2006 Kansas Code - 21-4217

      21-4217.   Criminal discharge of a firearm. (a) Criminal discharge of a firearm is the discharge of any firearm:

      (1)   Upon any land or nonnavigable body of water of another, without having obtained permission of the owner or person in possession of such land; or

      (2)   upon or from any public road, public road right-of-way or railroad right-of-way that adjoins land of another without having first obtained permission of the owner or person in possession of such land.

      (b)   This section shall not apply to any of the following:

      (1)   Law enforcement officers, or any person summoned by any such officers to assist in making arrests or preserving the peace while actually engaged in assisting such officer;

      (2)   wardens, superintendents, directors, security personnel and keepers of prisons, penitentiaries, jails and other institutions for the detention of persons accused or convicted of crime, while acting within the scope of their authority;

      (3)   members of the armed services or reserve forces of the United States or the national guard while in the performance of their official duty;

      (4)   watchmen, while actually engaged in the performance of the duties of their employment;

      (5)   private detectives licensed by the state to carry the firearm involved, while actually engaged in the duties of their employment;

      (6)   detectives or special agents regularly employed by railroad companies or other corporations to perform full-time security or investigative service, while actually engaged in the duties of their employment; or

      (7)   the state fire marshal, the state fire marshal's deputies or any member of a fire department authorized to carry a firearm pursuant to K.S.A. 31-157 and amendments thereto, while engaged in an investigation in which such fire marshal, deputy or member is authorized to carry a firearm pursuant to K.S.A. 31-157 and amendments thereto.

      (c)   Criminal discharge of a firearm is a class C misdemeanor.

      History:   L. 1986, ch. 126, § 2; L. 1992, ch. 298, § 73; July 1, 1993.