Kansas Statutes 77-429. Authentications; rules and regulation database; secretary of state duties
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 77-429
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
(a) Before the Kansas administrative regulations or the annual supplement thereto shall be published by the secretary of state, they shall be examined and compared by the attorney general and the secretary of state, and if they contain all rules and regulations approved for publication by the board, and otherwise comply with the terms of this act, they shall so certify and after such authentication they shall be deemed and held to be “Kansas administrative regulations” and evidence in all courts having jurisdiction in the state; and such authentication shall accompany each electronic or printed copy of Kansas administrative regulations and annual supplement thereto.
(b) (1) The secretary of state shall prepare a searchable database containing all of the Kansas administrative regulations, including any supplements, published pursuant to this section by July 1, 2012, if practicable. The database shall be constructed in such a manner that any person accessing or using such database shall be able to search for any rule and regulation based upon the number or subject matter of the rule and regulation or by keyword search. The initial search shall return a list of all rules and regulations which contain the initial search term.
(2) Using any rule and regulation containing the initial search term as an entry point into the database, the database shall permit the person using such database to:
(A) View all occurrences of the search term in the rule and regulation retrieved; and
(B) using the initially retrieved rule and regulation as an entry point into the database’s hierarchy, navigate to each rule and regulation which follows or precedes the initial rule and regulation.