Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 2 > Article 1 - State and Other Agricultural Societies and Fairs

• Active ingredient: means the ingredient or ingredients which affect the physical, chemical or other characteristics of the soil and thereby improve soil condition. See Kansas Statutes 2-2803
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Agricultural activity: means the growing or raising of horticultural and agricultural crops, hay, poultry and livestock, and livestock, poultry and dairy products for commercial purposes and includes activities related to the handling, storage and transportation of agricultural commodities. See Kansas Statutes 2-3203
• Agricultural chemical: means those agricultural chemicals as defined in the agricultural chemical act set forth in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 2-3203
• Agricultural crop production: means the production of field crops commonly grown in Kansas as opposed to horticultural or landscaping stock. See Kansas Statutes 2-2803
• Agricultural liming materials: means a product whose calcium and magnesium compounds are capable of neutralizing soil acidity;

  (b) "limestone" means a material consisting essentially of calcium carbonate or a combination of calcium carbonate with magnesium carbonate, which is capable of neutralizing soil acidity;

  (c) "burnt lime" means a material made from limestone which consists essentially of calcium oxide or a combination of calcium oxide with magnesium oxide;

  (d) "hydrated lime" means a material made from burnt lime which consists essentially of calcium hydroxide or a combination of calcium hydroxide and magnesium hydroxide;

  (e) "marl" means a granular or loosely consolidated earthy material composed largely of sea shell fragments and calcium carbonate;

  (f) "industrial by-product" means any industrial waste or by-product containing calcium or calcium and magnesium in forms that will neutralize soil acidity;

  (g) "brand" means the term, designation, trademark, product name or other specific designation under which individual agricultural liming material is offered for sale;

  (h) "fineness" means the percentage by weight of the material which will pass U. See Kansas Statutes 2-2902

• Airport: means any area of land or water designed and set aside for the landing and taking-off of aircraft and utilized or to be utilized in the interest of the public for such purposes, and also means any military airfield. See Kansas Statutes 3-701
• Airport hazard: means any structure or tree or use of land which obstructs the airspace required for the flight of aircraft in landing or taking-off at any airport or is otherwise hazardous to such landing or taking-off of aircraft. See Kansas Statutes 3-701
• Alcohol: means any substance containing any form of alcohol including, but not limited to, ethanol, methanol, propanol and isopropanol;

  (b) "alcohol concentration" means:

  (1) The number of grams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood; or

  (2) the number of grams of alcohol per 210 liters of breath;

  (c) "commercial driver's license" means a commercial license issued pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 8-2,128

• All-terrain vehicle: means any motorized nonhighway vehicle, other than an electric-assisted bicycle, that is 55 inches or less in width measured from the outside of one tire rim to the outside of the other tire rim, having a dry weight of 1,500 pounds or less, traveling on three or more nonhighway tires. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Antique: means any vehicle, including an antique military vehicle, more than 35 years old, propelled by a motor using petroleum fuel, steam or electricity, or any combination thereof, regardless of the age or type of the components or equipment installed on the vehicle. See Kansas Statutes 8-166
• Antique military vehicle: means a vehicle, regardless of the vehicle's size or weight, that was manufactured for use in any country's military forces and is maintained to represent its military design, except that an antique military vehicle shall not include a fully tracked vehicle. See Kansas Statutes 8-166
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• association: means a county fair incorporated as provided in this act; "agricultural societies" means other associations of citizens organized for the promotion of agriculture and kindred subjects; "fair" means a bona fide exhibition designed to promote education, and to encourage improvement in agriculture, horticulture, livestock, poultry, dairy products, liberal arts, mechanical fabrics, fine arts, domestic economy, and 4-H club activities by offering premiums and rewards for the best exhibits thereof; subject to the provisions of subsection (b), "fairground" means a plot of land of not less than 10 acres owned or leased by a fair association or county and used by the association or county primarily for fair purposes. See Kansas Statutes 2-125
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Bulk: means in nonpackaged form. See Kansas Statutes 2-2803
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
• Collector: means the owner of one or more special interest vehicles, street rod vehicles or military surplus vehicles who acquires, collects, purchases, trades or disposes of such vehicles or parts therefor for such person's own use in order to restore, preserve and maintain such vehicle or vehicles for historic interest. See Kansas Statutes 8-194
• commercial channels: means the sale of corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, wheat or sunflowers for use as food, feed, seed or any industrial or chemurgic use, when sold to any commercial buyer, dealer, processor, cooperative, or to any person, public or private, who resells any corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, wheat or sunflowers or product produced from corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, wheat or sunflowers;

