8-145a

Chapter 8.--AUTOMOBILES AND OTHER VEHICLES

Article 1.--GENERAL PROVISIONS

     
8-145a.   Collection of insufficient or no-fund
payment instrument or rejected or reversed credit card payment
given for vehicle
registration; notice; recovery of plates; return of check, when; criminal
prosecution.
(a) The county treasurer of any county who shall receive from any
person, as
payment of the annual license fee for the registration of any motorcycle or
motor vehicle, a credit card payment that is
subsequently rejected or reversed by the credit card issuer or a payment
instrument drawn on or issued by a bank or other financial institution
in which such person has no money on
deposit or in which there is insufficient money on deposit for the payment
of such payment instrument upon its presentation, shall
upon the return of any such payment instrument by the bank
or other financial institution or upon the rejection or reversal of the
credit card transaction notify the person uttering the same. Such notice
shall be
given by first class mail and shall state that if within seven
days of
the date of mailing the notice, such person has not paid the amount of the
license fee, the sheriff will recover the registration number plate for
which the credit card transaction or payment
instrument was submitted and return the same to the office of the county
treasurer. If the amount of the license fee is received in the office of
the county treasurer within such seven days, the county
treasurer shall
return such insufficient or no-fund payment instrument to
the person from whom it was
received. Nothing in this act is to be
construed to
exclude
criminal prosecutions as in other cases involving insufficient or no-fund
checks or other payment instruments.

     
(b)   For the purposes of this section, "payment instrument" shall have the
meaning ascribed to it in K.S.A. 9-508 and amendments thereto.

     
History:   L. 1968, ch. 359, § 1;
L. 2008, ch. 102, § 2; July 1.