CHAPTER 34 HOUSE BILL No. 2189 An Act relating to motor vehicles; concerning the registration thereof; amending K.S.A. 8-134 and 8-143a and K.S.A. 2002 Supp. 8-143 and repealing the existing sections. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

      Section  1. K.S.A. 8-134 is hereby amended to read as follows: 8-134.
(a) Every vehicle registration under this act shall expire December 31 of
each year, except passenger vehicles and vehicles provided for in K.S.A.
8-134a, and amendments thereto. The registration of vehicles to which
K.S.A. 8-134a, and amendments thereto, applies shall expire in 1982 and
thereafter in accordance with the provisions of subsections (b) and (c).
Registration of vehicles shall be renewed annually upon application by
the owner and by payment of the fees required by law. Except vehicles
subject to K.S.A. 8-134a, and amendments thereto, and passenger vehi-
cles, the renewal shall take effect on January 1 of each year but the owner
of the vehicle shall have until and including the last day of February 15
of each year within which to make application for such renewal. The
division shall issue for such vehicles a February month decal to corre-
spond with the statutory grace period. Criminal sanctions provided in
K.S.A. 8-142 and amendments thereto, for failure to display any license
plate or plates or any registration decal required to be affixed to any such
license plate for the current registration year shall not be enforced until
after February 15 March 1 of each year. An owner who has made proper
application for renewal of registration of a vehicle prior to January 1, but
who has not received the license plate or registration card for the ensuing
year, shall be entitled to operate or permit the operation of such vehicle
upon the highways upon displaying thereon the license plate issued for
the preceding year for such time as the director of vehicles finds necessary
for issuance of such new license plate.

      (b) Every passenger vehicle required by this act to be registered,
except as otherwise provided, shall be registered for a period of 12 con-
secutive months. The division of vehicles, in order to initiate a system of
registering or reregistering passenger vehicles during any month of a cal-
endar year, may register or reregister a passenger vehicle for less than a
twelve-month period, prorating the annual registration fee, when in the
director's opinion such proration tends to fulfill the purpose of the
monthly registration system.

      (c) Passenger vehicle registration, and the authority to legally operate,
use, or tow such vehicle on the highway shall expire at 12:00 a.m. midnight
on the last day of the last month of the twelve-month period for which
such vehicle was registered, and the owner shall see that such vehicle is
reregistered as required by this act. The director of vehicles shall desig-
nate the registration period for each passenger vehicle in order to as
nearly as feasible equalize registration or reregistration within the 12
months of the year. Any vehicle after having once been registered shall
upon reregistration, be registered for the same twelve-month period ex-
cept when the certificate of title has been transferred as provided by law.
In this case, the vehicle shall be registered by the division of vehicles in
accordance with the system adopted.

      (d) For the purpose of this act, hearses and electrically propelled
vehicles shall be classified as passenger vehicles.

      (e) Every owner who registers or reregisters a vehicle in a calendar
year, and in any calendar year in which a license plate is not issued for
the renewal of registration of such vehicle, shall be furnished by the di-
vision one decal for the license plate issued for such vehicle and required
by K.S.A. 8-133, and amendments thereto, to be affixed to the rear of
such vehicle. Such decal shall be affixed to the number plate affixed to
the rear of such vehicle and shall contain the letters designating the
county in which such vehicle is registered, as provided in K.S.A. 8-147,
and amendments thereto, shall be numbered serially in each county and
shall indicate the year in which such registration expires. The color of a
decal shall be such that it contrasts with the color of the license plate to
which it is to be affixed, and the director of vehicles shall change the color
of such decals each year, without duplicating the same color in any five-
year period or such extended period as the director designates under
subsection (b) of K.S.A. 8-132 and amendments thereto. Such decals shall
be so constructed that once a decal has been affixed to a license plate it
cannot be removed without destroying the decal, and the surface of such
decals shall be capable of reflecting light. Consistent with the foregoing,
the director of vehicles shall prescribe the size of and material to be used
in the production of such decals, and the director of vehicles shall des-
ignate the location on a number plate where such decal shall be affixed.

