Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 4 > Article 3 - Representative Districts

• Abandoned well: means any well that the commission has authority to plug, replug or repair under Kan. See Kansas Statutes 55-191
• Act: means the provisions of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 50-6a07
• Act: means the provisions of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 55-1626
• Active site: means a site where surface mining is being conducted. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Active state duty: means full-time duty in the active military service of the state under an order of the governor issued under authority vested in the governor by law, performance of regular duties by technicians, regularly scheduled drills and other legally called assemblies, including travel to and from such duty. See Kansas Statutes 48-2101
• Adequate veterinary medical care: means :

  (A) A documented program of disease control and prevention, euthanasia and routine veterinary care shall be established and maintained under the supervision of a licensed veterinarian, on a form provided by the commissioner, and shall include a documented on-site visit to the premises by the veterinarian at least once a year;

  (B) that diseased, ill, injured, lame or blind animals shall be provided with veterinary care as is needed for the health and well-being of the animal, and such veterinary care shall be documented and maintained on the premises; and

  (C) all documentation required by subsections (dd)(1)(A) and (dd)(1)(B) shall be made available to the commissioner or the commissioner's authorized representative for inspection or copying upon request and shall be maintained for three years after the effective date of the program or the administration of such veterinary care. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701

• 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.
• Adverse tier placement: means being subject to the rates of any tier with less coverage or higher premiums than the tier within which the insured is currently insured. See Kansas Statutes 48-291
• Advertisement: means a commercial message in any medium that aids, promotes or assists, directly or indirectly, a lease-purchase agreement;

  (2) "cash price" means the price at which the lessor would have sold the property to the consumer for cash on the date of the lease-purchase agreement;

  (3) "consumer" means a natural person who rents personal property under a lease-purchase agreement to be used primarily for personal, family or household purposes;

  (4) "consummation" means the time a consumer becomes contractually obligated on a lease-purchase agreement;

  (5) "lessor" means a person who regularly provides the use of property through lease-purchase agreements and to whom lease payments are initially payable on the face of the lease-purchase agreement; and

  (6) "lease-purchase agreement" means an agreement for the use of personal property by a natural person primarily for personal, family or household purposes, for an initial period of four months or less that is automatically renewable with each payment after the initial period, but does not obligate or require the consumer to continue leasing or using the property beyond the initial period, and that permits the consumer to become the owner of the property. See Kansas Statutes 50-681

• Affected community: includes any area surrounding such community where residents of the area have lost essential services due to the community's loss of infrastructure. See Kansas Statutes 49-511
• Affected land: means the area of land from which overburden has been removed or upon which overburden has been deposited, or both, but shall not include crushing areas, stockpile areas or roads. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• 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 a person who directly or indirectly owns or controls, is owned or controlled by, or is under common ownership or control with, another person. See Kansas Statutes 50-6a02
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• After market part: means replacement sheet metal or plastic parts which are not made by or for the original equipment manufacturer and which generally constitute the exterior or provide support for the exterior of a motor vehicle, including inner and outer panels;

  (b) "insurer" includes any person authorized to represent the insurer with respect to a claim who is acting within the scope of the person's authority. See Kansas Statutes 50-660

• Agricultural chemical: means fertilizers, lime or agricultural chemicals that are applied to crops or to land that is used for raising crops, including fertilizer material, plant amendment, plant food, soil amendment, pesticide and plant regulator. See Kansas Statutes 58-241
• Agricultural production input: means crop production inputs and livestock production inputs. See Kansas Statutes 58-241
• Agricultural products: includes agricultural, horticultural, viticultural, and dairy products, livestock, wildlife, poultry, bees, forest products, fish and shellfish, and any products thereof, including processed and manufactured products, and any and all products raised or produced on farms and any processed or manufactured products thereof. See Kansas Statutes 50-624
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Allocable share: means allocable share as that term is defined in the master settlement agreement. See Kansas Statutes 50-6a02
• 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.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Animal: means any live dog, cat, rabbit, rodent, nonhuman primate, bird or other warm-blooded vertebrate or any fish, snake or other cold-blooded vertebrate. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Animal breeder: means any person who operates an animal breeder premises. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Animal breeder premises: means any premises where all or part of six or more litters of dogs or cats, or both, or 30 or more dogs or cats, or both, are sold, or offered or maintained for sale, primarily at wholesale for resale to another. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Animal control officer: means any person employed by, contracted with or appointed by the state, or any political subdivision thereof, for the purpose of aiding in the enforcement of this law, or any other law or ordinance relating to the licensing or permitting of animals, control of animals or seizure and impoundment of animals, and includes any state, county or municipal law enforcement officer, dog warden, constable or other employee, whose duties in whole or in part include assignments that involve the seizure or taking into custody of any animal. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Animal distributor: means any person who operates an animal distributor premises. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Animal distributor premises: means the premises of any person engaged in the business of buying for resale dogs or cats, or both, as a principal or agent, or who holds such distributor's self out to be so engaged. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Annual percentage rate: The cost of credit at a yearly rate. It is calculated in a standard way, taking the average compound interest rate over the term of the loan so borrowers can compare loans. Lenders are required by law to disclose a card account's APR. ^{Source: FDIC}
• 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.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• 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
• aquaculture: means the controlled cultivation and harvest of aquatic plants and animals. See Kansas Statutes 47-1901
• Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Assist the transmission: means actions taken by a person to provide substantial assistance or support which enables any person to formulate, compose, send, originate, initiate or transmit a commercial electronic mail message when the person providing the assistance knows that the initiator of the commercial electronic mail message is engaged, or intends to engage, in any practice that violates the Kansas consumer protection act. See Kansas Statutes 50-6,107
• Assistive device: means any device, including a demonstrator, that a consumer purchases or accepts transfer of in this state which is used for a major life activity which includes, but is not limited to, manual wheelchairs, motorized wheelchairs, motorized scooters and other aides that enhance the mobility of an individual; hearing aide, telephone communication devices for the deaf (TTY), assistive listening devices and other aides that enhance an individual's ability to hear; voice synthesized computer modules, optical scanners, talking software, braille printers and other devices that enhance a sight impaired individual's ability to communicate; and any other assistive device that enables a person with a disability to communicate, see, hear or maneuver. See Kansas Statutes 50-696
• Assistive device dealer: means a person who is in the business of selling assistive devices. See Kansas Statutes 50-696
• Assistive device lessor: means a person who leases an assistive device to a consumer, or who holds the lessor's rights, under a written lease. See Kansas Statutes 50-696
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attack: means any action or series of actions taken by an enemy of the United States resulting in substantial damage or injury to persons or property in this state whether through sabotage, bombs, missiles, shellfire, or atomic, radiological, chemical, bacteriological, or biological means or other weapons or methods. See Kansas Statutes 48-1203
• Attack: means any action or series of actions taken by an enemy of the United States resulting in substantial damage or injury to persons or property in this state whether through sabotage, bombs, missiles, shellfire, or atomic, radiological, chemical, bacteriological, or biological means or other weapons or methods. See Kansas Statutes 48-1303
• Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
• 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.
• 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}
• Bid: means a written or oral proposal by an exhibitor to a distributor, which proposal is in response to an invitation to bid or negotiate and states the terms under which the exhibitor will agree to exhibit a motion picture in this state. See Kansas Statutes 51-201
• Blind bidding: means bidding, negotiating, offering terms, accepting a bid or agreeing to terms for the purpose of entering into a license agreement prior to a trade screening of the motion picture that is the subject of the agreement. See Kansas Statutes 51-201
• Board: means the state board of veterinary examiners. See Kansas Statutes 47-846
• Board: means any three members of the Kansas animal health board designated by the chairperson of the Kansas animal health board for each particular hearing. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
• Board: means the Kansas animal health board. See Kansas Statutes 47-1501
• board: means the Kansas oil and gas resources board as created by this act;

  (c) "first purchaser" means:

  (1) With regard to crude oil, the person to whom title first is transferred beyond the gathering tank or tanks, beyond the facility from which the crude oil was first produced, or both; and

  (2) with regard to natural gas, the person to whom title first is transferred beyond the inlet side of the measurement station from which the natural gas was first produced;

  (d) "independent producer" means a person who complies with both of the following:

  (1) Produces oil or natural gas and is not engaged in refining either product; and

