2016 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 75 STATE DEPARTMENTS; PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
Article 50 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
75-5019 Effect of department's creation on civil, criminal and administrative actions and proceedings.
75-5019. Effect of department's creation on civil, criminal and administrative actions and proceedings. (a) No suit, action or other proceeding, judicial or administrative, lawfully commenced, or which could have been commenced, by or against any state agency mentioned in this act, or by or against any officer of the state in his or her official capacity or in relation to the discharge of his or her official duties, shall abate by reason of the governmental reorganization effected under the provisions of this act. The court may allow any such suit, action or other proceeding to be maintained by or against the successor of any such state agency or any officer affected.
(b) No criminal action commenced or which could have been commenced by the state shall abate by the taking effect of this act.
History: L. 1975, ch. 426, § 19; July 1.
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