Kansas Statutes Annotated

K.S.A. § 65-427 (2026)

Licensure

✓ current as of May 2026

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

65-427. Licensure. After July 1, 1973, no person or governmental unit, acting severally or jointly with any other person or governmental unit shall establish, conduct or maintain a medical care facility in this state without a license under this law.

History: L. 1947, ch. 329, § 3; L. 1973, ch. 248, § 3; July 1.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 1979–2018 · leading case: Cent. Kansas Med. Ctr. v. Hatesohl, 425 P.3d 1253 (Kan. 2018).

Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment

Cent. Kansas Med. Ctr. v. Hatesohl, 425 P.3d 1253 (Kan. 2018). · cites it 2× “K.S.A. 65-427; K.S.A. 65-425(e). As defined by statute, a "general hospital" must provide "physician services" and "diagnosis and treatment for patients who have a variety of medical conditions.”

St. Francis Reg'l Med. Ctr., Inc. v. Weiss, 869 P.2d 606 (Kan. 1994). “K.S.A. 65-427 requires Kansas hospitals to be licensed by the Department of Health and Environment.”

Pratt v. Bd. of Thomas Cnty. Comm'rs, 597 P.2d 664 (Kan. 1979). “Plaintiffs also contend that the defendants had no authority to issue general obligation bonds for the construction of a new hospital without first obtaining a license for the new hospital issued by the licensing agency as required by K.S.A. 1978 Supp. 65-427 and 65-428.…”

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.