  (d) "sale" means and includes any pledge or mortgage of corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, wheat or sunflowers, after harvest, to any person, public or private;

  (e) "department" means the Kansas department of agriculture; and

  (f) "secretary" means the secretary of agriculture or the secretary's authorized representative. See Kansas Statutes 2-3001

• commercial motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle designed or used to transport passengers or property, if:

  (1) The vehicle has a gross vehicle weight rating of 26,001 or more pounds or such lesser rating, as determined by rules and regulations adopted by the secretary, but shall not be more restrictive than the federal regulation;

  (2) the vehicle is designed to transport 16 or more passengers, including the driver; or

  (3) the vehicle is transporting hazardous materials and is required to be placarded in accordance with 49 C. See Kansas Statutes 8-2,128

• commodities: means manufactured articles offered for sale to the general public. See Kansas Statutes 8-601
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contractor: means a person, partnership, corporation, local government, county government, county treasurer or other state agency that has contracted with the department to provide services associated with vehicle functions. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• controlled substance: means any substance so classified under Kan. See Kansas Statutes 8-2,128
• conviction: means an unvacated adjudication of guilt or a determination that a person has violated or failed to comply with the law and in a court of original jurisdiction or an administrative proceeding, an unvacated forfeiture of bail or collateral deposited to secure the person's appearance in court, a plea of guilty or nolo contendere accepted by the court, the payment of a fine or court cost, or violation of a condition of release without bail, regardless of whether the penalty is rebated, suspended or probated;

  (i) "disqualification" means any of the following:

  (1) The suspension, revocation, or cancellation of a commercial driver's license by the state or jurisdiction of issuance;

  (2) any withdrawal of a person's privileges to drive a commercial motor vehicle by a state or other jurisdiction as the result of a violation of state or local law relating to motor vehicle traffic control, other than parking, vehicle weight or vehicle defect violations;

  (3) a determination by the federal motor carrier safety administration that a person is not qualified to operate a commercial motor vehicle under 49 C. See Kansas Statutes 8-2,128

• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Council: means the Kansas agricultural seed council. See Kansas Statutes 2-3601
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• dealer: shall mean any person, firm, association or corporation or other organization of any kind, character or nature regularly engaged or intending to engage in the business of selling motor vehicles and other specific commodities at retail within this state. See Kansas Statutes 8-601
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of revenue acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents. See Kansas Statutes 8-273
• Department: means the Kansas department of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 2-2803
• Department: means the Kansas department of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 2-3802
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• disabled citizens organization: means any nonprofit corporation duly authorized to operate in this state for the purpose of training the physically handicapped citizens to become self-supporting and which assists such persons by conducting drivers training courses for the operation of motor vehicles. See Kansas Statutes 8-161a
• Disabled person: includes incapacitated persons and incompetent persons as defined herein. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• disabled veteran: means a person who has served in the armed forces of the United States and who is entitled to compensation for a service-connected disability of at least 50% and the laws administered by the veterans administration or who is entitled to compensation for the loss, or permanent loss of use, of one or both feet or one or both hands, or for permanent visual impairment of both eyes to a prescribed degree. See Kansas Statutes 8-160
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Distribute: means to import, consign, offer for sale, sell, barter or to otherwise supply soil amendments to any person in this state. See Kansas Statutes 2-2803
• Division: means the division of vehicles of the department of revenue. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• drive: includes operation or physical control of a motor vehicle anywhere in the state;

  (k) "driver" means any person who drives, operates or is in physical control of a commercial motor vehicle, in any place open to the general public for purposes of vehicular traffic, or who is required to hold a commercial driver's license;

  (l) "driver's license" means any driver's license or any other license or permit to operate a motor vehicle issued under, or granted by, the laws of this state, including:

