Kansas
Kansas Statutes Annotated — Chapter 21, Crimes and Punishments
409 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 21-1007 — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 19-825
- § 21-1213 — Unlawful sale, purchase or injection of certain animal vaccines
- § 21-1214 — Same; penalties
- § 21-1801 — Prohibition of prize fighting and wrestling matches; exceptions; penalties
- § 21-1802 — Procedure upon arrest of person about to commit offense; inquiry; bond of accused
- § 21-1803 — Duty of officers when offense about to be committed under K.S.A
- § 21-1904 — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 21-1908a
- § 21-1905 — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 21-1908b
- § 21-2168 — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 21-2311
- § 21-2501 — Fingerprinting and palm printing of suspects; disposition of impressions
- § 21-2501a — Maintenance of records of felony and misdemeanor offenses by law enforcement agencies; reporting of meth lab seizures or dump sites, theft of anhydrous ammonia; reports to bureau of investigation; form
- § 21-2502 — University of Kansas and state departments to assist law enforcement officers and coroners
- § 21-2503 — Fingerprint records admissible in evidence
- § 21-2504 — Attorney general may call upon designated officers for information; forms
- § 21-2505 — Same; nonperformance of duties; penalty
- § 21-2506 — Same; construction of act
- § 21-2511 — Collection of biological samples, fingerprints and other identifiers from certain persons; Kansas bureau of investigation, powers and duties; expungement of sample and profile record; failure to provide sample, penalties; other unlawful acts
- § 21-2512 — Forensic DNA testing; limits thereof
- § 21-2705 — Revisor's Note: Sections transferred to 41-2701 through 41-2705
- § 21-2705a — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 41-2710
- § 21-2706 — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 41-2708
- § 21-2707 — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 41-2709
- § 21-2708 — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 41-2711
- § 21-2709 — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 41-2712
- § 21-2801 — Trading stamps or similar devices redeemable in merchandise or other thing of value prohibited
- § 21-2802 — Trading stamps or similar devices redeemable in cash or other thing of value prohibited
- § 21-2803 — Trading stamp act inapplicable to certain coupons and similar devices
- § 21-2804 — Penalties
- § 21-2804a — Same; penalties for violations of K.S.A
- § 21-2805 — Invalidity of part
- § 21-3212a — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 21-5224
- § 21-3220 — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 21-5220
- § 21-3221 — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 21-5221
- § 21-3524 — Reserved
- § 21-4009 — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 21-6109
- § 21-4010 — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 21-6110
- § 21-4011 — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 21-6111
- § 21-4012 — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 21-6112
- § 21-4012a — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 21-6113
- § 21-4013 — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 21-6114
- § 21-4014 — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 21-6116
- § 21-4014a — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 21-6115
- § 21-5101 — Title
- § 21-5102 — Crimes defined; classes of crimes
- § 21-5103 — Scope and application
- § 21-5104 — Severability; invalidity of part of code
- § 21-5105 — Civil remedies preserved
- § 21-5106 — Jurisdictional application
- § 21-5107 — Time limitations for commencement of prosecution
- § 21-5108 — Burden of proof; defendant presumed innocent
- § 21-5109 — Multiple prosecutions for same act; lesser included crimes
- § 21-5110 — Effect of former prosecution
- § 21-5111 — Definitions
- § 21-5112 — Prohibition on ordering the victim of a crime to undergo psychiatric or psychological examination
