Chapter 72 — SCHOOLS

72-2610. History: L. 1886, ch. 147, § 10; R.S. 1923, 72-2610; Repealed, L. 1951, ch. 395, § 74; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived Scho…

72-2611. History: L. 1886, ch. 147, § 11; L. 1905, ch. 389, § 1; R.S. 1923, 72-2611; Repealed, L. 1951, ch. 395, § 74; July 1. CASE ANNOTATIONS 1. Section cited in considering authority to exclude African-American student from junior high. Thurman-Watts v. Board of Education, 115…

72-2612. History: L. 1886, ch. 147, § 12; R.S. 1923, 72-2612; Repealed, L. 1951, ch. 395, § 74; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived Scho…

72-2613. History: L. 1896, ch. 147, § 13; R.S. 1923, 72-2613; Repealed, L. 1945, ch. 290, § 16; April 3. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived Sch…

72-2614. History: L. 1886, ch. 147, § 14; L. 1907, ch. 335, § 1; R.S. 1923, 72-2614; Repealed, L. 1951, ch. 395, § 74; July 1. CASE ANNOTATIONS 1. Child shall not be excluded unless conduct or moral character warrants. Nutt v. Board of Education, 128 Kan. 507, 278 P. 1065. Previo…

72-2617. History: L. 1886, ch. 147, § 18; L. 1903, ch. 432, § 3; L. 1907, ch. 334, § 1; R.S. 1923, 72-2617; Repealed, L. 1949, ch. 373, § 2; June 30. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STA…

72-2620. History: L. 1917, ch. 282, § 3; R.S. 1923, 72-2620; Repealed, L. 1951, ch. 395, § 74; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived Schoo…

72-2623. History: L. 1917, ch. 282, § 6; R.S. 1923, 72-2623; Repealed, L. 1951, ch. 395, § 74; July 1. CASE ANNOTATIONS 1. Norton county without authority to issue bonds for community high-school building. State, ex rel., v. Board of Trustees, 114 Kan. 485, 487, 219 P. 283. Previ…

72-2624. Definitions. As used in this act, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Retirement system" means the state school retirement system; (b) "board" means the board of trustees of the Kansas public employees retirement system; (c) "school year" means either the twelve-…

72-2625. School employees savings fund; state school retirement fund; transfers; uses. There are hereby created the school employees savings fund and the state school retirement fund. (a) The school employees savings fund shall be the fund in which shall be placed and accumulated…

72-2626. Service records of school employees; establishment of membership, conditions. As soon as practicable after this act goes into effect, the board shall receive, verify, and formally validate service records as submitted by the school employees. So far as possible, reports …

72-2627. Same; certificate of service record; failure to file annuity claim. Subject to such rules and regulations as the board shall adopt, the board shall issue to each school employee who shall perform school service after September 1, 1940, a certificate of the employee's ser…

72-2628. Eligibility for school annuity; how annuities paid; life annuities and refund annuities at retirement; employment after retirement, when; effect. Except as otherwise provided in this act, any school employee who has attained the age of 65 shall be eligible for a school a…

72-2629. Computation and payment of certain remaining state obligations; required assumptions and conditions of payment; payment from state general fund. On September 1, 1974, and March 1, 1975, the board of trustees of the Kansas public employees retirement system shall make suc…

72-2630. Disability annuity; medical examinations; return to service. Any participating member in the Kansas school retirement system who has performed school service in Kansas for a period of fifteen (15) years or more, and who prior to age sixty (60) suffers such physical or me…

72-2631. Correction of errors. In case an error has been made and an annuitant has been paid more or less than he is entitled to receive, and other satisfactory arrangements cannot be made, the board, insofar as that may be possible, shall adjust future annuity payments so as to …

72-2632. Deductions from salary; disposition of moneys; how credited. All boards and other agencies of the state of Kansas shall deduct four percent (4%) from the gross salary of any school employee as hereinafter provided. Such deductions shall be applicable only to the first fi…

72-2633. Same; contracts deemed to include. All contracts for school services made after this act goes into effect, and all salaries of school employees set by statute, shall be deemed to include this provision for deductions: Provided, That in any case where an existing contract…

72-2634. Same; permanent reserves; investment; interest prorated. The funds accumulated in the employees savings fund from such deductions shall be handled as permanent reserves. These reserves shall be invested by the investment committee only in assets eligible for the investme…

72-2635. Retirement annuities; early retirement reduction; supplemental benefits for certain retired persons; optional joint annuity. (a) On retirement each school annuitant shall receive: (1) A savings annuity which shall be the actuarial equivalent of the amount credited to suc…

72-2636. Same; increases inclusive of increases provided by K.S.A. 74-4943. Benefit increases provided by this act shall be inclusive of increases provided by K.S.A. 74-4943 and shall accrue from July 1, 1973. History: L. 1973, ch. 287, § 2; July 1. Source or Prior Law: 72-5518a.…

72-2637. Same; payments made under K.S.A. 72-5512a under provisions of school retirement system. Any aggregate payment made to a board of education under the provisions of K.S.A. 72-5512a shall be under the provisions of the state school retirement system on the day preceding the…

72-2638. Quitting service before age sixty. In case any school employee shall quit school service before age sixty (60) (except as provided otherwise in this act) the board shall on request issue to him a certified statement of his service record and his savings account. No refun…

72-2639. Refund upon quitting service, when; return to service. In case any school employee quits school service at any time, notwithstanding the provisions of K.S.A. 72-5519 and amendments thereto, the amount credited to such school employee's savings account, at the option of t…

