K.S.A. 79-5a08 — Public utility or public utilities; acquisition of property of utility by another; public utility sales validation questionnaire required

Any individual, partnership, corporation or public utility, which acquires by deed or other instrument all or any portion of another utility's property, shall forward a public utility sales validation questionnaire to the director of property valuation. The forms for the public utility sales validation questionnaire shall be prescribed and furnished by the director of property valuation. For the purposes of this section, the phrase "acquires by deed or other instrument" includes, without limitation, sales, mergers, acquisitions, take-overs, consolidations and liquidations of all or any portion of a public utility operating in this state and, whenever such sales, mergers, acquisitions, take-overs, consolidations and liquidations concern property located both within and without this state, the entire transaction shall be reported.