2009 Kansas Code
Chapter 21 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
Article 38 CRIMES AFFECTING GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTIONS
21-3826. Traffic in contraband in a correctional institution.

21-3826

Chapter 21.--CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS PART II.--PROHIBITED CONDUCT Article 38.--CRIMES AFFECTING GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTIONS

      21-3826.   Traffic in contraband in a correctional institution. (a) Traffic in contraband in a correctional institution or care and treatment facility is introducing or attempting to introduce into or upon the grounds of any correctional institution or care and treatment facility or taking, sending, attempting to take or attempting to send from any correctional institution or care and treatment facility or any unauthorized possession while in any correctional institution or care and treatment facility or distributing within any correctional institution or care and treatment facility, any item without the consent of the administrator of the correctional institution or care and treatment facility.

      (b)   For purposes of this section:

      (1)   "Correctional institution" means any state correctional institution or facility, conservation camp, juvenile correctional facility, community correction center or facility for detention or confinement, juvenile detention facility or jail.

      (2)   "Care and treatment facility" means the state security hospital provided for under K.S.A. 76-1305 et seq., and amendments thereto, and a facility operated by the department of social and rehabilitation services for the purposes provided for under K.S.A. 59-29a02 et seq., and amendments thereto.

      (c) (1)   Traffic in contraband in a correctional institution or care and treatment facility of firearms, ammunition, explosives or a controlled substance which is defined in K.S.A. 2009 Supp. 21-36a01, and amendments thereto, is a severity level 5, nonperson felony. This paragraph shall not apply to the possession of a firearm or ammunition by a person licensed under the personal and family protection act, K.S.A. 75-7c01 et seq., and amendments thereto, in a parking lot open to the public if the firearm or ammunition is carried on the person while in a vehicle or while securing the firearm or ammunition in the vehicle, or stored out of plain view in a locked but unoccupied vehicle.

      (2)   Traffic in any contraband, as defined by rules and regulations adopted by the secretary, in a correctional institution by an employee of a correctional institution is a severity level 5, nonperson felony.

      (3)   Traffic in any contraband, as defined by rules and regulations adopted by the secretary of social and rehabilitation services, in a care and treatment facility by an employee of a care and treatment facility is a severity level 5, nonperson felony.

      (d)   Except as provided in subsection (c), traffic in contraband in a correctional institution or care and treatment facility is a severity level 6, nonperson felony.

      History:   L. 1969, ch. 180, § 21-3826; L. 1970, ch. 127, § 1; L. 1992, ch. 298, § 58; L. 1993, ch. 291, § 117; L. 1997, ch. 179, § 2; L. 1997, ch. 179, § 3; L. 2009, ch. 88, § 1; L. 2009, ch. 143, § 10; July 1.