2017 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 49 MINES AND MINING
Article 4 MINED-LAND CONSERVATION AND RECLAMATION
49-402d Rights saved in legal actions and proceedings.
49-402d. Rights saved in legal actions and proceedings. (a) No suit, action or other proceeding, judicial or administrative, lawfully commenced, or which could have been commenced, by or against the state corporation commission or the mined-land conservation and reclamation board, or by or against any officer of the commission or the board in relation to the discharge of such officer's official duties, shall abate by reason of the transfer of powers, duties and functions effected under provisions of this act. The court may allow any such suit, action or other proceeding to be maintained by or against the Kansas department of health and environment or any officer affected.
(b) No criminal action commenced or which could have been commenced by the state shall abate by the taking of effect of this act.
History: L. 1988, ch. 192, § 4; July 1.
