Chapter 71 — SCHOOLS—COMMUNITY COLLEGES

71-1401. Citation of act. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "community college election act." History: L. 1967, ch. 407, § 1; L. 1980, ch. 207, § 71; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC M…

71-1402. Definitions. As used in this act: (a) "Community college" means a community college established under the community college act. (b) "Community college district" or "college district" means the taxing district and territory of a community college. (c) "Trustee" or "membe…

71-1403. Board of trustees; composition; methods of election; membership prohibited for college employees. (a) The governing body of a community college is and shall be a board of trustees. (b) (1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the board of trustees of a community college sh…

71-1403a. Same; seven member plan, adoption and implementation authorized; procedure; protest petition, election. (a) Any board of trustees may adopt and implement, in the manner provided in this section, a seven member board of trustees plan. The board of trustees may resolve up…

71-1404. Change of method of election. Any community college may change its method of election from any one of the methods which it now or hereafter has to any one of the other methods authorized by this act. History: L. 1967, ch. 407, § 4; L. 1980, ch. 207, § 74; July 1. Previou…

71-1405. Change to district method of election. Any board desiring to change an at-large method of election to a district method of election or from one district method of election to another shall first prepare a plan of change showing the proposed member districts into which th…

71-1406. Change of method of election, how determined. (a) Determination of any community college to change from one method of election to another method of election shall be by either one of the following: (1) The board, by a majority vote of the members-elect thereof, may adopt…

71-1407. Member districts and member positions; numbering; residence of member. (a) When a community college has a member district method of election, the college district shall be divided into two member districts for the two-district method, into three member districts for the …

71-1408. Method of election; when change may be made. Change of method of election in any community college district may be made in the manner provided in this act at any time during the period beginning on the first Wednesday in November of each odd-numbered year and ending on t…

71-1409. Election for approval of change. Upon the determination of the county election officer that a valid petition has been filed as provided herein, an election shall be called and held upon the proposition as provided herein and if the proposition is approved the method of e…

71-1410. Petition for change of method of election; plan of change; approval by state board; number of required signatures. (a) Ten or more electors of any community college district may prepare a plan of change and submit the same to the state board. If any such plan of change i…

71-1411. Same; notice of election; ballots; canvas and report of election. In the event that an election is to be called as determined in K.S.A. 71-1410, in not less than forty-five (45) days and not more than sixty (60) days the county election officer shall make one publication…

71-1412. Terms of members. Each member of the board of trustees of a community college shall be elected for a four-year term commencing on the second Monday in January following election. Members shall serve until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified. History: …

71-1413. Duties of county election officer; dates of primary and general elections specified. (a) Elections of trustees of community colleges shall be conducted by the county election officer of the county in which the main campus of the college is located. In any college distric…

71-1414. Candidacy for election to board of trustees; petition or declaration of intent; filing fee; deadline. (a) (1) In college districts where a district method of election is in effect, a person may become a candidate for election to trustee of a community college by any one …

71-1415. Primary election, when; write-in candidates. (a) In college districts in which a district method of election is in effect, if there are more than three qualified candidates for any member position, the county election officer shall call, and there shall be held, a primar…

71-1416. Correlation with other local elections. Primary and general elections of members shall be conducted jointly with other local elections insofar as is practicable. Any officer or board having responsibility for any other local election held on the date of a primary or gene…

71-1417. History: L. 1967, ch. 407, § 14; Repealed, L. 2015, ch. 88, § 74; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived School Finance Documents …

71-1418. Notices of election, publication. The election officer shall prescribe the form and time of every publication notice applicable to any primary or general member election. One publication notice shall be made before the primary election, if any, and one publication notice…

71-1419. Elections to be nonpartisan; application of other laws. The election of trustees of community colleges shall be nonpartisan and laws applicable only to partisan elections shall not apply in such elections. All laws applicable to elections, the violation of which is a cri…

71-1420. Voting plans. Any of the three voting plans described in this section may be used in the election of trustees. The three voting plans are: (a) Voting plan-A: All qualified electors who reside in the college district may vote in both the primary and general elections of t…

71-1421. History: L. 1967, ch. 378, § 1; Repealed, L. 1980, ch. 207, § 84; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived School Finance Documents …

71-1422. Board of trustees of Cowley county community college; additional member from Sumner county authorized; elections; candidacy; terms; financial support contingency. (a) As used in this section: (1) "Cowley county community college district" means the taxing district of Cow…

[Repealed or reserved.]

