Kansas Statutes 8-236. Persons exempt from license
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 8-236
- 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
- nonresident: means every person who is not a resident of this state. See Kansas Statutes 8-234a
- Person: means every natural person, firm, copartnership, association, corporation or school. See Kansas Statutes 8-273
- 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
- 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
(a) The following persons are exempt from the license requirements of the motor vehicle drivers’ license act:
(1) A nonresident who is at least 16 years of age and who has in such person‘s immediate possession a valid license issued to such nonresident in such person’s home state or country may operate in this state any motor vehicle in class C or M, as designated in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 8-234b, and amendments thereto;
(2) a nonresident who is at least 18 years of age and who has in such person’s immediate possession a valid license issued to such nonresident in such person’s home state or country which authorizes such person to operate any motor vehicle in class A or class B, as designated in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 8-234b, and amendments thereto, may operate any such motor vehicle in this state, subject to the age limits applicable in this state to the operation of any type or class of vehicle operated by such person;
(3) any nonresident who is at least 18 years of age, whose home state or country does not require the licensing of drivers, may operate any motor vehicle in class C or class M, as designated in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 8-234b, and amendments thereto, for a period of not more than 90 days in any calendar year, if the motor vehicle so operated is duly registered in the home state or country of such nonresident;
(4) any person while driving or operating during the hours between sunrise and sunset any farm tractor or implement of husbandry, from the farm residence to a field farmed in connection with such farm residence, or from one farm field to another.
(b) No exemption granted by this section shall apply to any person while such person’s license to operate a motor vehicle is under suspension or revocation.