8-1413: "Division" defined.
"Division" means the division of vehicles of the department of revenue.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33; § 8-1413; July 1.
8-1414: "Divided highway" defined.
"Divided highway" means a highway divided into two (2) or more roadways
by leaving an intervening space or by a physical barrier or by a clearly
indicated dividing section so constructed as to impede vehicular traffic.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1414; July 1.
8-1414a: "Drawbar" defined.
"Drawbar" means a bar across the rear of a motor vehicle,
or a device securely attached to the motor vehicle, which maintains a fixed
position and to which a towbar may be coupled.
History: L. 1978, ch. 42, § 4; July 1.
8-1415: "Driveaway-towaway
operations" defined.
"Driveaway-towaway operations" means any operation in which any motor
vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, singly or in combination, new or used,
constitutes the commodity being transported, when one set or more of wheels
of any such vehicle are on the roadway during the course of transportation,
whether or not any such vehicle furnishes the motive power.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1415; July 1.
8-1416: "Driver" defined.
"Driver" means every person who drives or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1416; July 1.
8-1417: "Driver's license" defined.
"Driver's license" means any license to operate a motor vehicle issued
under the laws of this state.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1417; July 1.
8-1418: "Essential parts" defined.
"Essential parts" means all integral and body parts of a vehicle of a
type required to be registered hereunder, the removal, alteration or
substitution of which would tend to conceal the identity of the vehicle or
substantially alter its appearance, model, type or mode of operation.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1418; July 1.
8-1419: "Explosives" defined.
"Explosives" means any chemical compound or mechanical mixture that is
commonly used or intended for the purpose of producing an explosion, and
which contains any oxidizing and combustive units or other ingredients in
such proportions, quantities, or packing that an ignition by fire, by
friction, by concussion, by percussion, or by detonator of any part of the
compound or mixture may cause such a sudden generation of highly heated
gases that the resultant gaseous pressures are capable of producing
destructive effects on contiguous objects or of destroying life or limb.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1419; July 1.
8-1420: "Farm tractor" defined.
"Farm tractor" means every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as
a farm implement for drawing plows, mowing machines and other implements of
husbandry, and such term shall include every self-propelled implement of
husbandry.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1420; July 1.
8-1421: "Flammable liquid" defined.
"Flammable liquid" means any liquid which has a flash point of 70
degrees Fahrenheit, or less, as determined by a tagliabue or equivalent
closed-cup test device.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1421; July 1.
8-1422: "Foreign vehicle" defined.
"Foreign vehicle" means every vehicle of a type required to be
registered hereunder brought into this state from another state, territory
or country other than in the ordinary course of business by or through a
manufacturer or dealer and not registered in this state.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1422; July 1.
8-1423: "Gross weight" defined.
"Gross weight" means the weight of a vehicle without load plus the
weight of any load thereon.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1423; July 1.
8-1424: "Highway" defined.
"Highway" means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way
publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public
for purposes of vehicular travel.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1424; July 1.
8-1425: "House trailer" defined.
(a) "House trailer" means: (1) A trailer or semitrailer which is designed,
constructed and equipped as a dwelling place, living abode or sleeping
place, either permanently or temporarily, and is equipped for use as a
conveyance on streets and highways; or
(2) A trailer or a semitrailer whose chassis and exterior shell is
designed and constructed for use as a house trailer, as defined in
paragraph (a), but which is used instead permanently or temporarily for the
advertising, sales, display or promotion of merchandise or services, or for
any other commercial purpose except the transportation of property for hire
or the transportation of property for distribution by a private carrier.
(b) "House trailer" does not include a manufactured home or a mobile
home, as such terms are defined in K.S.A. 58-4202.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1425;
L. 1991, ch. 33, § 16; July 1.
8-1426: "Identifying numbers" defined.
"Identifying numbers" means the numbers, and letters, if any, on a
vehicle designated by the division for the purpose of identifying the
vehicle.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1426; July 1.
8-1427: "Implement of husbandry" defined.
