19-4802. Definitions. As used in K.S.A. 19-4801 through 19-4811* and 74-7305*:

(a) "Commission" means board of county commissioners;

(b) "crime" or "property crime" means an act made criminal by state, county or municipal penal codes and which does not constitute criminally injurious conduct as defined in subsection (e) of K.S.A. 74-7301, and amendments thereto;

(c) "collateral source" means the same as defined in subsection (d) of K.S.A. 74-7301, and amendments thereto;

(d) "local board" means a county property crime compensation board;

(e) "local fund" means a county property crime compensation fund;

(f) "loss" means out of pocket damage sustained by a victim against whom a crime has been committed, but does not include collateral sources;

(g) "property crime compensation board" means an entity created by a commission, or through an interlocal agreement pursuant to K.S.A. 12-2901 et seq., and amendments thereto, an entity created by a group of counties, to administer this act; and

(h) "victim" means an individual who suffers loss as a result of the commission of a crime, loss due to the good faith effort of any individual person to prevent a crime or loss due to the good faith effort of any individual person to apprehend a person suspected of engaging in a crime; where the context so requires, "victim" includes those persons filing a claim at the request of and on behalf of the victim, or the actual owner of property interests which were the subject of the crime.

History: L. 1990, ch. 321, § 3; July 1.