  (2) derives a majority of income from ownership in properties producing oil or natural gas;

  (e) "interest owner" means a person who owns or possesses an oil or gas leasehold interest in the gross production of oil or natural gas produced from a well in Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 55-1626

• Boarding or training kennel operator: means any person who operates an establishment where four or more dogs or cats, or both, are maintained in any one week during the license year for boarding, training or similar purposes for a fee or compensation. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Brand family: means all styles of cigarettes sold under the same trademark and differentiated from one another by means of additional modifiers or descriptors, including, but not limited to, "menthol" "lights" "kings" and "100s" and includes any brand name (alone or in conjunction with any other word), trademark, logo, symbol, motto, selling message, recognizable pattern of colors or any other indicia of product identification identical, similar to or identifiable with a previously known brand of cigarettes. See Kansas Statutes 50-6a07
• Buyer: means both actual and prospective purchasers but does not include persons purchasing for resale. See Kansas Statutes 50-901
• By-product material: means : (1) Any radioactive material, except special nuclear material, yielded in or made radioactive by exposure to the radiation incident to the process of producing or utilizing special nuclear material;

  (2) the tailings or wastes produced by the extraction or concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for its source material content;

  (3) (A) any discrete source of radium-226 that is produced, extracted or converted after extraction for use for a commercial, medical or research activity; or

  (B) any material that:

  (i) Has been made radioactive by use of a particle accelerator; and

  (ii) is produced, extracted or converted after extraction for use for a commercial, medical or research activity; or

  (4) any discrete source of naturally occurring radioactive material, other than source material, that:

  (A) The secretary declares by order would pose a threat to the public health and safety or the common defense and security similar to the threat posed by a discrete source of radium-226 after the United States nuclear regulatory commission, or any successor thereto, determines the same; and

  (B) is extracted or converted after extraction for use in a commercial, medical or research activity. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603

• Carcass: means any carcass of cattle, sheep, swine, domestic rabbits or goats. See Kansas Statutes 50-901
• Carcasses of domestic animals: means bodies, or any part or portion thereof, of dead domestic animals not slaughtered for human food. See Kansas Statutes 47-1201
• Carrier: means a common carrier which is certified under Kan. See Kansas Statutes 55-1501
• Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
• Cat: means an animal that is wholly or in part of the species Felis domesticus. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Certificate of limited partnership: means the certificate referred to in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 56-1a,101
• Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
• cigarette: includes "roll-your-own" (i. See Kansas Statutes 50-6a02
• Circumstantial evidence: All evidence except eyewitness testimony.
• city: means any city located within the state of Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 55-1610
• Civil penalty: means any monetary penalty levied on a licensee or registrant because of violations of statutes, regulations, licenses or registration certificates, but does not include criminal penalties. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• Code: means this act. See Kansas Statutes 48-2101
• Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
• Collateral costs: means expenses incurred by a consumer in connection with the repair of a nonconformity, including the costs of obtaining an alternative assistive device. See Kansas Statutes 50-696
• Commercial electronic mail message: means an electronic mail message sent for the purpose of promoting property or services for sale or lease, but shall not include electronic mail messages sent by a natural person volunteering to send such messages on behalf of a charitable organization as defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 50-6,107
• Commission: means the state corporation commission. See Kansas Statutes 55-150
• Commission: means the Kansas dairy commission. See Kansas Statutes 47-2301
• Commission: means the conservation program policy board created in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Commissioner: means the animal health commissioner of the Kansas department of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
• Commissioner: means the animal health commissioner of the state of Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 47-1201
• Commissioner: refers to the securities commissioner appointed under Kan. See Kansas Statutes 50-1001
• Commissioner: means the state bank commissioner or designee, who shall be the deputy commissioner of the consumer and mortgage lending division of the office of the state bank commissioner. See Kansas Statutes 50-1117
• Commissioner: means the state animal health commissioner. See Kansas Statutes 47-1501
• Commissioner: means the animal health commissioner of the Kansas department of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Committee: means an executive or review committee of a state professional society or organization or an impaired veterinarian committee. See Kansas Statutes 47-846
• Common disaster: A sudden and extraordinary misfortune that brings about the simultaneous or near-simultaneous deaths of two or more associated persons, such as husband and wife.
• 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.
• 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
• Consignor: means any person who ships or delivers to any public livestock market livestock for handling, sale or resale at a public livestock market. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
• Consumer: means an individual, husband and wife, sole proprietor, or family partnership who seeks or acquires property or services for personal, family, household, business or agricultural purposes. See Kansas Statutes 50-624
• Consumer: means an individual who is a resident of this state. See Kansas Statutes 50-1117
• Consumer transaction: means a sale, lease, assignment or other disposition for value of property or services within this state, except insurance contracts regulated under state law, to a consumer; or a solicitation by a supplier with respect to any of these dispositions. See Kansas Statutes 50-624
• Contamination site: means any of: (1) The 17 sites of pollution from oil and gas activities, identified as of March 1, 1996, over which jurisdiction was transferred from the department of health and environment to the commission by chapter 204 of the 1995 Session Laws of Kansas; or (2) the 92 sites of pollution from oil and gas activities identified by the commission as of March 1, 1996. See Kansas Statutes 55-191
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contractor: means any person who acts as agent for an operator as a drilling, plugging, service rig or seismograph contractor in such operator's oil and gas, cathodic protection, gas gathering or underground natural gas storage operations. See Kansas Statutes 55-150
• Contribution: means any cash, property, services rendered, or a promissory note or other obligation to contribute cash or property or to perform services, which a partner contributes to a limited partnership in the partner's capacity as a partner. See Kansas Statutes 56-1a,101
• 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.
• Council: means the Kansas sheep council. See Kansas Statutes 47-2001
• Council: means the Kansas propane education and research council established in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 55-1802
• Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
• Credit Score: A number, roughly between 300 and 800, that measures an individual's credit worthiness. The most well-known type of credit score is the FICO score. This score represents the answer from a mathematical formula that assigns numerical values to various pieces of information in your credit report. ^{Source: OCC}
• Credit services organization: means a person who engages in, or holds out to the public as willing to engage in, the business of debt management services for a fee, compensation or gain, or in the expectation of a fee, compensation or gain. See Kansas Statutes 50-1117
• Creditor: means any person to whom a loan is initially payable on the face of the note or contract evidencing the loan. See Kansas Statutes 50-1001
• Crop production input: means agricultural chemicals, seeds, petroleum products, custom application of agricultural chemicals and seeds and labor furnished in planting, cultivating, growing, producing, harvesting, drying and storing crops or crop products. See Kansas Statutes 58-241
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dealer: means any person engaged in the business of dealing in used oil or gas field equipment. See Kansas Statutes 55-1501
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Decommissioning: means final operational activities at a facility to dismantle site structures, to decontaminate site surfaces and remaining structures, to stabilize and contain residual radioactive material and to carry out any other activities to prepare the site for postoperational care. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• Deed: is a pplied to an instrument conveying lands but does not imply a sealed instrument. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Demonstrator: means an assistive device used primarily for the purpose of demonstration to the public. See Kansas Statutes 50-696
• Department: means the Kansas department of health and environment. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• 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.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the director of taxation. See Kansas Statutes 50-6a07
• Director: means the executive director of the division or a designee. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Disabled person: includes incapacitated persons and incompetent persons as defined herein. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• disaster: means the occurrence or imminent threat of widespread or severe damage, injury or loss of life or property resulting from any natural or manmade cause, including, but not limited to, fire, flood, earthquake, wind, storm, epidemics, contagious or infectious disease, air contamination, blight, drought, infestation, explosion, riot, terrorism or hostile military or paramilitary action;

  (e) "unorganized militia" means all able-bodied male and female persons between the ages of 16 and 50 years;

  (f) "state disaster emergency plan" means the plan prepared and maintained by the division of emergency management pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 48-904

