Chapter 68, ROADS AND BRIDGES

68-2014. Bonds eligible for investment. Bonds issued by the authority under the provisions of this act are hereby made securities in which all insurance companies, trust companies, banking associations, investment companies, executors, administrators, trustees and other fiduciari…

68-2015. Operation of projects; restoration and repair of private property; agreements with political subdivisions; annual report and audit; employees contracting with authority; penalty. Each turnpike project when constructed and opened to traffic shall be maintained and kept in…

68-2016. Turnpike revenue refunding bonds, when. The authority is hereby authorized to provide by resolution for the issuance of turnpike revenue refunding bonds of the authority for the purpose of refunding any bonds then outstanding which shall have been issued under the provis…

68-2017. Project to become part of state highway system after retirement of bonds; operation by secretary of transportation; continuation of tolls for other projects, when. Except as hereinafter provided in this section, when all bonds issued under the provisions of K.S.A. 68-200…

68-2018. Preliminary expenses of authority; surveys and studies; costs and expenses, how paid. To provide for the preliminary expenses of the authority in carrying out the provisions of this act, the legislature shall not appropriate any moneys from the state general fund, but sh…

68-2019. Powers conferred additional and supplemental to other laws, exception. The foregoing sections of this act shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative method for the doing of the things authorized thereby, and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional …

68-2020. Failure or refusal to pay toll; penalty; lien on vehicle. Any person who uses any turnpike project and fails or refuses to pay toll provided therefor shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100) or by imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) …

68-2020a. Failure or refusal to pay toll; penalty; refusal to register vehicle; appeals. (a) The registered owner of a vehicle driven on a turnpike project shall pay all tolls associated with that vehicle's use on any turnpike project. The Kansas turnpike authority may provide by…

68-2021. Contracts between secretary of transportation and the authority as to preliminary project studies and investigations; terms. The secretary of transportation and the Kansas turnpike authority are hereby authorized and empowered to contract with each other, by the terms of…

68-2021a. Contracts between secretary of transportation and the authority; certain duplicative resources. (a) The secretary of transportation and the Kansas turnpike authority are hereby authorized and empowered to contract with each other to provide personnel and equipment and o…

68-2022. Same; reimbursement of secretary of transportation. The Kansas turnpike authority is hereby authorized to contract for the services as set out in K.S.A. 68-2021, which contracts shall provide, on behalf of the Kansas turnpike authority as follows: (1) That it shall reimb…

68-2023. Same; act supplemental to K.S.A. 68-2001 through 68-2020; effect. The terms and provisions of this act shall be considered and construed to be in addition and supplemental to the terms and provisions of K.S.A. 68-2001 to 68-2020, inclusive and amendments there, and shall…

68-2024. Same; prior agreements approved. Agreements heretofore executed by and between the state highway commission and the Kansas turnpike authority relating to services described in K.S.A. 68-2021 and 68-2022, are hereby approved. History: L. 1955, ch. 305, § 4; April 9.

68-2025. Policing turnpike facilities; agreements with highway patrol authorized; approval by governor; terms; use of moneys. The Kansas turnpike authority and the superintendent of the Kansas highway patrol are hereby authorized to provide by contract or agreement, as provided h…

68-2026. Same; agreements as to personnel assigned to police facilities; cooperation. Such contracts or agreements shall state the number and rank of the troopers and officers which are to be assigned to police such toll or turnpike facilities but the Kansas turnpike authority sh…

68-2027. Same; status and classification of personnel assigned to policing duties; uniforms and vehicles. Personnel assigned to such policing duties shall be classified in their duties in the same manner and in the same or similar work in the Kansas highway patrol organization an…

68-2028. Same; powers of policing personnel. All personnel so assigned and employed shall have law enforcement authority as is contemplated and provided by K.S.A. 74-20a03, and any amendments thereto. History: L. 1955, ch. 304, § 4; L. 1957, ch. 370, § 1; June 29.

68-2029. Same; act supplemental to other laws. The provisions of this act are hereby declared to be supplemental to but not amendatory to the terms and provisions of sections 68-2001 to 68-2020, both sections inclusive, of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and articles 20a and 20c o…

68-2101. Definitions. As used in this act: (a) "Secretary" means the secretary of transportation. (b) "Highway" means a highway, road, street or alley. (c) "Improvement" means the repair, building, rebuilding, alteration, construction or reconstruction of any highway or part ther…

68-2102. Contractor or municipality making improvement to place barricades and warning signs, when. Every person who shall have entered into a contract to make any improvement, or any municipality which has undertaken for itself the making of any improvement, shall, where the wor…

68-2103. Municipality or secretary of transportation may construct detour or provide detour route, when; warning signs; contractors relieved of certain obligations. In all cases where any municipality or the secretary of transportation shall engage in the making of any improvemen…

68-2104. Restricted use of road being improved; traffic regulation and control; signs, signals, lights, flagmen. Any municipality or the secretary of transportation may permit public use of a highway, or portion thereof, under their respective jurisdictions, during construction o…

68-2105. Contractor's pay withheld until act complied with. Any person to whom has been awarded a contract for the making of any improvement as provided for in this act shall receive no pay on any estimate for work on said contract until such person has complied with the provisio…

68-2106. Unlawful to destroy or remove barricades, warning signs, or drive on closed hard-surfaced highway; penalty; damages. Any person who shall, without authority, destroy or remove any barricade, warning sign or warning light when used in accordance with the provisions of thi…

68-2107. Same; penalties. Any person failing, neglecting or refusing to comply with the provisions of this act, and for which a specific penalty is not provided in this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than…

68-2201. Short title. This act may be cited as the "junkyard and salvage control act." History: L. 1967, ch. 357, § 1; May 4.

