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Kansas Statutes Skip to main content 2026 Kansas Statutes Prev Article 46. - ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, NONPROFIT, MEMBERSHIP CORPORATIONS Next 17-4652. Definitions. As used in the renewable energy electric generation cooperative act: (a) "Cooperative" means any corporation organized under the renewable energy electric generation cooperative act or which becomes subject to the renewable energy electric generation cooperative act in the manner hereinafter provided. (b) "Person" means any natural person, firm, association, corporation, limited liability company, business trust or partnership. (c) "Renewable attributes" has the meaning provided in K.S.A. 66-1,184a, and amendments thereto. (d) "Renewable resources or technologies" means wind, solar, photovoltaic, biomass, hydropower, geothermal, waste incineration and landfill gas resources or technologies. History: L. 2003, ch. 81, § 2; L. 2007, ch. 4, § 1; July 1. Prev Article 46. - ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, NONPROFIT, MEMBERSHIP CORPORATIONS Next © 2026 Revisor of Statutes, State of Kansas arrow_upward Top

Kansas Statutes Skip to main content 2026 Kansas Statutes Prev Article 52. - LOCAL RESIDENTIAL HOUSING Next 12-5221. Definitions. Whenever used in this act, the following words and terms shall have the following respective meanings unless different meanings clearly appear from the context: (a) "Bonds" means any revenue bonds or notes authorized under this act and payable as provided hereunder. (b) "City" means any city organized and existing under the laws of the state of Kansas. (c) "Condominium" means any condominium as defined in K.S.A. 58-3102. (d) "County" means any county in the state of Kansas. (e) "Solar energy system" means any solar energy system as defined in subsection (a) of K.S.A. 79-32,169, and amendments thereto. (f) "Governing body" means the city council or city commission of a city or the board of county commissioners of a county. (g) "Home" (1) means (A) a one- to four-family residence; (B) a condominium; (C) a manufactured home, as defined by K.S.A. 58-4202, and amendments thereto; or (D) a mobile home, as defined by K.S.A. 58-4202, and amendments thereto, having a permanent foundation which may not be removed intact from the land; and (2) consists of the land and improvements thereon, located within a city or county and which is either owned and occupied or is owned and is to be occupied by the mortgagor, and in the case of a two- to four-family residence, one unit of the residence shall be either owned and occupied or is owned and is to be occupied by the mortgagor. (h) "Home mortgage loan" means an interest-bearing loan to a mortgagor evidenced by a promissory note and secured by a mortgage, purchased or originated in accordance with this act: (1) Made for the purpose of acquiring a home; or (2) made for the purpose of acquiring and rehabilitating a home; or (3) made for the purpose of paying the costs of rehabilitating or improving a home. No city or county shall fix or establish any minimum home value for the purpose of limiting loan eligibility for a home mortgage loan under the provisions of this act. (i) "Lender" means any lending institution participating in a residential housing finance plan as the originator of home mortgage loans or as a servicing agent for home mortgage loans. (j) "Lending institution" means any bank, bank holding company, credit union, trust company, savings bank, national banking association, savings and loan association, building and loan association, mortgage banker or other financial institution which customarily provides service or otherwise aids in the financing of home mortgages, or any holding company for any of the foregoing. (k) "Mortgagor" means any person of low and moderate income who has received or qualifies to receive a home mortgage loan on a home. (l) "Ordinance" means an ordinance adopted and approved by the governing body of a city or a resolution adopted and approved by the board of county commissioners of a county. (m) "Person" means a natural person or a trust for the benefit of a natural person. (n) "Persons of low and moderate income" means a person or family, consisting of one or more persons all of whom occupy or will occupy the home, whose aggregate gross income including the gross income of any cosigner or guarantor of the promissory note made in connection with the making of a home mortgage loan shall not exceed a maximum amount to be established by the city or county subject to the limitations provided herein, and determined in accordance with appropriate criteria, rules and regulations, approved by the governing body of a city or county in connection with the implementation of a residential housing finance plan. (o) "Residential housing finance plan" means a program implemented under this act by a city or county to assist persons of low and moderate income in acquiring safe, decent and sanitary housing which they can afford. Such plan shall include provisions allowing each lending institution with an office located within the limits of the issuing city or county, or any city or county signatory to a cooperative agreement, pursuant to K.S.A. 12-5231, and amendments thereto, an equal opportunity to participate in accordance with standards and requirements established by such city or county. History: L. 1982, ch. 60, § 3; L. 1983, ch. 71, § 2; L. 1991, ch. 33, § 27; July 1. Prev Article 52. - LOCAL RESIDENTIAL HOUSING Next © 2026 Revisor of Statutes, State of Kansas arrow_upward Top