• Discount card: means a card or any other purchasing mechanism or device, which is not insurance, that purports to offer discounts or access to discounts in health-related purchases from health care providers. See Kansas Statutes 50-1,100
• 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:
• Disposal of low-level radioactive waste: means the isolation of such waste from the biosphere. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• Disposal plant: means a place of business or a location where the carcasses of domestic animals or packing house refuse is purchased, received or unloaded and where such carcasses or refuse are processed for the purpose of obtaining the hide, skin, grease, residue, or any other byproduct from the animal or refuse, in any way whatsoever. See Kansas Statutes 47-1201
• Distributor: means any person engaged in the business of renting, selling or licensing motion pictures to exhibitors. See Kansas Statutes 51-201
• Division: means the division of conservation established within the Kansas department of agriculture in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Dog: means any animal that is wholly or in part of the species Canis familiaris. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Domestic animals: shall include all domestic animals except dogs and cats. See Kansas Statutes 47-229
• Domesticated deer: means any member of the family cervidae which was legally obtained and is being sold or raised in a confined area for breeding stock; for any carcass, skin or part of such animal; for exhibition; or for companionship. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
• Domesticated deer: means any member of the family cervidae which was legally obtained and is being sold or raised in a confined area for breeding stock; for any carcass, skin or part of such animal; for exhibition; or for companionship. See Kansas Statutes 47-1402
• Early termination cost: means any expense or obligation that an assistive device lessor incurs as a result of both the termination of a written lease before the termination date set forth in that lease and the return of an assistive device to a manufacturer pursuant to this section. See Kansas Statutes 50-696
• Early termination saving: means any expense or obligation that an assistive device lessor avoids as a result of both the termination of a written lease before that termination date set forth in that lease and the return of an assistive device to a manufacturer pursuant to this section. See Kansas Statutes 50-696
• education: means any action that provides information, instruction or safety guidelines about propane, propane equipment, mechanical and technical practices and uses of propane to propane consumers or industry employees;

  (c) "awareness" means any action that provides information or safety guidelines about propane, propane equipment, mechanical and technical practices and uses of propane to propane consumers or industry employees;

  (d) "industry" means those persons involved in the production, transportation and sale of propane gas and in the manufacture and distribution of propane utilization equipment;

  (e) "industry trade association" means an organization that represents a segment of the industry and which is exempt from tax under section 501 (c) (3) or (c) (6) of the federal internal revenue code of 1986, as in effect on July 1, 2002;

  (f) "manufacturer and distributor of propane gas equipment" means any person engaged in the manufacturing, assembling and marketing of appliances, containers and products used in the propane gas industry and any person in the wholesale marketing of appliances, containers and products used in the propane gas industry;

  (g) "odorized propane" means propane to which odorant has been added;

  (h) "person" means any individual, group of individuals, partnership, association, cooperative, corporation or other legal entity;

  (i) "placed into commerce" means delivered, transported for storage or sold within the state of Kansas;

  (j) "propane" means propane, butane, mixtures and liquefied petroleum gas as defined by the national fire protection association standard, liquefied petroleum gas code, the chemical composition of which is predominantly C3H8, whether recovered from natural gas or from crude oil;

  (k) "public member" means a member of the council selected from among users of odorized propane, organizations representing users of odorized propane, public safety officials or state propane gas regulatory officials;

  (l) "qualified industry organization" means the propane marketers association of Kansas, a successor association or any other propane industry organization or industry trade association the members of which are engaged in the sale or distribution of odorized propane, or the sale of propane utilization equipment, to the ultimate consumer;

  (m) "research" means any type of study, investigation or other activity performed by a qualified public or private research group for the purpose of advancing and improving the existing technology related to the propane industry, including the development of increased efficiency of propane use, enhancing the safety of propane and propane utilization equipment and furthering the development of such information and products;

  (n) "retail marketer" means any person engaged in the sale of odorized propane to the ultimate consumer or to retail propane dispensers within Kansas;

  (o) "transporter" means any person involved in the commercial transportation of propane by pipeline, truck, rail or water; and

  (p) "wholesaler, reseller, supplier or importer" means the owner of the propane at the time it is first sold to a retail marketer in Kansas regardless of the state where production occurs, with ownership of the propane determined by the freight on board designation. See Kansas Statutes 55-1802

• Electronic auction: means a live audio-visual broadcast of an actual auction where livestock are offered for sale and shall include auctions conducted by satellite communications and over the internet. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
• Electronic mail address: means a destination, commonly expressed as a string of characters, to which electronic mail may be sent or delivered. See Kansas Statutes 50-6,107
• Electronic product: means any manufactured or assembled: (1) Product which, when in operation, contains or acts as part of an electronic circuit and emits, or in the absence of effective shielding or other controls would emit, electronic product radiation; or (2) article which is intended for use as a component part, or accessory of a product described in this subsection and which in operation emits, or in the absence of effective shielding or other controls would emit, such radiation. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• Emergency: means an occurrence or condition, temporary in nature, in which police and other public safety officials and locally available national guard forces are, or may reasonably be expected to be, unable to cope with substantial and imminent danger to the public safety. See Kansas Statutes 48-1701
• Emergency interim successor: means a person designated pursuant to this act, in the event the officer is unavailable, to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of an office until a successor is appointed or elected and qualified as may be provided by the constitution, statutes, charters and ordinances or until the lawful incumbent is able to resume the exercise of the powers and discharge the duties of the office. See Kansas Statutes 48-1203
• Emergency management: means the preparation for and the carrying out of all emergency functions, other than functions for which military forces or other federal agencies are primarily responsible, to prevent, minimize and repair injury and damage resulting from disasters;

  (b) "adjutant general" means the adjutant general of the state of Kansas;

  (c) "division of emergency management" means the division of emergency management created in the office of the adjutant general by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 48-904

• Emergency planning zone: means an area surrounding a nuclear facility for which planning is needed to assure that prompt and effective actions can be taken to protect the public in the event of an accident at the facility. See Kansas Statutes 48-941
• 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.
• Established business relationship: means a prior and existing relationship formed by a voluntary two-way communication between a sender and a recipient with or without an exchange of consideration, on the basis of an express authorization, application, purchase or transaction by the recipient regarding products or services offered by such sender, which relationship has not been previously terminated by either party. See Kansas Statutes 50-6,107
• Euthanasia: means the humane destruction of an animal, which may be accomplished by any of those methods provided for in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• 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.
• Excluded payments: means :

  (1) Payments which in the aggregate of 12 months' accumulation of oil or gas proceeds to one payee do not exceed $100, provided such excluded payments are disbursed annually if exceeding $10, and provided that upon written request of the payee, such excluded payments are disbursed monthly if exceeding $25; or

  (2) payments which in the aggregate of the accumulation of oil or gas proceeds to one payee do not exceed $10, provided such excluded payments are disbursed when production from the relevant well or wells ceases or when the payor's responsibility for making payment for production ceases, whichever occurs first, and provided that upon written request of the payee, such excluded payments are disbursed annually. See Kansas Statutes 55-1614

