TOPEKA – Lieutenant Governor Jeff Colyer and Attorney General Derek Schmidt today
issued the following statement regarding increases in the price of gasoline since Hurricane Harvey:
“We
want to alert Kansans that the Kansas statute prohibiting profiteering
from a disaster is in effect as a result of the presidential disaster
declaration in the hurricane-stricken
region along the Gulf Coast. We are closely monitoring the situation.
While price increases caused by the disruption in supply are to be
expected, it is illegal in Kansas to ‘profiteer from a disaster’ by
unjustifiably raising the price of motor fuel. Under Kansas law, a
price increase that exceeds 25 percent compared with the price the day
before the disaster is suspect and subject to scrutiny, and a seller
that has increased prices by that amount or
more may be required to provide documentation that the increase is due
to the seller’s increased cost of obtaining the fuel. We encourage
caution and restraint so the nation’s focus can remain on assisting
those affected along the Gulf Coast.”
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