CHAPTER 22 Substitute for HOUSE BILL No. 2642 An Act regulating traffic; concerning the maximum length of certain vehicles; amending K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1904 and repealing the existing section. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

      Section  1. K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1904 is hereby amended to read as
follows: 8-1904. (a) No vehicle including any load thereon shall exceed a
height of 14 feet, except that a vehicle transporting cylindrically shaped
bales of hay as authorized by subsection (e) of K.S.A. 8-1902, and amend-
ments thereto, may be loaded with such bales secured to a height not
exceeding 141/2 feet. Should a vehicle so loaded with bales strike any
overpass or other obstacle, the operator of the vehicle shall be liable for
all damages resulting therefrom. The secretary of transportation may
adopt rules and regulations for the movement of such loads of cylindrically
shaped bales of hay.

      (b) No motor vehicle including the load thereon shall exceed a length
of 421/2 45 feet extreme overall dimension, inclusive of excluding the front
and rear bumpers, except as provided in subsection (d).

      (c) Except as otherwise provided in K.S.A. 8-1914 and 8-1915, and
amendments thereto, and subsections (d), (e), (f) and (g), no combination
of vehicles coupled together shall exceed a total length of 65 feet.

      (d) The length limitations in subsection (b) shall not apply to a truck
tractor. No semitrailer which is being operated in combination with a
truck tractor shall exceed 591/2 feet in length. No semitrailer or trailer
which is being operated in a combination consisting of a truck tractor,
semitrailer and trailer shall exceed 281/2 feet in length.

      (e) The limitations in this section governing maximum length of a
semitrailer or trailer shall not apply to vehicles operating in the daytime
when transporting poles, pipe, machinery or other objects of a structural
nature which cannot readily be dismembered, except that it shall be un-
lawful to operate any such vehicle or combination of vehicles which ex-
ceeds a total length of 85 feet unless a special permit for such operation
has been issued by the secretary of transportation or by an agent or des-
ignee of the secretary pursuant to K.S.A. 8-1911, and amendments
thereto. For the purpose of authorizing the issuance of such special per-
mits at motor carrier inspection stations, the secretary of transportation
may contract with the superintendent of the Kansas highway patrol for
such purpose, and in such event, the superintendent or any designee of
the superintendent may issue such special permit pursuant to the terms
and conditions of the contract. The limitations in this section shall not
apply to vehicles transporting such objects operated at nighttime by a
public utility when required for emergency repair of public service facil-
ities or properties or when operated under special permit as provided in
K.S.A. 8-1911, and amendments thereto, but in respect to such night
transportation every such vehicle and the load thereon shall be equipped
with a sufficient number of clearance lamps on both sides and marker
lamps upon the extreme ends of any projecting load to clearly mark the
dimensions of such load.

      (f) The limitations of this section governing the maximum length of
combinations of vehicles shall not apply to a combination of vehicles con-
sisting of a truck tractor towing a house trailer, if such combination of
vehicles does not exceed an overall length of 97 feet.

      (g) The length limitations of this section shall not apply to stinger-
steered automobile or boat transporters, drive-away saddlemount vehicle
transport combinations or one truck and one trailer vehicle combination,
loaded or unloaded, used in transporting a combine to be engaged in
farm custom harvesting operations, as defined in subsection (d) of K.S.A.
8-143j, and amendments thereto. A stinger-steered automobile or boat
transporter, drive-away saddlemount vehicle transport combination or
one truck and one trailer vehicle combination, loaded or unloaded, used
in transporting a combine to be engaged in farm custom harvesting op-
erations, as defined in subsection (d) of K.S.A. 8-143j, and amendments
thereto, shall not exceed an overall length limit of 75 feet, exclusive of
front and rear overhang.

 Sec.  2. K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1904 is hereby repealed.

 Sec.  3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the Kansas register.

Approved March 21, 2000.
 Published in the Kansas Register March 30, 2000.
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