The seal of the commissioner of insurance shall be one inch and three-fourths in diameter, surrounded by the words "Commissioner of Insurance of Kansas," with such device as the governor and the commissioner of insurance may prescribe, an impression of which shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state; and every certificate, assignment or authority executed by the commissioner of insurance in pursuance of any authority conferred by law, and sealed with his seal of office, shall be received as evidence, and may be recorded in the proper recording offices in the same manner and with like effect as a deed regularly acknowledged before an officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments; and copies of any paper or record in the office of the commissioner of insurance, certified by him, and authenticated by his seal, shall in all cases be evidence equally and in like manner as the original.
K.S.A. 40-111