"Implement of husbandry" means every vehicle designed or adapted and
used exclusively for agricultural operations and only incidentally moved
or operated upon the highways. Such term shall include, but not be
limited to, a fertilizer spreader or nurse tank used exclusively for dispensing
or spreading water,
dust or liquid fertilizers or agricultural chemicals, as defined in K.S.A.
2-2202, and amendments thereto, regardless of ownership. For the purpose of
this section or for the purpose of the act
of which this
section is a part, "implement of husbandry" shall not include: (a) A truck
mounted with a fertilizer spreader used or manufactured principally to spread
animal dung; (b) a mixer-feed truck owned and used by a feedlot, as defined by
K.S.A. 47-1501, and amendments thereto, and specially designed and used
exclusively for dispensing feed to livestock in such feedlot; or (c) a truck
permanently mounted with a spreader used exclusively for dispensing
or spreading water, dust or liquid fertilizers or agricultural chemicals, as
defined in K.S.A. 2-2202, and amendments thereto, regardless of ownership.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1427; L. 1975, ch. 39, § 5; L.
1980, ch. 30, § 2;
L. 1994, ch. 235, § 3; July 1.
8-1428: "Intersection" defined.
"Intersection" means: (a) The area embraced within the prolongation or
connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral
boundary lines of the roadways of two highways which join one another at,
or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles
traveling upon different highways joining at any other angle may come in
conflict; or
(b) Where a highway includes two (2) roadways thirty (30) feet or more
apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such divided highway by an
intersecting highway shall be regarded as a separate intersection. In the
event such intersecting highway also includes two (2) roadways thirty (30)
feet or more apart, then every crossing of two (2) roadways of such
highways shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
The junction of an alley with a street or highway shall not constitute
an intersection.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1428; July 1.
8-1428a: "Interstate system" defined.
"Interstate system" means the national system of interstate
and defense highways.
History: L. 1984, ch. 44, § 2; July 1.
8-1429: "Laned roadway" defined.
"Laned roadway" means a roadway which is divided into two (2) or more
clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1429; July 1.
8-1430: "License" and "license to operate a motor vehicle" defined.
"License" or "license to operate a motor vehicle" means any driver's
license or any other license or permit to operate a motor vehicle issued
under, or granted by, the laws of this state, including:
(a) Any temporary license, or instruction permit;
(b) the privilege of any person to drive a motor vehicle whether or not
such person holds a valid license; and
(c) any nonresident's operating privilege.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1430; July 1.
8-1431: "Lienholder" defined.
"Lienholder" means a person holding a security interest in a vehicle.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1431; July 1.
8-1432: "Local authorities" defined.
"Local authorities" means the Kansas turnpike authority and every city,
county and other local board or body having authority to adopt ordinances
or regulations relating to vehicular traffic under the constitution and
laws of this state.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1432; July 1.
8-1433: "Mail" defined.
"Mail" means to deposit in the United States mail properly addressed and
with postage prepaid.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1433; July 1.
8-1434: "Manufacturer" defined.
"Manufacturer" means every person engaged in the business of
constructing or assembling vehicles of a type required to be registered in
this state.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1434; July 1.
8-1435: "Metal tire" defined.
"Metal tire" means every tire, the surface of which in contact with the
highway, is wholly or partly of metal or other hard non-resilient material.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1435; July 1.
8-1436: "Motor home" defined.
"Motor home" means every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained
primarily as a mobile dwelling, office or commercial space.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1436; July 1.
8-1437: "Motor vehicle" defined.
"Motor vehicle" means every vehicle, other than a motorized bicycle or a
motorized wheelchair, which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is
propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not
operated upon rails.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1437; L. 1976, ch. 42, § 3;
L. 1992, ch. 166, § 2; July 1.
8-1438: "Motorcycle" defined.
"Motorcycle" means every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the
use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three (3) wheels
in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1438; July 1.
8-1439: "Motor-driven cycle" defined.
"Motor-driven cycle" means every motorcycle, including every motor
scooter, with a motor which produces not to exceed five brake
horsepower, and every bicycle with motor attached, except a motorized
bicycle or an electric-assisted bicycle.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1439; L. 1976, ch. 42, § 4; L.
