Chapter 48, MILITIA, DEFENSE AND PUBLIC SAFETY

48-3048. (KCMJ Art. 95a) Prohibited conduct toward a sentinel or lookout. (a) Any person subject to this code who, knowing that another person is a sentinel or lookout, uses wrongful and disrespectful language that is directed toward and within the hearing of the sentinel or look…

48-3049. (KCMJ Art. 104) Public records offenses. Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person willfully: (a) Alters, conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates or destroys a public record; or (b) takes a public record w…

48-3050. (KCMJ Art. 105) Forgery. Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person intentionally: (a) Falsely makes or alters any signature or any part of any writing that would, if genuine, impose a legal liability on anot…

48-3051. (KCMJ Art. 106) Impersonation of officer, noncommissioned or petty officer, agent or official. (a) Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person willfully impersonates: (1) An officer, noncommissioned officer or…

48-3052. (KCMJ Art. 106a) Wearing unauthorized insignia, decoration, badge, ribbon, device or lapel button. Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person: (a) Is not authorized to wear an insignia, decoration, badge, rib…

48-3053. (KCMJ Art. 109a) Mail; wrongfully taking, opening or destroying. (a) Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person wrongfully takes any mail before such mail is delivered to or received by the addressee, with th…

48-3054. (KCMJ Art. 111) Leaving the scene of a vehicle accident. (a) Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person: (1) Is the driver of a vehicle that is involved in an accident that results in a personal injury or pro…

48-3055. (KCMJ Art. 114c) Firearm discharge or brandishing that endagers human life. Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person willfully and wrongfully: (a) Discharges or brandishes a firearm under any circumstances …

48-3056. (KCMJ Art. 128) Simple assault. (a) Any person subject to this code shall be guilty of simple assault and shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person: (1) Attempts to do bodily harm to another person; (2) offers to do bodily harm to another …

48-3057. (KCMJ Art. 128a) Domestic violence. (a) Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person commits a violent offense against a spouse, intimate partner or immediate family member of such person. (b) Any person subjec…

48-3058. (KCMJ Art. 115) Communicating threats. (a) Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person communicates a threat to injure the person, property or reputation of another. (b) Any person subject to this code shall b…

48-3059. (KCMJ Art. 117a) Intimate visual images, wrongful distribution or broadcast. (a) Any person subject to this code is guilty of wrongful distribution of intimate visual images or visual images of sexually explicit conduct and shall be punished at the direction of a command…

48-3060. (KCMJ Art. 131b) Obstructing justice. Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person engages in conduct intending to influence, impede or otherwise obstruct the due administration of justice. History: L. 2024, ch…

48-3061. (KCMJ Art. 131c) Misprision of a serious offense. Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person: (a) Knows another person has committed a serious offense; and (b) wrongfully conceals the commission of the offens…

48-3062. (KCMJ Art. 131d) Wrongful refusal to testify. Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person, in the presence of a court-martial, a board of officers, a military commission, a court of inquiry, a preliminary hear…

48-3063. (KCMJ Art. 131e) Prevention of authorized seizure of property. Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person knows that one or more persons authorized to make searches and seizures are seizing, about to seize or…

48-3064. (KCMJ Art. 131g) Wrongful interference with adverse administrative proceeding. Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person has reason to believe that an adverse administrative action is pending against any per…

48-3065. (KCMJ Art. 124a) Bribery. (a) Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person: (1) Occupies an official position or has official duties; and (2) wrongfully asks for, accepts or receives something of value with the…

48-3066. (KCMJ Art. 124b) Graft. (a) Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person: (1) Occupies an official position or has official duties; and (2) wrongfully asks for, accepts or receives something of value as compens…

48-3067. (KCMJ Art. 121a) Fraudulent use of credit cards, debit cards and other access devices. (a) Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person, with the knowing intent to defraud and obtain money, property, services o…

48-3068. (KCMJ Art. 127) Extortion. Any person subject to this code shall be guilty of extortion and be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person communicates threats to another person with the intention to obtain something of value or any acquittance, adva…

48-3069. (KCMJ Art. 120c) Sexual misconduct. (a) Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person, without legal justification or lawful authorization: (1) Knowingly and wrongfully views the private area of another person w…

48-3070. (KCMJ Art. 132) Retaliation. (a) Any person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person takes or threatens to take an adverse personnel action or withholds or threatens to withhold a favorable personnel action with the i…

48-3101. (KCMJ Art. 135) Courts of inquiry. (a) Courts of inquiry to investigate any matter may be convened by an officer of a general or flag rank in command, whether or not the persons involved have requested such an inquiry. (b) A court of inquiry consists of three or more com…

48-3102. (KCMJ Art. 136) Authority to administer oaths and act as notary. (a) The following persons may administer oaths for the purposes of military administration, including military justice, and have the general powers of a notary public in the performance of all notarial acts…

48-3103. (KCMJ Art. 137) Sections to be explained. K.S.A. 48-2102, 48-2103, 48-2201 through 48-2208, 48-2301, 48-2503, 48-2505, 48-2702, 48-2801, 48-3001 through 48-3044, and 48-3103 through 48-3105, as well as those required sections of the United States code of military justice…

