Chapter 8, AUTOMOBILES AND OTHER VEHICLES

8-1,199. United States space force license plate; requirements; retired member designation. (a) Any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles, trucks of a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less or motorcycles, who is a resident of Kansas and submits satisfactory proof to t…

8-1,200. Gadsden flag license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2022, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles, trucks of a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less, motorcycles or travel trailers, who is a resident of the state of Kansas, may apply for a…

8-1,201. Love, Chloe foundation license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2022, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less, who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the provisions …

8-1,202. Delta sigma theta license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2022, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less, who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the provisions of th…

8-1,203. Distinctive license plate fee collection; report to legislature. Not later than May 1 of each year, any organization that receives payment from any fee imposed on the issuance or renewal of a distinctive license plate shall submit to the house of representatives committe…

8-1,204. Silver star medal license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2023, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles, trucks of a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less or motorcycles who is a resident of Kansas and submits satisfactory proof to the dire…

8-1,205. Bronze star medal license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2023, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles, trucks of a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less or motorcycles who is a resident of Kansas and submits satisfactory proof to the dire…

8-1,206. Kansas department of wildlife and parks license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2023, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles, motorcycles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less, who is a resident of Kansas, upon c…

8-1,207. City of Hutchinson license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2023, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the provisions of th…

8-1,208. Daughters of the American revolution license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2023, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with th…

8-1,209. Kansas down syndrome awareness license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2023, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less, who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the pro…

8-1,210. Buffalo soldier license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2024, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the provisions of this …

8-1,211. Back the blue license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2024, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less, who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the provisions of this s…

8-1,212. City of Topeka license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2024, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the provisions of this s…

8-1,213. Kansas City Chiefs license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2025, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the provisions of th…

8-1,214. Sporting Kansas City license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2025, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the provisions of …

8-1,215. Sedgwick county zoo license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2025, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less, who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the provisions of …

8-1,216. Kansas City royals license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2025, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the provisions of th…

8-1,217. Kansas City current license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2025, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the provisions of t…

8-1,218. Topeka zoo license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2025, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the provisions of this secti…

8-1,219. Support the troops license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2025, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less, who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the provisions of t…

8-1,220. First city of Kansas license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2025, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less, who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the provisions of…

8-1,221. 1st infantry division license plate; requirements; definition of veteran. (a) On and after January 1, 2025, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles, trucks of a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less or motorcycles, who is a resident of Kansas, and who submi…

8-1,222. Occupational service medal license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2025, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles, trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less or motorcycles, who is a resident of the state of Kansas, and wh…

8-1,223. License plates, county of registration designation. (a) Any license plate design that has not been approved for production and issuance by the division of vehicles by July 1, 2024, shall designate the county of registration for the motor vehicle that will bear such licen…

8-1,224. FFA license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2026, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the provisions of this section, may…

8-1,225. Route 66 association of Kansas license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2026, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the prov…

8-1,226. Blackout license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2026, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less, who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the provisions of this sectio…

8-1,227. Hunter nation license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2026, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the provisions of this se…

8-113. Identity of vehicles; unlawful acts; penalty. Any person who shall destroy or cause to be destroyed, remove or cause to be removed, alter or deface, or cause to be altered or defaced, the engine number, identification number, or serial number of any motor vehicle in this s…

8-113a. Reporting stored, unclaimed vehicles to department, when; penalty for failure. An operator of a place of business for garaging, repairing, parking or storing vehicles for the public, in which a vehicle remains unclaimed for a period of 30 days, shall within seven days aft…

8-116. Vehicle identification number offenses; possession or sale of vehicle without original VIN; removing or altering VIN; penalties; vehicle seizure and disposition; application to repairs and restorations of antique vehicles. (a) It is unlawful to sell, barter or exchange any…

8-116a. Vehicle identification number; check of vehicles by highway patrol; original Kansas certificates of title on out-of-state vehicles; check by designee or employee of new vehicle dealer, when; fees and disposition thereof. (a) Except as provided in K.S.A. 8-170, and amendme…

8-119. Penalty for violating K.S.A. 8-113 and 8-116. The violation of any of the provisions of this act, except as otherwise herein provided, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and shall be punishable by a fine not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or …

8-120. Validity of K.S.A. 8-113, 8-116 and 8-119. If any section or provision of this act shall be found invalid by any court, it shall be conclusively presumed that this act would have been passed by the legislature without such invalid section or provision and the act as a whol…

8-126. Registration of vehicles; definitions. As used in this act: (a) "All-terrain vehicle" means any motorized nonhighway vehicle, other than an electric-assisted bicycle, that is 55 inches or less in width measured from the outside of one tire rim to the outside of the other t…

8-126a. Number plates or tags; definitions. Whenever in this act or in any other law of this state relating to registration of motor vehicles any of the following words or terms are used: 1. Number plate or plates. 2. License number plates. 3. License number plate. 4. Number plat…

8-127. Registration of vehicles operated in this state; exceptions; temporary operation of certain vehicles without registration, when. (a) Every owner of a motor vehicle, motorized bicycle, trailer or semitrailer intended to be operated upon any highway in this state, whether su…

8-127a. Registration prohibited for vehicle subject to federal use tax, when; proof of payment of tax. No vehicle, subject to the use tax imposed by section 4481 of the internal revenue code of 1954, shall be registered in this state without presentation of proof of payment of su…

8-128. Same; exceptions. (a) The following need not be registered under this act, any: (1) Implement of husbandry; (2) all-terrain vehicle; (3) micro utility truck; (4) golf cart; (5) work-site utility vehicle; (6) road roller or road machinery temporarily operated or moved upon …

8-129. Application for registration; certificate of title; administration of motor vehicle functions. (a) Applications for the registration of a vehicle required to be registered shall be made by the owner, by mail, on-line, electronically or otherwise, in the office of the count…

8-130. Register of applications to be kept by division of vehicles. The division of vehicles shall maintain a register of applications received, and when satisfied as to the genuineness and regularity thereof, and that the applicant is entitled thereto, shall register the vehicle…

8-131. Registration receipts. (a) Upon the filing of such application for registration, payment of the fees hereinafter provided the division of vehicles shall register the vehicle and shall issue to the owner a registration receipt which shall contain upon the face thereof the r…

8-131b. Invalidity of part. 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, …

8-132. License plates or decals to be furnished; time for new license plates; personalized license plates, display and cost; rules and regulations. (a) Subject to the provisions of this section and K.S.A. 8-1,125, and amendments thereto, the division of vehicles shall furnish to …

8-133. Display of license plate. (a) The license plate assigned to the vehicle shall be attached to the rear of the vehicle and shall be displayed during the current registration year or years. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a Kansas registered vehicle shall not …

8-134. Renewal of registration of certain vehicles; registration and reregistration of passenger vehicles; monthly system; park and recreation motor vehicle permits; decals for license plates; rules and regulations. (a) Every vehicle registration under this act shall expire Decem…

8-134a. Registration and reregistration of pickup trucks, motorcycles, motorized bicycles and recreational vehicles; rules and regulations. (a) On and after January 1, 1999, any truck or truck tractor registered for a gross weight of 12,000 pounds or less, motorcycles, motorized …

8-135. Transfer of ownership of vehicles; registration; fees and penalties; certificate of title, form, fee; assignment and reassignment; liens, statement of, release of, liability for failure to comply, notice of security interest, execution; purchase and sale of vehicle, requir…

8-135a. Adding names of family members to titles and registrations. A person in whose name a vehicle is titled and registered may add their spouse's name by assigning the title from the titleholder to titleholder and spouse and by applying for a name change title and registration…