75-2809. Public surveys; records, safekeeping and access. The register shall receive any field notes, maps, records, or other papers relating to the public survey of this state, whenever the same shall be turned over to the state, in pursuance of an act of congress entitled "An act for the discontinuance of the office of surveyor general in the several districts as soon as the surveys therein can be completed, for abolishing land offices under certain circumstances, and for other purposes," approved June twelve, eighteen hundred and forty, and any act amendatory thereof, and shall receive any other official surveys of any state lands and any field notes, maps, records or other paper relating thereto as may be provided by law to be filed with the register, and shall provide for their safekeeping and proper arrangement as public records. Free access to the same by the lawful authority of the United States, for the purpose of taking extracts therefrom, or making copies thereof, shall always be granted.
History: L. 1876, ch. 131, § 8; R.S. 1923, 75-2809; L. 1974, ch. 364, § 23; L. 1978, ch. 430, § 7; Apr. 1.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Chapter 75 - State Departments; Public Officers And Employees
Article 28 - State Land Office And Register
75-2801 Secretary of state ex officio register; books and records; correspondence.
75-2803 Manner of ruling tract books; matters shown on record.
75-2804 State land office; inspection of documents and records; certified copies of abstracts.
75-2806 Patents for land; certified copies; fee, approval.
75-2807 Certificate for issuance of patent.
75-2808 Correction of clerical errors by register.
75-2809 Public surveys; records, safekeeping and access.
75-2810 Relinquishment of color of title to the United States.
75-2811 Error in deeding land to state or in making out transfer.
75-2812 Lists of lands granted to state; effect of recording.