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Repealer visits Wichita on state tour

October 12, 2011|By Robert Marin | KWCH 12 Eyewitness News

(WICHITA, Kan.) — He is looking for outdated laws and regulations, and Wednesday the man known as "the repealer" took his tour to Wichita.

Dennis Taylor is the Kansas Secretary of Administration. He heads up a new office created by Governor Sam Brownback called the "office of the repealer". The Republican governor created the office to find unnecessary or outdated laws on the books.

Taylor has been going to cities across Kansas to get input from citizens, groups and businesses on what they find burdensome in state law. Taylor says he has heard about laws in just about every area of government.

"Telecommunications, some environmental regulations, some related to fees and inspections of one form or another. We've had quite the gamut, really," said Taylor.

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Taylor says his job is not just about finding laws people don't like, but maybe things people did not realize about a law when it was passed.

"The question is whether or not the law or regulation has outlived its usefulness, maybe burdensome to people in ways that weren't intended by whoever passed the law in the year it was passed," said Taylor.

So far Taylor has visited more than a dozen cities. His tour will go to Lenexa and Ottawa on October 25, Dodge City and Garden City November 7 and Colby November 8. Click on the related link for times and locations.

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