Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 8 > Article 10 - Driving Under Influence of Alcohol or Drugs; Administrative Provisions

• Act: means the Kansas public investments and contracts protection act. See Kansas Statutes 75-42a01
• Act: means the Kansas charitable gaming act. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Administrator: means the agency selected to receive funds from the department for provision of transportation services in the designated area. See Kansas Statutes 75-5053
• Administrator: means the administrator of charitable gaming designated by the secretary pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Arbitration: means interpretation of the terms of an existing or a new memorandum of agreement or investigation of disputes by an impartial third party whose decision may or may not be final and binding. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Authorized officer: means any official of this state or any of its departments, agencies, boards, or other instrumentalities or any of its political or taxing subdivisions whose signature to a public security or instrument of payment is required or permitted. See Kansas Statutes 75-4001
• Bank: means a bank incorporated under the laws of this state, or organized under the laws of the United States or another state and which has a main or branch office in this state. See Kansas Statutes 75-4201
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Benefit fund: means the moneys and other assets available:

  (1) To provide property, services or entertainment for persons in a state institution or in the legal custody of the secretary of corrections;

  (2) to provide incentives for program and work participation and performance and other activities related to offender management for persons in the legal custody of the secretary of corrections; or

  (3) for other purposes that benefit persons in a state institution or in the legal custody of the secretary of corrections. See Kansas Statutes 75-3728e

• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• blind person: means a person whose central visual acuity does not exceed 20 over 200, in the better eye with correcting lens or whose visual acuity if better than 20 over 200, is accompanied by a limit to the field of vision in the better eye to such a degree that its widest diameter subtends an angle of no greater than 20 degrees. See Kansas Statutes 75-3338
• Board: means the secretary for aging and disability services. See Kansas Statutes 75-3329
• Board: means the pooled money investment board. See Kansas Statutes 75-4201
• Board: means the board of trustees of the Kansas public employees retirement system. See Kansas Statutes 75-42a01
• Board: means the public employee relations board established pursuant to this act. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• Branch: means any office, agency or other place of business within this state, other than the main office, at which deposits are received, checks paid or money lent with approval of the appropriate regulatory authorities. See Kansas Statutes 75-4201
• Budget submission date: means (1) for any public employers subject to the budget law in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• Business agent: means any authorized person who is a full-time official of an employee organization and whose principal duties are to act or to attempt to act for an employee organization (1) in proceedings to meet and confer and other proceedings involving a memorandum of agreement, (2) in servicing existing memorandums of agreement, or (3) in organizing employees into employee organizations. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• Call bingo: means a game in which: (1) Each player pays a charge; (2) a prize or prizes are awarded to the winner or winners; (3) each player receives one or more cards or faces; and (4) each player covers the squares on each card or face as the operator of such game announces a number, letter or combination of numbers and letters appearing on an object selected by chance, either manually or mechanically from a receptacle in which have been placed objects bearing numbers, letters or combinations of numbers and letters corresponding to the system used for designating the squares. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Canteen: means a retail store which offers for sale items of necessity, comfort and morale which otherwise are not accessible to persons in the environment of a state institution. See Kansas Statutes 75-3728e
• Canteen fund: means the moneys and other assets used for operation of a canteen. See Kansas Statutes 75-3728e
• Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
• Centralized securities depository: means a clearing agency registered with the securities and exchange commission which provides safekeeping and book-entry settlement services to its participants. See Kansas Statutes 75-4201
• Charitable gaming: means bingo, including call bingo, and instant bingo and charitable raffles. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Charitable raffle: means a raffle conducted by a nonprofit religious, charitable, fraternal, educational or veterans' organization. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
• children: means a person or persons under the age of 18. See Kansas Statutes 75-3329
• Communication system: means a system of communications to support the purposes of the department and public safety agencies. See Kansas Statutes 75-5073
• Communication system equipment: means equipment necessary to use, implement, support and maintain the communication system, including, but not limited to, radio towers. See Kansas Statutes 75-5073
• Company: means any organization, association, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company or other entity of business association, including a wholly owned subsidiary, majority-owned subsidiary, parent company or affiliate of such entities or business associations that exists for the purpose of making a profit. See Kansas Statutes 75-42a01
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• Conditions of employment: means salaries, wages, hours of work, vacation allowances, sick and injury leave, number of holidays, retirement benefits, insurance benefits, prepaid legal service benefits, wearing apparel, premium pay for overtime, shift differential pay, jury duty and grievance procedures, but nothing in this act shall authorize the adjustment or change of such matters which have been fixed by statute or by the constitution of this state. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• Conservator: means an individual or corporation appointed by the court to act on behalf of a conservatee and possessed of some or all of the powers and duties set out in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Coordinated transit district: means a public or private not-for-profit agency with an established purpose to distribute funds and monitor implementation of passenger transportation services in a designated area of the state. See Kansas Statutes 75-5053
• Coordination: means where programmatically feasible, all entities involved in administrating and/or providing transportation and related services to elderly persons, persons with disabilities and the general public will work together in a smooth, concerted effort to effectively use resources and alleviate duplication of services. See Kansas Statutes 75-5034
• 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.
• Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
• Custodial bank: means a bank holding on deposit collateral which is security for state bank accounts. See Kansas Statutes 75-4201
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Deed: is a pplied to an instrument conveying lands but does not imply a sealed instrument. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Defense attorney: Represent defendants in criminal matters.
• Department: means the Kansas department of transportation. See Kansas Statutes 75-5034
• Department: means the department of revenue. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Depository bank: means a bank, savings bank or savings and loan association authorized and eligible to receive state moneys. See Kansas Statutes 75-4201
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the director of the budget. See Kansas Statutes 75-4802
• Director: means the director of taxation. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Disbursement: means a payment of any kind whatsoever made from the state treasury or from any operating account, except transfer of moneys between or among operating accounts and investment accounts or either or both of them. See Kansas Statutes 75-4201
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Distributor: means any person or entity that sells or distributes instant bingo tickets, bingo cards or bingo faces. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Division: means the division of the budget of the department of administration. See Kansas Statutes 75-4802
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Elderly persons: means those persons 60 years of age or older. See Kansas Statutes 75-5034
• Elected and management officials: means any elective official and any appointed officer charged by law with major administrative and management responsibilities. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Electronic gaming device: means a device that, as a result of the insertion of a coin or other object, operates, either completely automatically or with the aid of some physical act by the player, in such a manner that, depending upon elements of chance, it may eject something of value. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Electronic means: means computer generated electronic or magnetic media, web based applications or similar electronic, magnetic or computer based methods or applications;

