Kansas · statute · Kan. Stat. Ann. ch. 77 · 165 active provisions
The supreme court of the state of Kansas shall appoint a commission of three members, who shall have the same qualifications as justices of said court, and said commission is hereby authorized to make a contract for the revision, compilation and editing of the General Statutes of Kansas, in one volume, with annotations…
It shall be the duty of the supreme court to appoint the commission immediately upon the taking effect of this act. Said commission shall qualify and immediately enter upon their duties. Each member of such commission shall receive for his or her services his or her necessary and actual expenses, and in addition theret…
Before any copies of said statutes shall be printed or sold and delivered, all statutes revised or changed shall be submitted by said commission to the legislature of the state of Kansas for reenactment. When said commission shall certify that the laws changed, rewritten or revised have been duly reenacted by the legis…
The following laws shall constitute the General Statutes of Kansas: All laws included by Chester I. Long, F. Dumont Smith and Hugh P. Farrelly, as the commission to revise the General Statutes, in the assembled sections on file with and certified to by said commission, fully examined and identified by the certificate a…
The commission shall incorporate in the assembled sections the laws of a general nature passed at the present session, arrange, edit, number, insert headings, history and cross references, annotate and index all sections, and shall then certify and publish the same as the Revised Statutes of 1923.
When the work of the commission is finally completed, the assembled sections, duly certified as aforesaid, shall be placed on file in the office of the secretary of state, as a permanent record for future reference.
The duties imposed upon said commission may be performed by a majority thereof.
The common law as modified by constitutional and statutory law, judicial decisions, and the conditions and wants of the people, shall remain in force in aid of the General Statutes of this state; but the rule of the common law, that statutes in derogation thereof shall be strictly construed, shall not be applicable to…
The repeal of acts and parts of acts herein provided for shall not revive any law heretofore repealed or superseded, nor any office heretofore abolished; neither shall it affect any act done or right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding in any civil action before the repeal takes effect, but the proceedings t…
When a limitation or period of time prescribed in any of the acts repealed, for acquiring a right, or barring a remedy, or for any other purpose, has begun to run, and the same or a similar limitation is prescribed in the Revised Statutes, the time of limitation shall continue to run, and shall have like effect as if t…
The provisions of the Revised Statutes, so far as they are the same as those of prior laws, shall be construed as a continuation of such laws, and not as new enactments.
The arrangement and classification of the several sections of the Revised Statutes have been made for the purpose of convenience and orderly arrangement and therefore no implication or presumption of a legislative construction is to be drawn therefrom.
All acts of a general nature, not enumerated in K.S.A. 77-105, are hereby repealed upon the publication of the Revised Statutes of 1923.
The secretary of state is hereby instructed to dispose of the remaining copies of the Revised Statutes of 1923 now in his or her hands at a price of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per copy.
The secretary of state is hereby instructed to furnish to each register of deeds, county superintendent of public instruction and county engineer in all of the counties in the state one copy of the Revised Statutes of 1923.
General Statutes 1868, chapter 119, sections 1 to 11, inclusive, included by reference. [The title to the act was "An act concerning the general statutes." Section 1 in part was "The following acts of the legislature shall constitute the General Statutes of Kansas, to wit: All acts revised by the commissioners appointe…
Laws 1915, chapter 28, sections 1 to 4, inclusive, included by reference. [The title to the act was in part as follows: "An act relating to compilations, editing and printing of the General Statutes of Kansas for 1915 and providing for the disposition and making appropriation therefor ....." This act provided for the p…
The secretary of state is hereby authorized to sell General Statutes of Kansas, 1897, in two volumes, at one dollar per set, net to the state, and General Statutes of Kansas, 1901, in one volume, at one dollar each, net to the state.
The secretary of state is hereby authorized to sell General Statutes of Kansas, 1901, at the best price it is able to obtain.
All moneys derived from such sales shall be placed in the state treasury for the benefit of the general fund in like manner as other fees.
All moneys derived from such sales shall be covered into the state treasury each month, in like manner as other fees.
Third, The balance of said statute books, after such distribution, shall be safely kept by the secretary of state for sale at the price of seven dollars and fifty cents per copy.
The secretary of state is hereby authorized to sell any of the remaining copies of the General Statutes of 1949 now on hand at a price of five dollars ($5) per copy.
All moneys received from such sales shall by the secretary of state be paid into the state treasury, which moneys shall be credited to the state general revenue fund.
After the adjournment of the regular session of the legislature of 1963, the revisor of statutes, in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall edit and prepare for the printing and publication of a compilation of all the general statutes of Kansas in force, including those enacted by the budget session of 1962…