Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 8-278

  • 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

  • secretary: means the secretary of the Kansas department of revenue;

    (v) "serious traffic violation" means:

    (1) Excessive speeding, is defined as 15 miles per hour or more over the posted speed limit;

    (2) reckless driving, as defined under Kan. 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 department is authorized to prescribe by rules and regulations, standards for the eligibility, conduct and operation of driver training schools and instructors and to adopt other reasonable rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this act.

(b) All rules and regulations of the state board of education pertaining to functions of the driver’s training school license act in existence on July 1, 2022, shall continue to be effective and shall be deemed to be duly adopted rules and regulations of the secretary of revenue until revised, amended, revoked or nullified pursuant to law.

(c) All orders and directives of the state department of education pertaining to functions of the driver’s training school license act on July 1, 2022, shall continue to be effective and shall be deemed to be orders and directives of the department until revised, amended or nullified by the state director of vehicles.