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Session of 2000
          HOUSE BILL No. 2872           By Representative Alldritt           2-7          

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  9             AN  ACT concerning wildlife; amending K.S.A. 32-1013 and repealing
10             the existing section.
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12       Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
13             Section  1. K.S.A. 32-1013 is hereby amended to read as follows: 32-
14       1013. (a) Any landowner or person in lawful possession of any land may
15       post such land with signs stating that hunting, trapping or fishing on such
16       land shall be by written permission only. It is unlawful for any person to
17       take wildlife on land which is so posted, without having in the person's
18       possession the written permission of the owner or person in lawful pos-
19       session thereof.
20             (b) A person licensed to hunt or furharvest and following or pursuing
21       a wounded animal on land so posted without written permission of the
22       landowner or person in lawful possession thereof shall not be deemed to
23       be in violation of this provision while in such pursuit, except that:
24             (1) The provisions of this subsection (b) shall not authorize a person
25       to be on such land unless the person first makes every reasonable effort
26       to locate the landowner or person in lawful possession of the land to seek
27       permission to be on the land; and
28             (2) the provisions of this subsection (b) shall not authorize a person
29       to remain on such land if instructed to leave by the owner or person in
30       lawful possession of the land and any person failing to leave such land
31       when so instructed is subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 21-3721 and 21-
32       3728, and amendments thereto. 
33       Sec.  2. K.S.A. 32-1013 is hereby repealed.
34        Sec.  3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
35       publication in the statute book.