Statute Number: 22-2503
Chapter Title: CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Article Title: SEARCH AND SEIZURE
Tax Type: All
Brief Description: Territorial and time limitations on execution of certain search
warrants.
22-2503. Territorial and time limitations on execution of certain search warrants. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), search warrants issued by a district magistrate judge may be executed only within the judicial district in which the judge resides or within the judicial district to which the judge has been assigned pursuant to K.S.A. 20-319, and amendments thereto.
(b) Search warrants issued pursuant to subsection (a)(2) of K.S.A. 22-2502, and amendments thereto:
(1) That are issued by a district judge may be executed anywhere within the state; and
(2) shall be valid during the time period specified by the warrant regardless of whether the tracking device or the subject person or property leaves the issuing jurisdiction.
(c) As used in this section, "tracking data" and "tracking device" have the same meanings as defined in K.S.A. 22-2502, and amendments thereto.
History: L. 1970, ch. 129, § 22-2503; L. 1976, ch. 163, § 3; L. 1979, ch. 96, § 1; L. 2013, ch. 118, § 3; July 1.