8-143. Annual registration or license fees, motor vehicles, trailers, semitrailers, motorized bicycles and travel trailers; gross weight defined; local trucks and truck tractors, rules and regulations
8-143
8-143. Annual registration or license fees, motor vehicles, trailers, semitrailers, motorized bicycles and travel trailers; gross weight defined; local trucks and truck tractors, rules and regulations, refunds, exemptions; penalties; temporary registration; registration after nonoperation or nonuse; travel trailers; multiyear registration of trailers. (1) All applications for the registration of motorcycles, motorized bicycles and passenger vehicles other than trucks and truck tractors, except as otherwise provided, shall be accompanied by an annual license fee as follows: For motorized bicycles, $11; for motorcycles, $16; for passenger vehicles, other than motorcycles, used solely for the carrying of persons for pleasure or business, and for hearses and ambulances a fee of (i) $30 for those having a gross weight of 4,500 pounds or less; (ii) $40 for those having a gross weight of more than 4,500 pounds; for each electrically propelled motor vehicle, except electrically propelled vehicles intended for the purpose of transporting any commodity, goods, merchandise, produce or freight, or passengers for hire, a fee of $14. Except for motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers registered under the provisions of K.S.A. 8-1,134, and amendments thereto, the annual registration fee for each motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer owned by any political or taxing subdivision of this state or by any agency or instrumentality of any one or more political or taxing subdivisions of this state and used exclusively for governmental purposes and not for any private or utility purposes, which is not otherwise exempt from registration, shall be $2.
(2) As used in this subsection, the term "gross weight" shall mean
and include the empty weight of the truck, or combination of
the truck or
truck tractor and any type trailer or semitrailer, plus the maximum
weight of cargo which will be transported on or with the same, except when
the empty weight of a truck plus the maximum weight of cargo which will be
transported thereon is 12,000 pounds or less. The term gross weight shall
not include: The weight of any travel trailer propelled thereby which is
being used for private recreational purposes; or the weight of any vehicle
or combination of vehicles for which wrecker or towing service, as defined
in K.S.A. 66-1329, and amendments thereto, is to be provided by a wrecker
or tow truck, as defined in K.S.A. 66-1329, and amendments thereto. Such
wrecker or tow truck shall be registered for the empty weight of such
vehicle fully equipped for the recovery or towing of vehicles.
The gross weight license fees hereinafter prescribed shall only apply to
the truck or truck tractor used as the propelling unit for the cargo and
vehicle propelled, either as a single vehicle or combination of
vehicles. On application for the registration of a truck or truck
tractor, the owner thereof shall declare as a part of such application
the maximum gross weight the owner desires to be applicable to such
vehicle, which declared gross weight in no event shall be in excess of
the limitations described by K.S.A. 8-1908 and 8-1909, and amendments
thereto, for such vehicle or combination of vehicles of which it will be a
part. All applications for the registration of trucks or truck tractors,
except as otherwise provided herein, shall be accompanied by an annual
license fee as follows:
For a gross weight of 12,000 lbs. or less ................. $40
For a gross weight of more than 12,000 lbs. and not more than 16,000 lbs. ................. 102
For a gross weight of more than 16,000 lbs. and not more than 20,000 lbs. ................. 132
For a gross weight of more than 20,000 lbs. and not more than 24,000 lbs. ................. 197
For a gross weight of more than 24,000 lbs. and not more than 26,000 lbs. ................. 312
For a gross weight of more than 26,000 lbs. and not more than 30,000 lbs.................. 312
For a gross weight of more than 30,000 lbs. and not more than 36,000 lbs. ................. 375
For a gross weight of more than 36,000 lbs. and not more than 42,000 lbs. ................. 475
For a gross weight of more than 42,000 lbs. and not more than 48,000 lbs. ................. 605
For a gross weight of more than 48,000 lbs. and not more than 54,000 lbs. ................. 805
For a gross weight of more than 54,000 lbs. and not more than 60,000 lbs. ................. 1,010
For a gross weight of more than 60,000 lbs. and not more than 66,000 lbs. ................. 1,210
For a gross weight of more than 66,000 lbs. and not more than 74,000 lbs. ................. 1,535
For a gross weight of more than 74,000 lbs. and not more than 80,000 lbs. ................. 1,735
For a gross weight of more than 80,000 lbs. and not more than 85,500
lbs. ................. 1,935
If the applicant for registration of any truck or truck tractor for a
gross weight of more than 12,000 pounds is the state
of Kansas or any political or taxing subdivision or agency of the state,
except a city or county,
whose truck or truck tractor is not otherwise entitled to the $2
license
fee or otherwise exempt from all fees, such vehicle
may be licensed for a fee in accordance with the schedule hereinafter
prescribed for local trucks or truck tractors.