1980, ch. 42, § 1;
L. 2000, ch. 179, § 17; July 1.
8-1439a: "Motorized bicycle" defined.
"Motorized bicycle" means every device having two tandem wheels
or three wheels
which may be propelled by either human power or helper motor, or by
both, and which has:
(a) A motor which produces not more than 3.5 brake
horsepower;
(b) a cylinder capacity of not more than 130 cubic
centimeters;
(c) an automatic transmission; and
(d) the capability of a maximum
design speed of no more than 30 miles per hour except a low power cycle.
History: L. 1976, ch. 42, § 5; L. 1977, ch. 28, § 4; L. 1978,
ch. 29, § 2; L. 1980, ch. 42, § 2; L. 1982, ch. 36, § 3;
L. 1985, ch. 42, § 2;
L. 2000, ch. 179, § 18; July 1.
8-1439b:
History: L. 1980, ch. 42, § 3;
Repealed, L. 2000, ch. 179, § 25; July 1.
8-1439c: "Motorized wheelchair" defined.
"Motorized wheelchair" means any self-propelled vehicle
designed specifically for use by a physically disabled person that is
incapable of a speed in excess of 15 miles per hour.
History: L. 1992, ch. 166, § 4; July 1.
8-1440: "Nonresident" defined.
"Nonresident" means every person who is not a resident of this state.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1440; July 1.
8-1441: "Nonresident's operating privilege" defined.
"Nonresident's operating privilege" means the privilege conferred upon a
nonresident by the laws of this state pertaining to the operation by such
person of a motor vehicle, or the use of a vehicle owned by such person, in
this state.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1441; July 1.
8-1442: "Official traffic-control devices" defined.
"Official traffic-control devices" means all signs, signals, markings,
and devices, not inconsistent with this act, placed or erected by authority
of a public body or official having jurisdiction for the purpose of
regulating, warning, or guiding traffic.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1442; July 1.
8-1443: "Owner" defined.
"Owner" means a person, other than a lienholder, having the property in
or title to a vehicle; and such term includes a person entitled to the use
and possession of a vehicle subject to a security interest in another
person, but excludes a lessee under a lease not intended as security.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1443; July 1.
8-1444: "Park" and "parking" defined.
"Park" or "parking" means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or
not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually
engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1444; July 1.
8-1445: "Passenger car" defined.
"Passenger car" means every motor vehicle, except motorcycles and
motor-driven cycles, designed for carrying ten (10) passengers or less and
used for the transportation of persons.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1445; July 1.
8-1446: "Pedestrian" defined.
"Pedestrian" means:
(a) Any person afoot;
(b) any person in a wheelchair, either
manually or mechanically propelled, or other low powered, mechanically
propelled vehicle designed specifically for use by a physically disabled
person; or
(c) any person using an electric personal assistive mobility device.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1446;
L. 1992, ch. 166, § 3;
L. 2002, ch. 16, § 3; July 1.
8-1447: "Person" defined.
"Person" means every natural person, firm, association, partnership or
corporation.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1447; L. 1975, ch. 39, § 6; April 19.
8-1448: "Pneumatic tire" defined.
"Pneumatic tire" means every tire in which compressed air is designed to
support the load.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1448; July 1.
8-1449: "Pole trailer" defined.
"Pole trailer" means every vehicle without motive power designed to be
drawn by another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle by means of a
reach or pole, or by being boomed or otherwise secured to the towing
vehicle, and ordinarily used for transporting long or irregular shaped
loads such as poles, pipes or structural members capable, generally, of
sustaining themselves as beams between the supporting connections.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1449; July 1.
8-1450: "Police officer" defined.
"Police officer" means every law enforcement officer, as defined by
K.S.A. 21-3110, authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to
make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1450; July 1.
8-1451: "Private road or driveway" defined.
"Private road or driveway" means every way or place in private ownership
and used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having express or
implied permission from the owner, but not by other persons.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1451; July 1.
