Kansas Statutes Annotated

K.S.A. § 65-2813 (2026)

State board of healing arts; qualifications of members

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65-2813. State board of healing arts; qualifications of members. Five members of the board shall hold a degree of doctor of medicine from an accredited medical school and shall be residents of and have been actively engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in the state of Kansas under license issued in this state, for a period of at least six consecutive years immediately preceding their appointment; three members shall hold a degree of doctor of osteopathy from an accredited school of osteopathic medicine and surgery and shall be residents of and have been actively engaged in the practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery in the state of Kansas under license issued in this state, for a period of at least six consecutive years immediately preceding their appointment; three members shall hold a degree of doctor of chiropractic from an accredited school of chiropractic and shall be residents of and have been actively engaged in the practice of chiropractic in the state of Kansas under license issued in this state, for a period of at least six consecutive years immediately preceding their appointment; one member shall be a licensed podiatrist and shall be a resident of and have been actively engaged in the practice of podiatry in the state of Kansas under license issued in this state for a period of at least six consecutive years immediately preceding appointment; and three members shall be appointed to represent the general public of this state. Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 1992 Supp. 75-4315c, no two of the members representing the general public shall be from the same United States congressional district. No member representing the general public shall be the spouse of a licensee of the healing arts or a person or the spouse of a person who has a financial interest in any person's practice of the healing arts.

History: L. 1957, ch. 343, § 13; L. 1969, ch. 299, § 5; L. 1975, ch. 325, § 3; L. 1976, ch. 273, § 9; L. 1986, ch. 229, § 36; L. 1988, ch. 246, § 17; L. 1992, ch. 262, § 5; July 1.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1991–2021 · leading case: Sedlak v. Dick, 887 P.2d 1119 (Kan. 1995).
Sedlak v. Dick, 887 P.2d 1119 (Kan. 1995). “K.S.A. 65-2813. They are selected and appointed by the governor who, for certain members, must give consideration to a list of three or more names submitted by the interested professional group, but is not bound by the statute to appoint from the list.”
Vakas v. Kansas Bd. of Healing Arts, 808 P.2d 1355 (Kan. 1991). “K.S.A. 1990 Supp. 65-2813. The Healing Arts Act sets out the application and examination procedures for those who wish to be licensed in the healing arts.”
Shine v. Kansas State Bd. of Healing Arts (Kan. Ct. App. 2021). “65-2812; K.S.A. 65-2813. Here, the Board adopted the ALJ's findings of fact in their entirety and, based on its expertise, placed specific emphasis on some of those facts when it reached its decision.”
Sajadi v. Kansas Bd. of Healing Arts (Kan. Ct. App. 2021). “K.S.A. 65-2813. Any licensee under the KHAA may have his or her license "revoked, suspended or limited, or the licensee may be publicly censured or placed under probationary conditions, or an application for a license or for reinstatement of a license may be denied upon a…”
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