Kansas Statutes 40-1134. Title insurance companies; policy requirements
(a) Any title insurance company insuring titles to real estate located within Kansas shall specify in any policy issued when the governing body of a municipal or quasi-municipal corporation in which the property is located has filed with the register of deeds of the county or counties in which such municipal or quasi-municipal corporation is located, a certified copy of any ordinance or resolution creating or establishing any public improvement or special benefit district or any other district having the power to impose special assessments upon taxable tangible real property in the district as required by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 12-153, and amendments thereto, provided the municipal or quasi-municipal corporation creating such public improvement or special benefit district has particularly described: (1) The external boundaries of the district by metes and bounds; (2) all platted areas block or parcel in any addition, or subdivision; and (3) in all unplatted areas, every tract or parcel not otherwise specifically identified, which is or will be affected by such public improvement or special benefit district.
(b) No title insurance company shall exempt itself from the provisions of subsection (a) by means of a general exclusion in the title insurance policy.
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 40-1134
- 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.
- insurance company: as used in this article shall be construed to include any corporation having a capital stock as provided by section 40-1103, and organized for one or more of the purposes set out in section 40-1102. See Kansas Statutes 40-1101
- policy: means a contract insuring or indemnifying owners of, or other persons lawfully interested in, real or personal property or any interest in real property, against loss or damage arising from any or all of the following conditions existing on or before the policy date and not excepted or excluded:
(1) Defects in or liens or encumbrances on the insured title;
(2) unmarketability of the insured title;
(3) invalidity, lack of priority, or unenforceability of liens or encumbrances on the stated property;
(4) lack of legal right of access to the land; or
(5) unenforceability of rights in title to the land. See Kansas Statutes 40-1136
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201