- § 21-5201 — Requirements of voluntary act or omission
- § 21-5202 — Culpable mental state; definition of intentionally, knowingly, recklessly
- § 21-5203 — Guilt without culpable mental state, when
- § 21-5204 — Culpable mental state; exclusions
- § 21-5205 — Intoxication
- § 21-5206 — Compulsion
- § 21-5207 — Ignorance or mistake
- § 21-5208 — Entrapment
- § 21-5209 — Defense of lack of mental state
- § 21-5210 — Liability for crimes of another
- § 21-5211 — Corporations; criminal responsibility
- § 21-5212 — Individual liability for corporate crime
- § 21-5219 — Reserved
- § 21-5220 — Construction and application of provisions retroactively
- § 21-5221 — Definitions
- § 21-5222 — Defense of a person; no duty to retreat
- § 21-5223 — Defense of dwelling, place of work or occupied vehicle; no duty to retreat
- § 21-5224 — Presumptions
- § 21-5225 — Defense of property other than a dwelling, place of work or occupied vehicle
- § 21-5226 — Use of force by an aggressor
- § 21-5227 — Law enforcement officer making arrest
- § 21-5228 — Private person making arrest
- § 21-5229 — Resisting arrest
- § 21-5230 — No duty to retreat
- § 21-5231 — Immunity from prosecution or liability; investigation
- § 21-5301 — Attempt
- § 21-5302 — Conspiracy
- § 21-5303 — Criminal solicitation
- § 21-5401 — Capital murder
- § 21-5402 — Murder in the first degree
- § 21-5403 — Murder in the second degree
- § 21-5404 — Voluntary manslaughter
- § 21-5405 — Involuntary manslaughter
- § 21-5406 — Vehicular homicide
- § 21-5407 — Assisting suicide
- § 21-5407a — Encouraging suicide
- § 21-5408 — Kidnapping; aggravated kidnapping
- § 21-5409 — Interference with parental custody; aggravated interference with parental custody
- § 21-5410 — Interference with custody of a committed person
- § 21-5411 — Criminal restraint
- § 21-5412 — Assault; aggravated assault; assault of a law enforcement officer; aggravated assault of a law enforcement officer
- § 21-5413 — Battery; aggravated battery; battery against certain persons; aggravated battery against certain persons
- § 21-5414 — Domestic battery; aggravated domestic battery
- § 21-5415 — Criminal threat; aggravated criminal threat
- § 21-5416 — Mistreatment of a confined person
- § 21-5417 — Mistreatment of a dependent adult or an elder person
- § 21-5418 — Hazing
- § 21-5419 — Application of certain crimes to an unborn child
- § 21-5420 — Robbery; aggravated robbery
- § 21-5421 — Terrorism
- § 21-5422 — Illegal use of weapons of mass destruction
- § 21-5423 — Furtherance of terrorism or illegal use of weapons of mass destruction
- § 21-5424 — Exposing another to a life threatening communicable disease
- § 21-5425 — Unlawful administration of a substance
- § 21-5426 — Human trafficking; aggravated human trafficking
- § 21-5427 — Stalking
- § 21-5428 — Blackmail
- § 21-5429 — Endangerment
- § 21-5430 — Distribution of a controlled substance causing great bodily harm or death
- § 21-5431 — Female genital mutilation
- § 21-5432 — Human smuggling; aggravated human smuggling
- § 21-5433 — Coercion to obtain an abortion
- § 21-5501 — Definitions
- § 21-5502 — Evidence of complaining witness' previous sexual conduct in prosecutions for certain offenses; motions; notice
- § 21-5503 — Rape
- § 21-5504 — Criminal sodomy; aggravated criminal sodomy
- § 21-5505 — Sexual battery; aggravated sexual battery
- § 21-5506 — Indecent liberties with a child; aggravated indecent liberties with a child
- § 21-5507 — Unlawful voluntary sexual relations
- § 21-5508 — Indecent solicitation of a child; aggravated indecent solicitation of a child
- § 21-5509 — Electronic solicitation
- § 21-5510 — Sexual exploitation of a child
- § 21-5511 — Adultery
- § 21-5512 — Unlawful sexual relations
- § 21-5513 — Lewd and lascivious behavior
- § 21-5514 — Internet trading in child pornography; aggravated internet trading in child pornography
- § 21-5515 — Sexual extortion
- § 21-5601 — Endangering a child; aggravated endangering a child
- § 21-5602 — Abuse of a child
- § 21-5603 — Contributing to a child's misconduct or deprivation
