Kansas Statutes 12-16,125. Acceptance by city of debit or credit card for payment of taxes, utility fees or other exactions
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 12-16,125
- city: means a city located within Crawford county. See Kansas Statutes 12-16,116
- 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
A city may accept credit or debit cards for the payment of taxes, utility fees or other exactions. The city may establish the type of credit or debit card the city will accept. The city may set a fee to be added to each credit card transaction equal to the charge paid by the city for the use of the credit card by the person. If the city imposes a fee for payments made by credit card, the city shall provide notice of such fee to the person making payment by credit card.
Any transaction involving payment by credit card pursuant to this section shall not be subject to the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 16a-2-403, and amendments thereto.