutes 44-914
• Principal: means any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, corporation or administrator or executor of the estate of a deceased individual, or the receiver, trustee or successor thereof, contracting with a commission salesperson to solicit and make sales within this state for merchandise to be shipped into this state or services to be performed within this state. See Kansas Statutes 44-341
• 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.
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Public accommodations: means any person who caters or offers goods, services, facilities and accommodations to the public. See Kansas Statutes 44-1002
• Public agency: means the state or any political or taxing subdivision of the state or any office, agency or instrumentality thereof, or any other entity receiving or expending and supported in whole or in part by the public funds appropriated by the state or by public funds of any political or taxing subdivision of the state. See Kansas Statutes 45-217
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public record: includes , but is not limited to, an agreement in settlement of litigation involving the Kansas public employees retirement system and the investment of moneys of the fund. See Kansas Statutes 45-217
• Public works: means any agency of state government and its political subdivisions and municipalities including schools, counties and cities. See Kansas Statutes 44-637
• Qualified inspector: means a person who:

  (1) Is a licensed professional engineer, as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 44-1601

• qualified real estate agent: means any individual who is licensed by the Kansas real estate commission as a salesperson under the real estate brokers' and salespersons' license act and for whom:

  (i) Substantially all of the remuneration, whether or not paid in cash, for the services performed by such individual as a real estate salesperson is directly related to sales or other output, including the performance of services, rather than to the number of hours worked; and

  (ii) the services performed by the individual are performed pursuant to a written contract between such individual and the person for whom the services are performed and such contract provides that the individual will not be treated as an employee with respect to such services for state tax purposes;

  (R) services performed for an employer by an extra in connection with any phase of motion picture or television production or television commercials for less than 14 days during any calendar year. See Kansas Statutes 44-703

• Qualifying injury: means a personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of employment within the coverage of the Kansas workers compensation act, Kan. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Rated governmental employer: means any governmental entity that elects to make payments as provided by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Real property: means and includes:

  (1) All vacant or unimproved land; and

  (2) any building or structure which is occupied or designed or intended for occupancy, or any building or structure having a portion thereof which is occupied or designed or intended for occupancy. See Kansas Statutes 44-1015

• Reasonable accommodation: means :

  (A) Making existing facilities used by employees readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities; and

  (B) job restructuring; part-time or modified work schedules; reassignment to a vacant position; acquisition or modification of equipment or devices; appropriate adjustment or modifications of examinations, training materials or policies; provision of qualified readers or interpreters; and other similar accommodations for individuals with disabilities. See Kansas Statutes 44-1002

• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Recognized employee organization: means an employee organization which has been certified by election as representing a majority of the employees of an appropriate unit. See Kansas Statutes 44-819
• Regarded as having such an impairment: means the absence of a physical or mental impairment but regarding or treating an individual as though such an impairment exists. See Kansas Statutes 44-1002
• Registered agritourism activity: means an amusement ride, as defined in subsection (a)(1), that is a registered agritourism activity, as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 44-1601
• Regular benefits: means benefits payable to an individual under this act or under any other state law, including benefits payable to federal civilian employees and to ex-servicemen pursuant to 5 U. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Reimbursing employer: means any employer who makes payments in lieu of contributions to the employment security fund as provided in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• 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.
• 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
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Retention and disposition schedules: means lists of series of government records, prepared pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 45-402
• 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
• 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
• Secondary boycott: means to encourage, coerce, contract or conspire with any person where the object of such action is to force or persuade any person, not a party to the labor dispute, to refuse to use, sell, handle or transport any agricultural commodity, or where the object of such action is to require any agriculture employer to recognize, bargain with or resolve any dispute with a labor organization. See Kansas Statutes 44-819
• Secretary: means the secretary of labor. See Kansas Statutes 44-1601
• Secretary: means the secretary of labor. See Kansas Statutes 44-313
• secretary: means the secretary of labor. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Serious injury: means an injury that results in:

  (1) Death, dismemberment, significant disfigurement or permanent loss of the use of a body organ, member, function or system;

  (2) a compound fracture; or

  (3) other injury or illness that requires immediate admission and overnight hospitalization, and observation by a licensed physician. See Kansas Statutes 44-1601

• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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.
• silicosis: shall mean the characteristic fibrotic condition of the lungs caused by the inhalation of silica dust. See Kansas Statutes 44-5a09
• 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: includes , in addition to the states of the United States of America, any dependency of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• State agency: means any department, board, commission, or authority of the executive branch of state government. See Kansas Statutes 45-402
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• strike: includes concerted action resulting in: (1) failure to report for duty; (2) the willful absence from one's position; (3) the stoppage of work; or (4) the abstinence in whole or in part from the full, faithful and proper performance of the duties of employment by an agricultural employee, for the purpose of inducing, influencing or coercing a change in the conditions, or compensation, or the rights, privileges or obligations of employment. See Kansas Statutes 44-819
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• Successor employer: means any employer, as described in subsection (h), that acquires or in any manner succeeds to: (1) Substantially all of the employing enterprises, organization, trade or business of another employer; or (2) substantially all the assets of another employer. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• 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.
• Total wages: means the total amount of wages paid or payable by an employer during the calendar year, including that part of remuneration in excess of the limitation prescribed as provided in subsection (o)(1). See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• 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.
• 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.
• Undercover agent: means an employee of a public agency responsible for criminal law enforcement who is engaged in the detection or investigation of violations of criminal law in a capacity where such employee's identity or employment by the public agency is secret. See Kansas Statutes 45-217
• Undertaking: means a promise or security in any form where required by law. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Unlawful discriminatory practice: means : (1) Any discrimination against persons, by reason of their race, religion, color, sex, disability, national origin or ancestry:

  (A) In any place of public accommodations; or

  (B) in the full and equal use and enjoyment of the services, facilities, privileges and advantages of any institution, department or agency of the state of Kansas or any political subdivision or municipality thereof; and

  (2) any discrimination against persons in regard to membership in a nonprofit recreational or social association or corporation by reason of race, religion, sex, color, disability, national origin or ancestry if such association or corporation has 100 or more members and: (A) Provides regular meal service; and (B) receives payment for dues, fees, use of space, use of facility, services, meals or beverages, directly or indirectly, from or on behalf of nonmembers. See Kansas Statutes 44-1002

• Unlawful employment practice: includes only those unlawful practices and acts specified in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 44-1002
• 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.
• Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
• Wages: means compensation for labor or services rendered by an employee, whether the amount is determined on a time, task, piece, commission or other basis less authorized withholding and deductions. See Kansas Statutes 44-313
• Wages: means all compensation for services, including commissions, bonuses, back pay and the cash value of all remuneration, including benefits, paid in any medium other than cash. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Week: means such period or periods of seven consecutive calendar days, as the secretary may by rules and regulations prescribe. See Kansas Statutes 44-703
• Workshop: means any premises, room, or place, not being a factory as above defined, wherein any manual labor is being performed, and to which or over which premises, room or place the employer of the person or persons working therein has the right of access or control. See Kansas Statutes 44-637
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.