23-501: Establishment and maintenance; authority.
The secretary of health and environment shall establish and maintain
family planning centers in cooperation with
the secretary of social and rehabilitation services and county, city-county
and multicounty health departments. Such family planning centers, upon
request of any person who is over eighteen (18) years of age and who is
married or who has been referred to said center by a person licensed to
practice medicine and surgery
and who resides in this state, may furnish and disseminate information
concerning, and means and methods of planned parenthood, including such
contraceptive devices as recommended by the secretary of health and environment.
Such methods and
means shall be consistent with the religious and personal convictions of
the individual to whom furnished.
History: L. 1965, ch. 384, § 1; L. 1973, ch. 186, § 20; L.
1975, ch. 462, § 34; L. 1980, ch. 182, § 8; July 1.
23-502: Duties of certain agencies.
The secretary of social and rehabilitation services and county,
city-county and multicounty health departments shall cooperate with and
assist the secretary of health and environment in the establishment,
maintenance and operation of the family planning centers required to be
established and maintained by K.S.A. 23-501.
History: L. 1965, ch. 384, § 2; L. 1973, ch. 186, § 21; L.
1975, ch. 462, § 35; L. 1980, ch. 182, § 9; July 1.