      (f) The secretary of revenue shall adopt rules and regulations nec-
essary to accomplish the purpose of this act.

      Sec.  2. K.S.A. 2002 Supp. 8-143 is hereby amended to read as fol-
lows: 8-143. (1) All applications for the registration of motorcycles, mo-
torized bicycles and passenger vehicles other than trucks and truck trac-
tors, except as otherwise provided, shall be accompanied by an annual
license fee as follows: For motorized bicycles, $11; for motorcycles, $16;
for passenger vehicles, other than motorcycles, used solely for the car-
rying of persons for pleasure or business, and for hearses and ambulances
a fee of (i) $30 for those having a gross weight of 4,500 pounds or less;
(ii) $40 for those having a gross weight of more than 4,500 pounds; for
each electrically propelled motor vehicle, except electrically propelled
vehicles intended for the purpose of transporting any commodity, goods,
merchandise, produce or freight, or passengers for hire, a fee of $14.
Except for motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers registered under the
provisions of K.S.A. 8-1,134, and amendments thereto, the annual reg-
istration fee for each motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer owned by any
political or taxing subdivision of this state or by any agency or instrumen-
tality of any one or more political or taxing subdivisions of this state and
used exclusively for governmental purposes and not for any private or
utility purposes, which is not otherwise exempt from registration, shall be
$2.

      (2) As used in this subsection, the term ``gross weight'' shall mean
and include the empty weight of the truck, or combination of the truck
or truck tractor and any type trailer or semitrailer, plus the maximum
weight of cargo which will be transported on or with the same, except
when the empty weight of a truck plus the maximum weight of cargo
which will be transported thereon is 12,000 pounds or less. The term
gross weight shall not include: The weight of any travel trailer propelled
thereby which is being used for private recreational purposes; or the
weight of any vehicle or combination of vehicles for which wrecker or
towing service, as defined in K.S.A. 66-1329, and amendments thereto,
is to be provided by a wrecker or tow truck, as defined in K.S.A. 66-1329,
and amendments thereto. Such wrecker or tow truck shall be registered
for the empty weight of such vehicle fully equipped for the recovery or
towing of vehicles. The gross weight license fees hereinafter prescribed
shall only apply to the truck or truck tractor used as the propelling unit
for the cargo and vehicle propelled, either as a single vehicle or combi-
nation of vehicles. On application for the registration of a truck or truck
tractor, the owner thereof shall declare as a part of such application the
maximum gross weight the owner desires to be applicable to such vehicle,
which declared gross weight in no event shall be in excess of the limita-
tions described by K.S.A. 8-1908 and 8-1909, and amendments thereto,
for such vehicle or combination of vehicles of which it will be a part. All
applications for the registration of trucks or truck tractors, except as oth-
erwise provided herein, shall be accompanied by an annual license fee as
follows:

For a gross weight of 12,000 lbs. or less	$40
For a gross weight of more than 12,000 lbs. and not more than 16,000 lbs.	102
For a gross weight of more than 16,000 lbs. and not more than 20,000 lbs.	132
For a gross weight of more than 20,000 lbs. and not more than 24,000 lbs.	197
For a gross weight of more than 24,000 lbs. and not more than 26,000 lbs.	312
For a gross weight of more than 26,000 lbs. and not more than 30,000 lbs.	312
For a gross weight of more than 30,000 lbs. and not more than 36,000 lbs.	375
For a gross weight of more than 36,000 lbs. and not more than 42,000 lbs.	475
For a gross weight of more than 42,000 lbs. and not more than 48,000 lbs.	605
For a gross weight of more than 48,000 lbs. and not more than 54,000 lbs.	805
For a gross weight of more than 54,000 lbs. and not more than 60,000 lbs.	1,010
For a gross weight of more than 60,000 lbs. and not more than 66,000 lbs.	1,210
For a gross weight of more than 66,000 lbs. and not more than 74,000 lbs.	1,535
For a gross weight of more than 74,000 lbs. and not more than 80,000 lbs.	1,735
For a gross weight of more than 80,000 lbs. and not more than 85,500 lbs.	1,935

      If the applicant for registration of any truck or truck tractor for a gross
weight of more than 12,000 pounds is the state of Kansas or any political
or taxing subdivision or agency of the state, except a city or county, whose
truck or truck tractor is not otherwise entitled to the $2 license fee or
otherwise exempt from all fees, such vehicle may be licensed for a fee in
accordance with the schedule hereinafter prescribed for local trucks or
truck tractors.

