Kansas Statutes 68-2106. Unlawful to destroy or remove barricades, warning signs, or drive on closed hard-surfaced highway; penalty; damages
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 68-2106
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Highway: means a highway, road, street or alley. See Kansas Statutes 68-2101
- Improvement: means the repair, building, rebuilding, alteration, construction or reconstruction of any highway or part thereof, or the grading or regrading of the same, or the erection, construction, building, rebuilding, or repair of any bridge or culvert on any highway. See Kansas Statutes 68-2101
- Municipality: means a city, township or county. See Kansas Statutes 68-2101
- Person: means any individual, firm, corporation or association. See Kansas Statutes 68-2101
- 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
- Secretary: means the secretary of transportation. See Kansas Statutes 68-2101
- Warning light: means a warning light which conforms to the standards set forth in the most recent edition of the manual on uniform traffic control devices for streets and highways and other standards issued or endorsed by the federal highway administrator, and as adopted by the secretary of transportation pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 68-2101
Any person who shall, without authority, destroy or remove any barricade, warning sign or warning light when used in accordance with the provisions of this act, or who shall drive on a hard-surfaced highway under improvement without authority from the proper officials, when said road is barricaded and suitable warning signs have been placed to advise that such road is closed to traffic, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to the fines and penalties prescribed by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 68-2107, and, in addition, said person shall be required to reimburse the contractor, municipality or secretary of transportation for any damage to the improvements or to the barricades, warning signs or lights; but nothing in this act shall be construed as prohibiting or restricting the authorities of the municipality, secretary of transportation, or federal government from having free access to the improvement at all times.