2006 Kansas Code - 75-431

      75-431.   Kansas register; filing of certain documents by state agencies; duties of secretary of state; conflicts; original copies. (a) Each agency shall file materials for publication in the Kansas register by delivering to the office of the secretary of state during normal working hours two certified copies of the document to be filed, except that rules and regulations required to be filed in the office of the secretary of state under the provisions of article 4 of chapter 77 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated shall be filed in triplicate. On receipt of a document required by this act to be published in the register, the secretary of state shall note the day and hour of filing on the certified copies. One certified copy of each filed document shall be maintained in original form by the secretary of state for six months after the publication of the document in the Kansas register.

      (b)   If there is a conflict, the official text of a rule and regulation is the text on file with the secretary of state and not the text published in the register or on file with the issuing agency.

      (c)   The secretary of state is hereby authorized to adopt rules and regulations necessary to the effective administration of this act. Such rules and regulations may include, but are not limited to, rules prescribing paper size and the format of documents required to be published by this act. The secretary of state may refuse to accept for filing and publication any document that does not substantially conform to the promulgated rules and regulations.

      (d)   Upon otherwise complying with the provisions of this section, the secretary of state may destroy the original copies of all information submitted for publication.

      History:   L. 1981, ch. 324, § 2; L. 1988, ch. 366, § 25; L. 1997, ch. 27, § 1; July 1.