      If the applicant for registration of any truck or truck tractor for a gross
weight of more than 12,000 pounds shall under oath state in writing on
a form prescribed and furnished by the director of vehicles that the ap-
plicant does not expect to operate it more than 6,000 miles in the calendar
year for which the applicant seeks registration, and that if the applicant
shall operate it more than 6,000 miles during such registration year such
applicant will pay an additional fee equal to the fee required by the pre-
ceding schedule, less the amount of the fee paid at time of registration,
such vehicle may be licensed for a fee in accordance with the schedule
hereinafter prescribed for local trucks or truck tractors; and whenever
the same is registered on a local truck or truck tractor fee basis a tab or
marker shall be issued in connection with the regular license plate, which
tab or marker shall be attached or affixed to and displayed with the regular
license plate and the failure to have the same attached, affixed or dis-
played shall be subject to the same penalties as provided by law for the
failure to display the regular license plate; and the secretary of revenue
may adopt rules and regulations requiring the owners of trucks and truck
tractors so registered on a local truck or truck tractor fee basis to keep
such records and make such reports of mileage of such vehicles as the
secretary of revenue shall deem proper.

      A transporter delivering vehicles not the transporter's own by the dri-
veaway method where such vehicles are being driven, towed, or trans-
ported singly, or by the saddlemount, towbar, or fullmount methods, or
by any lawful combination thereof, may apply for license plates which
may be transferred from one such vehicle or combination to another for
each delivery without further registration, and the annual license fee for
such license plate shall be as follows:

For the first such set of license plates	$44
For each additional such set of license plates	18

      A truck or truck tractor registered for a gross weight of more than
12,000 pounds, which is operated wholly within the corporate limits of a
city or village or within a radius of 25 miles beyond the corporate limits,
shall be classified as a local truck except that in no event shall such vehicles
operated as contract or common carriers outside a radius of three miles
beyond the corporate limits of the city or village in which such vehicles
were based when registered and licensed be considered local trucks or
truck tractors. The secretary of revenue is hereby authorized and directed
to adopt rules and regulations prescribing a procedure for the issuance
of permits by the division of vehicles whereby owners of local trucks or
truck tractors may operate any such vehicle, empty, beyond the radius
hereinbefore prescribed, when such operation is solely for the purpose
of having such vehicle repaired, painted or serviced or for adding addi-
tional equipment thereto. The annual license fee for a local truck or truck
tractor, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be as follows:

For a gross weight of more than 12,000 lbs. and not more than 16,000 lbs.	$62
For a gross weight of more than 16,000 lbs. and not more than 20,000 lbs.	102
For a gross weight of more than 20,000 lbs. and not more than 24,000 lbs.	132
For a gross weight of more than 24,000 lbs. and not more than 26,000 lbs.	177
For a gross weight of more than 26,000 lbs. and not more than 30,000 lbs.	177
For a gross weight of more than 30,000 lbs. and not more than 36,000 lbs.	215
For a gross weight of more than 36,000 lbs. and not more than 42,000 lbs.	245
For a gross weight of more than 42,000 lbs. and not more than 48,000 lbs.	315
For a gross weight of more than 48,000 lbs. and not more than 54,000 lbs.	415
For a gross weight of more than 54,000 lbs. and not more than 60,000 lbs.	480
For a gross weight of more than 60,000 lbs. and not more than 66,000 lbs.	580
For a gross weight of more than 66,000 lbs. and not more than 74,000 lbs.	760
For a gross weight of more than 74,000 lbs. and not more than 80,000 lbs.	890
For a gross weight of more than 80,000 lbs. and not more than 85,500 lbs.	1,010

