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Definitions. As used in K.S.A. 21-5701 through 21-5717, and amendments thereto: (a) "Controlled substance" means any drug, substance or immediate precursor included in any of the schedules designated in K.S.A. 65-4105, 65-4107, 65-4109, 65-4111 and 65-4113, and amendments thereto. (b) (1) "Controlled substance analog" means a substance that is intended for human consumption, and at least one of the following: (A) The chemical structure of the substance is substantially similar to the chemical structure of a controlled substance listed in or added to the schedules designated in K.S.A. 65-4105 or 65-4107, and amendments thereto; (B) the substance has a stimulant, depressant or hallucinogenic effect on the central nervous system substantially similar to the stimulant, depressant or hallucinogenic effect on the central nervous system of a controlled substance included in the schedules designated in K.S.A. 65-4105 or 65-4107, and amendments thereto; or (C) with respect to a particular individual, such individual represents or intends the substance to have a stimulant, depressant or hallucinogenic effect on the central nervous system substantially similar to the stimulant, depressant or hallucinogenic effect on the central nervous system of a controlled substance included in the schedules designated in K.S.A. 65-4105 or 65-4107, and amendments thereto. (2) "Controlled substance analog" does not include: (A) A controlled substance; (B) a substance for which there is an approved new drug application; or (C) a substance with respect to which an exemption is in effect for investigational use by a particular person under section 505 of the federal food, drug, and cosmetic act, 21 U.S.C. § 355, to the extent conduct with respect to the substance is permitted by the exemption. (c) "Cultivate" means the planting or promotion of growth of five or more plants that contain or can produce controlled substances. (d) "Distribute" means the actual, constructive or attempted transfer from one person to another of some item whether or not there is an agency relationship. "Distribute" includes, but is not limited to, sale, offer for sale or any act that causes some item to be transferred from one person to another. "Distribute" does not include acts of administering, dispensing or prescribing a controlled substance as authorized by the pharmacy act of the state of Kansas, the uniform controlled substances act or otherwise authorized by law. (e) (1) "Drug" means: (A) Substances recognized as drugs in the official United States pharmacopeia, official homeopathic pharmacopoeia of the United States or official national formulary or any supplement to any of them; (B) substances intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in humans or animals; (C) substances, other than food, intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or animals; and (D) substances intended for use as a component of any article specified in subparagraph (A), (B) or (C). (2) "Drug" does not include devices or their components, parts or accessories. (f) (1) "Drug paraphernalia" means all equipment and materials of any kind that are used, or primarily intended or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance and in violation of this act. (2) "Drug paraphernalia" includes, but is not limited to: (A) Kits used or intended for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing or harvesting any species of plant that is a controlled substance or from which a controlled substance can be derived; (B) kits used or intended for use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing or preparing controlled substances; (C) isomerization devices used or intended for use in increasing the potency of any species of plant that is a controlled substance; (D) testing equipment used or intended for use in identifying or in analyzing the strength, effectiveness or purity of controlled substances; (E) scales and balances used or intended for use in weighing or measuring controlled substances; (F) diluents and adulterants, including, but not limited to, quinine hydrochloride, mannitol, mannite, dextrose and lactose that are used or intended for use in cutting controlled substances; (G) separation gins and sifters used or intended for use in removing twigs and seeds from or otherwise cleaning or refining marijuana; (H) blenders, bowls, containers, spoons and mixing devices used or intended for use in compounding controlled substances; (I) capsules, balloons, envelopes, bags and other containers used or intended for use in packaging small quantities of controlled substances; (J) containers and other objects used or intended for use in storing or concealing controlled substances; (K) hypodermic syringes, needles and other objects used or intended for use in parenterally injecting controlled substances into the human body; (L) objects used or primarily intended or designed for use in ingesting, inhaling or otherwise introducing marijuana, cocaine, hashish, hashish oil, phencyclidine (PCP), methamphetamine or amphetamine into the human body, such as: (i) Metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic or ceramic pipes with or without screens, permanent screens, hashish heads or punctured metal bowls; (ii) water pipes, bongs or smoking pipes designed to draw smoke through water or another cooling device; (iii) carburetion pipes, glass or other heat-resistant tubes or any other device used, intended to be used or designed to be used to cause vaporization of a controlled substance for inhalation; (iv) smoking and carburetion masks; (v) roach clips, objects used to hold burning material, such as a marijuana cigarette, that has become too small or too short to be held in the hand; (vi) miniature cocaine spoons and cocaine vials; (vii) chamber