2011 Kansas Code
Chapter 36. - HOTELS, LODGINGHOUSES AND RESTAURANTS
Article 5. - FOOD SERVICE AND LODGING ESTABLISHMENTS
36-510 Enforcement of act by secretary; contracts providing for enforcement by municipalities, fire marshal or secretary of agriculture authorized.

36-510. Enforcement of act by secretary; contracts providing for enforcement by municipalities, fire marshal or secretary of agriculture authorized. (a) The secretary shall be responsible for the enforcement of the lodging and food service standards promulgated pursuant to this act, but the secretary is hereby authorized and empowered to contract with the governing body of any municipality for the enforcement of all or any portion of such standards, whenever the secretary shall determine that such municipality has adequate personnel to provide proper enforcement. Any municipality entering into a contract with the secretary to enforce such standards shall act as an agent of the secretary in carrying out such duties, and no such municipality shall charge any lodging establishment or food service establishments a fee for services performed as an agent of the secretary under such contract which is in addition to and separate from any fee such establishment is required to pay to the secretary under the provisions of this act. Such municipality shall enforce such standards within such municipalities of this state as are designated in the contract. Any inspection of lodging or food service establishments by officers, employees or agents of any such municipality, and any notice of noncompliance issued as a result of any such inspection, shall have the same force and effect as if such had been done by the secretary.

(b) The secretary and the state fire marshal are hereby authorized and empowered to enter into a contract authorizing the state fire marshal and the fire marshal's deputies or lawful agents to enforce all or any portion of the lodging or food service standards promulgated pursuant to this act. Such contract shall designate specific lodging or food service establishments, or types of lodging or food service establishments, wherein such authority may be exercised. Any inspection of such establishments by the state fire marshal or the fire marshal's deputies or lawful agents, to determine compliance with lodging or food service standards established pursuant to this act, and any notice of noncompliance issued as a result of any such inspection, shall have the same force and effect as if such had been done by the secretary.

Such contract also may provide similar authority for the secretary of agriculture and the secretary's officers, employees and agents with respect to enforcement of all or any portion of the Kansas fire prevention code in specified lodging or food service establishments, or in types of lodging or food service establishments. Any inspection of such establishments by the secretary, or the secretary's officers, employees and agents, to determine compliance with the Kansas fire prevention code, shall have the same force and effect as if performed by the state fire marshal or the marshal's deputies and agents.