59-2123. Certain advertisements and offers relating to adopting and placing children prohibited; licensure of person placing advertisement; definitions. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section:
(1) Any person who advertises that such person will provide adoption-related services or adopt, find an adoptive home for a child or otherwise place a child for adoption shall state in such advertisement whether or not such person is licensed and if licensed, under what authority such license is issued and in what profession;
(2) no person shall offer to adopt, find a home for or otherwise place a child as an inducement to a woman to come to such person's maternity center during pregnancy or after delivery; and
(3) no person shall offer to adopt, find a home for or otherwise place a child as an inducement to any parent, guardian or custodian of a child to place such child in such person's home, institution or establishment.
(b) The provisions of subsection (a)(1) shall not apply to the Kansas department for children and families or to an individual seeking to adopt a child. The provisions of subsection (a)(3) shall not apply to the Kansas department for children and families, an individual seeking to adopt a child, an agency or an attorney.
(c) As used in this section:
(1) "Advertise" means to communicate by newspaper, radio, television, handbills, placards or other print, broadcast, telephone directory or electronic medium.
(2) "Person" means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, joint venture or other association or entity.
(3) "Maternity center" means the same as provided in K.S.A. 65-503, and amendments thereto.
(d) Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an unclassified misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $1,000 for each violation.
History: L. 1990, ch. 145, § 13; L. 1994, ch. 279, § 3; L. 2008, ch. 140, § 1; L. 2014, ch. 115, § 202; L. 2018, ch. 118, § 10; July 1.
Structure Kansas Statutes
59-2114 Written consent required; acknowledgment; revocability of consent, when.
59-2115 Consent or relinquishment; minor parent.
59-2116 Same; time of execution.
59-2118 Effect of adoption; name; rights of child, parents.
59-2120 Interstate adoption; procedures.
59-2121 Payment for adoption; limitation; approval by court; criminal penalties.
59-2122 Files and records of adoption.
59-2124 Relinquishment of child to agency.
59-2125 Application of K.S.A. 59-2126 through 59-2136.
59-2131 Same; temporary orders.
59-2132 Independent and agency adoptions; assessment, investigation and report; waiver.
59-2135 Same; information to be provided to Kansas department for children and families.
59-2136 Relinquishment and adoption; proceedings to terminate parental rights.
59-2137 Application of K.S.A. 59-2138 through 59-2142.
59-2142 Copy of decree to former parent.
59-2143 Consent and relinquishment form.
59-2144 Foreign adoption; filing documents with the clerk of the district court; birth certificate.