72-2640. Death of school employee; refunds. In case of the death of any school employee or annuitant before any installment of any annuity has been paid, the amount credited to his savings account shall be refunded to the estate of the deceased unless beneficiaries have been spec…

72-2641. Limitation of actions to recover refund or installment; qualifying conditions. In case no claim or suit is filed for the recovery of any refund or annuity installment due under the provisions of this act within five years after the same is due and payable, the amount of …

72-2642. Audits. The retirement system shall be subject to supervision and audit in the same manner and by the same agencies as other departments of the state. The board shall have authority either to conduct or to require audits of those accounts of the boards and agencies desig…

72-2643. Unassignability; exemptions. Annuities and refunds provided herein shall not be assignable. Any credit due any school employee or any payments made or to be made, as provided in this act, shall not be subject to sale or execution and shall not be subject to garnishment o…

72-2644. Perjury; penalties. Any person who shall, with intent to defraud, make any false statement or falsify any record required by virtue of the provisions of this act or any rule or regulation of the board, shall be deemed guilty of perjury and upon conviction thereof shall b…

72-2645. Ad valorem tax prohibited. It is hereby determined and expressly provided that no ad valorem tax shall ever be levied to provide funds for the administration of this act or for the payment of any benefits hereunder. History: L. 1941, ch. 341, § 28; April 16. Source or Pr…

72-2646. Right to amend act reserved. The legislature hereby reserves the right to amend any section, paragraph, or any and all provisions of this act, as it may from time to time deem necessary. History: L. 1941, ch. 341, § 29; April 16. Source or Prior Law: 72-5529. Previous | …

72-2647. Invalidity of part. If any section or part of a section of this act shall be held unconstitutional by any court, it shall be conclusively presumed that the legislature would have passed this act without such invalid section or part of a section, and the remaining provisi…

72-2648. Income tax exemption of school annuities. All school annuities paid under this act and the act to which this act is amendatory shall not be subject to taxation under the Kansas income tax act. History: L. 1953, ch. 339, § 8; April 3. Source or Prior Law: 72-5532. Previou…

72-2649. Employees in school service one-half time; and employed by a nonschool agency of the state one-half time. If a school employee as provided in K.S.A. 72-5515, is eligible to receive only one-half of service credit in a school year and deductions are applicable only to the…

72-2650. Same; time effective. This act may be applicable to such school and nonschool service performed on and after July 1, 1967, provided the employee remits the required amount not previously deducted: Provided, however, On and after the beginning of the school year 1969 the …

72-2651. Retirement annuities; benefits for noncredited school service for certain special members of Kansas public employees retirement system. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (e) of K.S.A. 72-5501 and subsection (b) of K.S.A. 72-5518 and amendments thereto, any…

72-2661. Teacher's retirement fund; assessments; tax levy, use of proceeds; gifts. In any city of the first class in the state of Kansas there may be created by the board of education of such city a public school teachers' retirement fund, which fund when created, and the managem…

72-2662. Same; disbursement and investment of fund. Such a retirement fund when thus created and maintained or so much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be disbursed in the manner hereinafter set forth. And any surplus of fund not needed for immediate disbursement shall be inv…

72-2663. Same; retirement conditions. Any teacher who has been credited under the rules and regulations of such board of education with an aggregate of thirty years of teaching experience may be retired by such board of education. Any teacher so retired under the foregoing provis…

72-2664. Same; disability or incapacity; reinstatement. Any teacher who has been credited under the rules and regulations of such board of education with an aggregate of twenty-five or more years of teaching experience may be retired by such board of education on account of disab…

72-2665. Same; refunds; transfers to another city operating under this act; payment to heirs, when. If at any time a teacher who is willing to continue is not re-employed or is discharged before the time when he or she would, under the provisions of this act, be entitled to a pen…

72-2666. Same; teacher defined. In construing this act, the word teacher shall include all members of the teaching staff employed by the board of education of such city, which shall include superintendents, supervisors and assistants to the superintendent of instruction, principa…

72-2667. Same; fund kept separate; disbursement. It is hereby made the duty of the treasurer of the board of education of such city to keep any fund arising under the provisions of this act as a separate fund, and to disburse the same in accordance with the instructions and order…

72-2668. Same; exemption of salary and waiver of benefits; time for requesting. After said retirement fund shall be created by said board of education of such city, the salary of any teacher regularly employed by such city shall be exempt from the provisions of this act, provided…

72-2669. Same; rules and regulations. The board of education shall have power to adopt rules and regulations for the carrying out of the purposes of this act not in conflict therewith. History: L. 1911, ch. 280, § 9; May 22; R.S. 1923, 72-1734. Source or Prior Law: 72-1734. Previ…

72-2670. Employees' retirement fund in certain cities between 120,000 and 200,000; definitions. Unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context the following words and phrases, as used in this act, shall have the following meanings: (a) "School employee" shall mean …

72-2671. Employees' retirement fund, unified school district No. 500; assessments; member contributions picked up by board of education; tax levy, use of proceeds; gifts. There shall be a public school employees' retirement fund in unified school district No. 500, Wyandotte count…

72-2672. Phase out of reduction of annuity payments when employee eligible for payments under social security. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), if school employees subject to this act become subject also to the provisions of the federal social security act, and…

72-2673. Employees' retirement fund; certain cities between 120,000 and 200,000; disbursement and investment of fund. Such a retirement fund when thus created and maintained or so much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be disbursed in the manner hereinafter set forth. And any …

72-2674. Same; retirement and payment of employees; conditions; rules and regulations. Any school employee who has been credited under the rules and regulations of such board of education with an aggregate of 30 years of school service to such board of education and has attained …