• exhibition: means showing a motion picture to the public for a charge. See Kansas Statutes 51-201
• Exhibitor: means any person engaged in the business of operating a theater in this state. See Kansas Statutes 51-201
• Express authorization: means an express affirmative act by a recipient clearly agreeing to receive commercial electronic messages from a specified and identifiable sender, or from multiple persons. See Kansas Statutes 50-6,107
• Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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 government sponsored health insurance program: means the TriCare program providing coverage for civilian dependents of military personnel. See Kansas Statutes 48-291
• 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: means any payment made by a consumer to an invention promoter, including reimbursements for expenditures made or costs incurred. See Kansas Statutes 50-666
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Feed: means commercial feeds, feed ingredients, mineral feeds, drugs, animal health products, supplements, customer-formula feeds or other products, including grain, that are used for feeding livestock. See Kansas Statutes 58-241
• Feedlot: means : (1) A livestock feedlot, or feed yard, having more than 1,000 head of livestock at one time during the licensed year; or (2) any other livestock feedlot whose operator elects to come under this act. See Kansas Statutes 47-1501
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Final judgment: means a judgment, including any supporting opinion, that determines the rights of the parties and concerning which appellate remedies have been exhausted or the time for appeal has expired. See Kansas Statutes 50-624
• Finance charge: The total cost of credit a customer must pay on a consumer loan, including interest. The Truth in Lending Act requires disclosure of the finance charge. ^{Source: OCC}
• Firm: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association or other legal entity permitted by law to engage in practice as a certified public accountant. See Kansas Statutes 46-1112
• First purchaser: means the owner of the oil or gas after consummation of a first sale. See Kansas Statutes 55-1614
• First sale: means the transfer of ownership of oil or gas first occurring after its severance from the ground. See Kansas Statutes 55-1614
• 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.
• Food plan: means any plan offering meat, poultry or seafood for sale or the offering of such product in combination with each other or with any other food or non-food product or service for a single price. See Kansas Statutes 50-901
• 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}
• Foreign limited partnership: means a partnership formed under the laws of any state or jurisdiction other than the state of Kansas, or under the laws of any foreign country, and having as partners one or more general partners and one or more limited partners. See Kansas Statutes 56-1a,101
• 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.
• Fresh water: means water containing not more than 1,000 milligrams per liter, total dissolved solids. See Kansas Statutes 55-150
• Gas gathering system: means a natural gas pipeline system used primarily for transporting natural gas from a wellhead, or a metering point for natural gas produced by one or more wells, to a point of entry into a main transmission line, but shall not mean or include: (1) Lead lines from the wellhead to the connection with the gathering system which are owned by the producing person; or (2) gathering systems under the jurisdiction of the federal energy regulatory commission. See Kansas Statutes 55-150
• 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
• General partner: means a person who has been admitted to a limited partnership as a general partner in accordance with the partnership agreement and so named in the certificate of limited partnership or similar instrument of the state or foreign country under which the limited partnership is organized if so required. See Kansas Statutes 56-1a,101
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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}
• Grade: means a step or degree, in a graduated scale of office or military rank, that is established and designated as a grade by law or regulation. See Kansas Statutes 48-2101
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• 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.
• Health care provider: means any person licensed to practice any branch of the healing arts by the state board of healing arts, any person who holds a temporary permit to practice any branch of the healing arts issued by the state board of healing arts, a medical care facility licensed by the department of health and environment, a podiatrist licensed by the state board of healing arts, an optometrist licensed by the board of examiners in optometry, a pharmacist licensed by the state board of pharmacy, a pharmacy registered with the state board of pharmacy, a dentist licensed by the Kansas dental board, a respiratory therapist, 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 under this subsection, 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 50-1,100
• Health plan: means any insurance company or health maintenance organization which issues individual coverage to a resident of this state. See Kansas Statutes 48-291
• High-level radioactive waste: means : (1) Irradiated reactor fuel; (2) liquid wastes resulting from the operation of the first cycle solvent extraction system, or equivalent, and the concentrated wastes from subsequent extraction cycles, or equivalent, in a facility for uranium processing irradiated reactor fuel; and (3) solids into which such liquid wastes have been converted. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• Hobby breeder: means any person who operates a hobby breeder premises. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Hobby breeder premises: means any premises where all or part of three, four or five litters of dogs or cats, or both, are produced for sale or sold, offered or maintained for sale per license year. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Housing facility: means any room, building or area used to contain a primary enclosure or enclosures. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Humane method: means either: (a) A method whereby the animal is rendered insensible to pain by mechanical, electrical, chemical, or other means that is rapid and effective, before being shackled, hoisted, thrown, cast, or cut; or (b) a method in accordance with ritual requirements of the Jewish faith or any other religious faith whereby the animal suffers loss of consciousness by anemia of the brain caused by the simultaneous and instantaneous severance of the carotid arteries with a sharp instrument. See Kansas Statutes 47-1402
• Impaired veterinarian: means a veterinarian who is unable to practice veterinary medicine with reasonable skill and safety due to physical or mental disabilities, including deterioration through the aging process, loss of motor skill or abuse of drugs or alcohol. See Kansas Statutes 47-846
• Inactive site: means a site where surface mining is not being conducted but where overburden has been disturbed in the past for the purpose of conducting surface mining and an operator anticipates conducting further surface mining operations in the future. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• 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}
• Indian tribe: means any Indian tribe, band, nation or other organized group or community that is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians under the laws of the United States. See Kansas Statutes 50-6a07
• 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 coverage: means health insurance or health maintenance organization coverage issued on other than a group or blanket basis, including an individual coverage containing coverage for a spouse, dependent, or both. See Kansas Statutes 48-291
• Infrastructure: means basic facilities, services and installations needed for the functioning of a community, including, but not limited to, water service, fire protection, law enforcement services and retail establishments which sell groceries, toiletries and other basic necessities. See Kansas Statutes 49-511
• Initial sale: means that first sale first made in time after a well commences initial oil or gas production, excluding any sale of frac oil or swab oil. See Kansas Statutes 55-1614
• Initiate the transmission: refers to the action by the original sender of an electronic mail message, not to the action by any intervening interactive computer service that may handle or retransmit the message, unless such intervening interactive computer service assists in the transmission of an electronic mail message when it knows, that the person initiating the transmission is engaged, or intends to engage, in any act or practice that violates the Kansas consumer protection act. See Kansas Statutes 50-6,107
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Insolvent: means a person whose debts exceed their assets. See Kansas Statutes 50-1117
• Insureds: means persons enrolled under individual coverage issued by a health plan. See Kansas Statutes 48-291
• insurer: includes any person authorized to represent the insurer with respect to a claim who is acting within the scope of the person's authority. See Kansas Statutes 50-660
• Interactive computer service: means any information service, system or access software provider that provides or enables computer access by multiple users to a computer server, including specifically a service or system that provides access to the internet and such systems operated or services offered by libraries or educational institutions. See Kansas Statutes 50-6,107
• 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}
• Interest rate provided herein: means that rate equal to one and one-half percentage points above the interest rate charged on loans to depository institutions by the New York Federal Reserve Bank at the start of business on the first business day of each month, unless the payor segregates the payment from its operating funds and deposits the same in a demand deposit account with a federally insured bank or savings and loan institution that earns interest at the highest rate being offered by that institution for the amount due payee by payor in such account, in which case the "interest rate provided herein" means the interest rate actually earned by payor on that account. See Kansas Statutes 55-1614
• Internet domain name: refers to a globally unique, hierarchical reference to an internet host or service, assigned through centralized internet naming authorities, comprising a series of character strings separated by periods, with the right-most string specifying the top of the hierarchy. See Kansas Statutes 50-6,107
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Invention: means a process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or an improvement upon any of the foregoing. See Kansas Statutes 50-666
• Invention promoter: means any person, and the agents, employees or representatives of the person, who develops or promotes or offers to develop or promote an invention for a consumer. See Kansas Statutes 50-666
• Invention promotion services: means acts to be performed or promised to be performed, or both, by an invention promoter. See Kansas Statutes 50-666
• Invitation to bid: means a written or oral solicitation or invitation by a distributor to one or more exhibitors to bid or negotiate for the right to exhibit a motion picture in this state. See Kansas Statutes 51-201
• 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.
• Judge advocate: means :

  (a) An officer of the judge advocate general's corps of the army or the navy or of the state military forces;

  (b) an officer of the air force or the marine corps who is designated as a judge advocate; or

  (c) an officer of the coast guard who is designated as a law specialist. See Kansas Statutes 48-2101

• Judge advocate general: means the commissioned officer responsible for supervising the administration of the military justice in the state military forces. See Kansas Statutes 48-2101
• Junk: shall mean and include, in addition to items or goods commonly referred to as junk, such other used or secondhand goods as rope, scrap iron, brass, lead, copper or aluminum wire or tubing and other scrap metals, but shall not include antiques, or wrecked vehicles as defined in this act, or aluminum in food or beverage containers;

  (d) "Antique" means any furniture, object of art, or other object, item or article made or manufactured at an earlier period of time, but shall not include junk;

  (e) "Antique dealer" means any person conducting a business of buying and selling antiques;

  (f) "Wrecked vehicle" means any wrecked, ruined, dismantled or inoperative motor passenger vehicle or motor truck, and any part or accessory therefrom, for which an original or assigned certificate of title is transferred for such vehicle or truck to an automotive salvage dealer and later surrendered and reported to the division of vehicles of the state department of revenue as required by law;

  (g) "Automotive salvage dealer" means any person holding a valid license under the provisions of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 50-619

• Junk dealer: means any person engaged in the business of buying, selling and dealing in junk, or any person purchasing, gathering, collecting, soliciting or traveling about from place to place procuring junk or any person operating, carrying on, conducting or maintaining a junk yard or place where junk is gathered together and stored or kept for shipment, sale or transfer, but shall not include antique dealers, or automotive salvage dealers dealing in wrecked vehicles as defined in this act;

  (b) "Junk yard" means any yard, plot, space, enclosure, building or any other place where junk is collected, stored, gathered together and kept;