  (2) "paid preparer" means any person or business that prepares tax returns for compensation or employs or authorizes one or more persons to prepare such returns. See Kansas Statutes 75-5151a

• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• Employee organization: means any organization which includes employees of a public agency and which has as one of its primary purposes representing such employees in dealings with that public agency over conditions of employment and grievances. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• Energy conservation measure: means an energy study, audit, improvement or equipment which is designed to provide energy and operational cost savings at least equivalent to the amount expended by a participating political subdivision or state agency for such energy study, audit, improvement or equipment over a period of not more than 30 years after the date such improvement or equipment is installed or becomes operational, as the case may be. See Kansas Statutes 75-37,125
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• face: means a piece of paper which is marked off into 25 squares arranged in five horizontal rows of five squares each and five vertical rows of five squares each, with each square being designated by a number, letter or combination of numbers and letters. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Facsimile signature: means a reproduction by engraving, imprinting, stamping, or other means of the manual signature of an authorized officer. See Kansas Statutes 75-4001
• Fact-finding: means investigation of such a dispute by an individual, panel, or board with the fact-finder submitting a report to the parties describing the issues involved; the report shall contain recommendations for settlement and may be made public. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fee agency account: means a state bank account of any state agency consisting of moneys authorized by law prior to remittance to the state treasurer. See Kansas Statutes 75-4201
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiduciary: means any person acting on behalf of the board or system as an investment manager, proxy advisor or contractor, including the system's board of trustees. See Kansas Statutes 75-42a01
• Fiduciary commitment: means any evidence of a fiduciary's purpose in managing assets as a fiduciary, including, but not limited to, any of the following in a fiduciary's capacity as a fiduciary, specifically on assets managed on behalf of the system:

  (A) Advertisements, statements, explanations, reports, communications with portfolio companies, statements of principles or commitments; or

  (B) participation in, affiliation with or status as a signatory to any coalition, initiative, joint statement of principles or agreement. See Kansas Statutes 75-42a01