  (1) Any temporary license or instruction;

  (2) the privilege of any person to drive a motor vehicle whether or not such person holds a valid license; or

  (3) any nonresident's operating privilege;

  (m) "employer" means any person, including the United States, a state or a political subdivision of a state, who owns or leases a commercial motor vehicle or assigns a person to drive a commercial motor vehicle;

  (n) "endorsement" means an authorization to an individual's commercial driver's license required to permit the individual to operate certain types of commercial motor vehicles;

  (o) "felony" means any offense under state or federal law that is punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;

  (p) "gross vehicle weight rating" means the value specified by the manufacturer as the maximum loaded weight of a single or a combination (articulated) vehicle. See Kansas Statutes 8-2,128

• driver: means any person who drives, operates or is in physical control of a commercial motor vehicle, in any place open to the general public for purposes of vehicular traffic, or who is required to hold a commercial driver's license;

  (l) "driver's license" means any driver's license or any other license or permit to operate a motor vehicle issued under, or granted by, the laws of this state, including:

  (1) Any temporary license or instruction;

  (2) the privilege of any person to drive a motor vehicle whether or not such person holds a valid license; or

  (3) any nonresident's operating privilege;

  (m) "employer" means any person, including the United States, a state or a political subdivision of a state, who owns or leases a commercial motor vehicle or assigns a person to drive a commercial motor vehicle;

  (n) "endorsement" means an authorization to an individual's commercial driver's license required to permit the individual to operate certain types of commercial motor vehicles;

  (o) "felony" means any offense under state or federal law that is punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;

  (p) "gross vehicle weight rating" means the value specified by the manufacturer as the maximum loaded weight of a single or a combination (articulated) vehicle. See Kansas Statutes 8-2,128

• Electric vehicle: means a vehicle that is powered by an electric motor drawing current from rechargeable storage batteries or other portable electrical energy storage devices, provided the recharge energy must be drawn from a source off the vehicle, such as, but not limited to:

  (1) Residential electric service;

  (2) an electric vehicle charging station, also called an EV charging station, an electric recharging point, a charging point, electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) or a public charging station. See Kansas Statutes 8-126

• Electric-assisted bicycle: means the same as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Electric-assisted scooter: means every self-propelled vehicle, other than an electric-assisted bicycle, that has at least two wheels in contact with the ground, an electric motor, handlebars, a brake and a deck that is designed to be stood upon when riding. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Electronic certificate of title: means any electronic record of ownership, including any lien or liens that may be recorded, retained by the division in accordance with Kan. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• examiner: means a drivers' license examiner of the division of vehicles or any person whom the director of vehicles has authorized, pursuant to the authority granted by this act, to accept applications for drivers' licenses and administer the examinations required for the issuance or renewal of drivers' licenses. See Kansas Statutes 8-234a
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Farm tractor: means every motor vehicle designed and used as a farm implement power unit operated with or without other attached farm implements in any manner consistent with the structural design of such power unit. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Farm trailer: means every trailer and semitrailer as those terms are defined in this section, designed and used primarily as a farm vehicle. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Farmland: means land devoted primarily to an agricultural activity. See Kansas Statutes 2-3203
• fatality: means the death of a person as a result of a motor vehicle accident;

  (ff) "noncommercial motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles not defined by the term commercial motor vehicle in subsection (f);

  (gg) "school bus" means a commercial motor vehicle used to transport preprimary, primary or secondary school students from home to school, from school to home or to and from school-sponsored events. See Kansas Statutes 8-2,128

• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• financing: shall include the buying, selling, assigning or dealing in conditional sales contracts, chattel mortgages or leases arising out of the retail sale of motor vehicles and other specific commodities. See Kansas Statutes 8-601
• first purchaser: means any person, public or private corporation, association or partnership buying or otherwise acquiring after harvest, the property in or to corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, wheat or sunflowers from a grower. See Kansas Statutes 2-3001
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Foreign vehicle: means every motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer that shall be brought into this state otherwise than in ordinary course of business by or through a manufacturer or dealer and has not been registered in this state. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• General election: refers to the election required to be held on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Golf cart: means a motor vehicle that does not have fewer than three wheels in contact with the ground, an unladen weight of not more than 1,800 pounds, is designed to be and is operated at not more than 25 miles per hour and is designed to carry not more than four persons including the driver. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Governing body: shall be construed and held to mean board of county commissioners of any county, mayor and councilmen or board of commissioners of any city, and any other governing body or board of a municipality having authority under the laws of this state to create indebtedness against the municipality. See Kansas Statutes 3-119a
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Grower: means any natural person, partnership, association, corporation or other legal entity engaged in the growing of corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, wheat or sunflowers who owns or who shares in the ownership and risk of loss of such corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, wheat or sunflowers, whether as landlord or tenant. See Kansas Statutes 2-3001
• Guardian: means an individual or a nonprofit corporation certified in accordance with Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• habitual violator: means any resident or nonresident person who, within the immediately preceding five years, has been convicted in this or any other state:

  (a) Three or more times of:

  (1) Vehicular homicide, as defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 8-285

• hazardous materials: means any material that has been designated as hazardous under 49 U. See Kansas Statutes 8-2,128
• 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. See Kansas Statutes 8-1101
• Highway: means every way or place of whatever nature open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purpose of vehicular travel. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Implement of husbandry: includes , but is not limited to:

  (1) A farm tractor;

  (2) a self-propelled farm implement;

  (3) a fertilizer spreader, nurse tank or truck permanently mounted with a spreader used exclusively for dispensing or spreading water, dust or liquid fertilizers or agricultural chemicals, as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 8-126

• in-state miles: means the total number of miles operated in this state during the preceding year by motor vehicles of a fleet which were registered on an apportioned basis in this state during such preceding year by the owner operating such total number of miles in this state. See Kansas Statutes 8-1,100
• Incapacitated person: means an individual whose ability to receive and evaluate relevant information, or to effectively communicate decisions, or both, even with the use of assistive technologies or other supports, is impaired to the degree that the person lacks the capacity to manage the person's estate, or to meet essential needs for the person's physical health, safety or welfare, as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Label: means the display of written, printed or graphic matter upon the immediate container of a soil amendment. See Kansas Statutes 2-2803
• label: means any written or printed matter on or attached to the package or on the delivery ticket which accompanies bulk shipments;

  (j) "person" means an individual, partnership, association, firm or corporation; and

  (k) "calcium carbonate equivalent" means the acid neutralizing capacity of an agricultural liming material expressed as weight percentage of calcium carbonate. See Kansas Statutes 2-2902

• Law enforcement officer: means and includes the Kansas highway patrol, police and sheriffs 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. See Kansas Statutes 8-1101
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lien: means a security interest as defined in this section. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Magistrate judges: Judicial officers who assist U.S. district judges in getting cases ready for trial, who may decide some criminal and civil trials when both parties agree to have the case heard by a magistrate judge instead of a judge.
• Manufactured home: means a structure which:

  (1) Is transportable in one or more sections which, in the traveling mode, is 8 body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein; and

  (2) is subject to the federal manufactured home construction and safety standards established pursuant to 42 U. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

• manufacturer: shall mean any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association engaged either directly or indirectly in the manufacture or wholesale distribution of motor vehicles and other specific commodities. See Kansas Statutes 8-601
• Manufacturer: means every person engaged in the business of manufacturing motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Micro utility truck: means any motor vehicle that is not less than 48 inches in width, has an overall length, including the bumper, of not more than 160 inches, has an unladen weight, including fuel and fluids, of more than 1,500 pounds, can exceed 40 miles per hour as originally manufactured and is manufactured with a metal cab. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Military surplus vehicle: means the same as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 8-194
• Minor: means any person defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Mobile home: means a structure which:

  (1) Is transportable in one or more sections which, in the traveling mode, is 8 body feet or more in width and 36 body feet or more in length and is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without a permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein; and

