2006 Kansas Code - 74-619

      74-619.   Proclamation of energy emergency by governor; findings; effective period. (a) Whenever it appears from an evaluation of conditions in the state by the governor that the supply of energy resources is inadequate to meet the demand for such energy resources in the state or any geographic areas of the state and that the public health, safety and welfare are threatened thereby, the governor may proclaim that an energy resources emergency exists within the state with regard to one or more types of energy resources, subject to approval by the state finance council, by the affirmative vote of the governor and of six legislator members of the state finance council, acting on this matter which is hereby characterized as a matter of legislative delegation and subject to the guidelines prescribed in subsection (c) of K.S.A. 75-3711c and amendments thereto, except that such approval also may be given when the legislature is in session.

      (b)   The energy resources emergency proclamation of the governor shall recite the governor's findings, shall declare that an energy resources emergency exists, shall specify the area of the state in which such energy resources emergency exists and the one or more energy resources to which such energy resources emergency applies, and shall specify the period of time during which a system of priorities for the allocation of available energy resources or the curtailment of consumption of such energy resources, or both, may be imposed. Such period of time may be extended or reduced after a reevaluation of conditions within the state and a further proclamation of findings by the governor which require such extension or reduction.

      History:   L. 1983, ch. 258, § 4; July 1.