K.S.A. 76-125: Fire protection at certain institutions.

It shall be the duty of the board of administration to provide at each institution adequate and ready means of protection against fire, and to construct proper means of escape for inmates and attendants, where the same are not already constructed, and to establish and enforce rigid rules and regulations by which the danger of fire shall be minimized, and prevent, as far as possible, injury to the persons of the inmates and the loss or destruction by any cause of the property of the state.