  (2) is not subject to the federal manufactured home construction and safety standards established pursuant to 42 U. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Motor vehicle: means every vehicle that is self-propelled upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway except devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Kansas Statutes 8-273
• motor vehicle: shall mean every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails. See Kansas Statutes 8-601
• Motor vehicle: means every vehicle or tractor trailer combination that 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. See Kansas Statutes 8-1101
• Motor vehicle: means every vehicle, other than a motorized bicycle, electric-assisted bicycle or a motorized wheelchair, that is self-propelled. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Motorcycle: means every motor vehicle, including autocycles, designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, except an electric-assisted bicycle or any such vehicle as may be included within the term "tractor" as defined in this section. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Motorized bicycle: means every device, other than an electric-assisted bicycle, having two tandem wheels or three wheels, that may be propelled by either human power or helper motor, or by both, and has:

  (1) A motor that produces not more than 3. See Kansas Statutes 8-126

• Motorized wheelchair: means any self-propelled vehicle designed specifically for use by a physically disabled person and such vehicle is incapable of a speed in excess of 15 miles per hour. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Municipal: means pertaining to a municipality as herein defined. See Kansas Statutes 3-119a
• Municipality: shall be construed and held to mean county, city. See Kansas Statutes 3-119a
• Municipality: means any city or county or any agency thereof; and

  (b) "Federal airport act" means the aviation facilities expansion act of 1969 or the airport and airways development act of 1969 or such other title as the referred to acts shall be finally enacted under by the United States congress during its 1970 session, and such other existing federal acts as are referred to therein. See Kansas Statutes 3-604

• Name: means the specific designation under which the individual product is offered for sale. See Kansas Statutes 2-2803
• New vehicle dealer: means every person actively engaged in the business of buying, selling or exchanging new motor vehicles, travel trailers, trailers or vehicles who holds a dealer's contract therefor from a manufacturer or distributor and has an established place of business in this state. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• nonresident: means every person who is not a resident of this state. See Kansas Statutes 8-234a
• Nonresident: means every person who is not a resident of this state. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• nonresident person: shall mean : (A) A person who is a nonresident of this state; (B) a person who is a resident of this state and who departs from this state subsequent to the accident or collision from which the action or proceeding against such person or a representative of such person arose and remains absent from this state for thirty (30) days continuously, whether such absence is intended to be temporary or permanent; (C) a person who at the time of the accident or collision from which the action or proceeding arose was a resident of this state but who has subsequently thereto become a nonresident of this state;

  (2) "representative" shall have the meaning respectively ascribed to it in subsection (1) of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 8-401

• Notice of security interest: means a notification to the division from a dealer or secured party of a purchase money security interest as provided in article 9 of chapter 84 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, upon a vehicle that has been sold and delivered to the purchaser describing the vehicle and showing the name, address and acknowledgment of the secured party as well as the name and address of the debtor or debtors and other information the division requires. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: means a person who holds the legal title of a vehicle, or in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale thereof with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of possession vested in the conditional vendee or in the event a vehicle is subject to a lease of 30 days or more with an immediate right of possession vested in the lessee; or in the event a party having a security interest in a vehicle is entitled to possession, then such conditional vendee or lessee or secured party shall be deemed the owner for the purpose of this act. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Participant: means any person who attends a farmers' market or who sells, purchases or consumes any products offered or sold at a farmers' market. See Kansas Statutes 2-3802
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Passenger vehicle: means every motor vehicle, as defined in this section, that is designed primarily to carry 10 or fewer passengers, and is not used as a truck. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• patrol: means the state highway patrol;

  (4) "address of principal residence" means: (A) The place where a person makes his or her permanent principal home; (B) place where a person resides, has an intention to remain and where they intend to return following an absence; or (C) place of habitation to which, whenever the person is absent, the person intends to return. See Kansas Statutes 8-234a

• percentage: means by weight. See Kansas Statutes 2-2803
• Person: means every natural person, firm, copartnership, association, corporation or school. See Kansas Statutes 8-273
• person: shall mean any individual or individuals, firm, corporation, partnership, association, trustee, receiver or assignee for the benefit of creditors. See Kansas Statutes 8-601
• Person: means the same as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 8-1101
• Person: means individuals, partnerships, associations and corporations. See Kansas Statutes 2-2803
• Person: means any individual, partnership, profit or nonprofit corporation, trust, organization or any other business entity, but does not include any governmental entity. See Kansas Statutes 2-3203
• Person: means any individual, firm, copartnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association, or body politic, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or other similar representative thereof. See Kansas Statutes 3-701
• Person: means every natural person, firm, partnership, association or corporation. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• person with a disability: means any individual who:

