Statute 66-1314: Liability insurance requirements for vehicles not having Kansas
motor carrier permits.
Every motor vehicle transporting passengers or property
for which no permit has been issued as a motor carrier by the state
corporation commission, except those used in operations exempt under the
provisions of
K.S.A. 66-1,109, and amendments thereto, shall
be properly covered by liability insurance
policy in amounts determined by the state corporation commission. Such
amounts shall not be less than $100,000
for personal injury or death to
any one person in any one accident, and not less than $300,000 for injury
or death to two or more persons in any one
accident and $50,000 for loss to property of others in any one accident,
which liability insurance shall bind the obligors
to pay compensation for injuries to persons and loss of or damage to
property resulting from the negligent operation of such carrier. The
liability insurance policy required of any resident person or company
shall be in some insurance company or association authorized to transact
business in this state. Such policy of any nonresident person or company
may be afforded by an insurance company not authorized to do business in
this state which has given the commissioner of insurance of this state a
power of attorney authorizing such commissioner to accept service on its
behalf of notice or process in any action upon such policy. Such company
not authorized to do business in this state shall have on file with such
commissioner a form as prescribed by subsection (b) of
K.S.A. 40-3106,
and amendments thereto. The
insured under a policy of liability insurance issued by an insurance
company not authorized to do business in this state shall execute, before
operating any motor vehicle in the state of Kansas, a
registration card required by law irrevocably appointing and
constituting the secretary of state of this state, process agent, for
the insured, upon whom service of summons may be made in any action
filed in the proper court in the state of Kansas in the same manner as
service is made upon a foreign corporation in the state of Kansas by
serving process upon the secretary of state.
No motor vehicle transporting passengers or property
shall be allowed to proceed from any motor carrier inspection station into the state of
Kansas upon the highways thereof until and unless it has been duly
registered and inspected at such station
and a clearance certificate issued therefor. No such motor vehicle shall
be allowed to proceed into the state of Kansas upon the highways thereof
under any circumstances unless in the interests of the safety and
convenience of the public the same shall be found by a member of the Kansas
highway patrol to be in
a safe and roadworthy condition, properly
equipped with all lights, brakes and other
appliances required by any statutes of this state, and such condition as to be
safe for operation upon the public highways of this state, properly
loaded, not overloaded and of the size, dimensions and other
specifications required by the statutes of this state.
If the person in charge of such station
shall find that the registration card required by law has been properly
made out and delivered, that the motor carrier and motor vehicle is in
full compliance with the statutes
of Kansas, such inspector shall issue to the driver of such
vehicle a clearance certificate which shall show the station at which it
was registered and inspected, the date, destination, license
number, motor carrier permit number if any, and such other information
as the superintendent of the Kansas highway
patrol may require.
History: L. 1955, ch. 297, § 5; L. 1959, ch. 258, § 14; L. 1975,
ch. 345, § 2; L. 1982, ch. 276, § 2;
L. 1988, ch. 266, § 7; July 1.