Kansas Statutes 12-1672a. Public agencies authorized to offer rewards for information related to criminal acts; definitions
(a) As used in this act, public agency means any county, township, city, town, school district, community junior college, library district, road district, drainage or levee district, sewer district, water district, fire district, and any other similar political subdivision or taxing district of the state.
(b) Whenever any crime or injurious offense has been committed or perpetrated against property which is owned, controlled or supervised by a public agency or against any person while present within or upon any such property, the governing body of such public agency may offer a reward or contribute moneys for information leading to the apprehension, adjudication as a juvenile offender or conviction for the crime of the perpetrator of such crime or injurious offense.
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 12-1672a
- city: means a city located within Crawford county. See Kansas Statutes 12-16,116
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, joint venture or other association of persons;
(b) "Hotel, motel or tourist court" means any structure or building which contains rooms furnished for the purposes of providing lodging, which may or may not also provide meals, entertainment or various other personal services to transient guests, and which is kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public as a place where sleeping accommodations are sought for pay or compensation by transient or permanent guests and having more than two bedrooms furnished for the accommodation of such guests;
(c) "Transient guest" means a person who occupies a room in a hotel, motel or tourist court for not more than 28 consecutive days;
(d) "Business" means any person engaged in the business of renting, leasing or letting living quarters, sleeping accommodations, rooms or a part thereof in connection with any motel, hotel or tourist court;
(e) "Convention and tourism promotion" means: (1) Activities to attract visitors into the community through marketing efforts, including advertising, directed to at least one of the five basic convention and tourism market segments consisting of group tours, pleasure travelers, association meetings and conventions, trade shows and corporate meetings and travel; and (2) support of those activities and organizations which encourage increased lodging facility occupancy; and
(f) "Accommodations broker" means any business which maintains an inventory of two or more rooms in one or more locations which are offered for pay to a person or persons for not more than 28 consecutive days. See Kansas Statutes 12-1692
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- road: include public bridges and may be construed to be equivalent to "county way" "county road" "common road" "state road" and "territorial road. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- school district: means any school district located in whole or in part within a city of the third class located in two counties; and
(b) "City" means any city of the third class located in two counties. See Kansas Statutes 12-1689
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
(c) The governing body of each public agency is authorized to determine the amount to be offered or contributed under this section, but in no event shall the amount of any such reward or contribution exceed the sum of five hundred dollars ($500). Any such reward payment or contribution shall be made from any fund of the public agency from which general operating expenses are paid.