• Financial: means having been prudently determined by a fiduciary to have a material effect on the financial risk or the financial return of an investment. See Kansas Statutes 75-42a01
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fossil fuels: means coal, natural gas, petroleum or oil formed by natural processes through decomposition of dead organisms. See Kansas Statutes 75-42a01
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the Kansas communication system revolving fund established by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-5073
• games of bingo: means the games of call bingo and instant bingo. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• General election: refers to the election required to be held on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governing body: means the legislative body, policy board or other authority of the public employer possessing legislative or policymaking responsibilities pursuant to the constitution or laws of this state. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Grievance: means a statement of dissatisfaction by a public employee, supervisory employee, employee organization or public employer concerning interpretation of a memorandum of agreement or traditional work practice. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• Gross vehicle weight: means the weight of a passenger motor vehicle or truck and any type of trailer in combination with either thereof, plus the maximum weight of cargo and passengers which will be transported on or with the same. See Kansas Statutes 75-4601
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Guardian: means an individual or a nonprofit corporation certified in accordance with Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
• Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Instant bingo: means a game: (1) In which each player pays a charge; (2) in which a prize or prizes are awarded to the winner or winners; (3) in which each player receives one or more disposable pull-tab or break-open tickets which accord a player an opportunity to win something of value by opening or detaching the paper covering from the back of the ticket to reveal a set of numbers, letters, symbols or configurations, or any combination thereof; (4) that is conducted by a licensee under this act; (5) that may be dispensed by an instant bingo vending machine; and (6) that does not utilize any dice, normal playing cards, instant ticket with a removable latex covering or slot machines. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Instant bingo vending machine: means the same as that term is defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Instrument of payment: means a check, draft, warrant, or order for the payment, delivery, or transfer of funds. See Kansas Statutes 75-4001
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Investment account: means a state bank account which is not payable on demand. See Kansas Statutes 75-4201
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• 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.
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Legislature: means the legislature of the state of Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• Lessor: means the owner, co-owner, lessor or sublessor of premises upon which a licensee is permitted to manage, operate or conduct games of bingo. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensee: means any nonprofit organization holding a license to manage, operate or conduct games of bingo or charitable raffles pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Lockout: means action taken by the public employer to provoke interruptions of or prevent the continuity of work normally and usually performed by the employees for the purpose of coercing the employees into relinquishing rights guaranteed by this act. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• Magistrate judges: Judicial officers who assist U.S. district judges in getting cases ready for trial, who may decide some criminal and civil trials when both parties agree to have the case heard by a magistrate judge instead of a judge.
• Main office: means the place of business specified in the articles of association, certificate of authority or similar document, where the business of the institution is carried on and which is not a branch. See Kansas Statutes 75-4201
• Manufactured home: means a structure which:

  (1) Is transportable in one or more sections which, in the traveling mode, is 8 body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein; and

  (2) is subject to the federal manufactured home construction and safety standards established pursuant to 42 U. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

• Mediation: means effort by an impartial third party to assist in reconciling a dispute regarding conditions of employment between representatives of the public agency and recognized employee organizations through interpretation and advice. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• Memorandum of agreement: means a written memorandum of understanding arrived at by the representatives of the public agency and a recognized employee organization which may be presented to the governing body of a public employer or its statutory representative and to the membership of such organization for appropriate action. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• Mini bingo: means a game of call bingo in which the prizes awarded are not less than 50% of the gross receipts derived from the sale of cards or faces for participation in the game. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Minor: means any person defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Motor vehicle: means a passenger motor vehicle or a truck. See Kansas Statutes 75-4601
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Nonprofit charitable organization: means any organization which is organized and operated for:

  (1) The relief of poverty, distress, or other condition of public concern within this state;

  (2) financially supporting the activities of a charitable organization as defined in paragraph (1); or

  (3) conferring direct benefits on the community at large; and of which no part of the net earnings inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual member of such organization and has been determined by the administrator to be organized and operated as a bona fide charitable organization and which has been exempted from the payment of federal income taxes as provided by sections 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), 501(c)(5), 501(c)(6) and 501(c)(7) of the federal internal revenue code of 1986, as amended, or determined to be organized and operated as a bona fide nonprofit charitable organization by the administrator. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173