  (c) "Junk" shall mean and include, in addition to items or goods commonly referred to as junk, such other used or secondhand goods as rope, scrap iron, brass, lead, copper or aluminum wire or tubing and other scrap metals, but shall not include antiques, or wrecked vehicles as defined in this act, or aluminum in food or beverage containers;

  (d) "Antique" means any furniture, object of art, or other object, item or article made or manufactured at an earlier period of time, but shall not include junk;

  (e) "Antique dealer" means any person conducting a business of buying and selling antiques;

  (f) "Wrecked vehicle" means any wrecked, ruined, dismantled or inoperative motor passenger vehicle or motor truck, and any part or accessory therefrom, for which an original or assigned certificate of title is transferred for such vehicle or truck to an automotive salvage dealer and later surrendered and reported to the division of vehicles of the state department of revenue as required by law;

  (g) "Automotive salvage dealer" means any person holding a valid license under the provisions of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 50-619

• 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.
• Law firm: means a lawyer or lawyers in a law partnership, professional corporation, sole proprietorship or other association authorized to practice law; or lawyers employed in a legal services organization or the legal department of a corporation or other organization. See Kansas Statutes 50-1117
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• 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}
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Lender: means a bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, credit union, finance company, mortgage bank, mortgage broker and any affiliate. See Kansas Statutes 50-624
• Lender: means a person in the business of lending money identified in the lien-notification statement. See Kansas Statutes 58-241
• Letter of commitment: means a binding, irrevocable and unconditional agreement by a lender to honor drafts or other demands for payment upon the supplier presenting invoices signed by the purchaser or other proof of delivery. See Kansas Statutes 58-241
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License agreement: means any contract between a distributor and an exhibitor for the exhibition of a motion picture by the exhibitor in this state. See Kansas Statutes 51-201
• Licensee: means a person who is licensed by the commissioner as a credit services organization. See Kansas Statutes 50-1117
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lien: means a lien for the unpaid retail cost of agricultural production input. See Kansas Statutes 58-241
• Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
• Limited partner: means a person who has been admitted to a limited partnership as a limited partner in accordance with the partnership agreement. See Kansas Statutes 56-1a,101
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Livestock: means and includes cattle, bison, swine, sheep, goats, horses, mules, domesticated deer, camelids, domestic poultry, domestic waterfowl, all creatures of the ratite family that are not indigenous to this state, including, but not limited to, ostriches, emus and rheas, and any other animal as deemed necessary by the commissioner established through rules and regulations. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
• Livestock: means cattle, calves, sheep, swine, horses, mules, goats, aquatic animals, domesticated deer, all creatures of the ratite family that are not indigenous to this state, including but not limited to ostriches, emus and rheas, and any other animal which can or may be used in and for the preparation of meat or meat products. See Kansas Statutes 47-1402
• Livestock: means cattle, swine, sheep and horses. See Kansas Statutes 47-1501
• Livestock production input: means feed and labor furnished in raising livestock, but shall not include feed or labor for which the statutory lien created by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 58-241
• Loan: means any agreement to advance money or property in return for the promise to make payments for the money or property. See Kansas Statutes 50-1001
• Loan broker: means any person who, in return for a fee from any person, promises to procure a loan for any person or assist any person in procuring a loan from any third party, or who promises to consider whether or not to make a loan to any person. See Kansas Statutes 50-1001
• local and interjurisdictional disaster emergency plans: means all disaster emergency plans developed and promulgated by county, city and interjurisdictional disaster agencies pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 48-904
• Low-level radioactive waste: means radioactive waste not classified as:

  (1) NORM waste or TENORM waste at concentrations and from sources established in rules and regulations adopted by the secretary on or before July 1, 2016;

  (2) high-level radioactive waste;

  (3) transuranic waste;

  (4) spent nuclear fuel; or

  (5) by-product material as defined in subsection (a)(2). See Kansas Statutes 48-1603

• Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
• 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 a person who manufactures or assembles assistive devices and agents of that person, including an importer, a distributor, factory branch, distributor branch and any warrantors of the manufacturer's assistive device, but does not include an assistive device dealer. See Kansas Statutes 50-696
• Markup: The process by which congressional committees and subcommittees debate, amend, and rewrite proposed legislation.
• Master settlement agreement: means the settlement agreement (and related documents) entered into on November 23, 1998, by the state and leading United States tobacco product manufacturers. See Kansas Statutes 50-6a02
• Materials: means natural deposits of gypsum, clay, stone, sandstone, sand, shale, silt, gravel, volcanic ash or any other minerals of commercial value found on or in the earth with the exception of coal, oil and gas and those located within cut and fill portions of road rights-of-way. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Military: refers to any or all of the armed forces. See Kansas Statutes 48-2101
• Military judge: means an official of a general or special court-martial detailed in accordance with this code. See Kansas Statutes 48-2101
• Mine: means any underground or surface mine developed and operated for the purpose of extracting rocks, minerals and industrial materials, other than coal, oil and gas. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• mineral interest: means an interest created by an instrument transferring, by grant, assignment, reservation or otherwise, an interest of any kind in coal, oil, gas or other minerals. See Kansas Statutes 55-1601
• Minor: means any person defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Mobile 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 and 36 body feet or more in length and is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without a permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein; and

  (2) is not subject to the federal manufactured home construction and safety standards established pursuant to 42 U. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

• 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.
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Mortgage trigger lead: means a consumer report obtained pursuant to section 604(c)(1)(B) of the federal fair credit reporting act, 15 U. See Kansas Statutes 50-624
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• Nationwide mortgage licensing system and registry: means a mortgage licensing system developed and maintained by the conference of state bank supervisors and the American association of residential mortgage regulators for the licensing and registration of licensed mortgage loan originators and other financial service providers. See Kansas Statutes 50-1117
• Network of health care providers: means two or more separate health care providers who have specifically authorized the network to enter into a discount card program and who are contractually obligated to honor the discount card contract entered into by the network of health care providers. See Kansas Statutes 50-1,100
• 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-participating manufacturer: means any tobacco product manufacturer that is not a participating manufacturer. See Kansas Statutes 50-6a07
• Nonconformity: means a condition or defect that substantially impairs the use, value or safety of an assistive device, and that is covered by an express warranty applicable to the assistive device or to a component of the assistive device, but does not include a condition or defect that is the result of abuse, neglect or unauthorized modification or alteration of the assistive device by a consumer. See Kansas Statutes 50-696
• NORM: means any nuclide that is radioactive in the nuclide's natural physical state. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• Nuclear facility: means any facility which utilizes nuclear energy to produce electricity and which has all or any part of an emergency planning zone within Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 48-941
• 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.
• Occasional livestock sale: means livestock auctions or sales, that receive on consignment, or solicits from the producer or consignor thereof, or holds in trust or custody for another, any livestock for sale or exchange, on behalf of such producer or consignor at such auction or sale, or sells, or offers for sale, at such auction or sale, for the account of the producer or consignor thereof, any livestock or directly or indirectly owns, conducts or operates such auction or sale and such auctions or sales are held 12 or less times per year. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
• Office: includes all state and local offices, the powers and duties of which are defined by the constitution, statutes, charters, and ordinances, except the office of governor, and except those in the legislature and the judiciary. See Kansas Statutes 48-1203
• Officer: means commissioned or warrant officer. See Kansas Statutes 48-2101
• Oil and gas: means crude oil, natural gas, casinghead gas, condensate, or any combination thereof. See Kansas Statutes 55-1302
• oil-field equipment: means oil-field supplies, oil-field machinery, materials, heavy machinery, buildings, tubing, tanks, boilers, engines, casing, wire lines, sucker rods, oil pipelines, gas pipelines and all other material used in digging, drilling, torpedoing, operating, completing, maintaining or repairing any such oil or gas wells or oil pipelines or gas pipelines, or in the construction or dismantling of refineries, casing-head gasoline plant and carbon black plants. See Kansas Statutes 55-212
• Operator: means the owner, or the person having charge or control, of a feedlot. See Kansas Statutes 47-1501
• Operator: means a person who is responsible for the physical operation and control of a well, gas gathering system or underground porosity storage of natural gas. See Kansas Statutes 55-150
• Operator: means any person who engages in surface mining or operation of an underground mine or mines. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Out-of-state distributor: means any person residing in a state other than Kansas, who is engaged in the business of buying for resale dogs or cats, or both, within the state of Kansas, as a principal or agent. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Overburden: means all of the earth and other materials that lie above the natural deposits of material being mined or to be mined. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Packer: means any person engaged in the business of buying livestock for purposes of slaughter, or of manufacturing or preparing meats or meat food products for sale or shipment, or of manufacturing or preparing livestock products for sale or shipment, or of marketing meats, meat food products, livestock products, dairy products, poultry or poultry products. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
• Packer: means any person engaged in the business of slaughtering of livestock. See Kansas Statutes 47-1402
• Participating manufacturer: has the meaning given that term in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 50-6a07
• Partner: means a limited or general partner. See Kansas Statutes 56-1a,101
• 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.
• Partnership agreement: means any valid written or oral agreement of the partners as to the affairs of a limited partnership and the conduct of its business. See Kansas Statutes 56-1a,101
• Partnership interest: means a partner's share of the profits and losses of a limited partnership and the right to receive distributions of partnership assets. See Kansas Statutes 56-1a,101
• Payee: means any person or persons, or a court of competent jurisdiction, to whom payment of revenues accrued from the first sale of oil or gas from an oil or gas well located in Kansas should be made, whether the same arises from ownership of the proceeds or an interest in the producing property or a contract right to receive or disburse the payment. See Kansas Statutes 55-1614
• Payment: means the sum to be paid to a payee by a payor arising from payee's interest in a first sale of oil or gas occurring on or after the effective date of this act. See Kansas Statutes 55-1614
• Payor: means :

