58-2801. License; annual fee, fixing of amount by rules and regulations, limitation, proration for partial year; application; inactive license. (a) Every person, firm, partnership, association or corporation, which makes, compiles or completes and sells abstracts of title to real estate in the state of Kansas shall first secure and hold a valid license issued in […]
58-2802. Bond and insurance requirements; liabilities, limitations; abstracting of certain rights-of-way and easements; additional bond; certain acts prohibited. (a) No license shall be issued to any applicant until the applicant files with the board a bond and a policy of insurance as provided in this section. The bond shall be in an amount established by […]
58-2804. Free access to county records. For the purpose of operating a licensee’s business of abstracting and the compiling, posting and keeping up of abstract books necessary for the proper conduct of the business, the licensee shall have free access to the county records of the several county offices, under the direct supervision of the […]
58-2805. Examinations; notice; fee; denial of license upon failure; second examination. (a) Any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation applying for a license under the provisions of this act may obtain the license by complying with the provisions of this act and by passing an examination conducted by the abstracters’ board of examiners. No examination […]
58-2806. Suspension or revocation of license; notice and hearing. The board, after notice and hearing conducted in accordance with the Kansas administrative procedure act, may suspend or revoke a license for a violation of any provision of this act, upon the conviction of a licensee for malicious destruction of public records, or for fraudulent practices. […]
58-2808. Seal of licensee. Each licensee under the provisions of this act shall provide a seal which shall have stamped thereon the name of the licensee, and the licensee shall deposit with the board an impression of the seal and the signatures of all persons authorized to sign on behalf of the licensee. The seal […]
58-2809. Violations by licensees unlawful. Any licensee who violates any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a class C misdemeanor. History: L. 1941, ch. 348, § 12; L. 1983, ch. 186, § 8; July 1.
58-2810. Unlawful for county officers to prevent use of records. Any county officer who prevents or prohibits any person who has complied with the provisions of this act from a proper use of the records of the office of the county officer as provided in K.S.A. 58-2804, and amendments thereto, shall be deemed guilty of […]
58-2811. Unlawful for abstracters to pay portions of charges made for services. It shall be unlawful for any licensed abstracter to pay any portion of the charge made for making, extending or certifying an abstract of title to real estate to any other person. Nothing in this section shall make it unlawful to pay a […]
58-2812. Licenses not granted to applicants with corporate or business names duplicative of corporate or business names of licensees in counties where applicant to transact business; exception. No license to make, compile or complete and sell abstracts of title to real estate in Kansas shall be granted to any corporation hereafter applying for a corporate […]
58-2813. Prohibition on conducting abstracting business without full-time services of licensee. On and after July 1, 1985, no person, firm, partnership, association or corporation shall make, compile or complete and sell abstracts of title to real estate in the state of Kansas unless such person, firm, partnership, association or corporation is operated or managed on […]
