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.

• § 21-5840 — Counterfeiting currency
• § 21-5841 — Organized retail crime
• § 21-5901 — Treason
• § 21-5902 — Sedition
• § 21-5903 — Perjury
• § 21-5904 — Interference with law enforcement
• § 21-5905 — Interference with the judicial process
• § 21-5906 — Criminal disclosure of a warrant
• § 21-5907 — Simulating legal process
• § 21-5908 — Definitions for K.S.A
• § 21-5909 — Intimidation of a witness or victim; aggravated intimidation of a witness or victim
• § 21-5910 — Civil remedies; court orders authorized; penalties; pretrial release
• § 21-5911 — Escape from custody; aggravated escape from custody
• § 21-5912 — Aiding escape
• § 21-5913 — Obstructing apprehension or prosecution
• § 21-5914 — Traffic in contraband in a correctional institution or care and treatment facility
• § 21-5915 — Failure to appear; aggravated failure to appear
• § 21-5916 — False signing of a petition
• § 21-5917 — False impersonation; aggravated false impersonation
• § 21-5918 — Dealing in false identification documents; vital records identity fraud
• § 21-5919 — Performance of an unauthorized official act
• § 21-5920 — Tampering with a public record
• § 21-5921 — Tampering with public notice
• § 21-5922 — Interference with the conduct of public business in public buildings; aggravated interference with the conduct of public business
• § 21-5923 — Unlawful disclosure of authorized interception of wire, oral or electronic communications
• § 21-5924 — Violation of a protective order; extended protective orders; penalties
• § 21-5925 — Citation of act
• § 21-5926 — Definitions
• § 21-5927 — Making false claim, statement or representation to the medicaid program
• § 21-5928 — Unlawful acts relating to the medicaid program
• § 21-5929 — Obstruction of a medicaid fraud investigation
• § 21-5930 — Failure to maintain adequate records
• § 21-5931 — Destruction or concealment of records
• § 21-5932 — Defense of actions
• § 21-5933 — Penalties; medicaid fraud reimbursement fund; medicaid fraud prosecution revolving fund
• § 21-5934 — Other remedies available as provided by law
• § 21-5935 — Failure to register an aircraft
• § 21-5936 — Fraudulent aircraft registration
• § 21-5937 — Fraudulent acts relating to aircraft identification numbers
• § 21-5938 — Failure to report disappearance or death of child; penalties
• § 21-5939 — Unlawful acts involving an automated sales suppression device
• § 21-5940 — Filing a false lien
• § 21-6001 — Bribery
• § 21-6002 — Official misconduct
• § 21-6003 — Compensation for past official acts
• § 21-6004 — Presenting a false claim; permitting a false claim
• § 21-6005 — Misuse of public funds
• § 21-6006 — Unlawful use of state postage; imprinting of warning on mail
• § 21-6101 — Breach of privacy
• § 21-6102 — Denial of civil rights
• § 21-6103 — Criminal false communication
• § 21-6104 — Unlawful disclosure of tax information
• § 21-6105 — Unjustifiably exposing a convicted or charged person
• § 21-6106 — Unlawful public demonstration at a funeral
• § 21-6107 — Identity theft; identity fraud
• § 21-6108 — Unlawful possession of scanning device or reencoder
• § 21-6109 — Kansas indoor clean air act; smoking in enclosed areas or public meetings; definitions
• § 21-6110 — Smoking in public places, public meetings and other places prohibited; smoke-free workplace, employer written policy; exceptions, smoking permitted
• § 21-6111 — Posting smoking prohibited signs
• § 21-6112 — Unlawful acts; penalties; retaliatory discharge prohibited
• § 21-6113 — Rules and regulations to assure exemptions from smoking ban are bona fide
• § 21-6114 — Local regulation of smoking
• § 21-6115 — Citation of act
• § 21-6116 — Severability of act
• § 21-6201 — Riot; incitement to riot
• § 21-6202 — Unlawful assembly; remaining at an unlawful assembly
• § 21-6203 — Disorderly conduct
• § 21-6204 — Maintaining a public nuisance; permitting a public nuisance; reports
• § 21-6205 — Criminal desecration
• § 21-6206 — Harassment by telecommunication device
• § 21-6207 — Unlawful request for emergency service assistance
• § 21-6301 — Criminal use of weapons
• § 21-6302 — Criminal carrying of a weapon
• § 21-6303 — Criminal distribution of firearms to a felon
• § 21-6304 — Criminal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon
• § 21-6305 — Aggravated weapons violation by a convicted felon
• § 21-6306 — Defacing identification marks of a firearm
• § 21-6308 — Criminal discharge of a firearm
• § 21-6308a — Unlawful discharge of a firearm in a city
• § 21-6309 — Unlawful possession of firearms on certain government property
• § 21-6310 — Unlawful endangerment
• § 21-6311 — Failure to register explosives
• § 21-6312 — Criminal possession of explosives; criminal disposal of explosives; carrying concealed explosives
