Kansas Statutes Annotated

K.S.A. § 13-14a01 (2026)

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13-14a01. Definition. The word "duty" or "duties" as used in this act means any act performed by a policeman or fireman for the protection of life or property regardless of time or place.

History: L. 1945, ch. 111, § 1; July 1.

CASE ANNOTATIONS

1. Plan cited; increasing employee contributions without benefit increase impairs vested contract rights in pension plan. Singer v. City of Topeka, 227 Kan. 356, 357, 358, 360, 607 P.2d 467.

2. Whether city's determination of plaintiff fireman's salary for computing retirement benefits was erroneous; salary defined. Galindo v. City of Coffeyville, 256 Kan. 455, 457, 885 P.2d 1246 (1994).

3. Claim that city pension contract unconstitutionally interfered with by statutory changes barred by statute of limitations. Johnson v. KPERS, 262 Kan. 185, 186, 935 P.2d 1049 (1997).


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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases, 1980–1998 · leading case: Singer v. City of Topeka, 607 P.2d 467 (Kan. 1980).
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Singer v. City of Topeka, 607 P.2d 467 (Kan. 1980). · cites it 3× “Ill, codified as K.S.A. 13-14a01 et seq., became effective.”
Galindo v. City of Coffeyville, 885 P.2d 1246 (Kan. 1994). · cites it 2× “In 1945, the Kansas legislature enacted K.S.A. 13-14a01 et seq., which required Kansas cities of the first class to establish pension funds for police and fire departments.”
Int'l Ass'n of Firefighters, Local No. 64 v. City of Kansas, 954 P.2d 1079 (Kan. 1998). · cites it 2× “2d 1246 (1994): “In 1945, the Kansas legislature enacted K.S.A. 13-14a01 etseq., which required Kansas cities of the first class to establish pension funds for police and fire departments.”
Johnson v. Kansas Pub. Employees Ret. Sys., 935 P.2d 1049 (Kan. 1997). · cites it 2× “They were enrolled in a pension plan which the City was required to provide under K.S.A. 13-14a01 et seq. By electoral vote, Riley County (County) adopted a consolidated law enforcement agency under K.”
Moorhouse v. City of Wichita, 913 P.2d 172 (Kan. 1996). “The local plan was mandated by K.S.A. 13-14a01 et seq. In 1961, KPERS was established, arid the Kansas Police and Firemen’s Retirement System (KP&F) was created as a division of KPERS in 1965.”
In Re the Marriage of Sedbrook, 827 P.2d 1222 (Kan. Ct. App. 1992). “131, exempted itself from K.S.A. 13-14a01 et seq., the state statutes governing fire and police retirement systems.”
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