8-134. Renewal of registration of certain vehicles; registration and reregistration of passenger vehicles; monthly system; decals for license plates; rules and regulations.
8-134
8-134. Renewal of registration of certain vehicles;
registration and
reregistration of passenger vehicles; monthly system; decals for license
plates; rules and regulations.
(a) Every vehicle registration under this act
shall expire December 31 of each year, except passenger
vehicles and vehicles
provided for in K.S.A. 8-134a, and amendments thereto. The registration
of
vehicles to which K.S.A. 8-134a, and amendments thereto, applies
shall expire
in 1982 and thereafter in accordance with the provisions of subsections
(b) and (c). Registration of vehicles shall be renewed
annually upon application by the owner and by payment of the fees
required by law. Except vehicles subject to K.S.A. 8-134a, and
amendments
thereto, and passenger vehicles,
the renewal shall take effect on
January 1 of each year but the owner of the vehicle
shall have until and
including the last day of February of each year within which
to make application
for such renewal. The division shall issue for such vehicles a February
month
decal to correspond with the statutory grace period. Criminal sanctions
provided in K.S.A. 8-142 and
amendments
thereto, for failure to display any license plate or plates or any
registration decal required to be affixed to any such license plate for
the current registration year shall not be enforced until March 1 of each
year. An owner who has made proper application
for
renewal of registration of a vehicle prior to January 1,
but who has
not received the license plate or registration card for the ensuing year,
shall be entitled to operate or permit the operation of such vehicle
upon the highways upon displaying thereon the license plate issued for
the preceding year for such time as the director of
vehicles finds necessary for issuance of
such new license plate.
(b) Every passenger vehicle required by
this act to be registered, except as otherwise provided, shall be
registered for a period of 12 consecutive months. The division
of vehicles, in order to initiate a system of registering or
reregistering passenger vehicles during any month of a calendar year,
may register or reregister a passenger vehicle for less than a
twelve-month period, prorating the annual registration fee, when in the
director's opinion such proration tends to fulfill the purpose of the
monthly registration system.
(c) Passenger vehicle registration,
and the authority to legally operate, use, or tow such vehicle on the
highway shall expire at 12:00 a.m. midnight on the last day of the last month of
the twelve-month period for which such vehicle was registered, and the
owner shall see that such vehicle is reregistered as required by this
act. The director of vehicles shall designate the registration period
for each passenger vehicle in order to as nearly as feasible equalize
registration or reregistration within the 12 months of the
year. Any vehicle after having once been registered shall upon
reregistration, be registered for the same twelve-month period except
when the certificate of title has been transferred as provided by law.
In this case, the vehicle shall be registered by the division of
vehicles in accordance with the system adopted.
(d) For the purpose of this act, hearses and electrically propelled
vehicles shall be classified as passenger vehicles.
(e) Every owner who registers or
reregisters a vehicle in a calendar year, and in any calendar year in which
a license plate is not issued for the renewal of
registration of such vehicle, shall be furnished by the division one
decal for the license plate issued for such vehicle and required by
K.S.A. 8-133, and amendments thereto, to be affixed to the rear
of such vehicle.
Such decal shall
be affixed to the number plate affixed to the rear of such vehicle and
shall contain the letters designating the county in which such vehicle
is registered, as provided in K.S.A. 8-147, and amendments thereto,
shall be
numbered
serially in each county and shall indicate the year in which such
registration expires. The color of a decal shall be such that it
contrasts with the color of the license plate to which it is to be
affixed, and the director of vehicles shall change the color of such
decals each year, without duplicating the same color in any five-year
period or such extended period as the director designates under subsection
(b) of K.S.A. 8-132 and amendments thereto. Such decals shall be so constructed
that once a decal has been
affixed to a license plate it cannot be removed without destroying the
decal, and the surface of such decals shall be capable of reflecting
light. Consistent with the foregoing, the director of vehicles shall
prescribe the size of and material to be used in the production of such
decals, and the director of vehicles shall designate the location on a
number plate where such decal shall be affixed.
(f) The secretary of revenue shall adopt rules and regulations
necessary to accomplish the purpose of this act.
History: L. 1929, ch. 81, § 12; L. 1969, ch. 47, § 1; L.
1972, ch. 342, § 32; L. 1974, ch. 35, § 3; L. 1975, ch. 30, § 3; L.
1979, ch. 35, § 1; L. 1981, ch. 36, § 2; L. 1983, ch. 29, § 2;
L. 2003, ch. 34, § 1; July 1.