  (1) The first purchaser of production of oil or gas from an oil or gas well. See Kansas Statutes 55-1614

• performing rights: refer to "public performance for profit"; the word "user" means any person who directly or indirectly performs or causes to be performed musical compositions for profit; the term "blanket license" includes any device whereby public performance for profit is authorized of the combined copyrights of two or more owners; the term "blanket royalty or fee" includes any device whereby prices for performing rights are not based on the separate performance of individual copyrights. See Kansas Statutes 57-201
• permit year: means the 12-month period ending on September 30. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Person: means any individual, corporation, government, governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, cooperative or other legal entity. See Kansas Statutes 50-624
• person: means an individual, partnership, committee, association, corporation or any other organization or group of persons. See Kansas Statutes 50-6a02
• Person: means an individual, proprietorship, partnership, limited partnership, association, trust, estate, business trust, group, or corporation, whether or not operated for profit, or a governmental agency, unit, or subdivision. See Kansas Statutes 46-1112
• Person: means and includes any individual, partnership, corporation or association. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
• Person: means individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association or other entity. See Kansas Statutes 50-901
• Person: means any individual, partnership, firm, corporation or association. See Kansas Statutes 47-1201
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, or association doing business in this state, in whole or in part. See Kansas Statutes 47-1402
• Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, unincorporated organization or other form of entity, however organized, including a nonprofit entity. See Kansas Statutes 50-1117
• Person: means an individual, a corporation, a group of individuals, joint venturers, a partnership or any other business entity. See Kansas Statutes 47-1501
• Person: means any natural person, partnership, governmental or political subdivision, firm, association, corporation or other legal entity. See Kansas Statutes 55-150
• Person: means any individual, association, partnership, corporation or other entity. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• person: includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees and receivers in bankruptcy and reorganization of any group whether or not it is incorporated. See Kansas Statutes 55-212
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation or association. See Kansas Statutes 55-1501
• Person: means any individual, corporation, limited partnership, partnership, association, joint stock company, living trust, irrevocable trust, trust where the interest of the beneficiaries are evidenced by a security, an unincorporated organization, a government, a political subdivision of government, or any combination thereof. See Kansas Statutes 55-1614
• Person: means a natural person, partnership, domestic or foreign limited partnership, trust, estate, association, corporation, custodian, nominee or any other individual or entity in its own or any representative capacity. See Kansas Statutes 56-1a,101
• Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, agency, political subdivision of this state, or any other state or political subdivision or agency thereof, and any legal successor, representative, agent, or agency of the foregoing. See Kansas Statutes 48-941
• person: means any individual, resident or nonresident, of this state, and every domestic or foreign or alien partnership, society, association or corporation; the words "performing rights" refer to "public performance for profit"; the word "user" means any person who directly or indirectly performs or causes to be performed musical compositions for profit; the term "blanket license" includes any device whereby public performance for profit is authorized of the combined copyrights of two or more owners; the term "blanket royalty or fee" includes any device whereby prices for performing rights are not based on the separate performance of individual copyrights. See Kansas Statutes 57-201
• Person: means an individual or an organization as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 58-241
• Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, agency, political subdivision of this state, or any other state or political subdivision or agency thereof, and any legal successor, representative, agency, or agency of the foregoing, other than the United States nuclear regulatory commission, or any successor thereto, and other than federal government agencies licensed by the United States nuclear regulatory commission, or any successor thereto. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• Person: means an individual or other legal entity. See Kansas Statutes 49-511
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, government or other entity. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Personal insurance: means private passenger automobile, motorcycle, mobile homeowners, homeowners, renters and non-commercial dwelling fire insurance policies and boat, personal watercraft, snowmobile and recreational vehicle policies. See Kansas Statutes 48-291
• 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.
• persons: includes individuals, corporations, limited liability companies, general partnerships, limited partnerships, firms, companies, voluntary associations and other associations or business entities, existing under or authorized by the state of Kansas, or the laws of any other state, territory, or foreign country. See Kansas Statutes 50-148
• Pet shop: means any premises where there are sold, or offered or maintained for sale, at retail and not for resale to another:

  (A) Any dogs or cats, or both; or

  (B) any other animals except those that are produced and raised on such premises and are sold, or offered or maintained for sale, by a person who resides on such premises. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701

• Pet shop operator: means any person who operates a pet shop. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Petroleum product: means motor fuels and special fuels that are used in the production and drying of crops and production of livestock, including motor-vehicle fuels, special fuels and liquefied petroleum gas, as defined in subsections (l) and (s) of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 58-241
• Pit: means a tract of land from which overburden has been or is being removed for the purpose of surface mining. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Place of transfer: means a reloading site, authorized for use in direct transferring of carcasses of domestic animals from vehicles making original pickup or loading to a line vehicle for the transportation of the carcasses to the disposal plant. See Kansas Statutes 47-1201
• 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.
• Pool: means an underground accumulation of oil and gas in one or more natural reservoirs in communication so as to constitute a single pressure system so that production from one part of the pool affects the pressure throughout its extent. See Kansas Statutes 55-1302
• pound: means a facility that is used or designed for use to house, contain, impound or harbor any seized stray, homeless, relinquished or abandoned animal or a person who acts as an animal rescuer, or who collects and cares for unwanted animals or offers them for adoption. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• 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.
• 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.
• Primary enclosure: means any structure used or designed for use to restrict any animal to a limited amount of space, such as a room, pen, cage, compartment or hutch. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• 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.
• Proceeds: means proceeds as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 58-241
• Producer: means any person engaged in the business of breeding, grazing or feeding livestock. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
• Producer: means a person who is actively engaged within this state in the business of producing or marketing sheep or wool and who receives income from the production of sheep or wool. See Kansas Statutes 47-2001
• Producer: means a person who is actively engaged within this state in the business of producing fluid milk and who receives income from the production of fluid milk. See Kansas Statutes 47-2301
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Property: includes real estate, goods and intangible personal property. See Kansas Statutes 50-624
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• 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 livestock market: means any place, establishment or facility commonly known as a "livestock market" "livestock auction market" "sales ring" "stockyard" "community sale" as such term is used in article 10 of chapter 47 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, which includes any business conducted or operated for compensation or profit as a public market for livestock, consisting of pens, or other enclosures, and their appurtenances, in which livestock are received, held, sold or kept for sale or shipment except that this term shall not apply to any livestock market where federal veterinary inspection is regularly maintained. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
• Public livestock market operator: means any person who, in this state, receives on consignment, or solicits from the producer or consignor thereof, or holds in trust or custody for another, any livestock for sale or exchange, on behalf of such producer or consignor at a public livestock market, or sells, or offer for sale, at a public livestock market, for the account of the producer or consignor thereof, any livestock or directly or indirectly owns, conducts or operates a public livestock market. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
• Purchaser: means any person, public or private corporation, association or partnership who buys sheep or wool from the seller or acts as an agent for the sale or slaughter transaction. See Kansas Statutes 47-2001
• Purchaser: means any person, public or private corporation, association or partnership who buys fluid milk from the seller or acts as an agent for the sale transaction. See Kansas Statutes 47-2301
• Qualified escrow fund: means an escrow arrangement with a federally or state chartered financial institution having no affiliation with any tobacco product manufacturer and having assets of at least $1,000,000,000 where such arrangement requires that such financial institution hold the escrowed funds' principal for the benefit of releasing parties and prohibits the tobacco product manufacturer placing the funds into escrow from using, accessing or directing the use of the funds' principal except as consistent with Kan. See Kansas Statutes 50-6a02
• Qualified tribal land: means :