71-1501. History: L. 1965, ch. 417, § 30; Repealed, L. 1980, ch. 207, § 84; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived School Finance Documents…

71-1502. Retention of retirement benefits; Kansas school retirement law. All employees of the community college who may have been employed by a board of education and who were included in a retirement system of such board shall retain all rights, privileges and obligations of suc…

71-1503. Severability of 1965 act. If any clause, paragraph, subsection or section of this act shall be held invalid or unconstitutional it shall be conclusively presumed that the legislature would have enacted the remainder of this act without such invalid or unconstitutional cl…

71-1504. Severability of 1968 act. If any clause, paragraph, subsection or section of this act shall be held invalid or unconstitutional it shall be conclusively presumed that the legislature would have enacted the remainder of this act without such invalid or unconstitutional cl…

71-1505. History: L. 1968, ch. 31, § 1; Repealed, L. 1980, ch. 207, § 84; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived School Finance Documents U…

71-1506. History: L. 1968, ch. 32, § 1; Repealed, L. 1973, ch. 277, § 1; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived School Finance Documents US…

71-1507. Career technical education programs; agreements for transfers authorized, conditions. (a) The board of trustees of any community college and the board of any technical college or the institute of technology at Washburn university, may make and enter into agreements provi…

71-1508. Motorcycle driver safety; fund, sources, use; state entitlements for courses disallowed. (a) There is hereby established in every community college conducting a motorcycle driver safety course a fund which shall be called the motorcycle driver safety fund. The motorcycle…

71-1509. Truck driver training courses at community colleges; establishing truck driver training course fund. (a) There is hereby established in every community college conducting a truck driver training course a fund which shall be called the "truck driver training course fund."…

71-1510. Hutchinson community college authorized to acquire certain land and construct public radio repeater station. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the board of trustees of Hutchinson community college is authorized to acquire land which is located in Bart…

71-1601. Student insurance; personal property, loss, theft, damage; purchase authorized. The board of trustees of any community college may purchase insurance contracts for the benefit of students, to insure against loss resulting from loss, theft of, or damage to, the personal p…

71-1602. Same; sickness, bodily injury, accidental death; authorization to purchase. The board of trustees of any community college may purchase insurance contracts to insure against loss resulting from sickness or bodily injury or death by accident, on the part of students who a…

71-1701. Authorization to consolidate; approval by state board of regents required, when; operation, management and control of community college not affected; applicability of statutes. (a) Any area vocational school or area vocational-technical school may consolidate with and be…

71-1702. Agreements; required provisions; notification of state board of regents; review and approval; conflict resolution. (a) The governing body of an area vocational school or area vocational-technical school which is consolidated with and made a part of a community college in…

71-1703. Advisory boards, establishment upon consolidation, duties, meetings; program area advisory councils, appointment, qualifications, terms. Upon execution of each consolidation agreement entered into under this act: (a) The governing body of the affected area vocational sch…

71-1704. Judicial, administrative and criminal actions; rights preserved. (a) No suit, action or other proceeding, judicial or administrative, lawfully commenced, or which could have been commenced, by or against any area vocational school or area vocational-technical school cons…

71-1705. History: L. 1992, ch. 248, § 5; L. 1999, ch. 147, § 54; L. 2002, ch. 108, § 19; L. 2003, ch. 35, § 19; Revived and amended, L. 2004, ch. 185, § 46; Expired, June 30, 2006. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archi…

71-1706. History: L. 1992, ch. 248, § 6; Repealed, L. 2011, ch. 97, § 50; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived School Finance Documents U…

71-1801. Postsecondary tiered technical education state aid act; citation. K.S.A. 71-1801 through 71-1810, and amendments thereto, shall be known and may be cited as the postsecondary tiered technical education state aid act. History: L. 2011, ch. 97, § 1; July 1. Previous | Next…

71-1802. Same; definitions. As used in K.S.A. 71-1801 through 71-1810, and amendments thereto: (a) "Community college" means any community college established in accordance with chapter 71 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated. (b) "Community college operating grant" means the operati…

71-1803. Same; eligibility for state aid; determination of residency. (a) In each fiscal year, commencing with the 2012 fiscal year, each community college, technical college and the Washburn institute of technology is eligible for postsecondary tiered technical education state a…

71-1804. Same; certification of information provided. In accordance with deadlines established and published by the state board of regents, the chief administrative officer of each eligible institution shall certify under oath to the state board any information the state board de…

71-1805. Same; distribution, when; credit to appropriate fund. One-half of the distribution of the appropriation for postsecondary tiered technical education state aid shall be made on August 1, and the remaining one-half shall be made on January 1 of each fiscal year, or as soon…

71-1806. Same; no state aid for certain credit hours. No amount of postsecondary tiered technical education state aid shall be based upon any credit hour for which the eligible institution is receiving or eligible to receive state aid for non-tiered course credit hours. History: …

71-1807. Same; failure to comply with law, penalty. At any time, if the state board of regents finds that an eligible institution previously approved or deemed approved has failed to comply with the provisions of K.S.A. 71-1801 through 71-1810, and amendments thereto, or with any…

71-1808. Same; establishment of funds for deposit of state aid; use of money; accounting procedures. (a) There is hereby established a postsecondary technical education fund in each community college and at Washburn university for the Washburn institute of technology. All moneys …