Kan. Stat. § 82-201
All persons, firms, or corporations owning, manufacturing or dealing in flour, grain, mill products, seeds or other farm products, or engaged in the business of slaughtering cattle, sheep or hogs, and dealing in the various products therefrom, or buying or selling butter, eggs, cheese, dressed poultry or any other merchandise, and all persons, firms, or corporations owning, manufacturing or dealing in mineral ores, spelter, Portland and other cement, building brick, tile and similar or different products of clay or shale, or owning or refining crude oil or crude oil products, or dealing in crude oil or crude oil products, who own or control the structures wherein any such business is conducted or such commodities stored, may issue elevator or warehouse certificates or receipts for any such commodities actually on hand and in store, the property of such person, firm or corporation, and may be the issue of such certificates, sell, assign, encumber or pledge such commodities. Each such certificate or receipt shall contain the date of its issue, the name and address of the person, firm or corporation issuing the same, and the name and address of the party to whom issued, the location of the elevator, warehouse, or structure wherein the commodity therein described is stored, the quantity of each commodity mentioned therein, the brands or marks of identification thereon, if any, and shall be signed by the person, firm or corporation issuing the same.
K.S.A. 82-201