8-1452: "Railroad" defined.
"Railroad" means a carrier of persons or property upon cars operated
upon stationary rails.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1452; July 1.
8-1453: "Railroad sign or signal" defined.
"Railroad sign or signal" means any sign, signal or device erected by
authority of a public body or official or by a railroad and intended to
give notice of the presence of railroad tracks or the approach of a
railroad train.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1453; July 1.
8-1454: "Railroad train" defined.
"Railroad train" means a steam engine, electric or other motor, with or
without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1454; July 1.
8-1455: "Registration" defined.
"Registration" means the registration certificate or certificates and
registration plates issued under the laws of this state pertaining to the
registration of vehicles.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1455; July 1.
8-1456: "Residence district" defined.
"Residence district" means the territory contiguous to and including a
highway not comprising a business district when the property on such
highway for a distance of three hundred (300) feet or more is improved, in
the main, with residences or residences and buildings in use for business.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1456; July 1.
8-1457: "Revocation of driver's license" defined.
"Revocation of driver's license" means the termination by formal action
of the division of a person's license or privilege to operate a motor
vehicle on the highways, which termination shall not be subject to renewal
or restoration except that an application for a new license may be
presented and acted upon by the division after the expiration of the
applicable period of time prescribed in K.S.A. 8-256, and any amendments
thereto.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1457; L. 1975, ch. 39, § 7; April 19.
8-1458: "Right-of-way" defined.
"Right-of-way" means the right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed
in a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian
approaching under such circumstances of direction, speed and proximity as
to give rise to danger of collision unless one grants precedence to the
other.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1458; July 1.
8-1458a: "Road construction zone" defined.
"Road construction zone" means the portions of a highway
which
is identified by posted or moving signs as being a construction or maintenance
work area. The zone
starts at the first sign identifying the zone and continues until
a posted or moving sign indicates that the road construction zone has ended.
History: L. 1994, ch. 220, § 1; April 21.
8-1459: "Roadway" defined.
"Roadway" means that portion of a highway improved, designed, or
ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. In
the event a highway includes two (2) or more separate roadways the term
"roadway" as used herein shall refer to any such roadway separately but not
to all such roadways collectively.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1459; July 1.
8-1459a: "Safety hitch" defined.
"Safety hitch" means a chain, cable, or other material of
sufficient weight which will prevent the towed vehicle from breaking loose
in the event the towbar or drawbar fails or becomes disconnected.
History: L. 1978, ch. 42, § 5; July 1.
8-1460: "Safety zone" defined.
"Safety zone" means the area or space officially set apart within a
roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is
so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all
times while set apart as a safety zone.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1460; July 1.
8-1461: "School bus" defined.
"School bus" means every motor vehicle defined and designated as a
school bus in subsection (g) (1) of K.S.A. 72-8301.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1461; L. 1976, ch. 40, § 1; L.
1977, ch. 42, § 1; L. 1978, ch. 303, § 1; March 31.
8-1462: "Security agreement" defined.
"Security agreement" means a written agreement which reserves or creates
a security interest.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1462; July 1.
8-1463: "Security interest" defined.
"Security interest" means an interest in a vehicle reserved or created
by agreement and which secures payment or performance of an obligation. The
term includes the interest of a lessor under a lease intended as security.
A security interest is "perfected" when it is valid against third parties
generally, subject only to specific statutory exceptions.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1463; July 1.
8-1464: "Semitrailer" defined.
"Semitrailer" means every vehicle with or without motive power, other
than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for
being drawn by a motor vehicle, and so constructed that some part of its
weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1464; July 1.
8-1465: "Sidewalk" defined.
"Sidewalk" means that portion of a street between the curb lines, or the
lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines intended for
use by pedestrians.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1465; July 1.
8-1466: "Solid rubber tire" defined.
"Solid rubber tire" means every tire of rubber or other resilient
material which does not depend upon compressed air for the support of the
load.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1466; July 1.
8-1467: "Special mobile equipment" defined.