• § 21-6313 — Criminal street gangs; definitions
• § 21-6314 — Recruiting criminal street gang membership
• § 21-6315 — Criminal street gang intimidation
• § 21-6316 — Criminal street gang member; bail; exceptions
• § 21-6317 — Endangering the food supply; aggravated endangering the food supply
• § 21-6318 — Creating a hazard
• § 21-6319 — Unlawful failure to report a wound
• § 21-6320 — Selling beverage containers with detachable tabs
• § 21-6321 — Unlawful act concerning alcohol without liquid machine
• § 21-6322 — Unlawfully tampering with electronic monitoring equipment
• § 21-6323 — Refusal to yield a telephone party line
• § 21-6324 — Unlawful possession or use of a traffic control signal preemption device
• § 21-6325 — Unlawful interference with a firefighter
• § 21-6326 — Unlawful interference with an emergency medical service provider
• § 21-6327 — Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act
• § 21-6328 — Definitions
• § 21-6329 — Unlawful activities; penalty
• § 21-6330 — Appropriate orders and judgments by district courts; civil forfeiture
• § 21-6331 — Certain attorneys authorized to administer oaths and issue subpoenas; contempt of court
• § 21-6332 — Possession of a firearm under the influence
• § 21-6401 — Promoting obscenity; promoting obscenity to minors
• § 21-6402 — Promotion to minors of material harmful to minors
• § 21-6403 — Gambling; definitions
• § 21-6404 — Gambling
• § 21-6405 — Illegal bingo operation
• § 21-6406 — Commercial gambling
• § 21-6407 — Dealing in gambling devices
• § 21-6408 — Unlawful possession of a gambling device
• § 21-6409 — Installing communication facilities for gamblers
• § 21-6410 — False membership claim
• § 21-6411 — Unlawful acts concerning animals; definitions
• § 21-6412 — Cruelty to animals
• § 21-6413 — Unlawful disposition of animals
• § 21-6414 — Unlawful conduct of dog fighting; unlawful attendance of dog fighting; unlawful possession of dog fighting paraphernalia
• § 21-6415 — Illegal ownership or keeping of an animal
• § 21-6416 — Harming or killing certain dogs or horses that aid fire, law enforcement, rescue or assistance services
• § 21-6417 — Unlawful conduct of cockfighting; unlawful attendance of cockfighting; unlawful possession of cockfighting paraphernalia
• § 21-6418 — Permitting a dangerous animal to be at large
• § 21-6419 — Selling sexual relations
• § 21-6420 — Promoting the sale of sexual relations
• § 21-6421 — Buying sexual relations
• § 21-6422 — Commercial sexual exploitation of a child
• § 21-6423 — Violation of a consumer protection order
• § 21-6424 — Unlawful use of a communication facility
• § 21-6425 — Misuse of nonpublic sports information
• § 21-650 — Reserved
• § 21-6501 — Extortion
• § 21-6502 — Debt adjusting
• § 21-6503 — Deceptive commercial practice
• § 21-6504 — Equity skimming
• § 21-6505 — Tie-in magazine sale
• § 21-6506 — Commercial bribery
• § 21-6507 — Sports bribery
• § 21-6508 — Tampering with a sports contest
• § 21-6509 — Knowingly employing an alien illegally within the territory of the United States
• § 21-6601 — Construction
• § 21-6602 — Classification of misdemeanors and terms of confinement; possible disposition
• § 21-6603 — Definitions
• § 21-6604 — Authorized dispositions; crimes committed on or after July 1, 1993
• § 21-6605 — Custody of persons sentenced to confinement; notice of modification of sentence
• § 21-6606 — Multiple sentences; defendant subject to or under sentence in federal court or court of another state
• § 21-6607 — Conditions of probation, suspension of sentence or assignment to community correctional services program; correctional supervision fee; correctional supervision fund; searches; written reports
• § 21-6608 — Period of suspension of sentence, probation or assignment to community corrections; parole of misdemeanant; duration of probation in felony cases, modification or extension
• § 21-6609 — House arrest program; eligibility; methods; notice to law enforcement officers; administration
• § 21-6610 — Transfer of supervision of person paroled, on probation, assigned to community corrections or under suspended sentence; transfer of jurisdiction of a person sentenced to participate in a certified drug abuse treatment program; supervision under two or more supervision entities or agencies, consolida
• § 21-6611 — Fines; crimes committed on or after July 1, 1993
• § 21-6612 — Criteria for imposing fines
• § 21-6613 — Rights of imprisoned persons; restoration
• § 21-6614 — Expungement of certain convictions, arrest records and diversion agreements; procedure; restoration of person's right to keep and bear arms
• § 21-6615 — Deduction of time spent incarcerated or in confinement, residential facility or community correctional residential services program
• § 21-6616 — Parole from sentence imposed by district magistrate judge
