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KANSAS STATUTES AND CODES
45-402. Definitions.
45-402
45-402. Definitions.As used in this act:
(a) "State agency" means any department, board, commission, or authorityof the executive branch of state government.
(b) "Local agency" means any department, board, commission, officer orauthority of a county, city, township, school district or other tax-supportedgovernmental subdivision of the state.
(c) "Board" means the state records board established pursuant to K.S.A.75-3502 and amendments thereto.
(d) "Government records" means all volumes, documents, reports, maps,drawings, charts, indexes, plans, memoranda, sound recordings, microfilms,photographic records and other data, information or documentary material,regardless of physical form or characteristics, storage media or conditionof use, made or received by an agency in pursuance of law or in connectionwith the transaction of official business or bearing upon the officialactivities and functions of any governmental agency. Published materialacquired and preserved solely for reference purposes, extra copies of documentspreserved only for convenience of reference and stocks of publications,blank forms and duplicated documents are not included within the definitionof government records.
(e) "Noncurrent government records" means all government records which no longerare necessary for the handling of ordinary official public business by theagency and which are not required by law to be retained in the immediatecustody of the agency for a longer period of time.
(f) "Government records with enduring value" means all government recordswhich merit preservation for historical, legal, fiscal or administrativereasons, or for research purposes.
(g) "Retention and disposition schedules" means lists of series of governmentrecords, prepared pursuant to K.S.A. 45-404 and subsections (c) and (d)of K.S.A. 45-406, and amendments thereto, specifying whichseries of records have enduring value,authorizing disposition of certain other series of records, and indicatinghow long certain series of records should be retained before disposition of them.
History: L. 1981, ch. 331, § 2; L. 1984, ch. 188, § 1; July 1.