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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 77-617

  • Agency: means a state agency. See Kansas Statutes 77-602
  • Agency action: means :

    (1) The whole or a part of a rule and regulation or an order;

    (2) the failure to issue a rule and regulation or an order; or

    (3) an agency's performance of, or failure to perform, any other duty, function or activity, discretionary or otherwise. See Kansas Statutes 77-602

  • 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.
  • Order: means an agency action of particular applicability that determines the legal rights, duties, privileges, immunities or other legal interests of one or more specific persons. See Kansas Statutes 77-602
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, political subdivision or unit thereof, or public or private organization or entity of any character, and includes another agency. See Kansas Statutes 77-602
  • Rule and regulation: means a standard, statement of policy or general order, including amendments or revocations thereof, of general application and having the effect of law, issued or adopted by an agency to implement or interpret legislation enforced or administered by such agency or to govern the organization of procedure of such agency. See Kansas Statutes 77-602

A person may obtain judicial review of an issue that was not raised before the agency, only to the extent that:

(a) The agency did not have jurisdiction to grant an adequate remedy based on a determination of the issue;

(b) the agency action subject to judicial review is a rule and regulation and the person has not been a party in adjudicative proceedings which provided an adequate opportunity to raise the issue;

(c) the agency action subject to judicial review is an order and the person was not notified of the adjudicative proceeding; or

(d) the interests of justice would be served by judicial resolution of an issue arising from:

(1) A change in controlling law occurring after the agency action; or

(2) agency action occurring or first reasonably knowable to the person after the person exhausted the last feasible opportunity for seeking relief from the agency.