• Nonprofit educational organization: means any public or private elementary or secondary school or institution of higher education which has been determined by the administrator to be organized and operated as a bona fide educational organization and which has been exempted from the payment of federal income taxes as provided by section 501(c)(3) of the federal internal revenue code of 1986, as amended, or determined to be organized and operated as a bona fide nonprofit educational organization by the administrator. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Nonprofit fraternal organization: means any organization within this state which exists for the common benefit, brotherhood, or other interests of its members and is authorized by its written constitution, charter, articles of incorporation or bylaws to engage in a fraternal, civic or service purpose within this state and has been determined by the administrator to be organized and operated as a bona fide fraternal organization and which has been exempted from the payment of federal income taxes as provided by section 501(c)(8) or section 501(c)(10) of the federal internal revenue code of 1986, as amended, or determined to be organized and operated as a bona fide nonprofit fraternal organization by the administrator. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes an affirmation in all cases where an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in similar cases "swear" includes affirm. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Operating account: means a state bank account which is payable or withdrawable, in whole or in part, on demand. See Kansas Statutes 75-4201
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• 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.
• Passenger motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle designed primarily for carrying passengers and having a gross vehicle weight of not more than twelve thousand (12,000) pounds. See Kansas Statutes 75-4601
• Person: means any natural person, corporation, partnership, trust or association. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• 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
• Persons with disabilities: means those persons determined by the department of transportation to be disadvantaged in terms of the transportation services available to them due to physical or mental disability. See Kansas Statutes 75-5034
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Premises: means any room, hall, building, enclosure or outdoor area used for the management, operation or conduct of a game of bingo by a licensee. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Professional employee: includes any employee: (1) Whose work is predominantly intellectual and varied in character as opposed to routine mental, manual, mechanical, or physical work; involves the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment; requires knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by prolonged study in an institution of higher learning; or (2) who has completed courses of prolonged study as described in paragraph (1) of this subsection, and is performing related work under the supervision of a professional person in order to qualify as a professional employee as defined in paragraph (1) of this subsection; or (3) attorneys-at-law or any other person who is registered as a qualified professional by a board of registration or other public body established for such purposes under the laws of this state. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• Progressive bingo: means a game of call bingo in which either the established prize amount or number of bingo balls or objects called, or both, may be increased from one session to the next scheduled session if no player completes the required pattern within the specified number of bingo balls or objects drawn. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Proxy voting: The practice of allowing a legislator to cast a vote in committee for an absent legislator.
• Public employee: means any person employed by any public agency, except those persons classed as supervisory employees, professional employees of school districts, as defined by subsection (c) of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• public employer: means every governmental subdivision, including any county, township, city, school district, special district, board, commission, or instrumentality or other similar unit whose governing body exercises similar governmental powers, and the state of Kansas and its state agencies. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• public officer: means any officer, board, commission or agency of the state. See Kansas Statutes 75-3505
• Public security: means a bond, note, certificate of indebtedness, or other obligation for the payment of money, issued by this state or by any of its departments, agencies, boards, or other instrumentalities or by any of its political or taxing subdivisions. See Kansas Statutes 75-4001
• Public transportation services: means those services accessible to elderly persons, persons with disabilities and the general public. See Kansas Statutes 75-5034
• publication: means any report or document which is intended to be made available to the public and which is originated by a state agency. See Kansas Statutes 75-3048a
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Raffle: means a game of chance in which each participant buys a ticket or tickets from a nonprofit organization with each ticket providing an equal chance to win a prize and the winner being determined by a random drawing. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Real estate transaction: means to acquire real estate, or any right, title or interest therein, by purchase, grant, gift, devise, lease or otherwise or to sell, convey, lease, exchange, transfer or otherwise dispose of real estate, or any right, title or interest therein, but does not include the lease or rental of real estate, or any right, title or interest therein, for a term of five (5) years or less. See Kansas Statutes 75-3515
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights to them and interest in them, equitable as well as legal. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Recognized employee organization: means an employee organization which has been formally acknowledged by the public agency or certified as representing a majority of the employees of an appropriate unit. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• representative of the public employer: means a team of persons, the head of which shall be a person designated by the secretary of administration and the heads of the state agency or state agencies involved or one person designated by each such state agency head. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• 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
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Revenues: means any receipts, fees, revenues or other payments received or to be received by the department under this act. See Kansas Statutes 75-5073
• road: include public bridges and may be construed to be equivalent to "county way" "county road" "common road" "state road" and "territorial road. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Savings and loan association: means a savings and loan association incorporated under the laws of this state or organized under the laws of the United States or another state, insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation or its successor and having a main or branch office in the county in which a state agency making collection of any fees, tuition or charges is located. See Kansas Statutes 75-4201
• Savings bank: means a savings bank organized under the laws of the United States or another state insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation or its successor and having a main or branch office in the county in which a state agency making collection of any fees, tuition, or charges is located. See Kansas Statutes 75-4201
• seal: includes an impression of the seal upon the paper alone, as well as upon wax or a wafer affixed to the paper. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Secretary: means the secretary of the department of transportation or designee. See Kansas Statutes 75-5034
• Secretary: means the secretary of revenue or the secretary's designee. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Securities: means , for the purposes of this section and Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-4201
• Sentencing guidelines: A set of rules and principles established by the United States Sentencing Commission that trial judges use to determine the sentence for a convicted defendant. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Session: means a day on which a licensee conducts games of bingo. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• state agency: means any state office or officer, department, board, commission, institution, bureau, society or any agency, division or unit within any state office, department, board, commission or other state authority. See Kansas Statutes 75-3044
• State agency: means any state office, officer, department, board, commission, institution, bureau or any other state authority, which is authorized by law to engage in any real estate transaction for and in the name of the state of Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 75-3515
• State agency: means any state office or officer, department, board, commission, institution, bureau or any other state authority which may lawfully request a state appropriation. See Kansas Statutes 75-3728a
• state agency: shall mean any state office or officer whether elected or appointed, department, board, commission, institution, bureau, authority or any agency, division or unit within any office, department, board or other state authority. See Kansas Statutes 75-4112
• State agency: means the same as is ascribed thereto in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• state agency: means only those state agencies whose offices are located in Shawnee county, but does not include the supreme court or any justice or officer thereof nor offices located in the Shawnee county courthouse. See Kansas Statutes 75-4511
• State agency: means all departments, boards, commissions and agencies of the state of Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 75-4802
• State bank account: means state moneys or fee agency account moneys deposited in accordance with the provisions of this act. See Kansas Statutes 75-4201
• State institution: means institution as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-3329
• State institution: means :