• § 21-6617 — Persons convicted of capital murder; proceeding to determine if person shall be sentenced to death; notice; trial judge; jury; imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole
• § 21-6618 — Sentencing
• § 21-6619 — Automatic review by and appeal to supreme court
• § 21-6620 — Sentencing of certain persons to mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 25, 40 or 50 years or life without the possibility of parole; determination; evidence presented
• § 21-6621 — Sentencing of certain persons to mandatory term of imprisonment of 40 years; juveniles prosecuted as adults
• § 21-6622 — Sentencing for capital murder and mandatory terms of imprisonment; determination if defendant is a person with intellectual disability
• § 21-6623 — Imposition of sentence of mandatory imprisonment of 40 or 50 years
• § 21-6624 — Aggravating circumstances
• § 21-6625 — Mitigating circumstances
• § 21-6626 — Aggravated habitual sex offender; sentence to imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole
• § 21-6627 — Mandatory term of imprisonment of 25 or 40 years for certain offenders; exceptions
• § 21-6628 — Provisions of certain sentencing rules held unconstitutional; modification of sentence previously determined
• § 21-6629 — Application of prior law and current law
• § 21-6630 — Sentencing of certain veterans; mental health treatment; drug abuse treatment
• § 21-6701 — Classes of felonies and terms of imprisonment; crimes committed prior to July 1, 1993
• § 21-6702 — Authorized disposition; crimes committed prior to July 1, 1993
• § 21-6703 — Presentence investigation and report
• § 21-6704 — Availability of reports to counsel; exception
• § 21-6705 — Criteria for fixing minimum terms
• § 21-6706 — Conviction of second and subsequent felonies; exceptions
• § 21-6707 — Mandatory imprisonment for crimes involving firearms
• § 21-6708 — Presumptive sentence of probation for certain class D or E felons
• § 21-6709 — Presumptive sentence of assignment to community correctional services program for certain class D or E felons; aggravating circumstances to be considered
• § 21-6710 — Fines; crimes committed prior to July 1, 1993
• § 21-6711 — Defendants sentenced to custody of secretary of corrections; judgment form and contents; diagnostic reports to accompany defendant
• § 21-6712 — Order transferring custody to corrections
• § 21-6801 — Citation of article
• § 21-6802 — Basis for applying sentencing guidelines and prosecuting standards; sentencing court to consider alternatives determining appropriate sentence; determination of time when crime committed; law applicable
• § 21-6803 — Definitions
• § 21-6804 — Sentencing grid for nondrug crimes; authority and responsibility of sentencing court; presumptive disposition
• § 21-6805 — Sentencing grid for drug crimes; authority and responsibility of sentencing court; presumptive disposition
• § 21-6806 — Sentences of imprisonment, good time; pronouncement of sentence in felony cases; off-grid crimes
• § 21-6807 — Crime severity scale for nondrug crimes, application to specific crimes; ranking offenses, provision; unranked offenses; unclassified felonies; prior convictions discovered after the plea
• § 21-6808 — Crime severity scale for drug crimes, application; presumptive sentences
• § 21-6809 — Criminal history categories in criminal history scale
• § 21-6810 — Criminal history categories, basis; determination of offenders classification; decay factors; prior convictions
• § 21-6811 — Determination of offender's criminal history classification in presumptive sentencing guidelines grids
• § 21-6811b — Determination of offender's criminal history; severability
• § 21-6811d — Calculating an offender's criminal history; severability
• § 21-6812 — Actions which prosecutors may take under agreements with defendants for plea; exceptions relating to prior convictions
• § 21-6813 — Presentence investigation report; information included; part of court record; confidential information, disclosure to certain parties; report format
• § 21-6814 — Offender's criminal history; admission in court or determined by judge; burden of proof; notice of error by offender; challenge for first time on appeal, burden of proof and procedure
• § 21-6815 — Imposition of presumptive sentence; jury requirements; departure sentencing; substantial and compelling reasons for departure; mitigating and aggravating factors
• § 21-6816 — Departure sentencing for drug crimes; finding substantial and compelling reasons for departure; aggravating factors considered in determining if reasons exist
• § 21-6817 — Departure sentencing; hearing; notice; findings of fact and conclusions of law; order; upward durational departure sentencing; procedures and jury requirements
• § 21-6818 — Departure sentencing; limitations