Chapter 65, PUBLIC HEALTH

65-128a. Chy J. Miller's law. The changes to law in K.S.A. 65-116a and 65-128 made by this act* shall be known as Chy J. Miller's law. History: L. 2013, ch. 112, § 3; July 1. * This act is 2013 Substitute for House Bill No. 2183; L.2013, ch. 112.

65-129. Penalties for unlawful acts. Any person violating, refusing or neglecting to obey any of the rules and regulations adopted by the secretary of health and environment for the prevention, suppression and control of infectious or contagious diseases, or who leaves any isolat…

65-129b. Infections or contagious diseases; authority of local health officer or secretary; evaluation or treatment orders, isolation or quarantine orders. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of K.S.A. 65-119, 65-122, 65-123, 65-126 and 65-128, and amendments thereto, and any rule…

65-129c. Same; orders for isolation or quarantine; form and content; notice; hearing in district court; application and effect; procedure; orders for relief; emergency rules of procedure. (a) If the local health officer or the secretary requires an individual or a group of indivi…

65-129d. Same; unlawful discharge from employment. It shall be unlawful for any public or private employer to discharge an employee solely because the employee or an immediate family member of the employee is under an order of isolation or quarantine. The violation of this sectio…

65-129e. Tuberculosis evaluation requirements for certain students; rules and regulations; evaluation criteria; treatment and monitoring of infected persons. (a) The secretary of health and environment is hereby authorized and directed to adopt rules and regulations establishing …

65-129f. Tuberculosis prevention and control for certain students; rules and regulations; prevention and control plan. (a) The secretary of health and environment is hereby authorized and directed to adopt rules and regulations establishing guidelines for a tuberculosis preventio…

65-153. Child hygiene; duties of division of public health. The general duties of the division of public health of the department of health and environment shall include the issuance of educational literature on the care of the baby and the hygiene of the child, the study of the …

65-153b. Newly born infant; treatment of eyes. Any physician or any person authorized by law to act as an obstetrician shall immediately upon the birth of an infant instill into the eyes of such newly born infant a prophylactic solution approved by the secretary of health and env…

65-153c. Same; duty of physician and others. Any physician or any person authorized by law to act as an obstetrician in this state or any other person having the care of an infant, within six (6) months after its birth, who shall detect any inflammation, swelling or redness in th…

65-153d. Same; rules and regulations. It shall be the duty of the secretary of health and environment to make the necessary regulations for the enforcement of this act. History: L. 1929, ch. 218, § 3; L. 1974, ch. 352, § 15; July 1. Cross References to Related Sections: Filing, s…

65-153e. Same; penalty for violating K.S.A. 65-153b through 65-153e. Any person who shall willfully violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred ($500) dollars or …

65-153f. Prenatal serological tests for syphilis and hepatitis b; approved laboratories; laboratory reports, confidentiality. Each physician or other person attending a pregnant woman in this state during gestation, with the consent of such woman, shall take or cause to be taken …

65-153g. Same; how reported. In reporting every birth and stillbirth, physicians and others permitted to attend pregnancy cases and required to report births and stillbirths shall state on a separate sheet accompanying the birth certificate or stillbirth certificate, as the case …

65-153h. Same; misdemeanor. Any person willfully violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. History: L. 1943, ch. 225, § 3; June 28.

65-156. Regulations and fees. The secretary of health and environment shall make rules and regulations for the collection of samples and analysis of water, either natural or treated, furnished by municipalities, corporations, companies or individuals to the public, and shall fix …

65-157. Same; analysis by office of laboratory services; disposition of fees. The analysis of all waters required in the rules and regulations shall be made by the office of laboratory services of the department of health and environment and the fees collected under the provision…

65-159. Abatement of nuisances; failure to remove, penalties. The secretary of health and environment and the county or joint boards of health shall have the power and authority to examine into all nuisances, sources of filth and causes of sickness that in their opinion may be in…

65-160. Same; duty of county attorney. It shall be the duty of the county attorney of each county to prosecute any person who shall violate the provisions of this chapter. History: L. 1907, ch. 383, § 2; March 4; R.S. 1923, 65-160.

65-161. Definitions. As used in this act: (a) "Waters of the state" means all streams and springs, and all bodies of surface and subsurface waters within the boundaries of the state; (b) "discharge" means, when used without qualification, the causing or permitting of sewage to en…

65-162a. Public water supply systems; definitions. As used in K.S.A. 65-163 and 65-163a, and in K.S.A. 65-171m to 65-171t, inclusive, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this secti…

65-163. Public water supply systems; applications to secretary for permits; annual certification; investigation of complaints; municipal water treatment residues; approved by secretary; orders; remedial measures; fees for inspection and regulation of systems; rules and regulation…

65-163a. Same; cessation of water delivery, when; order by secretary, judicial review. (a) Any supplier of water may refuse to deliver water through pipes and mains to any premises where a condition exists which might lead to the contamination of the public water supply system an…

65-163c. Same; public water supply fee fund; authorized expenditures; interest transferred from state general fund. (a) There is hereby established in the state treasury the public water supply fee fund. Revenue from the following sources shall be deposited in the state treasury …

65-163d. Public water supply project loan program; definitions. As used in K.S.A. 65-163d through 65-163u, and amendments thereto: (a) "Fund" means the public water supply loan fund established by K.S.A. 65-163e, and amendments thereto. (b) "Municipality" means: (1) Any political…

