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K.S.A. § 17-6102 (2026)

Specific powers enumerated

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17-6102. Specific powers enumerated. Every corporation created under this code shall have power to:

(a) Have perpetual succession by its corporate name, unless a limited period of duration is stated in its articles of incorporation;

(b) sue and be sued in all courts and participate, as a party or otherwise, in any judicial, administrative, arbitrative or other proceeding, in its corporate name;

(c) have a corporate seal, which may be altered at pleasure, and use the same by causing it, or a facsimile thereof, to be impressed or affixed or in any other manner reproduced;

(d) purchase, receive, take by grant, gift, devise, bequest or otherwise, lease, or otherwise acquire, own, hold, improve, employ, use and otherwise deal in and with real or personal property, or any interest therein, wherever situated, and to sell, convey, lease, exchange, transfer or otherwise dispose of, or mortgage or pledge, all or any of its property and assets, or any interest therein, wherever situated;

(e) appoint such officers and agents as the business of the corporation requires and to pay or otherwise provide for them suitable compensation;

(f) adopt, amend and repeal bylaws;

(g) wind up and dissolve itself in the manner provided in this code;

(h) conduct its business, carry on its operations and have offices and exercise its powers within or without this state;

(i) make donations for the public welfare or for charitable, scientific or educational purposes, and in time of war or other national emergency in aid thereof;

(j) be an incorporator, promoter or manager of other corporations of any type or kind;

(k) participate with others in any corporation, partnership, limited partnership, joint venture or other association of any kind, or in any transaction, undertaking or arrangement which the participating corporation would have power to conduct by itself, whether or not such participation involves sharing or delegation of control with or to others;

(l) transact any lawful business which the corporation's board of directors shall find to be in aid of governmental authority;

(m) make contracts, including contracts of guaranty and suretyship, incur liabilities, borrow money at such rates of interest as the corporation may determine, issue its notes, bonds and other obligations, and secure any of its obligations by mortgage, pledge or other encumbrance of all or any of its property, franchises and income, and make contracts of guaranty and suretyship which are necessary or convenient to the conduct, promotion or attainment of the business of: (1) A corporation all of the outstanding stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the contracting corporation; (2) a corporation which owns, directly or indirectly, all of the outstanding stock of the contracting corporation; or (3) a corporation all of the outstanding stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by a corporation which owns, directly or indirectly, all of the outstanding stock of the contracting corporation, which contracts of guaranty and suretyship shall be deemed to be necessary or convenient to the conduct, promotion or attainment of the business of the contracting corporation, and make other contracts of guaranty and suretyship which are necessary or convenient to the conduct, promotion or attainment of the business of the contracting corporation;

(n) lend money for its corporate purposes, invest and reinvest its funds and take, hold and deal with real and personal property as security for the payment of funds so loaned or invested;

(o) pay pensions and establish and carry out pension, profit sharing, stock option, stock purchase, stock bonus, retirement, benefit, incentive and compensation plans, trusts and provisions for any or all of its directors, officers, and employees, and for any or all of the directors, officers, and employees of its subsidiaries;

(p) provide insurance for its benefit on the life of any of its directors, officers or employees, or on the life of any stockholder for the purpose of acquiring at such stockholder's death shares of its stock owned by such stockholder; and

(q) renounce, in its articles of incorporation or by action of its board of directors, any interest or expectancy of the corporation in, or in being offered an opportunity to participate in, specified business opportunities or specified classes or categories of business opportunities that are presented to the corporation or one or more of its officers, directors or stockholders.

History: L. 1972, ch. 52, § 12; L. 1973, ch. 100, § 3; L. 1988, ch. 99, § 5; Revived and amended, L. 1988, ch. 100, § 5; L. 2004, ch. 143, § 3; L. 2016, ch. 110, § 23; July 1.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1985–2025 · leading case: State Ex Rel. Ludwick v. Bryant, 697 P.2d 858 (Kan. 1985).
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State Ex Rel. Ludwick v. Bryant, 697 P.2d 858 (Kan. 1985). · cites it 2× “17-6002 and K.S.A. 17-6102 and the debt was legally owed.”
Kansas State Univ. v. Prince, 673 F. Supp. 2d 1287 (D. Kan. 2009). · cites it 2× “12, § 6; KSA § 17-6102. Defendants rely heavily upon the law that for purposes of diversity jurisdiction, a corporation shall be deemed to be a citizen of any State by which it has been incorporated, see 28 U.”
Babe Houser Motor Co. v. Tetreault, 14 P.3d 1149 (Kan. 2000). “12, § 6, and statutorily, K.S.A. 17-6102(2), mandated. Because corporations are statutory entities that can act only through directors, officers, employees, or agents, the longtime Kansas rule has been that a corporation may not appear in court by an agent who is not an attorney.”
Anderson v. Heartland Oil & Gas, Inc., 819 P.2d 1192 (Kan. 1991). “60-308(b) reflects a conscientious state policy to assert jurisdiction over nonresident defendants to the extent permitted by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.”
O'Shea v. Welch, 101 F. App'x 800 (10th Cir. 2004). “Although Kansas corporations are legal entities which can sue and be sued, Kan. Stat. Ann. § 17-6102 (2), the only way Oseo can be deemed liable for “causing an ‘accident’.”
MRB v. Sipple (Kan. Ct. App. 2025). “12, § 6; K.S.A. 17-6102(b). Corporations are real parties in interest and have standing to sue if "'by the substantive law, [it] has the right sought to be enforced.”
— K.S.A. § 17-6102(1) — 1 case
State Ex Rel. Ludwick v. Bryant, 697 P.2d 858 (Kan. 1985). “17-6002 and K.S.A. 17-6102 and the debt was legally owed.”
— K.S.A. § 17-6102(2) — 2 cases
Babe Houser Motor Co. v. Tetreault, 14 P.3d 1149 (Kan. 2000). “12, § 6, and statutorily, K.S.A. 17-6102(2), mandated. Because corporations are statutory entities that can act only through directors, officers, employees, or agents, the longtime Kansas rule has been that a corporation may not appear in court by an agent who is not an attorney.”
Anderson v. Heartland Oil & Gas, Inc., 819 P.2d 1192 (Kan. 1991). “60-308(b) reflects a conscientious state policy to assert jurisdiction over nonresident defendants to the extent permitted by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.”
— K.S.A. § 17-6102(b) — 1 case
MRB v. Sipple (Kan. Ct. App. 2025). “12, § 6; K.S.A. 17-6102(b). Corporations are real parties in interest and have standing to sue if "'by the substantive law, [it] has the right sought to be enforced.”
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