Chapter 21 — CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

21-5812. Arson; aggravated arson. (a) Arson is: (1) Knowingly, by means of fire or explosive damaging any building or property which: (A) Is a dwelling in which another person has any interest without the consent of such other person; (B) is a dwelling with intent to injure or de…

21-5813. Criminal damage to property; aggravated criminal damage to property. (a) Criminal damage to property is by means other than by fire or explosive: (1) Knowingly damaging, destroying, defacing or substantially impairing the use of any property in which another has an inter…

21-5814. Criminal use of an explosive. (a) Criminal use of an explosive is: (1) Possessing, manufacturing or transporting a commercial explosive, whether or not a person knows or has reason to know it is a commercial explosive; or (2) possessing, creating or constructing a simula…

21-5815. Criminal littering. (a) Criminal littering is recklessly depositing or causing to be deposited any object or substance into, upon or about: (1) Any public street, highway, alley, road, right-of-way, park or other public place, or any lake, stream, watercourse, or other b…

21-5816. Tampering with a landmark. (a) Tampering with a landmark is doing any of the following acts with the intent to fraudulently alter a boundary: (1) Removing any monument of stone or other durable material, established or created for the purpose of designating the corner of…

21-5817. Tampering with a traffic signal; aggravated tampering with a traffic signal. (a) Tampering with a traffic signal is knowingly manipulating, altering, destroying or removing any light, sign, marker, railroad switching device or other signal device erected or installed for…

21-5818. Trespassing on a critical infrastructure facility; aggravated trespassing on a critical infrastructure facility; criminal damage to a critical infrastructure facility; aggravated criminal damage to a critical infrastructure facility. (a) Trespassing on a critical infrast…

21-5819. Throwing or otherwise casting objects onto street, highway or railroad right-of-way or railroad property. (a) It is unlawful for any person to: (1) Recklessly throw, push, pitch or otherwise cast any rock, stone or other object, matter or thing onto a street, road, highw…

21-5820. Unlawful posting of political pictures and political advertisements. (a) Unlawful posting of political pictures and political advertisements is knowingly putting up, affixing or fastening of either or both a political picture or a political advertisement to a telegraph, …

21-5821. Giving a worthless check. (a) Giving a worthless check is the making, drawing, issuing or delivering or causing or directing the making, drawing, issuing or delivering of any check on any financial institution for the payment of money or its equivalent with intent to def…

21-5822. Causing an unlawful prosecution for giving a worthless check. (a) Causing an unlawful prosecution for giving a worthless check is filing a complaint before a magistrate or supplying information upon which a prosecution for giving a worthless check is commenced with knowl…

21-5823. Forgery. (a) Forgery is, with intent to defraud: (1) Making, altering or endorsing any written instrument in such manner that it purports to have been made, altered or endorsed by another person, either real or fictitious, and if a real person without the authority of su…

21-5824. Making false information. (a) Making false information is making, generating, distributing or drawing, or causing to be made, generated, distributed or drawn, any written instrument, electronic data or entry in a book of account with knowledge that such information false…

21-5825. Counterfeiting. (a) Counterfeiting is manufacturing, using, displaying, advertising, distributing or possessing with intent to distribute any item or services knowing such item or services bear or are identified by a counterfeit mark. (b) Counterfeiting is a: (1) Severit…

21-5826. Destroying a written instrument. (a) Destroying a written instrument is tearing, cutting, burning, erasing, obliterating or destroying a written instrument, in whole or in part, with intent to defraud. (b) Destroying a written instrument is a severity level 9, nonperson …

21-5827. Altering a legislative document. (a) Altering a legislative document is knowingly mutilating, altering or changing, otherwise than in the regular course of legislation, any act, bill or resolution introduced into or acted upon by either or both houses of the legislature …

21-5828. Criminal use of a financial card. (a) Criminal use of a financial card is any of the following acts done with intent to defraud and to obtain money, goods, property or services: (1) Using a financial card without the consent of the cardholder; (2) using a financial card,…

