8-177a. License plates for members or retired members of Kansas national guard; application; issuance; nontransferability; design of plate.
8-177a
8-177a. License plates for members or retired members of Kansas national
guard;
application; issuance; nontransferability; design of plate.
(a) Any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles
or trucks registered for a gross weight of not more than
20,000 pounds who
is a resident of the state of Kansas, and who is a
regularly enlisted or retired, warrant or commissioned member of the Kansas
national guard, upon compliance
with the provisions of this
section, may be issued one distinctive license plate for each such motor
vehicle
or truck that is not required to be registered with the state corporation
commission designating the owner or lessee of such vehicle
as a member or retired member of the Kansas national guard. Such license
plates shall be
issued for the same period of time as other license plates
upon proper registration and payment of the regular license fee as
provided in K.S.A. 8-143, and amendments thereto.
(b) Any such member or retired member of the Kansas national guard may
make
application for such distinctive license plates, not less than 60
days prior to such member's renewal of registration date, on a form furnished
by the director of vehicles, and any applicant
for such distinctive license plates shall furnish the
director with such
applicant's armed forces of the United States identification card as proof that
the applicant is a member or a retired
member of
the Kansas national guard. Application for the registration of
passenger vehicles or trucks and issuance of the distinctive license plates
under this section shall be made by the owner or lessee in a manner
prescribed by the
director of vehicles upon forms furnished by the director.
(c) No registration or distinctive license
plate issued under this section shall be transferable to any other person.
(d) Renewals of registration under this section shall be made annually, upon
payment of the fee prescribed in subsection (a), in the
manner prescribed in subsection (b) of K.S.A. 8-132, and amendments thereto.
No
renewal of registration shall be made to any applicant until such
applicant has filed with the director a form as provided in subsection
(b). If such form is not filed, the applicant shall be
required to comply with K.S.A.
8-143, and amendments thereto, and return the distinctive license plates to the
county
treasurer of such person's residence.
(e) The adjutant general, with the
approval of the director of vehicles and subject to the availability of
materials and equipment, shall design a distinctive license plate for
issuance to members and retired members of the Kansas national guard.
History: L. 1979, ch. 34, § 1; L. 1980, ch. 34, § 3; L. 1982,
ch. 38, § 1;
L. 1985, ch. 43, § 12;
L. 1993, ch. 252, § 3;
L. 1997, ch. 79, § 2;
L. 1999, ch. 125, § 6; July 1.