Topeka - Kansas Unmarked Burial Sites Preservation Act Board Meeting - Kansas Historical Society
Kansas state statutes K.S.A. 75-2741 through 75-2754 comprise the Unmarked Burial Sites Preservation Act. These statutes protect unmarked burials in Kansas and the human remains and associated objects that come from them. Unmarked burials are those that do not have headstones, are not in demarcated cemeteries, and are not noted in maps, deeds, or other records. The law makes it illegal to disturb unmarked burials and prohibits the possession or display of human remains and associated objects from unmarked burials.
The statute creates a board to oversee the Unmarked Burial Sites Preservation Act that is administered under the direction of the Kansas Historical Society. The board has the power and duty to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a registry of unmarked burial sites located in this state; consult with all interested parties on occasions of disturbance, or threatened or potential disturbance, of unmarked burial sites to determine a proper course of action; initiate necessary action by the attorney general for the enforcement of this act; issue permits for the excavation, study, display and reinterment or disposition of human skeletal remains from unmarked burial sites and goods interred with such remains, as provided in this act; and adopt such rules and regulations as necessary to administer and enforce the provisions of this act.
This board meeting is open to the public, except for any executive sessions that may be called as provided by the Kansas Open Meetings Act, K.S.A. 75-4317.
Zoom Link available upon request to the Chair of the Kansas Unmarked Burial Sites Preservation Act Board, Dr. Nikki Klarmann, State Archeologist, Kansas Historical Society, nikki.klarmann@ks.gov
