2006 Kansas Code - 76-3201

      76-3201.   Appointment of superintendents and directors; compensation; acting superintendents and directors. On and after July 1, 1997, the commissioner shall appoint the superintendents of the Atchison juvenile correctional facility, the Beloit juvenile correctional facility, the Topeka juvenile correctional facility and the Larned juvenile correctional facility. On and after July 1, 2003, the commissioner shall appoint the superintendent of the Kansas juvenile correctional complex. Superintendents shall be in the unclassified service under the Kansas civil service act. A superintendent may be removed at any time by the commissioner. Each superintendent shall receive an annual salary fixed by the commissioner, with the approval of the governor. The commissioner may appoint an acting superintendent for any institution which has a superintendent to serve temporarily until a vacancy is filled. Acting superintendents shall have the same powers, duties and functions as superintendents.

      History:   L. 1996, ch. 229, § 4; L. 1997, ch. 156, § 112; L. 2003, ch. 72, § 6; July 1.