Kansas Statutes 16-706. Definitions
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 16-706
- 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.
- 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.
- Person: means any individual, firm, company, partnership, corporation or association. See Kansas Statutes 16-706
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- 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
- Precious metal: means gold, silver or platinum group metals or any used articles or other used personal property containing such metals, but shall not include coins purchased for their numismatic value rather than their metal content or ingots or other industrial residue or by-products composed of such metals purchased from manufacturing firms. See Kansas Statutes 16-706
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
As used in this act:
(a) (1) “Pawnbroker” means any person who loans money on deposit or pledge of personal property or other valuable thing, other than intangible personal property, or who deals in the purchase of personal property on the condition of selling the same back again at a stipulated price.
(2) “Pawnbroker” does not include any person operating under the supervision of the state banking commissioner, credit union administrator or the consumer credit commissioner of this state.
(b) “Person” means any individual, firm, company, partnership, corporation or association.
(c) “Precious metal” means gold, silver or platinum group metals or any used articles or other used personal property containing such metals, but shall not include coins purchased for their numismatic value rather than their metal content or ingots or other industrial residue or by-products composed of such metals purchased from manufacturing firms.
(d) “Precious metal dealer” means any person who engages in the business of purchasing precious metal for the purpose of reselling such metal in any form.