Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 40-3105

  • 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 purposes of vehicular travel. See Kansas Statutes 40-3103
  • Implement of husbandry: means every vehicle designed or adapted and used exclusively for agricultural operations and only incidentally operated or moved upon the highways. See Kansas Statutes 40-3103
  • Motor vehicle: means every self-propelled vehicle of a kind required to be registered in this state, including any trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer designed for use with such vehicle, but such term does not include a motorized bicycle. See Kansas Statutes 40-3103
  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Special mobile equipment: means every vehicle not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and only incidentally operated or moved over a highway, including but not limited to: Ditch-digging apparatus, well-boring apparatus and road construction and maintenance machinery such as asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, tractors other than truck tractors, ditchers, leveling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earth moving carryalls and scrapers, power shovels and drag lines and self-propelled cranes and earth moving equipment. See Kansas Statutes 40-3103
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

The following vehicles shall be exempt from the provisions of this act:

(a) Any motor vehicle owned by the government of the United States, any state or any political subdivision of any state;

(b) an implement of husbandry or special mobile equipment which is operated only incidentally on a highway or property open to use by the public;

(c) a vehicle operated on a highway only for the purpose of crossing such highway from one property to another; and

(d) a nonhighway vehicle for which a nonhighway certificate of title has been issued pursuant to Kan. Stat. Ann. § 8-198, and amendments thereto, except when such vehicle is being operated pursuant to subsection (g) of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 8-198, and amendments thereto.