      A truck or truck tractor registered for a gross weight of more than
12,000 pounds, which is owned by a person engaged in farming and which
truck or truck tractor is used by such owner to transport agricultural
products produced by such owner or commodities purchased by such
owner for use on the farm owned or rented by the owner of such farm
truck or truck tractor, shall be classified as a farm truck or truck tractor
and the annual license fee for such farm truck shall be as follows:

For a gross weight of more than 12,000 lbs. and not more than 16,000 lbs.	$37
For a gross weight of more than 16,000 lbs. and not more than 20,000 lbs.	42
For a gross weight of more than 20,000 lbs. and not more than 24,000 lbs.	52
For a gross weight of more than 24,000 lbs. and not more than 26,000 lbs.	72
For a gross weight of more than 26,000 lbs. and not more than 36,000 lbs.	72
For a gross weight of more than 36,000 lbs. and not more than 54,000 lbs.	75
For a gross weight of more than 54,000 lbs. and not more than 60,000 lbs.	190
For a gross weight of more than 60,000 lbs. and not more than 66,000 lbs.	370
For a gross weight of more than 66,000 lbs.	610

A vehicle licensed as a farm truck or truck tractor may be used by the
owner thereof to transport, for charity and without compensation of any
kind, commodities for religious or educational institutions. A truck which
is licensed as a farm truck may also be used for the transportation of sand,
gravel, slag stone, limestone, crushed stone, cinders, black top, dirt or fill
material to a township road maintenance or construction site of the town-
ship in which the owner of such truck resides. Any applicant for registra-
tion of any farm truck or farm truck tractor used in combination with a
trailer or semitrailer shall register the farm truck or farm truck tractor for
a gross weight which shall include the empty weight of the truck or truck
tractor or of the combination of any truck or truck tractor and any type
of trailer or semitrailer, plus the maximum weight of cargo which will be
transported on or with the same. The applicant for registration of any
farm truck or farm truck tractor used to transport a gross weight of more
than 54,000 pounds shall durably letter on the side of the motor vehicle
the words ``farm vehicle--not for hire.'' If an applicant for registration of
any farm truck or farm truck tractor operates such vehicle for any use or
purpose not authorized for a farm truck or farm truck tractor, such ap-
plicant shall pay an additional fee equal to the fee required for the reg-
istration of all trucks or truck tractors not registered as local, 6,000-mile
or farm truck or farm truck tractor motor vehicles, less the amount of the
fee paid at time of registration. Nothing in this or the preceding paragraph
shall authorize a gross weight of a vehicle or combination of vehicles on
the national system of interstate and defense highways greater than per-
mitted by laws of the United States congress.

      Except as hereinafter provided, the annual license fee for each local
urban transit bus used in local urban transit operations exempted under
the provisions of subsection (a) of K.S.A. 66-1,109, and amendments
thereto, shall be based on the passenger seating capacity of the bus and
shall be as follows:

8 or more, but less than 31 passengers	$15
31 or more, but less than 40 passengers	30
More than 39 passengers	60

except that the annual license fee for each local urban transit bus which
is owned by a metropolitan transit authority established pursuant to ar-
ticles 25 and 28 of chapter 12 or pursuant to article 31 of chapter 13 of
the Kansas Statutes Annotated shall be $2.

      For licensing purposes, station wagons with a carrying capacity of less
than 10 passengers shall be subject to registration fees based on the
weight of the vehicles, as provided in subsection (1). Station wagons with
a carrying capacity of 10 or more passengers shall be subject to the truck
classifications and license fees therefor shall be as herein provided:

      (a) For any trailer, semitrailer, travel trailer or pole trailer the annual
license fee shall be as follows: For any such vehicle with a gross weight
of more than 12,000 pounds the annual fee shall be $35; any such vehicle
grossing more than 8,000 pounds but not over 12,000 pounds, the annual
fee shall be $25; for any such vehicle grossing more than 2,000 pounds
but not over 8,000 pounds, the annual fee shall be $15. Any such vehicle
having a gross weight of 2,000 pounds or less may, at the owner's option,
be registered and the fee for such registration shall be $15.