"Special mobile equipment" means every vehicle not designed or used
primarily for the transportation of persons or property and only
incidentally operated or moved over a highway, including but not limited
to: Ditch digging apparatus, well boring apparatus and road construction
and maintenance machinery such as asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers,
bucket loaders, tractors other than truck tractors, ditchers, leveling
graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earth
moving carry-alls and scrapers, power shovels and drag lines, and
self-propelled cranes and earth moving equipment. The term does not include
house trailers, dump trucks, truck mounted transit mixers, cranes or
shovels, or other vehicles designed for the transportation of persons or
property to which machinery has been attached.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1467; July 1.
8-1468: "Specially constructed vehicle" defined.
"Specially constructed vehicle" means every vehicle of a type required
to be registered in this state, not originally constructed under a
distinctive name, make, model or type by a generally recognized
manufacturer of vehicles and not materially altered from its original
construction.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1468; July 1.
8-1469: "Stand" and "standing" defined.
"Stand" or "standing" means the halting of a vehicle, whether occupied
or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually
engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1469; July 1.
8-1470: "State" defined.
"State" means a state, territory or possession of the United States, the
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or a province of the
Dominion of Canada.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1470; July 1.
8-1471: "Stop" when required, defined.
"Stop" when required means complete cessation from movement.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1471; July 1.
8-1472: "Stop" and "stopping," when prohibited, defined.
"Stop" or "stopping" when prohibited means any halting, even
momentarily, of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary
to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions
of a police officer or traffic-control sign or signal.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1472; July 1.
8-1473: "Street" defined.
"Street" means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way
publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public
for purposes of vehicular traffic.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1473; July 1.
8-1474: "Suspension of a driver's license" defined.
"Suspension of a driver's license" means the temporary withdrawal by
formal action of the division of a person's license or privilege to operate
a motor vehicle on the highways.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1474; L. 1975, ch. 39, § 8;
L. 1990, ch. 44, § 5; Jan. 1, 1991.
8-1475: "Through highway" defined.
"Through highway" means every highway or portion thereof on which
vehicular traffic is given preferential right-of-way, and at the entrances
to which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is required by law to
yield the right-of-way to vehicles on such highway in obedience to either a
stop sign, yield sign or other traffic-control device, when such signs or
devices are erected as provided in this act.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1475; July 1.
8-1475a: "Tow bar" defined.
"Tow bar" means a rigid piece of material which is structurally
adequate to hold any weight vehicle towed and which is properly and securely
mounted to the towed vehicle without excessive slack but with sufficient
play to allow for universal action of the connection and which is equipped
with a suitable locking device to prevent accidental separation of the towing
vehicle and the towed vehicle.
History: L. 1978, ch. 42, § 3; July 1.
8-1476: "Trackless trolley coach" defined.
"Trackless trolley coach" means every motor vehicle which is propelled
by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires but not operated
upon rails.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1476; July 1.
8-1477: "Traffic" defined.
"Traffic" means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and
other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for
purposes of travel.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1477; July 1.
8-1478: "Traffic-control signal" defined.
"Traffic-control signal" means any device, whether manually,
electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately
directed to stop and permitted to proceed.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1478; July 1.
8-1479: "Trailer" defined.
"Trailer" means every vehicle with or without motive power, other than a
pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn
by a motor vehicle, and so constructed that no part of its weight rests
upon the towing vehicle.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1479; July 1.
8-1480: "Transporter" defined.
"Transporter" means every person engaged in the business of delivering
vehicles, of a type required to be registered in this state, from a
manufacturing, assembling or distributing plant to dealers or sales agents
of a manufacturer.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1480; July 1.
8-1481: "Truck" defined.
"Truck" means every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily
for the transportation of property.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1481; July 1.
8-1482: "Truck-camper" defined.
"Truck-camper" means any structure designed, used or maintained
primarily to be loaded on or affixed to a motor vehicle to provide a mobile
dwelling, sleeping place, office or commercial space.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1482; July 1.
8-1483: "Truck tractor" defined.
