Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 8-279

  • 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

  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • 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

The department may cancel, suspend, revoke or refuse to renew any driver‘s training school or driver’s training instructor license if any of the following occurs:

(a) The department is satisfied that the licensee fails to meet the requirements to receive or hold a license under this act;

(b) the licensee fails to keep the records required herein;

(c) the licensee permits fraud or engages in fraudulent practices either with reference to the applicant or the department, or induces or countenances fraud or fraudulent practices on the part of any applicant for a driver’s license or permit;

(d) the licensee fails to comply with any provision of this act or any of the rules and regulations of the department made pursuant thereto;

(e) the licensee represents such licensee as an agent or employee of the department or license examiners or uses advertising designed to lead or which would reasonably have the effect of leading persons to believe that such licensee is in fact an employee or representative of the department or license examiners;

(f) the licensee or any employee or agent of the licensee solicits driver training or instruction in an office of any department of the state having to do with the administration of any law relating to motor vehicles; or

(g) the licensee has had their operator’s or chauffeur’s license canceled, suspended or revoked.