Kansas Statutes Annotated

K.S.A. § 60-305 (2026)

Process agents for public utilities

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60-305. Process agents for public utilities. Every individual, partnership, association or corporation engaged in the business of transmission of communications, or the distribution of electricity, gas, water or petroleum products, which is subject to regulation by the state corporation commission, and doing business in this state, must appoint, in accordance with K.S.A. 60-306, and amendments thereto, a resident of this state on whom process may be served. The individual, partnership, association or corporation may revoke the appointment by appointing any other qualified person in accordance with K.S.A. 60-306, and amendments thereto. A second or subsequent appointment must also state the name of the person who is being replaced by the appointment.

An individual, partnership, association or corporation that fails to appoint a person to receive process, as required by this section, may be served under the other provisions of this article 3.

History: L. 1963, ch. 303, 60-305; L. 1973, ch. 134, § 49; L. 1982, ch. 245, § 1; L. 1990, ch. 202, § 6; L. 1992, ch. 67, § 1; L. 2010, ch. 135, § 149; July 1.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1954–2011 · leading case: Mcdaniel v. Sw. Bell, Inc., 256 P.3d 872 (Kan. Ct. App. 2011).

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Mcdaniel v. Sw. Bell, Inc., 256 P.3d 872 (Kan. Ct. App. 2011). · cites it 2× “, a public utility, under K.S.A. 60-305 and, regardless, K.S.A. 60-215(b) does not allow substitution of parties post default judgment.”

State Dep't of Soc. Welfare v. Carlson, 270 P.2d 200 (Kan. 1954). · cites it 2× ““While the guardian of the Incompetent would be barred by the Statute of Limitations from maintaining an action to set aside and cancel the deed of conveyance purporting to convey tire homestead of the Incompetent, yet the Incompetent herself would, by virtue of existing…”

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