- § 21-5604 — Incest; aggravated incest
- § 21-5605 — Abandonment of a child; aggravated abandonment of a child
- § 21-5606 — Criminal nonsupport
- § 21-5607 — Furnishing alcoholic liquor or cereal malt beverage to a minor; furnishing alcoholic beverage to a minor for illicit purposes
- § 21-5608 — Unlawfully hosting minors consuming alcoholic liquor or cereal malt beverage
- § 21-5609 — Bigamy
- § 21-5610 — Unlawful possession of a visual depiction of a child
- § 21-5611 — Unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child
- § 21-5612 — Promoting travel for child exploitation
- § 21-5701 — Definitions
- § 21-5702 — Effective date; scope of act
- § 21-5703 — Unlawful manufacturing of controlled substances
- § 21-5704 — Costs and expenses assessed against defendant for unlawful manufacturing
- § 21-5705 — Unlawful cultivation or distribution of controlled substances
- § 21-5706 — Unlawful possession of controlled substances
- § 21-5707 — Unlawful manufacture, distribution, cultivation or possession of controlled substances using a communication facility
- § 21-5708 — Unlawfully obtaining or selling a prescription-only drug
- § 21-5709 — Unlawful possession of certain drug precursors and drug paraphernalia
- § 21-5710 — Unlawful distribution of certain drug precursors and drug paraphernalia
- § 21-5711 — Factors to consider when determining what is drug paraphernalia
- § 21-5712 — Unlawful abuse of toxic vapors
- § 21-5713 — Unlawful distribution or possession of a simulated controlled substance
- § 21-5714 — Unlawful representation that noncontrolled substance is controlled substance
- § 21-5715 — Treatment of a controlled substance analog
- § 21-5716 — Unlawful acts involving proceeds derived from violations of K.S.A
- § 21-5717 — Uniformity of act
- § 21-578a — Revisor's Note: Section transferred to 68-422a
- § 21-5801 — Theft
- § 21-5802 — Theft of property lost, mislaid or delivered by mistake
- § 21-5803 — Criminal deprivation of property
- § 21-5804 — Prima facie evidence of intent to permanently deprive owner or lessor of possession, use or benefit of property
- § 21-5805 — Unlawful acts involving theft detection shielding devices
- § 21-5806 — Unlawful use of recordings
- § 21-5807 — Burglary; aggravated burglary
- § 21-5808 — Criminal trespass
- § 21-5809 — Trespassing on railroad property
- § 21-5810 — Criminal hunting
- § 21-5811 — Commercial fossil hunting
- § 21-5812 — Arson; aggravated arson
- § 21-5813 — Criminal damage to property; aggravated criminal damage to property
- § 21-5814 — Criminal use of an explosive
- § 21-5815 — Criminal littering
- § 21-5816 — Tampering with a landmark
- § 21-5817 — Tampering with a traffic signal; aggravated tampering with a traffic signal
- § 21-5818 — Trespassing on a critical infrastructure facility; aggravated trespassing on a critical infrastructure facility; criminal damage to a critical infrastructure facility; aggravated criminal damage to a critical infrastructure facility
- § 21-5819 — Throwing or otherwise casting objects onto street, highway or railroad right-of-way or railroad property
- § 21-5820 — Unlawful posting of political pictures and political advertisements
- § 21-5821 — Giving a worthless check
- § 21-5822 — Causing an unlawful prosecution for giving a worthless check
- § 21-5823 — Forgery
- § 21-5824 — Making false information
- § 21-5825 — Counterfeiting
- § 21-5826 — Destroying a written instrument
- § 21-5827 — Altering a legislative document
- § 21-5828 — Criminal use of a financial card
- § 21-5829 — Unlawful manufacture or disposal of false tokens
- § 21-5830 — Impairing a security interest
- § 21-5831 — Warehouse receipt fraud
- § 21-5832 — Unauthorized delivery of stored goods
- § 21-5833 — Automobile master key violation
- § 21-5834 — Sale of recut or regrooved tires
- § 21-5835 — Unlawful acts concerning odometers
- § 21-5836 — Unlawful acts concerning certificates of title
- § 21-5837 — Adding dockage or foreign material to grain
- § 21-5838 — Conducting a pyramid promotional scheme
- § 21-5839 — Unlawful acts concerning computers