If the applicant for registration of any truck or truck tractor for a
gross weight of more than 12,000 pounds shall under
oath state in writing on a form prescribed and furnished by the director
of vehicles that the applicant does not expect to operate it more than 6,000
miles in the calendar year for which the applicant
seeks registration, and that if the applicant shall operate it more than
6,000 miles during such registration year such applicant will
pay an additional fee equal to the fee required by the preceding
schedule, less the amount of the fee paid at time of registration,
such vehicle may be licensed for a fee in accordance with the schedule
hereinafter prescribed for local trucks or truck tractors; and whenever
the same is registered on a local truck or truck tractor fee basis a tab
or marker shall be issued in connection with the regular license
plate, which tab or marker shall be attached or affixed to and displayed
with the regular license plate and the failure to have the same
attached, affixed or displayed shall be subject to the same penalties as
provided by law for the failure to display the regular license
plate; and the secretary of revenue may adopt rules and regulations
requiring the owners of trucks and truck tractors so registered on a
local truck or truck tractor fee basis to keep such records and make
such reports of mileage of such vehicles as the secretary of revenue
shall deem proper.
A transporter delivering vehicles not the transporter's own by the
driveaway method where such vehicles are being driven, towed, or
transported singly, or by the saddlemount, towbar, or fullmount methods,
or by any lawful combination thereof, may apply for license
plates which may be transferred from one such vehicle or combination to
another for each delivery without further registration, and the annual
license fee for such license plate shall be as follows:
For the first such set of license plates ................. $44
For each additional such set of license plates ................. 18
A truck or truck tractor registered for a gross weight of more than 12,000
pounds, which is operated wholly within the
corporate limits of a city or village or within a radius of 25 miles beyond
the corporate limits, shall be classified as a local
truck except that in no event shall such vehicles operated as contract
or common carriers outside a radius of three miles beyond the
corporate limits of the city or village in which such vehicles were
based when registered and licensed be considered local trucks or truck
tractors. The secretary of revenue is hereby authorized and directed to
adopt rules and regulations prescribing a procedure for the issuance of
permits by the division of vehicles whereby owners of local trucks or
truck tractors may operate any such vehicle, empty, beyond the radius
hereinbefore prescribed, when such operation is solely for the purpose
of having such vehicle repaired, painted or serviced or for adding
additional equipment thereto. The annual license fee for a local truck
or truck tractor, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be as
follows:
For a gross weight of more than 12,000 lbs. and not more than 16,000
lbs. ................. $62
For a gross weight of more than 16,000 lbs. and not more than 20,000
lbs. ................. 102
For a gross weight of more than 20,000 lbs. and not more than 24,000
lbs. ................. 132
For a gross weight of more than 24,000 lbs. and not more than
26,000 lbs. ................. 177
For a gross weight of more than 26,000 lbs. and not more than 30,000
lbs.................. 177
For a gross weight of more than 30,000 lbs. and not more than 36,000
lbs. ................. 215
For a gross weight of more than 36,000 lbs. and not more than 42,000
lbs. ................. 245
For a gross weight of more than 42,000 lbs. and not more than 48,000
lbs. ................. 315
For a gross weight of more than 48,000 lbs. and not more than 54,000
lbs. ................. 415
For a gross weight of more than 54,000 lbs. and not more than 60,000
lbs. ................. 480
For a gross weight of more than 60,000 lbs. and not more than 66,000
lbs. ................. 580
For a gross weight of more than 66,000 lbs. and not more than 74,000
lbs. ................. 760