  (1) Any institution as defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-3728e

• State moneys: means all moneys in the treasury of the state or coming lawfully into the possession of the treasurer. See Kansas Statutes 75-4201
• state of Kansas: shall include political subdivisions of the state of Kansas, except schools, cities of the third class and townships. See Kansas Statutes 75-3338
• state zoning area: shall include and be the following described area in the city of Topeka, Kansas: Beginning at the centerline of west Seventh street and its intersection with the centerline of the north-south alley extended between Kansas avenue and Jackson street; thence westward along the centerline of west Seventh street to the center line of Polk street; thence southward along the centerline of Polk street to the centerline of west Fourteenth street; thence eastward along the centerline of west Fourteenth street to the centerline of Jackson street; thence southward along the centerline of Jackson street to its intersection with the centerline of west Fourteenth street and the centerline of the north-south alley extended between Kansas avenue and Jackson street; thence northward along the centerline of the north-south alleys extended between Kansas avenue and Jackson street to the place of beginning. See Kansas Statutes 75-3619
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Strike: means an action taken for the purpose of coercing a change in the conditions, rights, privileges or obligations of employment through the failure by concerted action with others to report for duty or to work at usual capability in the performance of the normal duties of employment. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supervisory employee: means any individual who normally performs different work from his subordinates, having authority, in the interest of the employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees, or responsibly to direct them, or to adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend a preponderance of such actions, if in connection with the foregoing the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires the use of independent judgment. See Kansas Statutes 75-4322
• System: means the Kansas public employees retirement system. See Kansas Statutes 75-42a01
• tax returns: means returns or reports filed for any tax administered by the department of revenue including, but not limited to, income tax, sales and use tax, motor fuel tax, mineral tax and other excise taxes. See Kansas Statutes 75-5151a
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transportation: means the movement of individuals and meals in a four or more wheeled motorized vehicle designed to carry passengers. See Kansas Statutes 75-5034
• Transportation system: means all public and private transportation providers which provide public transportation services to elderly persons, persons with disabilities and the general public, and which receive federal support through 49 U. See Kansas Statutes 75-5034
• Treasurer: means state treasurer. See Kansas Statutes 75-4201
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• vending facility: includes , but is not limited to, automatic vending machines, cafeterias, snack bars, cart service, shelters, counters and such other appropriate auxiliary equipment as rules and regulations of the division of services for the blind of the Kansas department for children and families prescribe and as are necessary for the sale of the articles or services referred to in paragraph (4) of subsection (a) of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-3338
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Victim advocate: work with prosecutors and assist the victims of a crime.
• Victim Impact Statement: A written or spoken statement by the victim or his or her representative about the physical, emotional, and financial impact of a crime on the victim. The statement is given to the court before sentencing.
• Ward: means a person who has a guardian. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Work therapy fund: means the moneys and other assets used to operate a work therapy project for persons in a state institution. See Kansas Statutes 75-3728e
• Work therapy project: means a sheltered workshop or other similar vocational training activity provided by a state institution, whether on or off campus. See Kansas Statutes 75-3728e