48-3104. (KCMJ Art. 138) Complaints of wrongs. (a) Any member of the state military forces who believes such member was wronged by a commanding officer, and who, upon due application to that commanding officer, is refused redress, may complain to any superior commissioned officer…

48-3105. (KCMJ Art. 139) Redress of injuries to property. (a) Whenever complaint is made to any commanding officer that willful damage has been done to the property of any person or that the person's property has been wrongfully taken by members of the state military forces, the …

48-3108. (KCMJ Art. 142) Payment of fines and disposition thereof. (a) Fines imposed through imposition of nonjudicial punishment may be paid to the state and delivered to the imposing officer or to a person executing the process. Fines may be collected in the following manners: …

48-3109. (KCMJ Art. 144) Immunity. All persons acting under the provisions of this code, whether a member of the military or a civilian, shall be immune from any personal liability for any of the acts or omissions that such person did or failed to do as part of such person's duti…

48-3110. (KCMJ Art. 144a) Presumption of jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of the proceedings established by this code shall be presumed and the burden of proof rests on any person seeking to oust those proceedings. History: L. 1972, ch. 203, § 48-3110; L. 2024, ch. 78, § 120; July …

48-3111. Delegation of authority by the governor. The governor may delegate any authority vested in him or her under this code, and may provide for the subdelegation of any such authority, except the power given him or her by K.S.A. 48-2501. History: L. 1972, ch. 203, § 48-3111; …

48-3112. (KCMJ Art. 143) Uniformity of application and interpretation of act. (a) This act shall be so construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make it uniform, so far as practical, to make the law uniform with the law of the United States uniform code of military justic…

48-3113. Citation of act. This act shall be known and may be cited as the Kansas code of military justice. History: L. 1972, ch. 203, § 48-3113; July 1.

48-3115. (KCMJ Art. 143a) Use of army regulations and air force instructions. Army regulation 27-10, military justice, air force instruction 51-201, administration of military justice, and air force instruction 51-202, nonjudicial punishment, may be used to effectuate the purpose…

48-3116. (KCMJ Art. 143b) Administrative action not precluded. Nothing in this code precludes administrative action against a person subject to this code for an offense, military or non-military, as allowed by law or regulation. History: L. 2024, ch. 78, § 34; July 1. Revisor's N…

48-3117. (KCMJ Art. 145) Severability. The provisions of this code are severable. If any portion of the code is declared unconstitutional or invalid, or the application of any portion of the code to any person or circumstance is held unconstitutional or invalid, the invalidity sh…

48-3201. Interstate civil defense and disaster compact; authorization to enter into pursuant to K.S.A. 48-3202; text. The interstate civil defense and disaster compact may be entered into in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 48-3202 with all other states legally joining th…

48-3202. Authorization of governor to enter into compact on behalf of state; written agreement. The governor is hereby authorized to enter into the interstate civil defense and disaster compact on behalf of the state of Kansas with one or more of the states which have legally joi…

48-3301. Establishment of department; commanding officer. (a) There is hereby established a Kansas department of civil air patrol which shall consist of volunteer members who are volunteer civilian members of the Kansas wing of the federally chartered civil air patrol. (b) The co…

48-3302. Functions and powers; payment for services, disposition of moneys. (a) The Kansas department of civil air patrol is hereby authorized to cooperate with any agency, authority, department or political subdivision of the state of Kansas, upon request thereby, in the provisi…

48-3303. Expenditure of state moneys; receipt of other moneys; patrol part of adjutant general's office for budget and personnel and other state administrative processes; form of appropriation. (a) The Kansas department of civil air patrol may expend moneys appropriated from the …

48-3304. Effect of act. Nothing in this act shall operate or be construed in any manner so as to change or affect the operation of the Kansas wing of the federally chartered civil air patrol or to change or affect any existing rights, powers, duties or functions thereof or to pro…

48-3401. Definitions. As used in K.S.A. 48-3401 through 48-3405, and amendments thereto: (a) "Active service" means service on active duty performed by a licensee who is a member of the army, navy, marine corps, air force, space force, air or army national guard of any of the sev…

48-3402. Validity of licenses continued; renewal fees and conditions held in abeyance during service. (a) The license of a licensee shall continue to be valid while the licensee is in the military service and for six months following release therefrom. No licensee shall be requir…

48-3403. Payment of renewal fee, time; continuing education requirement. (a) A licensee who desires to engage in or practice an occupation or profession in this state after release from military service shall submit, within six months after such release, but not later than two we…

48-3404. Inapplicability of act in certain cases; license expiration, suspension or revocation set aside; default in disciplinary action, motion to set aside. (a) The provisions of K.S.A. 48-3401 through 48-3405 shall not apply to licensees who during the period of military servi…

48-3405. Lapse in insurance coverage during service, license saved. No license shall be revoked, suspended or canceled by any licensing board or agency for failure to maintain professional liability insurance or for failure to pay the surcharge to the health care stabilization fu…

48-3406. Expedited state licensure procedure if licensed, registered or certified in another state for military servicemembers, military spouses or individuals who have established or intend to establish residency in this state; military spouses exempt from application or renewal…

48-3406a. Expedited state licensure procedure if licensed, registered or certified in another state for military servicemembers, military spouses or individuals who have established or intend to establish residency in this state; definitions; military spouses exempt from applicat…