For a gross weight of more than 74,000 lbs. and not more than 80,000
lbs. ................. 890
For a gross weight of more than 80,000 lbs. and not more than 85,500
lbs. ................. 1,010
A truck or truck tractor registered for a gross weight of more than
12,000 pounds, which is owned by a person engaged in farming and
which truck or truck tractor is used by such owner to transport
agricultural products produced by such owner or commodities purchased by
such owner for use on the farm owned or rented by the owner of such farm
truck or truck tractor, shall be classified as a farm truck or truck
tractor and the annual license fee for such farm truck shall be as
follows:
For a gross weight of more than 12,000 lbs. and not more than 16,000
lbs. ................. $37
For a gross weight of more than 16,000 lbs. and not more than 20,000
lbs. ................. 42
For a gross weight of more than 20,000 lbs. and not more than 24,000
lbs. ................. 52
For a gross weight of more than 24,000 lbs. and not more than 26,000
lbs.................. 72
For a gross weight of more than 26,000 lbs. and not more than
36,000 lbs. ................. 72
For a gross weight of more than 36,000 lbs. and not more than
54,000 lbs. ................. 75
For a gross weight of more than 54,000 lbs. and not more than 60,000 lbs.
................. 190
For a gross weight of more than 60,000 lbs. and not more than 66,000 lbs.
................. 370
For a gross weight of more than 66,000 lbs. ................. 610
A vehicle licensed as a farm truck or truck tractor may be used
by the owner thereof to transport, for charity and without compensation
of any kind, commodities for religious or educational institutions. A
truck which is licensed as a farm truck may also be used for the
transportation of sand, gravel, slag stone, limestone, crushed stone,
cinders, black top, dirt or fill material to a township road maintenance
or construction site of the township in which the owner of such truck
resides. Any applicant for registration of any farm truck or farm truck
tractor used in combination with a trailer or semitrailer shall register
the farm truck or farm truck tractor for a gross weight which shall include
the empty weight of the truck or truck tractor or of the combination of any
truck or truck tractor and any type of trailer or semitrailer, plus the
maximum weight of cargo which will be transported on or with the same. The
applicant for registration of any farm truck or farm truck tractor used to
transport a gross weight of more than 54,000 pounds shall durably letter on
the side of the motor vehicle the words "farm vehicle--not for hire." If
an applicant for registration of any farm truck or farm truck tractor
operates such vehicle for any use or purpose not authorized for a farm
truck or farm truck tractor, such applicant shall pay an additional fee
equal to the fee required for the registration of all trucks or truck
tractors not registered as local, 6,000-mile or farm truck or farm truck
tractor motor vehicles, less the amount of the fee paid at time of
registration. Nothing in this or the preceding paragraph shall authorize a
gross weight of a vehicle or combination of vehicles on the national system
of interstate and defense highways greater than permitted by laws of the
United States congress.
Except as hereinafter provided, the annual license fee for each
local urban transit bus used in local urban transit operations exempted
under the provisions of subsection (a) of K.S.A. 66-1,109, and amendments
thereto,
shall be based on the passenger seating capacity of the bus and shall be
as follows:
8 or more, but less than 31 passengers ................. $15
31 or more, but less than 40 passengers ................. 30
More than 39 passengers ................. 60
except that the annual license fee for each local urban transit bus
which is owned by a metropolitan transit authority established pursuant
to articles 25 and 28 of chapter 12 or pursuant to article 31 of chapter
13 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated shall be $2.
For licensing purposes, station wagons with a carrying capacity of
less than 10 passengers shall be subject to registration fees
based on the weight of the vehicles, as provided in subsection (1).
