8-1101. Abandoning and leaving on highways; definitions.
8-1101
8-1101. Abandoning and leaving on highways; definitions.
As used in this act: (a) "Public agency" means and includes the
department of transportation, the Kansas turnpike authority, a county, city
and township.
(b) "Motor vehicle" means every vehicle, or tractor trailer
combination, which is self-propelled by which any person or property is or
may be transported or drawn upon a highway except vehicles used exclusively
upon stationary rails or tracks.
(c) "Highway" means the entire width between the boundary lines
of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use
of the public for the purposes of vehicular travel.
(d) "Law enforcement officer" means and includes the Kansas highway
patrol, police, sheriff, who are vested with the power and authority of peace,
police, and law enforcement, or those authorized to direct or regulate traffic
or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
History: L. 1961, ch. 60, § 1; L. 1975, ch. 426, § 38;
L. 1992, ch. 78, § 1; July 1.