17-1312f.   Application of act; exceptions.The provisions of K.S.A. 17-1308, 17-1311, 17-1312, and 17-1312a to17-1312e, inclusive, and amendments thereto, shall apply to and becontrolling upon every individual, firm, partnership or otherorganization hereafter selling or conveying land for cemetery purposes,and for this purpose the term "corporation" except where the contextclearly indicates a different meaning shall mean and include suchindividuals, firms, partnerships or organizations. The provisions ofthis act shall not apply to: (a) Any municipality, corporation orquasi-corporation within the state of Kansas which is empowered to issuebonds in payment of which taxes may be levied; or

      (b)   any nonprofit organization formed primarily for religiouspurposes and constituting an established church and which sells orconveys cemetery lots solely to the members of its own church or topersons related by consanguinity, either lineal or collateral, byadoption, or by marriage to any such member; or

      (c)   any cemetery existing on March 1, 1968, located in a countydesignated as urban, and owned and operated on said date by a nonprofitorganization; or

      (d)   any cemetery having a permanent maintenance fund of less thanten thousand dollars ($10,000) which was organized prior to January 1,1900, and which has been maintained and operated continuously since suchdate.

      History:   L. 1968, ch. 330, § 1; L. 1976, ch. 102, § 1; L. 1979,ch. 62, § 4; April 20.