Kansas legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Kansas SB444: Authorizing interior inspections of residential property without the consent of the occupant pursuant to an administrative warrant or if there is probable cause of imminent danger related to health and safety and allowing cities to abate certain interior code violations or delegate such authority to the county
Status: In committee, April 10, 2026
What the bill says
An act concerning cities and counties; relating to interior inspections and abatement of nuisances in residential property; allowing cities to abate nuisances that involve certain interior code violations or delegate such authority to the county; authorizing inspections without consent of the occupant pursuant to an administrative warrant or if there is probable cause of imminent danger related to public health and safety; amending K.S.A. 12-1617e and 12-16,138 and repealing the existing sections.
From the introduced text, February 2, 2026:
AN ACT concerning cities and counties; relating to interior inspections and abatement of nuisances in residential property; allowing cities to abate nuisances that involve certain interior code violations or delegate such authority to the county; authorizing inspections without consent of the occupant pursuant to an administrative warrant or if there is probable cause of imminent danger related to public health and safety; amending K.S.A. 12-1617e and 12-16,138 and repealing the existing sections. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: Section 1. K.S.A. 12-1617e is hereby amended to read as follows: 121617e. (a) The governing body of any city may have removed or abated from any lot or parcel of ground within the city any and all nuisances, including rank grass, weeds or other vegetation. If such lot or parcel of ground contains a dwelling unit as defined in K.S.A. 58-2543, and amendments thereto, the governing body of a city may abate nuisances that involve any violation of building and housing codes materially affecting health and safety as described in K.S.A. 58-2553, and amendments thereto. A city may delegate authority to abate such nuisances to the county in which the the dwelling unit is located if the county accepts such authority. The governing body may have drained any pond or ponds of water, at the cost and …