Kansas Statutes

Chapter 69: Sabbath

Article 1: General Provisions

Statutes:

• 69-101: Person keeping Saturday as Sabbath; when exempt from military duty or jury service.
• 69-102: Same; penalty for serving process, when.
• 69-103: Same; penalty for procuring adjournment for trial on Saturday.
• 69-104: State museums or other exhibits open on Sunday; hours.
• 69-105: Same; supervision.

• 69-101: Person keeping Saturday as Sabbath; when exempt from military duty or jury service. No person whose religious faith and practice is to keep the seventh day of the week, commonly called Saturday, as a day set apart by divine command as the Sabbath of rest from labor and dedicated to the worship of God, shall be subject to perform military duty or to serve as a juryman in a justice's court on that day, except that such person shall be subject to perform military duty at any time in case of insurrection, invasion, or time of war.

        History:   L. 1864, ch. 98, § 1; July 1; G.S. 1868, ch. 90, § 1; R.S. 1923, 69-101.

• 69-102: Same; penalty for serving process, when. Any person who shall knowingly cause or procure any process issued from a justice's court in a civil suit to be served on that day upon any such person, or who shall serve any such process made returnable on that day, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or both.

        History:   L. 1864, ch. 98, § 2; July 1; G.S. 1868, ch. 90, § 2; R.S. 1923, 69-102.

• 69-103: Same; penalty for procuring adjournment for trial on Saturday. Any person who shall in like manner procure any such suit pending in such court against any person of such religious faith and practice to be adjourned for trial on that day, shall also be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to a like punishment.

        History:   L. 1864, ch. 98, § 3; July 1; G.S. 1868, ch. 90, § 3; R.S. 1923, 69-103.

• 69-104: State museums or other exhibits open on Sunday; hours. All buildings or parts of buildings belonging to the state of Kansas and containing museums or other exhibits for public inspection on days other than Sunday, shall be opened for such inspection by the public on the first day of the week commonly called Sunday, during the afternoon between the hours of 1:30 and 5.

        History:   L. 1911, ch. 306, § 1; April 1; R.S. 1923, 69-104.

• 69-105: Same; supervision. It shall be the duty of the authorities in control of each of such museums or other exhibits to provide proper supervision of such museum or other exhibit and of such buildings or parts of building while open for inspection as provided in this act.

        History:   L. 1911, ch. 306, § 2; April 1; R.S. 1923, 69-105.