65-163e. Same; public water supply loan fund established; sources of revenue; purposes for disbursements therefrom. (a) There is hereby established in the state treasury the public water supply loan fund. (b) Moneys from the following sources shall be credited to the fund: (1) Am…

65-163f. Same; authority and duties of the secretary of health and environment; rules and regulations. The secretary shall administer the provisions of this act and shall be responsible for administration and management of the fund. The secretary is hereby authorized to: (a) Ente…

65-163g. Same; project priority system development; priority list preparation, considerations. (a) The secretary shall develop a priority system for projects, establish ranking criteria therefor, review applications of municipalities for loans and prepare an annual project priori…

65-163h. Same; intended use plan for available moneys. After providing for public comment and review each year, the secretary shall prepare a plan identifying the intended uses of the moneys available in the fund. The intended use plan shall include, but not be limited to: (a) Th…

65-163i. Applications for loans; loan agreements, provisions; provision of technical assistance by secretary. (a) Municipalities that desire the provision of a loan under this act shall submit an application therefor to the secretary. Applications shall be in such form and shall …

65-163j. Loan repayment sources of municipalities; imposition of charges by secretary; maintenance of project accounts. (a) The dedicated source of revenue for repayment of a loan to a municipality may include service charges, connection fees, special assessments, property taxes,…

65-163k. Same; annual reports. The secretary shall prepare an annual report describing how the state has met the goals and objectives for the previous year as identified in the intended use plan prepared pursuant to K.S.A. 65-163h. History: L. 1994, ch. 349, § 8; July 1.

65-163l. Same; authority to issue bonds. (a) For the purpose of making loans under this act, the secretary may either: (1) Issue revenue bonds; or (2) enter into agreements with the Kansas development finance authority to issue revenue bonds. Such bonds may be sold at public sale…

65-163m. Same; bond resolutions, contents; authorities of secretary relating to issuance of bonds. (a) Prior to the issuance of the revenue bonds under this act, a resolution or resolutions shall be adopted which, unless otherwise provided therein, shall take effect immediately a…

65-163n. Same; bonds issued not state indebtedness; enforcibility of contracts, agreements and covenants. (a) Revenue bonds issued under this act, including refunding revenue bonds authorized hereunder, shall be special obligations in accordance with their terms and shall not con…

65-163o. Same; issuance of refunding bonds. Revenue bonds may be issued for the purpose of refunding revenue bonds issued under this act. History: L. 1994, ch. 349, § 12; July 1.

65-163p. Same; disposition of revenue derived from bond sales. The proceeds derived from the sale of all revenue bonds issued under this act shall be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the fund. History: L. 1994, ch. 349, § 13; July 1.

65-163q. Same; income from bonds exempt from taxation. The revenue bonds issued under this act and any refunding revenue bonds authorized to be issued under this act, and the income derived therefrom, are and shall be exempt from all state, county and municipal taxation in the st…

65-163r. Same; bonds deemed legal and proper securities for investment by governmental entities. Revenue bonds issued under this act shall be proper and legal investment securities for any investment funds of the state of Kansas or any department, agency or institution thereof, o…

65-163s. Same; powers supplemental to other powers of the secretary; severability. (a) This act constitutes full and complete authority for the purposes set out in this act, and no procedure or proceedings other than those required by this act shall be necessary for the performan…

65-163t. Same; publication of notice of bond issuance, contents; actions to contest, timing. Prior to the issuance of any revenue bonds under this act and after the adoption of a resolution authorizing any revenue bonds under this act, the secretary shall cause to be published on…

65-163u. Same; general obligation bond issuance authority for municipalities; election not required and not subject to bonded debt limitations. (a) A municipality may issue general obligation bonds for the purpose of paying all or part of any project costs of a public water suppl…

65-164. Sewage; definition; complaints, investigations, orders; administrative review. (a) No person, company, corporation, institution or municipality shall place or permit to be placed or discharge or permit to flow into any of the waters of the state any sewage, except as here…

65-165. Permits for discharge of sewage or extension of sewer system; exceptions; general permits; revocation or modification of permit. (a) Upon application made to the secretary of health and environment by the public authorities having by law the charge of the sewer system of …

65-166. Application for permit to discharge sewage. It is required of public authorities having by law the charge of the sewer system of any municipality, township, county, or legally constituted sewer district, and of each and every person, company, corporation, institution, mun…

65-166a. Fees for administering water pollution control permit system; expiration and reissuance of permits; permits and fees for confined feeding facilities and truck washing facilities for animal wastes; disposition of moneys. (a) The secretary of health and environment is auth…

65-166b. Water program management fund. (a) There is hereby created in the state treasury the water program management fund. The secretary shall remit to the state treasurer, in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto, all moneys collected or rece…

65-167. Sewage discharge; penalties for willful or negligent discharge of sewage without permit or in violation of terms of permit. Upon conviction, the penalty for the willful or negligent discharge of sewage into or from the sewer system of any municipality, township, county or…

65-169. Same; penalties for failure to comply with requirements of secretary. Any person, company, corporation, institution or municipality who shall fail to furnish, on demand, to the secretary of health and environment such information as may be required by said secretary under…

65-170. Director of the division of environment; duties in carrying out the provisions of K.S.A. 65-161 through 65-170. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act it shall be the duty of the director of the division of environment to investigate and report upon al…