60-1202. Jurisdiction and grounds. - Kansas Statutes

60-1202

Chapter 60.--PROCEDURE, CIVIL Article 12.--QUO WARRANTO

      60-1202.   Jurisdiction and grounds.Such action may be brought in the supreme court or in the district courtin the following cases:

      (1)   When any person shall usurp, intrude into or unlawfully hold orexercise any public office, or shall claim any franchise within this state,or any office in any corporation created by authority of this state.

      (2)   Whenever any public officer shall have done or suffered any actwhich by the provisions of law shall work a forfeiture of his or her office.

      (3)   When any association or number of persons shall act within thisstate as a corporation, without being legally incorporated.

      (4)   When any corporation does or omits acts which amount to a surrenderor a forfeiture of its rights and privileges as a corporation, or when anycorporation abuses its power or exercises powers not conferred by law.

      (5)   For any other cause for which a remedy might have been heretoforeobtained by writ of quo warranto at common law.

      History:   L. 1963, ch. 303, 60-1202; Jan. 1, 1964.