2014 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 60 PROCEDURE, CIVIL
Article 5 LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS
60-515 Persons under legal disability.

60-515. Persons under legal disability. (a) Effect. Except as provided in K.S.A. 60-523, if any person entitled to bring an action, other than for the recovery of real property or a penalty or a forfeiture, at the time the cause of action accrued or at any time during the period the statute of limitations is running, is less than 18 years of age, an incapacitated person or imprisoned for a term less than such person's natural life, such person shall be entitled to bring such action within one year after the person's disability is removed, except that no such action shall be commenced by or on behalf of any person under the disability more than eight years after the time of the act giving rise to the cause of action.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provision, if a person imprisoned for any term has access to the court for purposes of bringing an action, such person shall not be deemed to be under legal disability.

(b) Death of person under disability. If any person entitled to bring an action dies during the continuance of any disability specified in subsection (a) and no determination is made of the cause of action accrued to the deceased, any person entitled to claim from, by or under the deceased, may commence such action within one year after the deceased's death, but in no event shall any such action be commenced more than eight years beyond the time of the act giving rise to the cause of action.

History: L. 1963, ch. 303, 60-515; L. 1965, ch. 354, § 13; L. 1972, ch. 161, § 15; L. 1976, ch. 254, § 3; L. 1981, ch. 234, § 1; L. 1992, ch. 307, § 2; July 1.