Kansas Statutes
Article 14 - Tourism
32-1403 Division of tourism development; powers.

32-1403. Division of tourism development; powers. The division of tourism of the Kansas department of wildlife, parks and tourism is hereby authorized and empowered to:
(a) Encourage and promote the traveling public to visit this state by publicizing information as to the recreational, historic and natural advantages of the state and its facilities for transient travel and to contract with organizations for the purpose of promoting tourism within the state;
(b) request other state agencies such as, but not limited to, the Kansas water office the department of commerce and the department of transportation, for assistance and all such agencies shall coordinate information and their respective efforts with the department to most efficiently and economically carry out the purpose and intent of this subsection; and
(c) solicit and receive moneys from any public or private source and administer a program of matching grants to provide assistance to those entities described in K.S.A. 32-1420, and amendments thereto, in the promotion of tourism and the development of quality tourist attractions in this state.
History: L. 1982, ch. 340, § 1; L. 1985, ch. 256, § 14; L. 1986, ch. 296, § 15; L. 2012, ch. 47, § 97; July 1.

Structure Kansas Statutes

Kansas Statutes

Chapter 32 - Wildlife, Parks And Recreation

Article 14 - Tourism

32-1401 Contracts for promotional advertising services; bidding exemption.

32-1402 Division of tourism, establishment, administration and purpose; director of tourism, appointment, authority and compensation.

32-1403 Division of tourism development; powers.

32-1410 Establishment; composition, voting and nonvoting members; terms, vacancies; chairperson and vice-chairperson; meetings; quorum; travel expenses, sources.

32-1411 Duties; reports.

32-1412 State tourism fund, establishment, administration, expenditures, budget estimates; legislative approval of itemized expenditures.

32-1413 Same; oversight, inclusion of expenditures in department of commerce budget.

32-1420 Matching grant program to assist tourism and tourist attractions development; eligibility; administration by secretary; rules and regulations.

32-1421 Kansas tourist attraction evaluation committee; composition; organization; powers and duties.

32-1422 Kansas tourist attraction matching grant development fund; administration; authorized uses; interest earned transferred from general fund.

32-1430 Citation of act.

32-1431 Purpose.

32-1432 Definitions.

32-1433 Registration of agritourism operators.

32-1434 Warning notice requirements.

32-1435 Assumption of risk by participant; pleading.

32-1436 Liability of operator.

32-1437 Same; limitation of.

32-1438 Kansas income tax credit allowed for certain costs of liability insurance for corporations; report to legislature.