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Session of 1999
          HOUSE BILL No. 2042           By Committee on Agriculture           1-15          

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  9             AN  ACT concerning adverse possession of real estate; relating to survey
10             of land.
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12       Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
13             Section  1. In any action for the recovery of real property maintained
14       against any person who has been in open, exclusive and continuous pos-
15       session of such real property, either under a claim knowingly adverse or
16       under a belief of ownership, for a period of less than 15 years, and not
17       barred or prohibited pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 60-503 and
18       amendments thereto, the court shall appoint a licensed land surveyor to
19       survey such property to determine ownership thereof. The cost of such
20       survey shall be assessed equally among the parties to such action. 
21        Sec.  2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
22       publication in the statute book.