8-142. Unlawful acts.
8-142
8-142. Unlawful acts.
It shall be unlawful for any person to commit any of the following acts
and except as otherwise provided, violation is subject to penalties
provided in K.S.A. 8-149, and amendments thereto:
First: To operate, or for the owner thereof knowingly to permit
the operation, upon a highway of any vehicle, as defined in K.S.A.
8-126, and amendments thereto, which is not registered, or for which a
certificate of title has
not been issued or which does not have attached thereto and displayed
thereon the license plate or plates assigned thereto by the division for
the current registration year, including any registration decal required
to be affixed to any such license plate pursuant to K.S.A. 8-134, and
amendments thereto, subject
to the exemptions allowed in K.S.A. 8-135, 8-198 and 8-1751a, and amendments
thereto.
A violation of this First by a person unlawfully claiming that a
motor vehicle is exempt from registration as a self-propelled crane under
subsection (b) of K.S.A. 8-128, and amendments thereto, shall constitute an
unclassified misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $500.
Second: To display or cause or permit to be displayed, or to
have in possession, any registration receipt, certificate of
title, registration license plate, registration decal, accessible
parking placard or accessible parking identification card knowing the same
to be fictitious or to have been canceled, revoked, suspended or
altered.
A violation of this part Second shall constitute an unclassified
misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $100 and forfeiture of the
item. A mandatory court appearance shall be required of any person violating
this part Second. This part Second shall not apply to
the
possession of: (a) Model year license plates displayed on antique vehicles as
allowed under
K.S.A. 8-172, and amendments thereto; or (b) distinctive license plates allowed
under K.S.A. 8-1,147, and amendments thereto.
Third: To lend to or knowingly permit the use by one not
entitled thereto any registration receipt, certificate of title,
registration license plate or registration decal issued to the person so
lending or permitting the use thereof.
Fourth: To fail or refuse to surrender to the division, upon
demand, any registration receipt, certificate of title, registration license
plate or registration decal which has been suspended, canceled or
revoked.
Fifth: To use a false or fictitious name or address in any
application for a certificate of title, the registration of any vehicle
or for any renewal or duplicate thereof, or knowingly to make a false
statement or knowingly to conceal a material fact or otherwise commit a
fraud in any such application.
Sixth: For the owner of a motor vehicle to file application for
the registration thereof, in any county other than the county in which
the owner of the vehicle resides or has a bona fide place of business,
which place is not an office or facility established or maintained
solely for the purpose of obtaining registration.
Seventh: To operate on the highways of this state a vehicle or
combination of vehicles whose weight with cargo is in excess of the
gross weight for which the truck or truck tractor propelling the same is
registered, except as provided by K.S.A. 8-143, and amendments thereto,
and
subsections (a) to (f), inclusive, of K.S.A. 8-1911, and amendments
thereto. Such gross weight shall not be required to be in excess of the
limitations described by K.S.A. 8-1908 and 8-1909, and amendments
thereto,
for such vehicle or combination of vehicles of which it is a part. Any
person or owner who operates a vehicle in this state with a registration in
violation of subsection (2) of K.S.A. 8-143, and amendments thereto,
shall be
required to pay the additional fee equal to the fee required by the
applicable registration fee schedule, less the amount of the fee required
for the gross weight for which the vehicle is registered to obtain the
proper registration therewith. A fine of $75 shall be assessed for all
such gross weight registration violations.
Eighth: To operate a local truck or truck tractor which is
registered for a gross weight of more than 12,000 pounds
as a common carrier outside a radius of three miles
beyond the corporate limits of the city in which such vehicle
was based when registered and licensed or to operate any other local
truck or truck tractor licensed for a gross weight of more than 12,000
pounds outside a radius of 25 miles
beyond the corporate limits of the city in which such vehicle
was based when registered and licensed, except as provided in subsection
(2) of K.S.A. 8-143 or 8-143i, and amendments thereto.
Ninth: To operate on the highways of this state a farm truck or
farm trailer other than to transport: (a) Agricultural products produced
by such owner; (b) commodities purchased by the owner for use on the
farm owned or rented by the owner of such vehicles; (c) commodities for
religious or educational institutions being transported by the owner of
such vehicles for charity and without compensation of any kind, except
as provided in subsection (c) of K.S.A. 66-1,109, and amendments
thereto; or (d) sand, gravel, slag stone, limestone, crushed stone,
cinders, black top, dirt or fill material to a township road maintenance
or construction site of the township in which the owner of such truck
resides.
Tenth: To operate a farm truck or truck tractor used in combination
with a trailer or semitrailer for a gross weight which does not include the
empty weight of the truck or truck tractor or of the combination of any
truck or truck tractor and any type of trailer or semitrailer, plus the
maximum weight of cargo which will be transported on or with the same; and
such farm truck or farm truck tractor used to transport a gross weight of
more than 54,000 pounds shall have durably lettered on the side of the
motor vehicle the words "farm vehicle--not for hire."
Eleventh: To operate on the highways of this state any truck or
truck tractor without the current quarter of license fees being paid
thereon.
Twelfth: To operate on the highways of this state a truck or
truck tractor without carrying in the cab a copy of the registration
receipt for such vehicle or without having painted or otherwise durably
marked on said vehicle on both sides thereof, the gross weight for which
said vehicle is licensed and the name and address of the owner thereof,
except as provided in K.S.A. 8-143e, and amendments thereto.
Thirteenth: To operate on the highways of this state a farm trailer
carrying more than 6,000 pounds without being
registered and the registration fees paid thereon.
Fourteenth: To operate more than 6,000 miles in
any calendar year any truck or truck tractor which has been registered
and licensed to operate not more than 6,000 miles in such
calendar year, as provided in subsection (2) of K.S.A. 8-143, and
amendments thereto,
unless the additional fee required by said subsection (2) has been paid.
Fifteenth: For any owner who has registered a truck or truck
tractor on the basis of operating not more than 6,000
miles to fail to keep the records required by the director of vehicles,
or to fail to comply with rules and regulations of the secretary of
revenue relating to such registration.
Sixteenth: To operate a vehicle or combination of vehicles on the
national system of interstate and defense highways with a gross weight
greater than permitted by the laws of the United States Congress.
History: L. 1929, ch. 81, § 20;
L. 1937, ch. 72, § 7; L. 1951, ch. 104, § 1;
L. 1955, ch. 294, § 10;
L. 1956, ch. 48, § 4;
L. 1957, ch. 57, § 7;
L. 1961, ch. 49, § 1;
L. 1963, ch. 48, § 3;
L. 1968, ch. 411, § 3;
L. 1969, ch. 48, § 2;
L. 1974, ch. 35, § 6;
L. 1975, ch. 426, § 28;
L. 1975, ch. 33, § 1;
L. 1975, ch. 427, § 4;
L. 1976, ch. 41, § 1;
L. 1985, ch. 43, § 1;
L. 1992, ch. 105, § 1;
L. 1995, ch. 186, § 4;
L. 1998, ch. 140, § 9;
L. 2003, ch. 124, § 2;
L. 2006, ch. 136, § 3; April 27.