2006 Kansas Code - 25-1309

      25-1309.   Request for examination; fee; machines and operators; employment of advisers; return of unused deposit. Any person, firm or corporation desiring to sell any kind or make of voting machine to political subdivisions in Kansas may in writing request the secretary of state to examine a machine of the kind or make which it desires to sell and shall accompany the request with a certified check in the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) payable to the secretary of state, and shall furnish at its own expense such machine to the secretary of state at the capitol in the city of Topeka, Kansas, for use by him in examining such machine. The secretary of state may require such person, firm or corporation to furnish a competent person to explain the machine and demonstrate by the operation of such machine that it will do all the things required by this act and can be safely used. The secretary of state may employ a competent person or persons to assist him in its examination and to advise him as to the sufficiency of such machine and to pay such persons reasonable compensation therefor and such compensation to be paid by the secretary of state from the deposit by the party requesting the examination. Any amount of such deposit not used shall be returned to the party making the deposit.

      History:   L. 1957, ch. 233, § 3; L. 1972, ch. 332, § 38; July 1.