8-143b


Chapter 8.--AUTOMOBILES AND OTHER VEHICLES


Article 1.--GENERAL PROVISIONS

     
8-143b.   Temporary intrastate registration or license
for truck or truck tractor registered
in another state; fee in lieu of annual license fee; application; ambulances,
rescue vehicles and utility vehicles exempt from fee in certain cases.

(a) Except as provided in K.S.A. 8-143k, and amendments thereto, and
subsection (b), the
owner of
any truck or truck tractor which is duly registered and
licensed in some other state, desiring to operate in intrastate commerce in
this state for a temporary period only, in lieu of payment of the
annual license fee, may register such truck or truck
tractor and obtain either: (1) A seventy-two-hour temporary registration; or
(2)
a thirty-day license authorizing operation on the highways
of
this state for a
period not to exceed 30 days from the date of issuance of such
license. The fee for: The seventy-two-hour temporary
registration shall be $26 and the fee for the thirty-day license shall be
$26 or
1/8 of the annual license fee for such vehicle, whichever sum is the larger.
Where either fee is paid on a truck or truck tractor no
registration or fee
shall be required for a trailer or semitrailer duly registered in this or
another state and propelled by such truck or truck tractor. Application for
such temporary registration or license shall be made to the division in
the manner and form
prescribed by the director and shall be accompanied by the required fee,
which shall be deposited by the director as provided by K.S.A. 8-146, and
amendments thereto.

     
(b)   Whenever any natural catastrophe or
disaster, civil riot or disorder or any other condition exists in this
state that requires or necessitates emergency assistance or aid from
persons owning ambulances, rescue vehicles or utility vehicles which are
subject to the provisions of this section, such persons shall be exempt
from the payment of the fee required in subsection (a) for
any such ambulance, rescue
vehicle or utility vehicle that is operated in this state for the purpose
of or in connection with rendering such emergency assistance or aid.

     
History:   L. 1955, ch. 294, § 5;
L. 1974, ch. 36, § 1;
L. 1976, ch. 43, § 2;
L. 1989, ch. 209, § 20;
Revived and amend., L. 1990, ch. 38, § 4;
L. 2000, ch. 55, § 1; July 1.