  (a) Has a severe visual impairment;

  (b) cannot walk 100 feet without stopping to rest;

  (c) cannot walk without the use of or assistance from, a brace, cane, crutch, another person, prosthetic device, wheelchair or other assistive device;

  (d) is restricted by lung disease to such an extent that the person's forced (respiratory) expiratory volume for one second, when measured by spirometry, is less than one liter or the arterial oxygen tension is less than 60 mm/hg on room air at rest;

  (e) uses portable oxygen;

  (f) has a cardiac condition to the extent that the person's functional limitations are classified in severity as class III or class IV according to standards set by the American heart association; or

  (g) is severely limited in such person's ability to walk at least 100 feet due to an arthritic, neurological or orthopedic condition. See Kansas Statutes 8-1,124

• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, evidences of debt and things in action, and digital assets as defined in the revised uniform fiduciary access to digital assets act, Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• place of business: means the place or location where an owner has a terminal, warehouse, office, garage or some permanent bona fide address at which one or more employees report and perform regular and continuing service for the owner;

  (l) "base plate" means a registration or license plate issued by this state to a commercial vehicle based in and registered on an apportioned basis in this state;

  (m) "total fleet miles" means the total number of miles operated during the preceding year in this state and in each and all other jurisdictions by the motor vehicles of a fleet, which motor vehicles were registered on an apportioned basis in this state during such preceding year by the owner operating such motor vehicles such total number of miles. See Kansas Statutes 8-1,100

• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Pole trailer: means any two-wheel vehicle used as a trailer with bolsters that support the load, and do not have a rack or body extending to the tractor drawing the load. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Political subdivision: means those now or hereafter authorized by the laws of this state to acquire, operate, maintain or regulate an airport or airports, acting singly or jointly, and also means those within or partly within fifty thousand (50,000) feet of a military airfield control tower. See Kansas Statutes 3-701
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Public agency: means and includes the department of transportation, the Kansas turnpike authority, a county, city and township. See Kansas Statutes 8-1101
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights to them and interest in them, equitable as well as legal. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recreational off-highway vehicle: means any motor vehicle not greater than 75 inches in width measured from the outside of one tire rim to the outside of the other tire rim, having a dry weight of 3,500 pounds or less, traveling on four or more nonhighway tires. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Registrant: means any person who registers a soil amendment under the provisions of this act. See Kansas Statutes 2-2803
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• residence: means the place which is adopted by a person as the person's place of habitation and to which, whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention of returning. See Kansas Statutes 8-2,128
• Residence: means the place which is adopted by a person as the person's place of habitation and to which, whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention of returning. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• road: include public bridges and may be construed to be equivalent to "county way" "county road" "common road" "state road" and "territorial road. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• seal: includes an impression of the seal upon the paper alone, as well as upon wax or a wafer affixed to the paper. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• secretary: means the secretary of the Kansas department of revenue;

  (v) "serious traffic violation" means:

  (1) Excessive speeding, is defined as 15 miles per hour or more over the posted speed limit;

  (2) reckless driving, as defined under Kan. See Kansas Statutes 8-2,128

• Secretary: means the secretary of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 2-2803
• Secretary: means the secretary of agriculture or the secretary's authorized representative. See Kansas Statutes 2-3802
• seedsmen: means a person, private entity or corporation registered with the Kansas department of agriculture to sell seed in Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 2-3601
• Self-propelled farm implement: means every farm implement designed for specific use applications with its motive power unit permanently incorporated in its structural design. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Semitrailer: means every vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a motor vehicle that some part of its own weight and that of its own load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Soil amendment: means and includes any substance which is intended to improve the physical, chemical or other characteristics of the soil or improve agricultural crop production, except that it shall not include the following: Commercial fertilizers, agricultural liming materials including ground and slaked lime, unmanipulated animal manures, vegetable compost and pesticides. See Kansas Statutes 2-2803
• Special interest vehicle: means a motor vehicle that is more than 20 years of age and that has not been altered or modified from the original manufacturer's specifications except to assure normal running operation or to meet specific safety inspection requirements on original equipment, or both. See Kansas Statutes 8-194
• specific commodities: means commodities identified and agreed upon at the time a contract to sell, or a sale, is made. See Kansas Statutes 8-601
• state: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands;