Station wagons with a carrying capacity of 10 or
more passengers shall be subject to the truck classifications and
license fees therefor shall be as herein provided:
(a) For any trailer, semitrailer, travel trailer or
pole trailer the annual license fee shall be as follows: For any such
vehicle with a gross weight of more than 12,000 pounds
the annual fee shall be $35; any such vehicle
grossing more than 8,000 pounds but not over 12,000 pounds, the annual fee
shall be $25;
for any such vehicle grossing more than 2,000 pounds but
not over 8,000 pounds, the annual fee shall be $15. Any such
vehicle having
a gross weight of 2,000 pounds or less may, at the owner's option, be
registered and the fee for such registration shall be $15.
Any trailer, semitrailer or travel trailer owned by a
nonresident of this state and based in another state, which is
properly registered and licensed in the state of residence of the owner
or in the state where based, may be operated in this state without being
registered or licensed in this state if the truck or truck tractor
propelling the same is properly registered and licensed in this state,
or is registered and licensed in some other state and is entitled to
reciprocal privileges of operation in this state, but this provision
shall not apply to any trailer or semitrailer owned by a nonresident of
this state when such trailer or semitrailer is owned by a person who has
proportionately registered and licensed a fleet of vehicles under the
provisions of K.S.A. 8-1,101 to 8-1,123, inclusive, and amendments thereto, or
under the terms of any reciprocal or proration agreement made pursuant
thereto.
At the option of the owner, any trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer,
with a gross weight of more than 12,000 pounds, may be issued a multi-year
registration for a five-year period upon payment of the appropriate
registration fee. The fee for a five-year registration of such trailer
shall be five times the annual fee for such trailer. If the annual
registration fee is increased during the multi-year registration period, the
owner of the trailer with such multi-year registration shall be subject to
the amount of the increase of the annual registration fee for the remaining
calendar years of such multi-year registration.
When the owner of any trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer registered under
this multi-year provision transfers or assigns the title, or interest
thereto, the registration of such trailer shall expire. The owner shall
remove the license plate from such trailer and forward the license plate to
the division of vehicles or may have such license plate assigned to another
trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer upon the payment of fees required by
law. Any owner of a trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer where the
multi-year registration fee has been paid and the trailer is sold, junked,
repossessed, foreclosed by a mechanic's lien or title transferred by
operation of law, and the registration thereon is not going to be
transferred to another trailer, may secure a refund for the registration
fee for the remaining calendar years by making application to the division
of vehicles on a form and in the manner prescribed by the director of
vehicles. The secretary of revenue may adopt such rules and regulations
necessary to implement the multi-year registration of such trailers,
semitrailers and pole trailers.
(b) Any truck or truck tractor having a gross weight of 4,000 pounds or
over, using solid tires, shall pay a license
fee of double the amount herein charged. The annual fees herein provided
for trucks, truck tractors
and trailers not subject to K.S.A. 8-134a, and amendments thereto, shall
be due January 1 of each year and payable on or before the last day of
February in each year. If the fee is not paid by such date a
penalty of $1 shall be added to the fee charged herein for
each month or fraction thereof and until December 31 of
each
registration year. The annual registration fee for all passenger
vehicles and vehicles subject to K.S.A. 8-134a, and amendments thereto,
shall be due on or before
the last day of the month in which
the registration plate expires and shall be due for other vehicles as
provided by K.S.A. 8-134, and amendments thereto. If the registration
fee is not paid by
such date a penalty of $1 shall be added to the fee charged
herein for each month or fraction thereof until such registration fee is
paid. Members of the armed forces of the United States shall be
permitted to apply for registration at any time and be subject to
registration fee, less penalties, applicable at the time the application
is made. If any motorcycle, motorized bicycle, trailer, semitrailer, travel
trailer, or pole trailer is
either purchased or acquired after the anniversary or renewal date in
any registration year there shall immediately become due and payable a
registration fee as follows: If purchased or acquired between the
anniversary or renewal date of any registration year and the first six months
of such registration year, the annual fee hereinbefore
provided; if purchased or acquired during the last six months of any
registration year, 50% of such annual fee. If any truck
or truck tractor, except trucks subject to K.S.A. 8-134a, and amendments
thereto, is purchased or
acquired prior to April 1 of any
year the fee shall be the annual fee hereinbefore provided, but if such
truck or truck tractor is purchased or acquired after the end of March
of any year, the license fee for such year shall be reduced 1/12 for each
calendar month which has elapsed since the beginning of the year. If any
truck registered for a gross weight of 12,000 pounds or less or passenger
vehicle is purchased or acquired and less than 12 months remain in the
registration
period, the fee shall be 1/12 of the annual fee for each calendar month
remaining in the registration period.
