Kansas Statutes 60-2304. Personal property; articles exempt
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 60-2304
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- 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
- Residence: means the place which is adopted by a person as the person's place of habitation and to which, whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention of returning. 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
Every person residing in this state shall have exempt from seizure and sale upon any attachment, execution or other process issued from any court in this state, the following articles of personal property:
(a) The furnishings, equipment and supplies, including food, fuel and clothing, for the person which is in the person’s present possession and is reasonably necessary at the principal residence of the person for a period of one year.
(b) Ornaments of the debtor’s person, including jewelry, having a value of not to exceed $1,000.
(c) Such person’s interest, not to exceed $20,000 in value, in one means of conveyance regularly used for the transportation of the person or for transportation to and from the person’s regular place of work, except that the value limitation specified in this subsection shall not apply when the means of conveyance is a vehicle designed or equipped, or both, for handicapped persons, as defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 8-1,124 and amendments thereto.
(d) A burial plot or crypt or any cemetery lot exempt from process pursuant to Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 17-1302 and amendments thereto.
(e) The books, documents, furniture, instruments, tools, implements and equipment, the breeding stock, seed grain or growing plants stock, or the other tangible means of production regularly and reasonably necessary in carrying on the person’s profession, trade, business or occupation in an aggregate value not to exceed $7,500.
(f) Any personal property exempt from process pursuant to Kan. Stat. Ann. § 36-202, 48-245 or 84-2-326, and amendments thereto.