Kansas Statutes Annotated

K.S.A. § 65-1114 (2026)

Unlawful acts

✓ current as of May 2026

Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section KS-LEGkslegislature.org JustiaChapter on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

65-1114. Unlawful acts. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person:

(1) To practice or to offer to practice professional nursing in this state;

(2) to use any title, abbreviation, letters, figures, sign, card or device to indicate that any person is a registered professional nurse;

(3) to practice or offer to practice practical nursing in this state; or

(4) to use any title, abbreviation, letters, figures, sign, card or device to indicate that any person is a licensed practical nurse, unless such person has been duly licensed under the provisions of this act.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person:

(1) To practice or offer to practice as an advanced practice registered nurse in this state; or

(2) to use any title, abbreviation, letters, figures, sign, card or device to indicate that any person is an advanced practice registered nurse, unless such person has been duly issued a license as an advanced practice registered nurse under the Kansas nurse practice act.

History: L. 1949, ch. 331, § 3; L. 1975, ch. 316, § 2; L. 1978, ch. 240, § 3; L. 1983, ch. 206, § 7; L. 2011, ch. 114, § 40; January 1, 2012.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1991–2009 · leading case: Berry v. Nat'l Med. Servs., Inc., 205 P.3d 745 (Kan. Ct. App. 2009).

Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment

Berry v. Nat'l Med. Servs., Inc., 205 P.3d 745 (Kan. Ct. App. 2009). · cites it 2× “Under K.S.A. 65-1114(a)(1)-(4), it is unlawful for any person to practice professional nursing in Kansas "unless such person has been duly licensed.”

Golay v. Kansas State Bd. of Nursing, 814 P.2d 970 (Kan. Ct. App. 1991). “act of professional incompetency; (4) to be habitually intemperate in the use of alcohol or addicted to the use of habit-forming drugs; (5) to be mentally incompetent; (6) to be guilty of unprofessional conduct; (7) to have willfully or repeatedly violated any of the provisions…”

— K.S.A. § 65-1114(a)(1) — 1 case

Berry v. Nat'l Med. Servs., Inc., 205 P.3d 745 (Kan. Ct. App. 2009). “Under K.S.A. 65-1114(a)(1)-(4), it is unlawful for any person to practice professional nursing in Kansas "unless such person has been duly licensed.”

Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.