      Any trailer, semitrailer or travel trailer owned by a nonresident of this
state and based in another state, which is properly registered and licensed
in the state of residence of the owner or in the state where based, may
be operated in this state without being registered or licensed in this state
if the truck or truck tractor propelling the same is properly registered and
licensed in this state, or is registered and licensed in some other state and
is entitled to reciprocal privileges of operation in this state, but this pro-
vision shall not apply to any trailer or semitrailer owned by a nonresident
of this state when such trailer or semitrailer is owned by a person who
has proportionately registered and licensed a fleet of vehicles under the
provisions of K.S.A. 8-1,101 to 8-1,123, inclusive, and amendments
thereto, or under the terms of any reciprocal or proration agreement
made pursuant thereto.

      At the option of the owner, any trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer, with
a gross weight of more than 12,000 pounds, may be issued a multi-year
registration for a five-year period upon payment of the appropriate reg-
istration fee. The fee for a five-year registration of such trailer shall be
five times the annual fee for such trailer. If the annual registration fee is
increased during the multi-year registration period, the owner of the
trailer with such multi-year registration shall be subject to the amount of
the increase of the annual registration fee for the remaining calendar
years of such multi-year registration. When the owner of any trailer, sem-
itrailer or pole trailer registered under this multi-year provision transfers
or assigns the title, or interest thereto, the registration of such trailer shall
expire. The owner shall remove the license plate from such trailer and
forward the license plate to the division of vehicles or may have such
license plate assigned to another trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer upon
the payment of fees required by law. Any owner of a trailer, semitrailer
or pole trailer where the multi-year registration fee has been paid and
the trailer is sold, junked, repossessed, foreclosed by a mechanic's lien or
title transferred by operation of law, and the registration thereon is not
going to be transferred to another trailer, may secure a refund for the
registration fee for the remaining calendar years by making application
to the division of vehicles on a form and in the manner prescribed by the
director of vehicles. The secretary of revenue may adopt such rules and
regulations necessary to implement the multi-year registration of such
trailers, semitrailers and pole trailers.

      (b) Any truck or truck tractor having a gross weight of 4,000 pounds
or over, using solid tires, shall pay a license fee of double the amount
herein charged. The annual fees herein provided for trucks, truck tractors
and trailers not subject to K.S.A. 8-134a, and amendments thereto, shall
be due January 1 of each year and payable on or before the last day of
February 15 in each year. If the fee is not paid by such date a penalty of
$1 shall be added to the fee charged herein for each month or fraction
thereof and until December 31 of each registration year. The annual
registration fee for all passenger vehicles and vehicles subject to K.S.A.
8-134a, and amendments thereto, shall be due on or before the last day
of the month in which the registration plate expires and shall be due for
other vehicles as provided by K.S.A. 8-134, and amendments thereto. If
the registration fee is not paid by such date a penalty of $1 shall be added
to the fee charged herein for each month or fraction thereof until such
registration fee is paid. Members of the armed forces of the United States
shall be permitted to apply for registration at any time and be subject to
registration fee, less penalties, applicable at the time the application is
made. If any motorcycle, motorized bicycle, trailer, semitrailer, travel
trailer, or pole trailer is either purchased or acquired after the anniversary
or renewal date in any registration year there shall immediately become
due and payable a registration fee as follows: If purchased or acquired
between the anniversary or renewal date of any registration year and the
first six months of such registration year, the annual fee hereinbefore
provided; if purchased or acquired during the last six months of any reg-
istration year, 50% of such annual fee. If any truck or truck tractor, except
trucks subject to K.S.A. 8-134a, and amendments thereto, is purchased
or acquired prior to April 1 of any year the fee shall be the annual fee
hereinbefore provided, but if such truck or truck tractor is purchased or
acquired after the end of March of any year, the license fee for such year
shall be reduced 1/12 for each calendar month which has elapsed since the
beginning of the year. If any truck registered for a gross weight of 12,000
pounds or less or passenger vehicle is purchased or acquired and less than
12 months remain in the registration period, the fee shall be 1/12 of the
annual fee for each calendar month remaining in the registration period.