  (1) All land within the borders of this state that is within the limits of any Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent, including rights-of-way running through the reservation;

  (2) all dependent Indian communities within the borders of this state;

  (3) all Indian allotments within the borders of this state, the Indian titles to which have not been extinguished, including rights-of-way running through such allotments; and

  (4) any lands within the borders of this state, the title to which is either held in trust by the United States for the benefit of any Indian tribe or individual, or held by any Indian tribe or individual subject to restriction by the United States against alienation, and over which an Indian tribe exercises governmental power. See Kansas Statutes 50-6a07

• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Radiation: means : (1) Ionizing radiation including gamma rays, X-rays, alpha particles, beta particles, and including neutrons; (2) any electromagnetic radiation other than ionizing radiation which is generated during the operation of an electronic product; or (3) any sonic, ultrasonic, or infrasonic wave which is emitted from an electronic product as a result of the operation of an electronic circuit in such product. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• Radioactive material: means any material, solid, liquid or gas, which emits ionizing radiation spontaneously. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• Rank: means the order of precedence among members of the state military forces. See Kansas Statutes 48-2101
• Ranking minority member: The highest ranking (and usually longest serving) minority member of a committee or subcommittee.
• Ratites: means all creatures of the ratite family that are not indigenous to this state, including, but not limited to, ostriches, emus and rheas. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• 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.
• Reasonable attempt to repair: means within the terms of an express warranty applicable to a new assistive device:

  (1) Any nonconformity within the warranty that is either subject to repair by the manufacturer, assistive device lessor or any of the manufacturer's authorized assistive device dealers, for at least four times and a nonconformity continues;

  (2) the assistive device is out of service for an aggregate of at least 30 cumulative days because of warranty nonconformity. See Kansas Statutes 50-696

• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Reclamation: means the reconditioning of the area of land affected by surface mining to a usable condition for agricultural, recreational or other use. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Released claims: means released claims as that term is defined in the master settlement agreement. See Kansas Statutes 50-6a02
• Releasing parties: means releasing parties as that term is defined in the master settlement agreement. See Kansas Statutes 50-6a02
• 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.
• 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).
• Requesting state: means the state whose governor requested assistance in coping with an emergency. See Kansas Statutes 48-1701
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Research facility: means any place, laboratory or institution, except an elementary school, secondary school, college or university, at which any scientific test, experiment or investigation involving the use of any living animal is carried out, conducted or attempted. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• 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 agent: means a domestic corporation, a domestic limited partnership, a domestic limited liability company or a domestic business trust or a foreign corporation, a foreign limited partnership, a foreign limited liability company or a foreign business trust authorized to transact business in this state, and which is generally open during regular business hours to accept service of process on behalf of a non-participating manufacturer. See Kansas Statutes 50-6a07
• Responding state: means the state furnishing aid, or requested to furnish aid. See Kansas Statutes 48-1701
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Retail: means any transaction where the animal is sold to the final consumer. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Retail breeder: means any person who operates a retail breeder premises. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Retail breeder premises: means any premises where all or part of six or more litters or 30 or more dogs or cats, or both, are sold, or offered or maintained for sale, primarily at retail and not for resale to another. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Rig: means any crane machine used for drilling or plugging wells. See Kansas Statutes 55-150
• Right of rescission: Right to cancel, within three business days, a contract that uses the home of a person as collateral, except in the case of a first mortgage loan. There is no fee to the borrower, who receives a full refund of all fees paid. The right of rescission is guaranteed by the Truth in Lending Act (TILA). ^{Source: OCC}
• Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
• 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
• Run: means the continuous exhibition of a motion picture in a defined geographic area for a specified period of time. See Kansas Statutes 51-201
• 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
• Secretary: means the secretary of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 47-2001
• Secretary: means the secretary of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 47-2301
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Kansas department of health and environment. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• Secretary: means the Kansas secretary of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Seed: means agricultural seeds that are used to produce crops. See Kansas Statutes 58-241
• Seller: means any person, individual or business entity, corporation, league, franchise, franchisee, franchisor or any authorized representative or agent thereof who offers meat, poultry, seafood, or combinations of such items, for retail purchase to the public. See Kansas Statutes 50-901
• Seller: means any private entity or corporation that sells sheep or wool. See Kansas Statutes 47-2001
• Seller: means any private entity or corporation that sells fluid milk. See Kansas Statutes 47-2301
• Service area: means the area defined by the consumer's zip code. See Kansas Statutes 50-1,100
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Services: includes :

  (1) Work, labor and other personal services;

  (2) privileges with respect to transportation, hotel and restaurant accommodations, education, entertainment, recreation, physical culture, hospital accommodations, funerals and cemetery accommodations; and

  (3) any other act performed for a consumer by a supplier. See Kansas Statutes 50-624

• 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.
• Sheep: means an animal of the ovine species, produced, fed, slaughtered or marketed in this state. See Kansas Statutes 47-2001
• site closure: means all activities performed at a waste disposal site, such as stabilization and contouring, to assure that the site is in a stable condition so that only minor custodial care, surveillance and monitoring are necessary at the site following termination of licensed operation. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• Slaughterer: means any person regularly engaged in the commercial slaughtering of livestock. See Kansas Statutes 47-1402
• sold: include transfers by sale or exchange. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• sold: means a transaction in which the property in or to sheep or wool is transferred from the seller to a purchaser for full or partial consideration. See Kansas Statutes 47-2001
• sold: means a transaction in which fluid milk is transferred from the seller to a purchaser for full or partial consideration. See Kansas Statutes 47-2301
• Source material: means : (1) Uranium, thorium or any other material which the secretary declares by order to be source material after the United States nuclear regulatory commission, or any successor thereto, has determined the material to be such; or (2) ores containing one or more of the foregoing materials, in such concentration as the secretary declares by order to be source material after the United States nuclear regulatory commission, or any successor thereto, has determined the material in such concentration to be source material. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• Source material mill tailings: means the tailings or waste produced by the extraction or concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for its source material content, including discrete surface wastes resulting from underground solution extraction processes but not including underground ore bodies depleted by such solution extraction process. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• Sources of radiation: means , collectively, radioactive material and radiation generating equipment. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• Special nuclear material: means : (1) Plutonium, uranium 233, uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, and any other material which the secretary declares by order to be special nuclear material after the United States nuclear regulatory commission, or any successor thereto, has determined the material to be such, but does not include source material; or (2) any material artificially enriched by any of the foregoing, but does not include source material. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• Spent nuclear fuel: means irradiated nuclear fuel that has undergone at least one year's decay since being used as a source of energy in a power reactor. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• Stamping agent: means a person who is authorized to affix tax indicia to packages of cigarettes pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 50-6a07
• 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: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Kansas Statutes 56-1a,101
• State agency: means any state office, officer, department, board, commission, institution, bureau, agency, or authority or any division or unit thereof. See Kansas Statutes 46-1112
• State military forces: means the national guard of the state, as defined in section 101 (3) of title 32, United States Code, and any other military force organized under the laws of the state. See Kansas Statutes 48-2101
• 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.
• Stockpile: means the finished products of the mining of gypsum, clay, shale, stone, sandstone, sand, silt, gravel, volcanic ash or other minerals and removal from its natural position and deposited elsewhere for future use in the normal operation as a business. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Stockyard: means any place, establishment, or facility commonly known as a stockyard, conducted or operated for compensation or profit as a public market, consisting of pens, or other enclosures, and their appurtenances, for the handling, keeping, and holding of livestock for the purpose of sale or shipment. See Kansas Statutes 47-1402
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Substation: means a concentration site equipped with at least one storage building and operated and maintained for the temporary deposit or storage of the carcasses of domestic animals pending final delivery of the carcasses to the disposal plant. See Kansas Statutes 47-1201
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Superfund site: means property which is listed on the national priorities list of superfund sites established under the comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act (CERCLA), 42 U. See Kansas Statutes 49-511
• Supplier: means a manufacturer, distributor, dealer, seller, lessor, assignor, or other person who, in the ordinary course of business, solicits, engages in or enforces consumer transactions, whether or not dealing directly with the consumer. See Kansas Statutes 50-624
• Supplier: means a person who furnishes agricultural production inputs. See Kansas Statutes 58-241
• surface estate: means a specific tract of land and improvements thereon created by and held in fee or other legal title under a deed or other instrument of conveyance, or equitable title under a recorded contract for deed, by a person other than the United States, a state, an Indian tribal organization or any agency, instrumentality or subdivision of any of the foregoing, regardless of whether such person also owns or otherwise holds interest in the mineral estate underlying the surface estate; and

