2009 Kansas Code
Chapter 77 STATUTES; ADMINISTRATIVE RULES AND REGULATIONS AND PROCEDURE
Article 4 RULES AND REGULATIONS
77-435. Editing of rules and regulations by secretary of state.

77-435

Chapter 77.--STATUTES; ADMINISTRATIVE RULES AND REGULATIONS AND PROCEDURE Article 4.--RULES AND REGULATIONS

      77-435.   Editing of rules and regulations by secretary of state. In publishing the material in the Kansas administrative regulations and latest supplements thereto, the secretary of state shall not alter the sense, meaning or effect of any rule and regulation but may correct manifest orthographical, clerical or typographical errors and may edit the rules and regulations in the following manner:

      (a)   By inserting the correct references in lieu of any internal cross-references to session laws or other outdated statutory references or outdated references to other rules and regulations sections.

      (b)   By changing descriptive-subject-word headings of sections, subsections or subparts of a rule and regulation in order to briefly and clearly indicate the subject matter of such sections.

      (c)   Wherever a board, commission, commissioner, department or other agency or officer of the state government has been abolished by statute and the powers, duties and jurisdiction thereof transferred to some other board, commission, commissioner, department or other agency or officer now in existence, the secretary of state may edit the rules and regulations affected thereby by striking out the name of the abolished board, commission, commissioner, department or other agency or officer and inserting in lieu thereof the name of the proper board, commission, commissioner, department or other agency or officer.

      (d)   Where a pronoun of only masculine or only feminine gender appears a pronoun of the opposite gender may be added, or language may be changed for the same purpose, so long as the opening limitation of this section is not violated.

      (e)   By striking the word "that" wherever it appears as the first word of any section in the Kansas administrative regulations or the latest supplement thereto.

      (f)   By correcting doublets.

      The secretary of state may submit to the state rules and regulations board, for the board's approval, any proposed changes made pursuant to the provisions of this section. No change made pursuant to the provisions of this section shall effect any change in the substantive meaning of the rule and regulation section, and any error made by the secretary of state in editing the rules and regulations as authorized by this section shall be construed as a clerical error only.

      History:   L. 1977, ch. 321, § 15; L. 1988, ch. 366, § 43; L. 1998, ch. 82, § 3; July 1.