      (c) The owner of any motorcycle, motorized bicycle, passenger ve-
hicle, truck, truck tractor, trailer, semitrailer, or electrically propelled ve-
hicle who fails to pay the registration fee or fees herein provided on the
date when the same become due and payable shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a penalty in the
sum of $1 for each month or fraction thereof during which such fee has
remained unpaid after it became due and payable; and in addition thereto
shall be subject to such other punishment as is provided in this act. Upon
the transfer of motorcycles, motorized bicycles, passenger vehicles, trail-
ers, semitrailers, trucks or truck tractors, on which registration fees have
been paid for the year in which the transfer is made, either (A) to a
corporation by one or more persons, solely in exchange for stock or se-
curities in such corporation, or (B) by one corporation to another cor-
poration when all of the assets of such corporation are transferred to the
other corporation, then in either case (A) or case (B) the corporation shall
be exempt from the payment of registration fees on such vehicles for the
year in which such transfer is made. Applications for transfer or registra-
tion shall be accompanied by a fee of $1.50. When the registration of a
vehicle has expired at midnight on the last day of any registration year,
and such vehicle is not thereafter operated upon the highways, any ap-
plication for renewal of registration made subsequent to the anniversary
or renewal date of any registration year following the expiration of such
registration and for succeeding registration years in which such vehicle
has not been registered shall be accompanied by an affidavit of nonoper-
ation and nonuse, and such application for renewal or registration shall
be received by the division of vehicles upon payment of the proper fees
for the current registration year and without penalty.

      (3) Any nonresident of Kansas purchasing a vehicle from a Kansas
resident and desiring to secure registration on the vehicle in the state of
such person's residence may make application in the office of any county
treasurer for a thirty-day temporary registration. The county treasurer
upon presentation of evidence of ownership in the applicant and evidence
the sales tax has been paid, if due, shall charge and collect a fee of $3 for
each thirty-day temporary license and issue a sticker or paper registration
as may be determined by the director of vehicles, and the registration so
issued shall be valid for a period of 30 days from the date of issuance.

      (4) Any owner of any motor vehicle which is subject to taxation under
the provisions of article 51 of chapter 79 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated
or any other truck or truck tractor where the annual registration fee has
been paid and the vehicle is sold, junked, repossessed, foreclosed by a
mechanic's lien or title transferred by operation of law, and the registra-
tion thereon is not going to be transferred to another vehicle may secure
a refund for the registration fee for the remaining portion of the year by
making application to the division of vehicles on a form and in the manner
prescribed by the director of vehicles, accompanied by all license plates
and attachments issued in connection therewith. If the owner of the reg-
istration becomes deceased and the vehicle is not going to be used on the
highway, and title is not being currently transferred, the proper repre-
sentative of the estate shall be entitled to the refund. The refund shall be
made only for the period of time remaining in the registration year from
the date of completion and filing of the application with and delivery of
the license plate and attachments to the division of vehicles. Where the
registration is secured under a quarterly payment annual registration fee,
as provided for in K.S.A. 8-143a, and amendments thereto, such refund
shall be made on the quarterly fee paid and unused and all remaining
quarterly payments shall be canceled. Any truck or truck tractor having
the registration fee paid on quarterly payment basis, all quarterly pay-
ments due or a fraction of quarterly payment due shall be paid before
title may be transferred, except that in case of death, the filing of the
application and returning of the license plate and attachment shall cancel
the remaining annual payments due. Whenever a truck or truck tractor,
where the registration is secured on a quarterly payment of the annual
registration, the one repossessing the truck or truck tractor, or foreclosing
by a mechanic's lien, or securing title by court order, the mortgagor or
the assigns of the mortgagor, or the one securing title may pay the balance
due on date of application for title, but the payments for the remaining
portion of the year shall not be canceled unless application is made and
the license plate and attachments are surrendered. Nothing in this sub-
section shall apply when registration is secured under the provisions of
K.S.A. 8-1,101 to 8-1,123, inclusive, and amendments thereto. Notwith-
standing any of the foregoing provisions of this section, no refund shall
be made under the provisions of this section where the amount thereof
does not exceed $5. The division of vehicles shall furnish such blank forms
as may be required under the provisions of this subsection as it deems
necessary to be completed by the applicant. Whenever a registration
which has been secured on a quarterly basis shall be canceled as provided
in this subsection, the division of vehicles shall notify the county treasurer
issuing the original registration of such cancellation so that the county
treasurer may, and the county treasurer shall cancel the registration of
such vehicle in the county treasurer's office and release any lien issued
in connection with such registration.

