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K.S.A. § 22-2505 (2026)

Persons authorized to execute search warrants

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22-2505. Persons authorized to execute search warrants. A search warrant shall be issued in duplicate and shall be directed for execution to all law enforcement officers of the state, or to any law enforcement officer specifically named therein.

History: L. 1970, ch. 129, § 22-2505; July 1.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7 cases, 1993–2016 · leading case: State v. Robinson, 363 P.3d 875 (Kan. 2015).
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State v. Robinson, 363 P.3d 875 (Kan. 2015). · cites it 15× “22-2503 and K.S.A. 22-2505 are read together and considered alongside legislative amendments subsequent to the 1970 codification of the Kansas Code of Criminal Procedure, it is evident the legislature intended that district judges retain their pre-Code authority to issue search…”
State v. Sodders, 872 P.2d 736 (Kan. 1994). · cites it 26× “First, K.S.A. 22-2505 states: "A search warrant shall be issued in duplicate and shall be directed for execution to all law enforcement officers of the state, or to any law enforcement officer specifically named therein.”
State v. Englund, 329 P.3d 502 (Kan. Ct. App. 2014). · cites it 8× “But the legislature also enacted K.S.A. 22-2505 in 1970, which states: “A search warrant shall be issued in duplicate and shall be directed for execution to all law enforcement officers of the state, or to any law enforcement officer specifically named therein.”
State v. Mendez, 66 P.3d 811 (Kan. 2003). “22-2401a was construed to control over the provisions of K.S.A. 22-2505 relating to the execution of search warrants.”
State v. Sodders, 856 P.2d 1360 (Kan. Ct. App. 1993). · cites it 6× “First, K.S.A. 22-2505 states: “A search warrant shall be issued in duplicate and shall be directed for execution to all law enforcement officers of the state, or to any law enforcement officer specifically named thei'ein.”
United States v. Chandler, 18 F. Supp. 2d 1240 (D. Kan. 1998). · cites it 2× “See K.S.A. § 22-2505. The seizure warrant in issue was directed specifically to either the Sheriff of Geary County or to members of the Junction City Drug Task Force.”
City of Dodge City v. Webb (Kan. 2016). “22-2503, as well as specifying the persons authorized to execute search warrants, K.S.A. 22-2505. Then, having exercised its prerogative to generally define the Kansas government's search warrant authority in K.”
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