Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 8-277

  • Department: means the department of revenue acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents. See Kansas Statutes 8-273
  • 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

(a) The department shall issue a license certificate to each applicant to conduct a driver training school or to each driver training instructor when the department is satisfied that such applicant has met the qualifications required under this act.

(b) All licenses issued to any driver training school or driver training instructor pursuant to the provisions of this act, shall expire as a matter of law at midnight on December 31 of the calendar year for which the license was issued, unless sooner canceled, suspended or revoked under the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 8-279, and amendments thereto.

(c) The license of each driver training school and each driver training instructor may be renewed subject to the same conditions as the original license, and upon payment of the same fee.

(d) All applications for renewal of a driver training school license or driver training instructor’s license shall be on a form prescribed by the department, and shall be filed with the department not more than 60 days, nor fewer than 10 days preceding the expiration date of the license to be renewed.