"Truck tractor" means every motor vehicle designed and used primarily
for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other
than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1483; July 1.
8-1484: "Urban district" defined.
"Urban district" means the territory contiguous to and including any
street which is built up with structures devoted to business, industry or
dwelling houses, situated at intervals of less than one hundred (100) feet
for a distance of a quarter of a mile or more.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1484; July 1.
8-1485: "Vehicle" defined.
"Vehicle" means every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except electric personal
assistive mobility devices or devices moved by
human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1485;
L. 2002, ch. 16, § 4; July 1.
8-1486: Certain sections part of uniform
act.
K.S.A. 8-1402a, 8-1414a, 8-1439c, 8-1458a, 8-1459a, 8-1475a, 8-1487, 8-1488,
8-1489 and 8-1490 and amendments thereto, and K.S.A. 2006 Supp. 8-1491, 8-1492,
and 8-1493, and amendments thereto, shall
be a part of, and supplemental to, the uniform act regulating traffic on
highways.
History: L. 1978, ch. 42, § 6;
L. 1992, ch. 166, § 5;
L. 1994, ch. 220, § 3;
L. 1996, ch. 220, § 7;
L. 1998, ch. 193, § 2;
L. 2000, ch. 179, § 19;
L. 2001, ch. 19, § 3;
L. 2002, ch. 16, § 5;
L. 2006, ch. 134, § 4;
L. 2007, ch. 140, § 6; July 1.
8-1487: "National network of highways"
defined.
"National network of highways" means the interstate system,
other United States designated highways and all state highways.
History: L. 1998, ch. 193, § 1; May 28.
8-1488: "Low-speed vehicle" defined.
"Low-speed vehicle" means any four-wheeled
electric vehicle whose top speed is greater than 20 miles per hour but not
greater than 25 miles per hour and is manufactured in compliance with the
national highway and traffic safety administration standards for low-speed
vehicles in 49 C.F.R. 571.500.
History: L. 2000, ch. 179, § 2; July 1.
8-1489: "Electric-assisted bicycle"
defined.
"Electric-assisted bicycle" means a bicycle with two or
three wheels, a saddle, fully operative pedals for human propulsion, and an
electric motor. The electric-assisted bicycle's electric motor must have a
power output of no more than 1,000 watts, be incapable of propelling the device
at a speed of more than 20 miles per hour on level ground and incapable of
further increasing the speed of the device when human power alone is used to
propel the device beyond 20 miles per hour.
History: L. 2000, ch. 179, § 4; July 1.
8-1490: "Travel trailer" defined.
"Travel trailer" means every vehicle without motive power
designed to be towed by a motor vehicle constructed primarily for recreational
purposes.
History: L. 2001, ch. 19, § 1; Mar. 22.
8-1491: "Electric personal assistive mobility
device" defined.
"Electric personal assistive mobility device" means a
self-balancing two nontandem wheeled device, designed to transport only one
person, with an electric propulsion system that limits the maximum speed of the
device to 15 miles per hour or less.
History: L. 2002, ch. 16, § 1; July 1.
8-1492: "School crossing guard" defined.
"School crossing guard" means any person 18 years of age
and
older or any
person under 18 years of age who is being directly supervised by a person at
least 18 years of age,
acting with or without compensation and who is authorized under K.S.A. 2007
Supp. 8-15,104, and amendments thereto, to supervise, direct, monitor or
otherwise assist school children at a
street or intersection
in the vicinity of a school crosswalk or bus stop.
History: L. 2006, ch. 134, § 2; July 1.
8-1493: "Work-site utility vehicle"
defined.
"Work-site utility vehicle" means any motor vehicle which is
not less than 48 inches in width, has an overall length, including the bumper,
of not more than 135 inches, has an unladen weight, including fuel and fluids,
of more than 800 pounds and is equipped with four or more low pressure tires, a
steering wheel and bench or bucket-type seating allowing at least two people to
sit side-by-side, and may be equipped with a bed or cargo box for hauling
materials.
History: L. 2007, ch. 140, § 4; Apr. 26.