      (5) Every owner of a travel trailer designed for or intended to be
moved upon any highway in this state shall, before the same is so moved,
apply for and obtain the proper registration thereof as provided in this
act, except when such unit is permitted to be moved under the special
provisions relating to secured parties, manufacturers, dealers and non-
residents contained in this act. At the time of registering any travel trailer
for the purpose of moving any such vehicle upon any highway in this
state, the owner thereof shall indicate on the registration form whether
or not such vehicle is being moved permanently to a location outside of
the county in which such vehicle is being registered. No such vehicle
which the owner thereof intends to move to a permanent location outside
the boundaries of such county shall be registered for movement on the
highways of this state until all taxes levied against such vehicle have been
paid. A copy of such registration form shall be sent to the county clerk
or assessor of the county to which such vehicle is being moved. When
such travel trailer is used for living quarters and not operated on the
highways, the owner shall be exempt from the license fees as provided in
paragraph (a) of subsection (2) so long as such travel trailer is not operated
on the highway.

      Sec.  3. K.S.A. 8-143a is hereby amended to read as follows: 8-143a.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to vehicles registered on an
apportioned basis as part of a fleet under the provisions of K.S.A. 8-1,101
to 8-1,123, inclusive, and amendments thereto, or any agreement made
by the director of vehicles, and the payment of registration fees on a
quarterly basis on such vehicles shall be in accordance with K.S.A. 8-
1,115, and amendments thereto. A resident owner of any truck or truck
tractor, holding a negotiable Kansas title, whether individual, partnership
or Kansas corporation, may at such owner's election, made at the time
the annual registration fee on such truck or truck tractor is payable, pay
such annual registration fee if it exceeds $100, in equal quarterly install-
ments, the first of which shall be payable at the time of such application
but not later than the last day of February 15 in each year, and for each
ensuing quarter thereafter shall be payable respectively on the first day
of April, July and October. The applicant shall, at the time of registration,
present such applicant's negotiable Kansas title to the county treasurer,
who shall send it, along with the application for registration, to the division
of vehicles. The division of vehicles shall retain the title until all quarterly
payments are paid in full, at which time the title shall be returned to the
owner of the vehicle to which the title was issued.

      The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall not in any manner be
construed to affect or reduce the amount of annual registration fee due
for any truck or truck tractor subject to registration on January 1, and for
which the owner shall be liable, but relate only to an alternate method of
payment of the amount of fees due and affixed as of January 1 of each
year. If any owner shall default in the payment of any quarterly install-
ment payment when the same is payable, the right to operate such vehicle
on the highways of this state shall terminate and it shall be unlawful to
operate such vehicle on the highways of this state until the delinquent
quarterly installment payment plus any penalty, shall have been paid in
full.