(c) The owner of any motorcycle, motorized bicycle, passenger
vehicle, truck, truck tractor, trailer, semitrailer, or electrically
propelled vehicle who fails to pay the registration fee or fees herein
provided on the date when the same become due and payable shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to
a penalty in the sum of $1 for each month or fraction
thereof during which such fee has remained unpaid after it became due
and payable; and in addition thereto shall be subject to such other
punishment as is provided in this act. Upon the transfer of motorcycles,
motorized bicycles, passenger vehicles, trailers, semitrailers, trucks
or truck tractors, on which registration fees have been paid for the
year in which the transfer is made, either (A) to a corporation by one
or more persons, solely in exchange for stock or securities in such
corporation, or (B) by one corporation to another corporation when all
of the assets of such corporation are transferred to the other
corporation, then in either case (A) or case (B) the corporation shall
be exempt from the payment of registration fees on such vehicles for the
year in which such transfer is made. Applications for transfer or
registration shall be accompanied by a fee of $1.50. When the
registration of a vehicle has expired at midnight on the last day of any
registration year, and such vehicle is not thereafter operated upon the
highways, any application for renewal of registration made
subsequent to the anniversary or renewal date of any registration year
following the expiration of such registration and for succeeding
registration years in which such vehicle has not been registered shall
be accompanied by an affidavit of nonoperation and nonuse, and such
application for renewal or registration shall be received by the
division of vehicles upon payment of the proper fees for the current
registration year and without penalty.
(3) Any nonresident of Kansas purchasing a vehicle from a Kansas
resident and desiring to secure registration on the vehicle in the state
of such person's residence may make application in the office of any county
treasurer for a thirty-day temporary registration. The county treasurer upon
presentation of evidence of ownership in the applicant and evidence
the sales tax has been paid, if due, shall charge and collect a fee of
$3
for each thirty-day temporary license and issue a
sticker or paper registration as may be determined by the director of
vehicles, and the registration so issued shall be valid for a
period of 30 days from the date of issuance.
(4) Any owner of any motor vehicle which is subject to taxation under
the provisions of article 51 of chapter 79 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated
or any other truck or truck tractor where the annual
registration fee has been paid and the vehicle is sold, junked,
repossessed, foreclosed by a mechanic's lien or title transferred by
operation of law, and the registration thereon is not going to be
transferred to another vehicle may secure a refund for the registration
fee for the remaining portion of the year by making application to the
division of vehicles on a form and in the manner prescribed by the
director of vehicles, accompanied by all license plates and
attachments issued in connection therewith. If the owner of the
registration becomes deceased and the vehicle is not going to be used on
the highway, and title is not being currently transferred, the proper
representative of the estate shall be entitled to the refund. The
refund shall be made only for the period of time remaining in the
registration year from the date of completion and filing of the
application with and delivery of the license plate and
attachments to the division of vehicles. Where the registration is
secured under a quarterly payment annual registration fee, as provided
for in K.S.A. 8-143a, and amendments thereto, such refund shall be made on the
quarterly fee paid and unused and all remaining quarterly payments shall
be canceled. Any truck or truck tractor having the registration fee paid
