Citation of act; claims to which act applicable; act applicable to municipalities
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Ledbetter v. City of Topeka (2003)
Most recently applied in Perez v. Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City (December 2005)
L. 1979, ch. 186, § 1; July 1.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) K.S.A. 75-6101 to 75-6115 , inclusive, shall be known and may be cited as the Kansas tort claims act.
(b) The Kansas tort claims act shall be applicable to claims arising from acts or omissions occurring on and after the effective date of this act.
(c) Municipalities may not exempt themselves from the provisions of the Kansas tort claims act by charter ordinance, charter resolution or other action.
Official source: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Kansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.