2-1314.   Noxious weeds; control and eradication;listing.It shall be the duty of persons, associations of persons, the secretaryof transportation, the boards of county commissioners, the townshipboards, school boards, drainage boards, the governing body ofincorporated cities, railroad companies and other transportationcompanies or corporations or their authorized agents and thosesupervising state-owned lands to control the spread of and to eradicateall weeds declared by legislative action to be noxious on all landsowned or supervised by them and to use such methods for that purpose andat such times as are approved and adopted by the Kansas departmentof agriculture. The term noxious weeds shall meankudzu (Pueraria lobata),field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis),Russian knapweed (Centaurea repens),hoary cress (Cardaria draba),Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense),quackgrass (Agropyron repens),leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula),bur ragweed (Ambrosia grayii),pignut (Hoffmannseggia densiflora),musk (nodding) thistle (Carduus nutans L.),Johnson grass (Sorghum halepense)and sericea lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata).

      History:   L. 1937, ch. 1, § 1; L. 1945, ch. 3, § 1; L.1961,ch. 4, § 1; L. 1963, ch. 6, § 1; L. 1972, ch. 4, § 1; L.1975, ch.427, § 1; L. 1981, ch. 8, § 1;L. 1998, ch. 85, § 2;L. 1998, ch. 85, § 3;L. 2004, ch. 101, § 189; July 1.