on quarterly payment basis, all quarterly payments due or a
fraction of quarterly payment due shall be paid before title may be
transferred, except that in case of death, the filing of the application
and returning of the license plate and attachment shall
cancel the remaining annual payments due. Whenever a truck or truck
tractor, where the registration is secured on a quarterly payment of the
annual registration, the one repossessing the truck or truck tractor, or
foreclosing by a mechanic's lien, or securing title by court order, the
mortgagor or the assigns of the mortgagor, or the one securing title may
pay the balance due on date of application for title, but the payments
for the remaining portion of the year shall not be canceled unless
application is made and the license plate and attachments
are surrendered. Nothing in this subsection shall apply when
registration is secured under the provisions of K.S.A. 8-1,101 to 8-1,123,
inclusive, and amendments thereto. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing
provisions of this section, no refund shall be made under the provisions
of this section where the amount thereof does not exceed $5. The division
of vehicles shall furnish such blank forms as may be
required under the provisions of this subsection as it deems necessary
to be completed by the applicant. Whenever a registration which has been
secured on a quarterly basis shall be canceled as provided in this
subsection, the division of vehicles shall notify the county treasurer
issuing the original registration of such cancellation so that the
county treasurer may, and the county treasurer shall cancel the
registration of such vehicle in the county treasurer's office and
release any lien issued in connection with such registration.
(5) Every owner of a travel trailer designed for or
intended to be moved upon any highway in this state shall, before the
same is so moved, apply for and obtain the proper registration thereof
as provided in this act, except when such unit is permitted to be moved
under the special provisions relating to secured parties, manufacturers,
dealers and nonresidents contained in this act. At the time of
registering any travel trailer for the purpose of moving
any such vehicle upon any highway in this state, the owner thereof shall
indicate on the registration form whether or not such vehicle is being
moved permanently to a location outside of the county in which such
vehicle is being registered. No such vehicle which the owner thereof
intends to move to a permanent location outside the boundaries of such
county shall be registered for movement on the highways of this state
until all taxes levied against such vehicle have been paid. A copy of
such registration form shall be sent to the county clerk or assessor of
the county to which such vehicle is being moved. When such travel trailer is
used for living quarters and not operated on the highways, the owner shall be
exempt from the license fees as provided in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) so
long as such travel trailer is not operated on the highway.
History: L. 1929, ch. 81, § 21;
L. 1933, ch. 73, § 1;
L. 1943, ch. 79, § 3;
L. 1945, ch. 88, § 1;
L. 1949, ch. 101, § 1;
L. 1953, ch. 39, § 1;
L. 1955, ch. 47, § 3;
L. 1955, ch. 294, § 3;
L. 1956, ch. 48, § 2;
L. 1957, ch. 57, § 4;
L. 1961, ch. 49, § 2;
L. 1962, ch. 31, § 1;
L. 1963, ch. 50, § 1;
L. 1965, ch. 61, § 1;
L. 1968, ch. 411, § 4;
L. 1969, ch. 47, § 2;
L. 1970, ch. 47, § 1;
L. 1973, ch. 26, § 1;
L. 1974, ch. 35, § 7;
L. 1975, ch. 33, § 2;
L. 1976, ch. 43, § 1;
L. 1976, ch. 42, § 1;
L. 1977, ch. 28, § 2;
L. 1978, ch. 30, § 2;
L. 1981, ch. 36, § 3;
L. 1983, ch. 29, § 3;
L. 1984, ch. 31, § 2;
L. 1984, ch. 32, § 1;
L. 1984, ch. 33, § 1;
L. 1985, ch. 43, § 8;
L. 1986, ch. 37, § 1;
L. 1987, ch. 43, § 2;
L. 1988, ch. 41, § 1;
L. 1988, ch. 42, § 1;
L. 1988, ch. 43, § 1;
L. 1989, ch. 36, § 2;
L. 1989, ch. 209, § 19;
L. 1991, ch. 33, § 15;
L. 1992, ch. 101, § 1;
L. 2001, ch. 41, § 2;
L. 2002, ch. 201, § 1;
L. 2003, ch. 34, § 2; July 1.