Kansas Statutes 8-275. Same; qualifications to operate school
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 8-275
- Department: means the department of revenue acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents. See Kansas Statutes 8-273
- 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.
- Person: means every natural person, firm, copartnership, association, corporation or school. See Kansas Statutes 8-273
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- 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
In order for a person to qualify to operate a driving school, such person shall meet the following requirements:
(a) Be of good moral character;
(b) maintain an established place of business to the public;
(c) maintain bodily injury and property damage liability insurance on motor vehicles while used in driving instruction, insuring the liability of the driving school, the driving instructors and any person taking instruction in at least the following amounts: $100,000 for bodily injury to or death of one person in any one accident and, subject to such limit for one person, $200,000 for bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident and the amount of $20,000 for damage to property of others in any one accident. Evidence of such insurance coverage in the form of a certificate from the insurance carrier shall be filed with the department of revenue and such certificate shall stipulate that the insurance shall not be canceled except upon 10 days’ prior written notice to the department. Such insurance shall be written by a company authorized to do business in this state;
(d) provide a continuous surety company bond in the principal sum of $2,500 for the protection of the contractual rights of students in such form as will meet with the approval of the department and written by a company authorized to do business in this state. However, the aggregate liability of the surety for all breaches of the condition of the bond in no event shall exceed the principal sum of $2,500. The surety on any such bond may cancel such bond on giving 30 days’ written notice thereof to the department and shall be relieved of liability for any breach of any condition of the bond that occurs after the effective date of cancellation;
(e) have the equipment necessary to the giving of proper instruction in the operation of motor vehicles as prescribed by the department; and
(f) pay to the department an application fee of $25.