Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-057

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-057 PDF Author: Robert T. Stephan
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Pursuant to K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 82a-1036, only the Chief Engineer, Division of Water Resources, of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture may initiate proceedings to designate an intensive groundwater use control area which is not within an existing groundwater management district. While an irrigation district may request the initiation of such proceedings, the request is advisory only and is not of legal effect. Cited herein: K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 82a-1036.

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-057

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-057 PDF Author: Robert T. Stephan
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Pursuant to K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 82a-1036, only the Chief Engineer, Division of Water Resources, of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture may initiate proceedings to designate an intensive groundwater use control area which is not within an existing groundwater management district. While an irrigation district may request the initiation of such proceedings, the request is advisory only and is not of legal effect. Cited herein: K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 82a-1036.

Attorney General Opinion No. 1982-057

Attorney General Opinion No. 1982-057 PDF Author: Robert T. Stephan
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The Secretary of Transportation has express statutory authority to organize the Department of Transportation in any manner he deems most efficient, so long as it is not in conflict with the act creating the Department (L. 1975, ch. 426) or other provisions of law. Thus, to reorganize the Department so as to eliminate the statutorily-created Division of Aviation and the statutorily-created position of Director of Aviation, exceeds the Secretary's authority and creates a direct conflict with manifested legislative intent. Cited herein: K.S.A. 75-5006, K.S.A. 1981 Supp. 75-5007, 75-5008, K.S.A. 75-5009, 75-5010, 75-5015.

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-044

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-044 PDF Author: Robert T. Stephan
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Through the imposition of fines for unlawful conduct, K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 8-1901(d) imposes criminal liability. In addition, subsection (a) of that statute does not appear to violate the United States Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, although it only imposes liability upon a limited class of persons. Moreover, that subsection appears to convey a sufficiently definite warning as to the conduct proscribed therein, so as to avoid being unconstitutionally vague and uncertain. Cited herein: K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 8-1901, 8-1909, K.S.A. 8-2116, 8-2204, 21-3105, K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 21-4503, U.S. Const., Amend. XIV.

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-164

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-164 PDF Author: Robert T. Stephan
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Neither the provisions of K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 19-1803, nor the common law doctrine of incompatibility of offices, precludes a person from concurrently serving on the board of trustees of a county hospital and on the board of education of a local school district. Cited herein: K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 19-1803.

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-050

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-050 PDF Author: Robert T. Stephan
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An attorney who has been appointed to any board, commission or authority of a city is a "public officer" under K.S.A. 12-1601, and is therefore precluded from representing a client in any litigation or controversy in which the city is interested, either directly or indirectly. This preclusion extends to even those matters which do not involve the particular body to which the individual has been appointed, but does not include other members of a law firm of which he or she may be a part. Cited herein: K.S.A. 12-1601, 12-1602.

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-106

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-106 PDF Author: Robert T. Stephan
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The provisions of the Kansas Open Meetings Law preclude the election of the acting president of the City Council of Merriam by secret ballot. Cited herein: K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 75-4318.

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-260

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-260 PDF Author: Robert T. Stephan
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Under the provisions of K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 22-4504 (as amended by L. 1981, ch. 157, sec. 1), the board of supervisors of panels to aid indigent defendants is empowered to adopt rules and regulations concerning the ability of a defendant in a criminal action to retain counsel to assist in his defense. Such rules and regulations specifically relate to the income, assets and anticipated costs of representation of a defendant. Pursuant to the 1981 amendment, such rules and regulations are controlling on any determination by a judge or magistrate as to whether a defendant is financially unable to employ counsel. Moreover, these rules and regulations are adopted in accordance with K.S.A. 77-415 e̲t̲ s̲e̲q̲., thus allowing the legislature to modify or reject them through the adoption of a concurrent resolution (K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 77-426). Insofar as the making of indigency determinations involves the resolution of questions of fact, which is a judicial and not a legislative function, control by the legislature over such determinations is an impermissible interference with the authority of another department of government. Accordingly, those provisions of L. 1981, ch. 157 which require the submission of such rules and regulations to the legislature and which make any rules and regulations so adopted binding on district courts are unconstitutional as violative of the separation of powers doctrine. Cited herein: K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 22-4501, 22-4504 (as amended by L. 1981, ch. 157, section 1), 22-4507, K.S.A. 22-4512, K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 22-4514, 77-415 (as amended by L. 1981, ch. 157, section 3), Kansas Constitution, Article 3, Section 1, United States Bill of Rights, Sixth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment.

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-176

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-176 PDF Author: Robert T. Stephan
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The common law doctrine of incompatibility of offices precludes a school board member from simultaneously holding the office of county commissioner or the office of mayor of a third class city with a mayor-council form of government. Cited herein: K.S.A. 13-2002, 14-301, 14-1402 and 15-301.

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-045

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-045 PDF Author: Robert T. Stephan
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There are no statutory obstacles to an election commissioner also holding the office of mayor of a city of the second class. Moreover, the common law doctrine of incompatibility of offices does not preclude such simultaneous incumbencies.

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-071

Attorney General Opinion No. 1981-071 PDF Author: Robert T. Stephan
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A county election officer has no authority to determine the sufficiency of the question stated in the petition for elections but such officer may find a petition insufficient for failure to include an individual date line for each petitioner signing. Cited herein: K.S.A. 25-3601, K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 25-3602, Kan. Const., Art. 12, section 5.