77-137. Authentication; evidence in courts; reference to sections. Before any copies of a volume of said Kansas Statutes Annotated shall be printed and bound, they shall be examined and compared by the secretary of state and by the attorney general, and if they contain all the laws required by this act, and otherwise comply with the terms of this act, they shall so certify in writing, and after such authentication they shall be deemed and held to be the official statutes of Kansas, and evidence in all courts having jurisdiction. Such authentication shall be printed in each volume of said statutes. In any legislative bill to amend or repeal any law or section in such volume or supplementation thereof, authorized by law, it shall be sufficient to refer to the same by running section numbers of said volume.

History: L. 1963, ch. 454, § 7; L. 1975, ch. 428, § 8; L. 1975, ch. 483, § 1; July 1.