8-1,134


Chapter 8.--AUTOMOBILES AND OTHER VEHICLES


Article 1.--GENERAL PROVISIONS

     
8-1,134.   Permanent registration of city, county,
township, school
district, community college or technical college vehicles;
utility vehicles five-year registration.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (d): (1) Each motor
vehicle, trailer or
semitrailer owned or leased by
any city, county, township or school district of this state or
by any agency
or instrumentality of any city, county or township and used exclusively for
governmental or school district purposes and not
for any private purposes, which is not otherwise exempt from
registration; or (2) each truck tractor, trailer or semitrailer
leased by a community college or technical college and used exclusively for a
truck driver training
program, which is not otherwise exempt from registration, shall be
registered for a fee established by rules and
regulations adopted by the secretary of revenue, except that such fee shall
not exceed the actual cost of such registration. Such registration
shall be permanent in nature and designed in such a manner as to remain
with a vehicle for the duration of the life span of the vehicle, the
duration of the lease or until
the title is transferred to an owner who is not a city, county,
township, school district, community college or technical
college.

     
(b)   License plates issued for city, county, township, school
district, community college or technical college vehicles shall be
distinctive and shall contain the words city,
county, township, school district, community college or
technical college, as
applicable and there shall
be no year date thereon.

     
(c)   Each city, county, township, school district,
community college or
technical college shall file
an annual
report with the division of
vehicles identifying such vehicle registered under this section.

     
(d)   Vehicles registered under this section which are used for utility
purposes shall be issued license plates as prescribed by subsection (b), except
that such license plates shall be issued for periods of five years, but shall
be
required to pay all license fees imposed pursuant to K.S.A. 8-143, and
amendments thereto, as though such vehicles were registered annually. The
secretary of revenue shall design decals to be
affixed to such license plates containing the word utility and the date the
registration is to expire.

     
(e)   The secretary of revenue shall adopt rules and regulations
necessary
to carry out the provisions of this act.

     
History:   L. 1987, ch. 43, § 1;
L. 1988, ch. 41, § 2;
L. 1994, ch. 221, § 2;
L. 1995, ch. 41, § 1;
L. 2003, ch. 11, § 1;
L. 2005, ch. 62, § 1; July 1.