Kansas Statutes
Article 2 - Inspecting, Sampling, Storing, Weighing And Grading Grain; Terminal And Local Warehouses
34-263 Liability for care of grain.

34-263. Liability for care of grain. Except as herein provided, a warehouseman shall be liable for any loss or injury to the grain caused by his failure to exercise such care in regard to it as a reasonably careful owner of similar grain would exercise.
History: L. 1931, ch. 194, ยง 41; July 1.

Structure Kansas Statutes

Kansas Statutes

Chapter 34 - Grain And Forage

Article 2 - Inspecting, Sampling, Storing, Weighing And Grading Grain; Terminal And Local Warehouses

34-223 Definitions.

34-227b Rules for operation of grain bank grain.

34-228 Warehouseman's license; application; financial statement; waiver; qualifications; functional unit license fee; storage fee; examination of warehouse.

34-229 Bond or letter of credit; amount; conditions; multiple warehouses; actions thereon; certificate of information, penalty for failure to post.

34-230 License; issuance, when; renewal; posting; suspension or revocation; appeal.

34-230a Hearings; powers of secretary.

34-230b Injunction proceedings; how prosecuted.

34-231 Penalty for failure to obtain license; refusal to reissue revoked license, when.

34-233 Storage in public warehouses; grain samples; weight certificates.

34-234 Withholding grain from storage; notice; penalty for refusal to comply.

34-235 Schedule of charges; approval by secretary; changes in schedule.

34-236 Insurance.

34-237 Drying, cleaning and safekeeping of grain; removal and sale of out of condition grain, notice.

34-238 Warehouse receipts; issuance; furnishing by secretary.

34-239 Form of receipt for storage grain.

34-240 Warehouseman's receipt on own grain valid.

34-241 Transfer of grain between warehouses; form of receipt; procedure.

34-241a Identity preserved grain; definition; form of receipt; options for shipment to other warehouse; charges.

34-242 Same; numbering; required information.

34-243 Definition of nonnegotiable receipt.

34-244 Definition of negotiable receipt.

34-245 Failure to mark nonnegotiable or not negotiable.

34-246 Warehouse receipts; issuance and cancellation; division; consolidation.

34-249a Warehousemen to furnish on demand of secretary information regarding certain receipts and amounts of grain; monthly statement, contents, signature.

34-250 Obligation of warehouseman to deliver.

34-251 Inspection of warehouses; procedures; access; scale tests; confidentiality of certain information, exception; penalty for disclosure.

34-252 Justification of warehouseman in delivering.

34-253 Warehouseman's liability for misdelivery.

34-254 Negotiable receipts must be canceled when grain delivered.

34-255 Cancellation of receipts upon partial delivery of grain liability.

34-256 Altered receipts.

34-257a Lost or destroyed receipts; duplicate receipt, when; form of duplicate.

34-258 Effect of duplicate receipt.

34-259 Warehouseman cannot set up title in himself.

34-260 Interpleader of adverse claimants.

34-261 Warehouseman has reasonable time to determine validity of claims or compel interpleader.

34-262 Adverse title no defense.

34-263 Liability for care of grain.

34-264 Attachment or levy upon grain for which a negotiable receipt has been given.

34-265 Creditor's remedies to reach negotiable receipts.

34-266 Claims included in warehouseman's lien.

34-267 Against what property the lien may be enforced.

34-268 How lien may be lost.

34-269 Negotiable receipt must state charges for which lien is claimed.

34-270 Warehouseman need not deliver until lien is satisfied.

34-271 Warehouseman's lien does not preclude other remedies.

34-272 Satisfaction of lien by sale; notice required.

34-273 Sale of perishable grain or grain that will injure other property; warehouseman's duty of care; liability for neglect.

34-274 Disposition of proceeds of sale.

34-275 Other methods of enforcing liens not precluded.

34-276 Effect of sale.

34-277 Negotiations of negotiable receipts by delivery.

34-278 Negotiations of negotiable receipts by endorsement.

34-279 Transfer of receipt.

34-280 Who may negotiate a receipt.

34-281 Rights of person to whom a receipt has been negotiated.

34-282 Rights of person to whom a receipt has been transferred, but not negotiated.

34-283 Transfer of negotiable receipt without endorsement.

34-284 Warranties on sale of receipt.

34-285 Endorser not a guarantor.

34-286 No warranty implied from accepting payment of a debt.

34-287 When negotiations not impaired by fraud, mistake or duress.

34-288 Effect of negotiation of receipt on previous sale, mortgage or pledge.

34-289 Rights of purchaser for value in good faith of negotiable receipt.

34-293 Issuance of receipt for warehouseman's grain; statement of ownership; penalty for violation.

34-295 Negotiation of receipt for grain not owned or encumbered grain with intent to defraud; penalty.

34-295a Warehouse records and accounts; required information; authorized methods of maintaining; examination by secretary; period to be retained.

34-295b Same; separation from other records; inspection.

34-296 Laws applicable to receipts.

34-297 Effect on prior receipts.

34-298 Penalty for violation of act; revocation of license; notice and opportunity for hearing.

34-299 Disposition of grain upon license expiration; sale of unclaimed grain; disposition of proceeds.

34-2,101 Relation of this act to the federal warehouse act.

34-2,102 Invalidation of any part of this act.

34-2,103 Interpretation of act.

34-2,104 Deficit in grain stored in warehouse or grain handling facility; action by secretary for possession; audit and investigation; temporary receiver; receivership.

34-2,105 Same; no defense in criminal action.

34-2,106 Same; severability.

34-2,107 Priority of owner's interest in stored grain.

34-2,109 Warehouseman's annual statement of depositor's grain.

34-2,110 Warehouseman's annual statement of depositors to secretary.

34-2,111 Grain purchase contracts with delayed payment or delayed pricing; required provisions; standby letter of credit, posted notice.

34-2,112 Voidable sale of grain to warehouseman; insufficient funds check.

34-2,113 Sample of commodity; procedure; powers of secretary.