2017 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 40 INSURANCE
Article 11 GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATIVE TO CASUALTY, SURETY AND FIDELITY COMPANIES
40-1134 Title insurance companies; policy requirements.
40-1134. Title insurance companies; policy requirements. (a) Any title insurance company insuring titles to real estate located within Kansas shall specify in any policy issued when the governing body of a municipal or quasi-municipal corporation in which the property is located has filed with the register of deeds of the county or counties in which such municipal or quasi-municipal corporation is located, a certified copy of any ordinance or resolution creating or establishing any public improvement or special benefit district or any other district having the power to impose special assessments upon taxable tangible real property in the district as required by K.S.A. 12-153, and amendments thereto, provided the municipal or quasi-municipal corporation creating such public improvement or special benefit district has particularly described: (1) The external boundaries of the district by metes and bounds; (2) all platted areas block or parcel in any addition, or subdivision; and (3) in all unplatted areas, every tract or parcel not otherwise specifically identified, which is or will be affected by such public improvement or special benefit district.
(b) No title insurance company shall exempt itself from the provisions of subsection (a) by means of a general exclusion in the title insurance policy.
History: L. 1983, ch. 151, § 1; July 1.