21-5829. Unlawful manufacture or disposal of false tokens. (a) Unlawful manufacture or disposal of false tokens is manufacturing for sale, offering for sale or giving away any false token, slug, substance, false or spurious coin or other device intended or calculated to be placed…

21-5830. Impairing a security interest. (a) Impairing a security interest is, with intent to defraud the secured party: (1) Damaging, destroying or concealing any personal property subject to a security interest; (2) selling, exchanging or otherwise disposing of any personal prop…

21-5831. Warehouse receipt fraud. (a) Warehouse receipt fraud is making, drawing, issuing or delivering or causing or directing the making, drawing, issuing or delivering by a warehouseman, or any officer, agent or employee of a warehouseman, of: (1) A negotiable receipt for good…

21-5832. Unauthorized delivery of stored goods. (a) Unauthorized delivery of stored goods is delivery of goods out of the possession of a warehouseman by such warehouseman, or any officer, agent or employee of such warehouseman, with knowledge that a negotiable receipt, the negot…

21-5833. Automobile master key violation. (a) Automobile master key violation is: (1) Selling or offering to sell a motor vehicle master key knowing it to be designed to fit the ignition switch of more than one motor vehicle; or (2) possession of a motor vehicle master key design…

21-5834. Sale of recut or regrooved tires. (a) Sale of recut or regrooved tires is the sale, offer to sell or exposure for sale of any passenger vehicle tire which the person knows to have been recut or regrooved, or the sale, offer to sell or exposure for sale of any passenger v…

21-5835. Unlawful acts concerning odometers. (a) It is unlawful for any person: (1) To knowingly tamper with, adjust, alter, change, set back, disconnect or fail to connect the odometer of any motor vehicle, or cause any of the foregoing to occur to an odometer of a motor vehicle…

21-5836. Unlawful acts concerning certificates of title. (a) It shall be unlawful to transfer ownership to any vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home and knowingly fail to show oneself on the transferred certificate of title. (b) Violation of this section is a class C misdemea…

21-5837. Adding dockage or foreign material to grain. (a) Adding dockage or foreign material to grain is knowingly: (1) Adding dockage or foreign material to any grain to be marketed; or (2) recombining any dockage or foreign material once removed from grain with any grain which …

21-5838. Conducting a pyramid promotional scheme. (a) Conducting a pyramid promotional scheme is knowingly establishing, operating, advertising or promoting any pyramid promotional scheme. (b) Conducting a pyramid promotional scheme is a severity level 9, nonperson felony. (c) A …

21-5839. Unlawful acts concerning computers. (a) It is unlawful for any person to: (1) Knowingly and without authorization access and damage, modify, alter, destroy, copy, disclose or take possession of a computer, computer system, computer network or any other property; (2) use …

21-5840. Counterfeiting currency. (a) Counterfeiting currency is: (1) Making, forging or altering any note, currency, obligation or security of the United States with the intent to defraud; (2) distributing, or possessing with the intent to distribute, any note, currency, obligat…

21-5841. Organized retail crime. (a) Organized retail crime is any of the following acts done with intent to permanently deprive the owner of the possession, use or benefit of the owner's property or services: (1) Acting in concert with one or more other persons to: (A) Receive, …

21-5901. Treason. (a) Treason is intentionally levying war against the state, adhering to its enemies, or giving them aid and comfort. (b) Treason is an off-grid person felony. (c) No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the evidence of two witnesses to the overt act or…

21-5902. Sedition. (a) Sedition is advocating, or with knowledge of its contents knowingly publishing or distributing any document which advocates, or, with knowledge of its purpose, knowingly becoming a member of any organization which advocates the overthrow or reformation of t…

21-5903. Perjury. (a) Perjury is intentionally and falsely: (1) Swearing, testifying, affirming, declaring or subscribing to any material fact upon any oath or affirmation legally administered in any cause, matter or proceeding before any court, tribunal, public body, notary publ…

