8-136. Dealer license plates; manufacturers' and dealers' use and limitations on use; display; proof of payment of personal property tax before issuance; transportation of certain trailers.
8-136
8-136. Dealer license plates; manufacturers' and
dealers' use and limitations
on use; display; proof of payment of personal property tax before issuance;
transportation of certain trailers.
(a) A licensed manufacturer of or licensed dealer in
vehicles demonstrating, displaying or exhibiting any such vehicle
upon any highway in lieu of registering each such vehicle, may obtain
from the division of vehicles, upon application therefor upon the proper
official form, and payment of the fees required by law, and attach to
each such vehicle, one license plate which shall
have a distinctive
number, the name of this state, which may be abbreviated, and the
year for which issued, together with the word "dealer" or a
distinguishing symbol indicating that such license plate is issued to a
manufacturer or dealer. Any such license plate
may, during the
calendar year for which issued, be transferred from one such vehicle to
another owned or operated by such manufacturer or dealer. Such a license plate
may
be used in lieu of regular vehicle registration for the purposes of
demonstrating, displaying or exhibiting vehicles held in inventory of such
manufacturer or dealer. Such a license plate may also be used on such dealer's
service vehicle, or substitute vehicles owned by the dealer but loaned to
a customer when the dealer is repairing such customer's vehicle
and for all other
purposes incidental to a dealer's vehicle business. Except as provided in
subsection (d), such a license plate
may not be used by a manufacturer or dealer to haul commodities weighing
in excess of two
tons. Such license
plates shall not be used on a wrecker or tow truck when providing wrecker
or towing service as defined by K.S.A. 66-1329, and amendments thereto.
(b) No manufacturer of or dealer in vehicles shall cause or permit any
such vehicle owned by such
person to be operated or moved upon a highway unless there is
displayed upon such vehicle a license plate as required by this section.
(c) No license plates shall be issued to
any manufacturer or dealer unless such manufacturer or dealer at the
time of making application therefor shall exhibit to the county
treasurer or the division of vehicles a receipt showing that the
applicant has paid all personal property taxes levied against such
manufacturer or dealer for the preceding year, including taxes assessed
against motor vehicles of such manufacturer or dealer which were
assessed as stock in trade, or unless the manufacturer or dealer shall
exhibit satisfactory evidence to the county treasurer that such
manufacturer or dealer had no taxable property for the preceding year or
if the application is made directly to the division of vehicles there
shall be presented a statement by the county treasurer that the
manufacturer or dealer had no taxable property for the preceding year.
If application for registration is made before June 21,
the receipt may show payment of only 1/2 of the preceding
year's taxes.
(d) A trailer manufacturer or dealer is authorized to use a license plate
issued under this section for the transportation of not more than four
trailers.
Such manufacturer or dealer shall be in compliance with the provisions of
article 19 of chapter 8 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments
thereto.
History: L. 1929, ch. 81, § 14; L. 1949, ch. 100, § 1; L.
1955, ch. 46, § 3; L. 1959, ch. 46, § 8; L. 1961, ch. 48, § 1;
L. 1980, ch. 32, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 25, § 7;
L. 2005, ch. 100, § 1; July 1.