2016 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 72 SCHOOLS
Article 44 CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION
72-4470b Contracts; indemnification or hold harmless provisions, void.
72-4470b. Contracts; indemnification or hold harmless provisions, void. (a) It is the public policy of the state of Kansas that all contracts entered into by the governing body of a technical college, or any officers or employees thereof acting on behalf of the governing body, provide that the technical college and the governing body thereof shall be responsible solely for the technical college's or board's actions or failure to act under a contract.
(b) The governing body of a technical college and any officers or employees thereof acting on behalf of the governing body shall not have the authority to enter into a contract under which the technical college or the governing body agrees to, or is required to, indemnify or hold harmless against damages, injury or death resulting from the actions or failure to act on the part of any party to a contract other than the governing body or the technical college.
(c) The provisions of any contract entered into in violation of this section shall be contrary to the public policy of the state of Kansas and shall be void and unenforceable.
History: L. 2005, ch. 158, § 7; July 1.
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