21-5904. Interference with law enforcement. (a) Interference with law enforcement is: (1) Falsely reporting to a law enforcement officer, law enforcement agency or state investigative agency: (A) That a particular person has committed a crime, knowing that such information is fal…

21-5904a. History: L. 2010, ch. 136, § 129; 2012, ch. 119, § 2; Repealed, L. 2013, ch. 133, § 37; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived Sc…

21-5905. Interference with the judicial process. (a) Interference with the judicial process is: (1) Communicating with any judicial officer in relation to any matter which is or may be brought before such judge, magistrate, master or juror with intent to improperly influence such…

21-5906. Criminal disclosure of a warrant. (a) Criminal disclosure of a warrant is recklessly making public in any way, prior to the execution of such warrant the: (1) Fact that a search warrant or warrant for arrest has been applied for or issued; or (2) contents of the affidavi…

21-5907. Simulating legal process. (a) Simulating legal process is: (1) Distributing to another any document which simulates or purports to be, or is designed to cause others to believe it to be, a summons, petition, complaint or other legal process, with the intent to mislead th…

21-5908. Definitions for K.S.A. 21-5909 and 29-5910. As used in K.S.A. 21-5909 and 21-5910, and amendments thereto: (a) "Civil injury or loss" means any injury or loss for which a civil remedy is provided under the laws of this state, any other state or the United States; (b) "vi…

21-5909. Intimidation of a witness or victim; aggravated intimidation of a witness or victim. (a) Intimidation of a witness or victim is preventing or dissuading, or attempting to prevent or dissuade, with an intent to vex, annoy, harm or injure in any way another person or an in…

21-5910. Civil remedies; court orders authorized; penalties; pretrial release. (a) In its discretion and upon good cause, which may include, but is not limited to, the declaration of a party's attorney, to believe that intimidation or dissuasion of any victim or witness has occur…

21-5911. Escape from custody; aggravated escape from custody. (a) Escape from custody is escaping while held in custody on a: (1) Charge, conviction of or arrest for a misdemeanor; (2) charge, adjudication or arrest as a juvenile offender where the act, if committed by an adult, …

21-5912. Aiding escape. (a) Aiding escape is: (1) Assisting another who is in custody to escape from such custody; or (2) supplying to another who is in custody any object or thing adapted or designed for use in making an escape; or (3) introducing into an institution in which a …

21-5913. Obstructing apprehension or prosecution. (a) Obstructing apprehension or prosecution is knowingly harboring, concealing or aiding any person who: (1) Has committed or who has been charged with committing a felony or misdemeanor under the laws of this state, other than a …

21-5914. Traffic in contraband in a correctional institution or care and treatment facility. (a) Traffic in contraband in a correctional institution or care and treatment facility is, without the consent of the administrator of the correctional institution or care and treatment f…

21-5915. Failure to appear; aggravated failure to appear. (a) Failure to appear is knowingly incurring a forfeiture of an appearance bond and failing to surrender oneself within 30 days following the date of such forfeiture by one who is charged with a misdemeanor and has been re…

21-5916. False signing of a petition. (a) False signing of a petition is knowingly affixing any fictitious or unauthorized signature to any petition, memorial or remonstrance, intended to be presented to the legislature, or either house thereof, or to any agency or officer of the…

21-5917. False impersonation; aggravated false impersonation. (a) False impersonation is representing oneself to be a public officer, public employee or a person licensed to practice or engage in any profession or vocation for which a license is required by the laws of the state …

21-5918. Dealing in false identification documents; vital records identity fraud. (a) Dealing in false identification documents is knowingly reproducing, manufacturing, selling or offering for sale any identification document which: (1) Simulates, purports to be or is designed so…

21-5919. Performance of an unauthorized official act. (a) Performance of an unauthorized official act is knowingly and without lawful authority: (1) Conducting a marriage ceremony; or (2) certifying an acknowledgment of the execution of any document which by law may be recorded. …