2009 Kansas Code
Chapter 60 PROCEDURE, CIVIL
Article 12 QUO WARRANTO
60-1202. Jurisdiction and grounds.

60-1202

Chapter 60.--PROCEDURE, CIVIL
Article 12.--QUO WARRANTO

      60-1202.   Jurisdiction and grounds. Such action may be brought in the supreme court or in the district court in the following cases:

      (1)   When any person shall usurp, intrude into or unlawfully hold or exercise any public office, or shall claim any franchise within this state, or any office in any corporation created by authority of this state.

      (2)   Whenever any public officer shall have done or suffered any act which by the provisions of law shall work a forfeiture of his or her office.

      (3)   When any association or number of persons shall act within this state as a corporation, without being legally incorporated.

      (4)   When any corporation does or omits acts which amount to a surrender or a forfeiture of its rights and privileges as a corporation, or when any corporation abuses its power or exercises powers not conferred by law.

      (5)   For any other cause for which a remedy might have been heretofore obtained by writ of quo warranto at common law.

      History:   L. 1963, ch. 303, 60-1202; Jan. 1, 1964.

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