      If any owner shall fail to pay any two quarterly payment installments
during any one registration year on any truck or truck tractor registered
hereunder, on or before the day the same are due and payable, such
owner thereafter may be denied the privilege of the payment of annual
registration fees on a quarterly basis on any vehicle. If a quarterly install-
ment payment shall be delinquent more than 10 days beyond the due
date of such quarterly installment except for any case where it is deter-
mined by the director of vehicles that such delinquency is not due to
negligence or intentional disregard of the provisions of this section, then
the entire balance of the annual registration fee, including the delinquent
quarterly installment, plus a penalty in a sum equal to 10% of the annual
registration fee, shall become due and payable; and any such owner so
delinquent may thereafter be denied the privilege of the payment of an-
nual registration fees on any vehicle on a quarterly basis. All such fees
and penalties remaining unpaid shall constitute a debt due the state,
which may be collected from the person owing the same by suit or oth-
erwise. All such fees remaining unpaid after the same are due and payable
and any penalties shall constitute a first and prior lien in favor of the state
upon the truck or truck tractor registered hereunder and all other real
and personal property of the owner located within the state in the amount
such fees and penalties remain unpaid. Each lien shall attach at the time
such unpaid fees and penalties accrue and shall be paramount to all prior
liens or encumbrances of any character and to the rights of any holder of
the legal title in or to any such truck or truck tractor. When a quarterly
installment is delinquent more than 10 days beyond the due date, upon
default of such installment payment, the county treasurer shall promptly
file a notice of lien in the office of the register of deeds of the county
where the registration fee is payable, and in any other county in which
such owner has any property. A copy of such notice of lien shall be mailed
to the division of vehicles, and the owner so delinquent, and the sheriff
of any county in which such notice of lien is filed. Such notice of lien
shall set forth the name and address of the owner, the amount of fees
and penalties payable and unpaid, and the description of the vehicle or
vehicles to which applicable. It shall be the duty of each register of deeds
in this state to index and file immediately all such notices of lien in the
manner provided in cases of financing statements and no fee shall be
charged for filing and indexing. The county treasurer shall issue a release
of lien upon payment of all fees and penalties payable by such owner and
such person may file the same with the register of deeds of any county
in which such notice of lien has been filed. The county treasurer shall
mail a copy of the release of lien to the division, and to the sheriff of any
county where said notice of lien has been filed. If a quarterly installment
payment shall be delinquent more than 10 days beyond the due date of
such quarterly installment, the division, shall promptly on such default
and the filing of the notice of lien issue a tax warrant to the sheriff of any
county in which such notice of lien has been filed and may thereafter
issue further warrants as may be necessary, and such sheriff shall seize
and hold all personal property subject thereto and proceed to advertise
and sell the same or so much thereof as may be necessary, to satisfy the
state's lien, together with all expense of selling at public sale for cash,
upon such notice as is provided by law in the case of a security agreement
sale.

      Any surplus of the proceeds of such sale, after paying to the county
treasurer, the amount of the state's lien, and the cost of the officer in
giving notice of and executing said warrant computed to the same extent
as in judicial sales on execution, and of securing and preserving the prop-
erty pending such sale, shall be delivered to the person lawfully entitled
thereto. In the event that any truck or truck tractor for which the annual
registration fee is being paid quarterly shall be sold or otherwise disposed
of, the entire balance remaining unpaid on such annual registration fee
shall become immediately due and payable.

      No certificate of title shall be assigned or transferred or new certificate
of title be issued for such vehicle until all the registration fees and pen-
alties are paid in full. In the event such vehicle shall be repossessed by
the enforcement of a lien or security interest on the same, during any
quarterly period for which the registration fees have not been paid, the
person repossessing such vehicle or the person purchasing such vehicle
at a repossession sale, may acquire a new certificate of title upon the
payment of a fee equal to 1/4 of the annual registration fee of the vehicle
registered hereunder, plus the regular fee prescribed by law for certificate
of title. If any truck or truck tractor which is registered under the pro-
visions of this subsection is exchanged or traded by the owner thereof for
another truck or truck tractor, any registration fee and any quarterly in-
stallments which have been paid shall be applied to the registration fee
due for the registration of the newly acquired vehicle. The application of
any such registration fee or quarterly installment to the newly acquired
vehicle shall not affect or reduce the original amount of the annual reg-
istration fee or any quarterly installment payment, for which such owner
was originally liable.

      The division of vehicles may call to its aid the state highway patrol or
any peace officer or any duly appointed representative of the department
to enforce the provisions of this section within their respective jurisdiction
and it shall be the duty of such officers to do so. The remedies for en-
forcement and collection provided in this section are cumulative and the
use of one shall not be deemed to be a waiver of the right to use any
other.

 Sec.  4. K.S.A. 8-134 and 8-143a and K.S.A. 2002 Supp. 8-143 are
hereby repealed.

 Sec.  5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.

Approved April 3, 2003.
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