KANSAS STATUTES AND CODES

22-4913. Offender residency restrictions; prohibition from adopting or enforcing; exceptions; definitions.

22-4913

Chapter 22.--CRIMINAL PROCEDURE KANSAS CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Article 49.--OFFENDER REGISTRATION

22-4913. Offender residency restrictions;prohibition from adopting or enforcing; exceptions; definitions.(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), on and after the effectivedate of this act, citiesand countiesshall be prohibited from adopting or enforcing any ordinance, resolution orregulation establishing residential restrictions for offenders as defined byK.S.A. 22-4902, and amendments thereto.

(b) The prohibition in subsection (a), shall not apply to any city orcounty residential licensing or zoning program for correctional placementresidences that includes regulations for the housing of such offenders.

(c) As used in this section, "correctional placement residence" means afacility that provides residential services for individuals or offenders whoreside or have been placed in such facility due to any one of the followingsituations:

(1) Prior to, or instead of, being sentenced to prison;

(2) received a conditional release prior to a hearing;

(3) as a part of a sentence of confinement of not more than one year;

(4) a privately operated facility housing parolees;

(5) received a deferred sentence and placed in a facility operated bycommunity corrections;

(6) required court-ordered treatment services for alcohol or drug abuse; or

(7) voluntary treatment services for alcohol or drug abuse.

Correctional placement residence shall not includea single or multi-family dwelling or commercial residential building thatprovides a residence to staffand persons other than those described in paragraphs (1) through (7).

History: L. 2006, ch. 214, § 2;L. 2008, ch. 57, § 1; July 1.