60-409. Facts which must or may be judicially noticed. - Kansas Statutes

60-409

Chapter 60.--PROCEDURE, CIVIL Article 4.--RULES OF EVIDENCE

      60-409.   Facts which must or may be judicially noticed.(a) Judicial notice shall be taken without request by a party, of thecommon law, constitutions and public statutes in force in every state,territory and jurisdiction of the United States, and of such specific factsand propositions of generalized knowledge as are so universally known thatthey cannot reasonably be the subject of dispute.

      (b)   Judicial notice may be taken without request by a party, of (1)private acts and resolutions of the Congress of the United States and ofthe legislature of this state, and duly enacted ordinances and dulypublished regulations of governmental subdivisions or agencies of thisstate, and (2) the laws of foreign countries and (3) such facts as are sogenerally known or of such common notoriety within the territorialjurisdiction of the court that they cannot reasonably be the subject ofdispute, and (4) specific facts and propositions of generalized knowledgewhich are capable of immediate and accurate determination by resort toeasily accessible sources of indisputable accuracy.

      (c)   Judicial notice shall be taken of each matter specified insubsection (b) of this section if a party requests it and (1) furnishes thejudge sufficient information to enable him or her properly to comply with therequest and (2) has given each adverse party such notice as the judge mayrequire to enable the adverse party to prepare to meet the request.

      History:   L. 1963, ch. 303, 60-409; Jan. 1, 1964.