Miscellaneous & related Kansas laws
Beyond the common-interest, condominium, townhouse, and civil-rights acts, a few other Kansas laws can bear on a community and its members — solar easements, the corporate code your association runs on, and debt collection — plus a couple of laws people often assume apply but don't.
HOPB hosts the full text of the Kansas statutes that most affect homeowners' and condominium associations — you'll find them all on the Kansas HOA laws hub. This page covers the edges: a handful of scattered provisions that can reach a community, and a short list of laws that are commonly assumed to apply but do not.
Because these are scattered provisions we don't reproduce in full, each entry below is a brief plain-language summary with its citation; the official text is available from the Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes.
The myths worth clearing up.
These come up constantly in association disputes. In Kansas, they don't work the way people assume — but the rights people are reaching for usually exist under a different law.
The Kansas Open Records Act and Kansas Open Meetings Act apply only to a “public agency” or public body — the state, its political or taxing subdivisions, and entities supported in whole or in part by public funds (§ 45-217; § 75-4318). A private homeowners' or condominium association is funded by member assessments, not public funds, so it is not a public agency or body, and you can't use those acts to force open meetings or records from your board. The rights you're reaching for come instead from the Common Interest Owners' Bill of Rights Act — which requires open board meetings (§ 58-4612) and makes association records available to owners (§ 58-4616) — and from the community's governing documents.
Kansas's modern Common Interest Owners' Bill of Rights Act (KUCIOBORA) is powerful, but it applies only to a community of 12 or more units that may be used for residential purposes. A community created after January 1, 2011 is covered in full (§ 58-4605), and one created before that date is covered prospectively — the act governs its actions after January 1, 2011 but doesn't reach back to earlier events or override existing declaration provisions (§ 58-4606). The real dividing line is size: a smaller community of fewer than 12 units isn't covered — it runs on its recorded declaration, the general corporate law, and, for condominiums and townhouses, the opt-in Apartment and Townhouse ownership acts. Check your community's size before assuming KUCIOBORA's open-meeting and records rights apply.
General information, not legal advice. The laws summarized here are scattered provisions HOPB does not reproduce in full; for the official current text, see the Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Always confirm the current law and how it applies to your situation.