  (6) "wireless communication device" means any wireless electronic communication device that provides for voice or data communication between two or more parties, including, but not limited to, a mobile or cellular telephone, a text messaging device, a personal digital assistant that sends or receives messages, an audio-video player that sends or receives messages or a laptop computer; and

  (7) "religious organization" means any organization, church, body of communicants, or group, gathered in common membership for mutual support and edification in piety, worship and religious observances, or a society of individuals united for religious purposes at a definite place and which religious organization maintains an established place of worship within this state and has a regular schedule of services or meetings at least on a weekly basis and has been determined to be organized and created as a bona fide religious organization. See Kansas Statutes 8-234a

• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• State board: means the state board of education. See Kansas Statutes 8-273
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Structure: means any object constructed or installed by man, including, but without limitation, buildings, towers, smokestacks, and overhead transmission lines. See Kansas Statutes 3-701
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Trailer: means every vehicle without motive power designed to carry property or passengers wholly on its own structure and to be drawn by a motor vehicle. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Travel trailer: means every vehicle without motive power designed to be towed by a motor vehicle constructed primarily for recreational purposes. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Tree: means any object of natural growth. See Kansas Statutes 3-701
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Truck: means a motor vehicle that is used for the transportation or delivery of freight and merchandise or more than 10 passengers. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Truck tractor: means every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles, and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle or load so drawn. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Undertaking: means a promise or security in any form where required by law. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• United States: means the 50 states and the District of Columbia;

  (aa) "division" means the division of vehicles of the Kansas department of revenue;

  (bb) "director" means the director of the division of vehicles of the Kansas department of revenue;

  (cc) "foreign country" means any jurisdiction other than the United States;

  (dd) "nonresident commercial driver's license" means a license issued pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 8-2,128

• Unmanipulated animal manures: means the refuse of stables, barnyards or feedlots consisting of animal excreta with or without litter. See Kansas Statutes 2-2803
• Usefulness: means that there exists data on a product that proves that the product has a beneficial contribution towards the improvement of the physical, chemical or other characteristics of the soil or that the product improves agricultural crop production. See Kansas Statutes 2-2803
• utility trailer: means any trailer of a rental fleet of 250 or more trailers, each having an empty weight of 2,000 pounds or less and a gross weight of not more than 8,000 pounds; and

  (p) "converter gear" means an auxiliary axle assembly having a fifth wheel used for the purpose of converting a semi-trailer to a full trailer. See Kansas Statutes 8-1,100

• Value: means that a product provides statistically established economic benefits to the end user of the product. See Kansas Statutes 2-2803
• Vehicle: means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, excepting electric personal assistive mobility devices or devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• vehicle: means a passenger motor vehicle having a seating capacity of less than eight (8) persons and which is the property of a political subdivision of the state of Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 8-304
• Vehicle functions: means services relating to the application, processing, auditing or distribution of original or renewal vehicle registrations, certificates of title, driver's licenses and division-issued identification cards associated with services and functions set out in articles 1, 2 and 13 ofchapter 8 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
• vehicle identification number: means an identifying number, serial number, engine number, transmission number or other distinguishing number or mark, placed on a vehicle, engine, transmission or other essential part by its manufacturer or by authority of the division of vehicles or the Kansas highway patrol or in accordance with the laws of another state or country. See Kansas Statutes 8-116a
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Victim Impact Statement: A written or spoken statement by the victim or his or her representative about the physical, emotional, and financial impact of a crime on the victim. The statement is given to the court before sentencing.
• Ward: means a person who has a guardian. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Work-site utility vehicle: means any motor vehicle that is not less than 48 inches in width, has an unladen weight, including fuel and fluids, of more than 800 pounds and is equipped with four or more nonhighway tires, a steering wheel and bench or bucket-type seating allowing at least two people to sit side-by-side, and may be equipped with a bed or cargo box for hauling materials. See Kansas Statutes 8-126