Same; contracts

17-1368. Same; contracts. Any municipality required, pursuant to this act, to care for and maintain a cemetery may contract with any individual, firm, corporation or association for the care and maintenance thereof or for the sale of unsold burial lots and the opening and closing of graves. Except as provided in K.S.A. 17-1371, and amendments thereto, no such contract or any other agreement entered into by such municipality shall be deemed to relieve such municipality of the duties and responsibilities imposed under the provisions of this act. History: L. 1979, ch. 62, § 3; L. 1991, ch. 77, § 1; July 1. Law Review and Bar Journal References: "The Immunity Provisions in the Kansas Tort Claims Act: The First Twenty-Five Years," William E. Westerbeke, 52 K.L.R. 939 (2004). CASE ANNOTATIONS 1. Statute does not effect compensable taking of private property in violation of 5th and 14th amendments to U.S. Constitution. State ex rel. Stephan v. Lane, 228 Kan. 379, 381, 382, 392, 393, 614 P.2d 987.