68-2202. Purposes. For the purpose of promoting the public safety, health, welfare, convenience and enjoyment of public travel, to protect the public investment in public highways, and to preserve and enhance the scenic beauty of lands bordering public highways, it is hereby decl…

68-2203. Definitions. (a) The term "junk" shall mean old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, or junked, dismantled, or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material. (b) "Au…

68-2204. Junkyards prohibited, when. No person shall establish, operate, or maintain a junkyard, any portion of which is within one thousand (1,000) feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of any street or highway on the interstate system or the primary system, or any portio…

68-2205. Certificate of compliance; requirements; failure to make an original or renewal application; injunction. No person shall establish, operate, or maintain a junkyard, any portion of which is within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of any street or highway…

68-2206. Requirements as to screening. The secretary of transportation shall have the authority to adopt rules or regulations governing the location, planting, construction and maintenance, including the materials used in screening or fencing required by this act. Any plantings, …

68-2207. Junkyards lawfully in existence. Any junkyard which was lawfully in existence on May 4, 1967, and duly certified in the subsequent year and which is within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and visible from the main traveled way of any street or highway …

68-2208. Acquisition of land, when. When the secretary of transportation determines that the topography of the land adjoining the highway, road or street will not permit adequate screening of any junkyard lawfully in existence, or the screening of such a junkyard would not be eco…

68-2209. Nuisances. Any junkyard which comes into existence after the effective date of this act, or was being maintained in violation of law on the effective date of this act, or after said date is altered, changed or enlarged so as not to conform to this act, and which is not m…

68-2210. Interpretation. Nothing in this act shall be construed to abrogate or affect the provisions of any lawful ordinance, regulation or resolution, which are more restrictive than the provisions of this act. History: L. 1967, ch. 357, § 10; May 4.

68-2211. Agreements with the United States authorized. The secretary of transportation is hereby authorized to enter into agreements with the United States secretary of commerce as provided by title 23, United States code, relating to the control of junkyards in areas adjacent to…

68-2212. State salvage board abolished; transfer of powers, duties and functions to secretary of transportation; provisions for transition and continuity. (a) The state salvage board is hereby abolished. All of the powers, duties and functions of the state salvage board are hereb…

68-2213. Denial, suspension or revocation of certificate of compliance; hearing; judicial review. The secretary of transportation may deny the application of any person for a certificate of compliance under this act and may suspend or revoke a certificate of compliance issued or …

68-2214. Severability. If any clause, paragraph, subsection or section of this act shall be held invalid or unconstitutional it shall be conclusively presumed that the legislature would have enacted the remainder of this act without such invalid or unconstitutional clause, paragr…

68-2215. Unlawful junkyard maintenance; penalty. Unlawful junkyard maintenance is intentional operation or maintenance of a junkyard in violation of article 22 of chapter 68 of Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto. Unlawful junkyard maintenance is a class C misdemean…

68-2231. Declaration of policy. The legislature hereby finds and declares: (a) That outdoor advertising is a legitimate, commercial use of private property adjacent to streets, roads and highways, where such commercial use does not conflict with the lawfully designated use of sur…

68-2232. Definitions. As used in this act the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them herein: (a) "Adjacent area" "controlled area" means an area which is adjacent to the right-of-way on any interstate or primary highway and is visible fr…

68-2233. Erection or maintenance of signs in adjacent area prohibited, exceptions. After March 31, 1972, and subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 68-2237, and amendments thereto, no sign shall be erected or maintained in an adjacent area, except the following: (a) Directional and …

68-2234. Highway advertising control; sign standards; zoning requirements. After March 31, 1972, and subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 68-2233, and amendments thereto, and to subsection (f), signs which are to be erected in a business area shall comply with the following standa…

68-2235. Agreements with secretary of U.S. department of transportation. The secretary of transportation is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement with the secretary of the department of transportation of the United States government for the purpose of controlling outdoor a…

68-2236. Licenses and permits; fees. (a) Unless otherwise provided in this section, no person, firm or corporation shall construct, erect, operate, use or maintain any advertising signs, displays or devices in this state without first obtaining a sign permit and a sign license fr…

68-2237. Nonconforming signs. (a) Any sign lawfully in existence along the interstate system or the federal aid primary system which is not located in a business area and which is not in conformity with the provisions of this act shall not be required to be removed until March 31…

68-2238. Compensation for removal of signs. (a) From and after March 31, 1972, just compensation shall be paid upon the removal of any of the following signs which are not then in conformity with the provisions of this act: (1) Signs lawfully in existence prior to March 31, 1972;…

68-2239. Same; condemnation proceedings; claim and action for compensation. The secretary of transportation may purchase or otherwise contract for or institute condemnation proceedings pursuant to K.S.A. 26-501 et seq. for the purpose of the removal of the signs described in K.S.…

68-2240. Removal of nonconforming signs; notice; right to appeal; cost of removing. (a) Any advertising structure erected or maintained adjacent to the right-of-way of the interstate or primary highway system after the effective date of this act as determined by K.S.A. 68-2231 th…