Chapter 78 — SURETYSHIP

78-101. Sureties; public officers and attorneys ineligible; exception. (a) Except as provided by subsection (b), no state or county officers, or their deputies, shall be taken as surety on the bond of any administrator, executor or other officer from whom bond is or may be requir…

78-102. Surety companies; misrepresentation in application no defense. Whenever any recognizance, stipulation, bond or undertaking conditioned for faithful performance of any contract of duty, or for the doing or refraining from doing anything in such recognizance, stipulation, b…

78-103. Venue of actions. Any surety company doing business under the provisions of this act may be sued in respect thereof in any court of the United States or in the state of Kansas which has now, or hereafter may have, jurisdiction of actions on suits upon such recognizance, s…

78-104. History: L. 1895, ch. 73, § 6; R.S. 1923, 78-104; Repealed, L. 1951, ch. 474, § 1; June 30. Revisor's Note: Later act, see 40-219. CASE ANNOTATIONS 1. Forfeiture of rights does not preclude appeal after sixty days. The State v. Guaranty Co., 81 Kan. 660, 106 P. 1040. Prev…

78-105. Estoppel of company to deny corporate power. Any company which shall execute or guarantee any recognizance, stipulation, bond or undertaking under the provisions of this act shall be estopped in any such proceeding to enforce the liability which it shall have assumed to i…

78-106. Forfeitures by companies for noncompliance with laws. Any company, doing business under the provisions of this act, which shall fail to comply with any of its provisions, shall forfeit to the state of Kansas for every such failure not less than five hundred dollars ($500)…

78-107. Limitation of liability of surety. All persons who shall offer themselves as sureties on official bonds, whether the same be state, county, township or city bonds, may designate, opposite their signature to such bond, the amount for which they are willing to be bound; and…

78-108. Allowance for cost of bond; limitation. Any receiver, assignee, conservator, committee, trustee, executor or administrator required by law or by the order of any court to give a bond as such, may include, as part of the lawful expense of executing his or her trust, such r…

78-109. Bonds of fiduciaries or representatives; amount. In all cases where a bond is required to be given by any executor, administrator, conservator or other person acting in a fiduciary capacity, if such bond be executed or guaranteed by a corporation incorporated under the la…

78-110. History: L. 1927, ch. 294, § 1; Repealed, L. 1969, ch. 427, § 2; 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…

78-111. Official corporate surety bonds; allowance for premiums. When any public official or deputy or employee of said public official is required by law to give bond, the premium of any duly licensed company on the bond of any such public officer, deputy or employee shall be al…

78-112. Individual sureties; execution before officer. That, whenever any bond, stipulation or undertaking given to any county, township, school district, city or other municipal corporation for the security of any deposit of public money or performance of any public contract, sh…