  (b) "surface owner" means a person or a designee of such person who holds or owns legal title to the surface estate or an interest therein, as shown on the records of the register of deeds for the county where the surface estate is located, and who is assessed real estate property taxes in accordance with the records of the county treasurer, except that surface owner shall not include a tenant or persons whose only rights to use that surface estate are based upon an easement, right-of-way, license, mortgage lien, severed mineral interest or any non-possessory interest in the surface. See Kansas Statutes 55-169a

• Surface mining: means the mining of material, except for coal, oil and gas, for sale or for processing or for consumption in the regular operation of a business by removing the overburden lying above natural deposits and mining directly from the natural deposits exposed, or by mining directly from deposits lying exposed in their natural state, or the surface effects of underground mining. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Telemarketer: means any person or organization who, individually or through salespersons, initiates the sale, lease, or rental of consumer goods or services, or offers gifts or prizes with the intent to sell, lease or rent consumer goods or services by telephonic means or by postcard or other written notice sent through the mail in which the goods and services and all the material terms of the transaction, including price and any fees or handling, shipping or delivery charges, are not fully described and which requests that the consumer contact the seller to initiate the transaction. See Kansas Statutes 50-671
• 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.
• Tenancy by the entirety: A type of joint tenancy between husband and wife that is recognized in some States. Neither party can sever the joint tenancy relationship; when a spouse dies, the survivor acquires full title to the property.
• 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
• TENORM: means NORM whose radionuclide concentrations are increased by or as a result of past or present human practices. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• 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.
• Theater: means any establishment in which motion pictures are exhibited regularly to the public for a charge. See Kansas Statutes 51-201
• Tobacco product manufacturer: means an entity that after the date of enactment of this act directly (and not exclusively through any affiliate):

  (1) Manufactures cigarettes anywhere that such manufacturer intends to be sold in the United States, including cigarettes intended to be sold in the United States through an importer (except where such importer is an original participating manufacturer, as that term is defined in the master settlement agreement, that will be responsible for the payments under the master settlement agreement with respect to such cigarettes as a result of the provisions of subsections II(mm) of the master settlement agreement and that pays the taxes specified in subsection II(z) of the master settlement agreement, and provided that the manufacturer of such cigarettes does not market or advertise such cigarettes in the United States);

  (2) is the first purchaser anywhere for resale in the United States of cigarettes manufactured anywhere that the manufacturer does not intend to be sold in the United States; or

  (3) becomes a successor of an entity described in paragraph (1) or (2). See Kansas Statutes 50-6a02

• Topsoil: means the natural medium located at the land surface with favorable characteristics for growth of vegetation, which is normally the A or B, or both, soil horizon layers of the four soil horizons. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• 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.
• Trade: means the business of buying or selling any commodity of general use within the state; and

  (b) "person" or "persons" includes individuals, corporations, limited liability companies, general partnerships, limited partnerships, firms, companies, voluntary associations and other associations or business entities, existing under or authorized by the state of Kansas, or the laws of any other state, territory, or foreign country. See Kansas Statutes 50-148

• Trade screening: means the showing of a motion picture by a distributor in at least one of the four most populous counties in this state, which showing is open to any exhibitor interested in exhibiting the motion picture. See Kansas Statutes 51-201
• 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.
• Transuranic waste: means radioactive waste containing alpha emitting transuranic elements, with radioactive half-lives greater than five years, in excess of 10 nanocuries per gram. See Kansas Statutes 48-1603
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust: means the trust created by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 49-511
• Trust account: means an account established by the applicant or licensee in a federally insured financial institution used to hold funds paid by consumers to a credit services organization for designation indicating the funds in the account are:

  (1) Not funds of the applicant or licensee or its owners, officers or employees; and

  (2) unavailable to creditors of the applicant or licensee. See Kansas Statutes 50-1117

• 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.
• Trustor: The person who makes or creates a trust. Also known as the grantor or settlor.
• Unavailable: means either that a vacancy in office exists and there is no deputy authorized to exercise all of the powers and discharge the duties of the office, or that the lawful incumbent of the office (including any deputy exercising the powers and discharging the duties of an office because of a vacancy) and his or her duly authorized deputy are absent or unable to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office. See Kansas Statutes 48-1203
• Unavailable: means absent from the place of session (other than on official business of the legislature), or unable, for physical, mental or legal reasons, to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of a legislator, whether or not such absence or inability would give rise to a vacancy under existing constitutional or statutory provisions. See Kansas Statutes 48-1303
• Under legal disability: includes persons who are within the period of minority, or who are incapacitated, incompetent or imprisoned. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Underground mining: means the extraction of rocks, minerals and industrial materials, other than coal, oil and gas, from the earth by developing entries or shafts from the surface to the seam or deposit before recovering the product by underground extraction methods. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Underground porosity storage: has the meaning provided by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 55-150
• underground storage: shall mean storage in a subsurface stratum or formation of the earth;

  (b) "natural gas" shall mean gas either while in its original state or after the same has been processed by removal therefrom of component parts not essential to its use for light and fuel;

  (c) "native gas" shall mean gas which has not been previously withdrawn from the earth;

  (d) "natural gas public utility" shall mean any person, firm or corporation authorized to do business in this state and engaged in the business of transporting or distributing natural gas by means of pipelines into, within or through this state for ultimate public use;

  (e) "commission" shall mean the state corporation commission. See Kansas Statutes 55-1201

• 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}
• Units sold: means , with respect to a particular tobacco product manufacturer for a particular year, the number of individual cigarettes sold in the state, including, without limitation, any cigarettes sold on any qualified tribal land within the state, by the applicable tobacco product manufacturer, whether directly or through a distributor, retailer or similar intermediary or intermediaries, during the year in question, for which the state has the authority under federal law to impose excise or a similar tax or to collect escrow deposits, regardless of whether such taxes were imposed or collected by the state. See Kansas Statutes 50-6a02
• Usable water: means water containing not more than 10,000 milligrams per liter, total dissolved solids. See Kansas Statutes 55-150
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Veterinarian: means an individual licensed to practice veterinary medicine in this state. See Kansas Statutes 47-846
• Voice vote: A vote in which the Presiding Officer states the question, then asks those in favor and against to say "Yea" or "Nay," respectively, and announces the result according to his or her judgment. The names or numbers of legisators voting on each side are not recorded.
• Well: means a hole or penetration of the surface of the earth, drilled or recompleted for the purpose of:

  (1) Producing oil or gas;

  (2) injecting fluid, air or gas in the ground in connection with the exploration for or production of oil or gas;

  (3) obtaining geological information in connection with the exploration for or production of oil or gas by taking cores or through seismic operations;

  (4) disposing of fluids produced in connection with the exploration for or production of oil or gas;

  (5) providing cathodic protection to prevent corrosion to lines, tanks or structures; or

  (6) injecting or withdrawing natural gas. See Kansas Statutes 55-150

• Wholesale: means any transaction where the animal is sold for the purpose of resale to another. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
• Wool: means the natural fiber produced by sheep. See Kansas Statutes 47-2001
• Working interest owner: means the owner of tracts or interests who, in the absence of a unitization order, would have the right to drill and operate a well or wells on the separately owned tracts comprising a unit. See Kansas Statutes 55-1302
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.