Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 8 > Article 11 - Abandoned and Disabled Motor Vehicles

• 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.
• Agency head: means the chief administrative officer of a state agency, as that term is defined in subsection (3) of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-5802
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• approval date: means the date on which such approval is given by the secretary of administration. See Kansas Statutes 75-5501a
• 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.
• 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}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Council: means the advisory council on aging created by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-5902
• Council: means the coordinating council on early childhood developmental services established in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-5648
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Kansas department for aging and disability services created by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-5902
• 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.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• disaster: includes disasters designated at level II and above in the American national red cross regulations and procedures. See Kansas Statutes 75-5547
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Early intervention services: means developmental services which are designed to meet the developmental needs of each eligible child and the needs of the family related to enhancing the child's development. See Kansas Statutes 75-5648
• Emotional disability: means the same as the term "emotional disturbance" is used in public law 101-476, the individuals with disabilities education act. See Kansas Statutes 75-5399
• employee: means any appointed or elective officer or any employee of the state of Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 75-5530
• Engineering services: means those services described as the "practice of engineering" as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-5802
• 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}
• 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.
• Firm: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity permitted by law to practice the profession of engineering and provide engineering services or practice the profession of land surveying and provide land surveying services. See Kansas Statutes 75-5802
• 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.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Guardian: means an individual or a nonprofit corporation certified in accordance with Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• 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.
• Highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for the purposes of vehicular travel. See Kansas Statutes 8-1101
• implementation date: means the date fixed under this subsection by the secretary of administration. See Kansas Statutes 75-5501a
• improper payments: means any payment that should not have been made or that was made in an incorrect amount under statutory, contractual, administrative or other legally applicable requirements and includes any payment to an ineligible recipient. See Kansas Statutes 75-5745
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Individuals with disabilities: means individuals with intellectual disability, hearing loss including deafness, speech or language disorders, visual impairments including blindness, serious emotional disability, orthopedic impairments, autism, dyslexia, traumatic brain injury, other health impairments or specific learning disabilities. See Kansas Statutes 75-5399
• Infants and toddlers with disabilities: means children from birth through two years of age who need early intervention services because:

  (1) They are experiencing developmental delays; or

  (2) they have a diagnosed mental or physical condition that has a high probability of resulting in developmental delay. See Kansas Statutes 75-5648

• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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.
• Land surveying: means those services described as "professional surveying" as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-5802
• Law enforcement officer: means and includes the Kansas highway patrol, police and sheriffs who are vested with the power and authority of peace, police and law enforcement, or those authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations. See Kansas Statutes 8-1101
• Lead agency: means the Kansas department of health and environment, designated by the governor to perform the duties described in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-5648
• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local education authority: means the special education interlocal or cooperative or school district responsible for the local special education program. See Kansas Statutes 75-5399
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Motor vehicle: means every vehicle or tractor trailer combination that is self-propelled by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway except vehicles used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Kansas Statutes 8-1101
• Negotiating committee: means a committee designated to negotiate as provided in this act, and consisting of: (1) The agency head of the state agency for which the proposed project is planned, or a person designated by such agency head; (2) the secretary of administration, or a person designated by such secretary; and (3) the chief administrative officer of the state institution for which the proposed project is planned, or when the proposed project is not planned for a state institution, the agency head shall designate a second person in lieu of the chief administrative officer of a state institution. See Kansas Statutes 75-5802
• 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.
• 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.
• Person: means the same as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 8-1101
• 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
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• 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.
• Project: means any capital improvement project or any study, plan, survey or program activity of a state agency, including development of new or existing programs and preparation of federal grant applications. See Kansas Statutes 75-5802
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Public agency: means and includes the department of transportation, the Kansas turnpike authority, a county, city and township. See Kansas Statutes 8-1101
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Ranking minority member: The highest ranking (and usually longest serving) minority member of a committee or subcommittee.
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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 for children and families or the designee of the secretary. See Kansas Statutes 75-5399
• Secretary: means the secretary for aging and disability services. See Kansas Statutes 75-5902
• senior citizen: means a person 60 years of age or older. See Kansas Statutes 75-5902
• Services: means those services designed to provide assistance to the aged such as nutritional programs, facilities improvement, transportation services, senior volunteer programs, supplementary health services, programs for leisure-time activities, housing and employment counseling, other informational, referral and counseling programs to aid the aged in availing themselves of existing public or private services or other similar social services intended to aid the senior citizen in attaining and maintaining self-sufficiency, personal well-being, dignity and maximum participation in community life. See Kansas Statutes 75-5902
• 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.
• Special education program: means services that are provided pursuant to public law 94-142, the education of all handicapped children's act, as implemented in Kansas through Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-5399
• 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 or any agency, division or unit within any office, department, board, commission or other state authority or any person requesting a state appropriation;

  (b) "disaster" includes disasters designated at level II and above in the American national red cross regulations and procedures. See Kansas Statutes 75-5547

• State building advisory commission: means the state building advisory commission created by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 75-5802
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Supplemental appropriation: Budget authority provided in an appropriations act in addition to regular or continuing appropriations already provided. Supplemental appropriations generally are made to cover emergencies, such as disaster relief, or other needs deemed too urgent to be postponed until the enactment of next year's regular appropriations act.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Transition planning services: means rehabilitation counseling, information and referral to community services for students age 16 and older in secondary special education programs. See Kansas Statutes 75-5399
• Transition services: means a coordinated set of activities for a student, designed within an outcome-oriented process that promotes movement from school to post-school activities, including post-secondary education, vocational training, integrated employment, including supported employment, continuing and adult education, adult services, independent living or community participation. See Kansas Statutes 75-5399
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.