40-102. Insurance department; creation; commissioner of insurance, duties and salary. There is hereby established a department to be known as the insurance department, which shall have a chief officer entitled the commissioner of insurance who shall receive, except as otherwise provided in K.S.A. 75-3111a, and amendments thereto, a salary at a biweekly pay rate of $3,307.81, and such officer shall be charged with the administration of all laws relating to insurance, insurance companies and fraternal benefit societies doing business in this state, and all other duties which are or may be imposed upon such officer by law.

History: L. 1927, ch. 231, 40-102; L. 1945, ch. 322, § 4; L. 1949, ch. 431, § 4; L. 1953, ch. 383, § 9; L. 1959, ch. 337, § 11; L. 1961, ch. 413, § 9; L. 1965, ch. 458, § 29; L. 1967, ch. 443, § 20; L. 1968, ch. 325, § 1; L. 1972, ch. 153, § 49; L. 1973, ch. 175, § 67; L. 1974, ch. 361, § 59; L. 1976, ch. 380, § 17; L. 1978, ch. 308, § 48; L. 1978, ch. 350, § 1; L. 1982, ch. 354, § 19; L. 1985, ch. 278, § 12; L. 1992, ch. 116, § 27; L. 1992, ch. 296, § 10; L. 1995, ch. 256, § 10; L. 1998, ch. 196, § 2; L. 2008, ch. 159, § 12; June 15.

Source or Prior Law:

L. 1871, ch. 93, § 1; L. 1879, ch. 166, §§ 106, 107, 112; L. 1891, ch. 181, § 8; L. 1905, ch. 488, § 7; L. 1911, ch. 208,§ 4; L. 1919, ch. 284, § 30; L. 1921, ch. 1, § 14; R.S. 1923, 40-101, 40-904, 40-905, 75-901, 75-909, 75-3116, 75-3166.

Revisor’s Note:

Section was also amended by L. 1992, ch. 296, § 9, but that version was repealed by L. 1992, ch. 296, § 25.

Additional biweekly compensation for the commissioner of insurance for an aggregate of $2,809.68 per biweekly pay period chargeable to fiscal year 2001, see section 108(f) of chapter 130 of the 2000 Session Laws of Kansas.

Prior to the amendment of K.S.A. 40-102 by section 12 of chapter 159 of the 2008 Session Laws of Kansas which increased the biweekly compensation for the commissioner of insurance for fiscal year 2009 and thereafter, additional biweekly compensation was provided for each fiscal year during fiscal years 1999 through 2008. For fiscal year 2008, additional biweekly compensation was provided for the commissioner of insurance so that the aggregate biweekly compensation provided by law was $3,227.13 per biweekly pay period. See section 160(f) of chapter 167 of the 2007 Session Laws of Kansas.