Kansas Statutes Skip to main content 2026 Kansas Statutes Prev Article 8. - PUBLIC UTILITIES Next 12-895. Powers. (a) Municipal energy agencies created under the provisions of this act may exercise the following powers: (1) To sue and be sued; (2) to have a seal and alter the same at will; (3) to make, amend and repeal bylaws consistent with the provisions of this act and the agreement creating the agency; (4) to enter into franchises, contracts and agreements with this state or the United States or instrumentality thereof, or any public or private person, partnership, association or corporation of this state or of the United States, for the planning, development, construction or operation of any facility for the production or transmission of electricity or other energy or for any common or other service rendered to, for or by such agency; (5) to make and enter into any other contract or agreement necessary or incidental to the performance of its duties and the execution of its powers under this act, including contracts for the purchase, sale, transmission or exchange of power and other energy with the United States or with other energy systems, either privately, cooperatively or publicly owned, within and without the state, subject to the limitations and restrictions provided in this act; (6) to plan, finance, construct, purchase, operate, maintain, use, share costs of, own, lease, sell, dispose of or otherwise participate in any project or any portion thereof within or without the state, including solar and wind facilities, or the product or service therefrom, or to purchase, own, sell, dispose of or otherwise participate in securities issued in connection with the financing of such project or any portion thereof or acquire any interest in or any right to capacity of such project and may act as agent, or designate one or more of the other persons participating in a project to act as its agent, in connection with the planning, acquisition, construction, reconstruction, operation, maintenance, repair, extension of improvement of any project; (7) to borrow money by the issuance of revenue bonds and to issue interim financing receipts or temporary notes in the manner prescribed by this act; (8) to establish, revise and collect rates or charges for electric power and other energy and all other services, facilities and commodities sold, furnished or supplied by the agency; (9) to acquire, hold, lease to and from and dispose of real or personal property which is necessary for the performance of its duties and the execution of its powers under this act and to exercise the power of eminent domain in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 26-501 to 26-516, inclusive, and amendments thereto, in order to construct, operate, maintain and manage electric generating and other energy facilities, power lines and other energy transmission facilities and ways of access between any member city and any electric power or other energy plant or any part thereof within this state, except in no event shall the agency acquire by condemnation any generation, transmission or distribution facilities of other electric utilities nor shall the generation, transmission or distribution facilities of the agency be subject to the exercise of the power of eminent domain by any utility, public or private, or by any municipality; (10) to investigate the desirability of and necessity for additional sources and supplies of electric energy, and make studies, surveys and estimates as may be necessary to determine the feasibility and cost thereof; (11) to cooperate with other persons in the development of sources and supplies of electric energy; (12) to invest money of the municipal energy agency not required for immediate use, including proceeds from the sale of any bonds or notes, in such obligations, securities, and other investments as the municipal energy agency deems prudent, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law relating to the investment of public funds, subject to any agreement with bondholders or note holders; (13) subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 12-897 and amendments thereto, to purchase, sell, exchange or transmit electric energy within and outside the state in such amounts as it determines to be necessary and appropriate to make the most effective use of its powers and to meet its responsibilities, and may enter into agreements with any person with respect to that purchase, sale, exchange or transmission, on such terms and for such period of time as its board of directors determines; (14) to procure insurance against any losses in connection with its property, operations or assets in such amounts and from such insurers as it deems desirable; (15) to mortgage, pledge and grant a security interest in any or all of its real and personal property to secure the payment of its bonds, notes or other obligations or contracts; (16) to pay to each taxing authority within whose taxing jurisdiction its property is situated, in lieu of taxes on its property, the amounts of the taxes which would be payable if its property were owned by a private person, and for this purpose the property of a municipal energy agency shall be valued and assessed in the same manner and by the same procedure as the property of public utilities; and (17) to exercise all other powers not inconsistent with the constitution of the state of Kansas or the United States constitution, which powers may be reasonably necessary or appropriate for or incidental to the effectuation of its authorized purposes or to the exercise of any of the powers enumerated in this section, and generally may exercise in connection with its property and affairs, and in connection with property within its control, any and all powers which might be exercised by a natural person or a private corporation in connection with similar property and affairs. (b) Nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing any municipal energy agency created and operating under the provisions of this act to construct, acquire or operate any coal gasification facility or any pipeline for the transportation of coal slurry, and no such agency shall be authorized to construct, acquire or operate any coal gasification facility or any pipeline for the transportation of coal slurry unless specifically authorized by law. History: L. 1977, ch. 48, § 11; L. 1988, ch. 74, § 5; July 1. Prev Article 8. - PUBLIC UTILITIES Next © 2026 Revisor of Statutes, State of Kansas arrow_upward Top