smoking pipes; (viii) carburetor smoking pipes; (ix) electric smoking pipes; (x) air-driven smoking pipes; (xi) chillums; (xii) bongs; (xiii) ice pipes or chillers; (xiv) any smoking pipe manufactured to disguise its intended purpose; (xv) wired cigarette papers; or (xvi) cocaine freebase kits. (3) "Drug paraphernalia" does not include: (A) Any products, chemicals or materials described in K.S.A. 21-5709(a), and amendments thereto; or (B) any materials used or intended for use to test a substance for the presence of fentanyl, a fentanyl analog, ketamine or gamma hydroxybutyric acid. (g) "Fentanyl-related controlled substance" means any substance designated in K.S.A. 65-4105(b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(4), (b)(10), (b)(11), (b)(12), (b)(15), (b)(16), (b)(17), (b)(20), (b)(21), (b)(24), (b)(26), (b)(27), (b)(28), (b)(35), (b)(42), (b)(43), (b)(44), (b)(45), (b)(48), (b)(50), (b)(54), (b)(55), (b)(56), (b)(57), (b)(58), (b)(59), (b)(68), (b)(70), (b)(71), (b)(72), (b)(73), (b)(74), (b)(75), (b)(76), (b)(77), (b)(78), (b)(79), (b)(80), (b)(81), (b)(82), (b)(83), (b)(84), (b)(85), (b)(91), (b)(97), (b)(98), (b)(99), (b)(103), (b)(104), (g)(1) or (g)(2) or 65-4107(c)(1), (c)(6), (c)(9), (c)(26), (c)(28), (c)(30), (f)(3)(A) or (f)(3)(B), and amendments thereto, or any analog thereof. (h) "Immediate precursor" means a substance that the state board of pharmacy has found to be and by rules and regulations designates as being the principal compound commonly used or produced primarily for use and that is an immediate chemical intermediary used or likely to be used in the manufacture of a controlled substance, the control of which is necessary to prevent, curtail or limit manufacture. (i) "Isomer" means all enantiomers and diastereomers. (j) "Manufacture" means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion or processing of or placing into pill or capsule form a controlled substance either directly or indirectly or by extraction from substances of natural origin or independently by means of chemical synthesis or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis. "Manufacture" does not include: (1) The preparation or compounding of a controlled substance by an individual for the individual's own lawful use or the preparation, compounding, packaging or labeling of a controlled substance: (A) By a practitioner or the practitioner's agent pursuant to a lawful order of a practitioner as an incident to the practitioner's administering or dispensing of a controlled substance in the course of the practitioner's professional practice; or (B) by a practitioner or by the practitioner's authorized agent under such practitioner's supervision for the purpose of or as an incident to research, teaching or chemical analysis or by a pharmacist or medical care facility as an incident to dispensing of a controlled substance; or (2) the addition of diluents or adulterants, including, but not limited to, quinine hydrochloride, mannitol, mannite, dextrose or lactose that are intended for use in cutting a controlled substance. (k) "Marijuana" means all parts of all varieties of the plant Cannabis whether growing or not, the seeds thereof, the resin extracted from any part of the plant and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of the plant, its seeds or resin. "Marijuana" does not include: (1) The mature stalks of the plant, fiber produced from the stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of the plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of the mature stalks, except the resin extracted therefrom, fiber, oil or cake or the sterilized seed of the plant that is incapable of germination; (2) any substance listed in schedules II through V of the uniform controlled substances act; (3) drug products approved by the United States food and drug administration as of the effective date of this act; (4) cannabidiol (other trade name: 2-[(3-methyl-6-(1-methylethenyl)-2-cyclohexen-1-yl]-5-pentyl-1,3-benzenediol); or (5) industrial hemp as defined in K.S.A. 2-3901, and amendments thereto, when cultivated, produced, possessed or used for activities authorized by the commercial industrial hemp act. (l) "Minor" means a person under 18 years of age. (m) "Narcotic drug" means any of the following whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin or independently by means of chemical synthesis or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis: (1) Opium and opiate and any salt, compound, derivative or preparation of opium or opiate; (2) any salt, compound, isomer, derivative or preparation thereof that is chemically equivalent or identical with any of the substances referred to in paragraph (1) but not including the isoquinoline alkaloids of opium; (3) opium poppy and poppy straw; (4) coca leaves and any salt, compound, derivative or preparation of coca leaves and any salt, compound, isomer, derivative or preparation thereof that is chemically equivalent or identical with any of these substances, but not including decocainized coca leaves or extractions of coca leaves that do not contain cocaine or ecgonine. (n) "Opiate" means any substance having an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or being capable of conversion into a drug having addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability. "Opiate" does not include, unless specifically designated as controlled under K.S.A. 65-4102, and amendments thereto, the dextrorotatory isomer of 3-methoxy-n-methylmorphinan and its salts (dextromethorphan). "Opiate" does include its racemic and levorotatory forms. (o) "Opium poppy" means the plant of the species Papaver somniferum l. except its seeds. (p) "Person" means an individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association or any other legal entity. (q) "Poppy straw" means all parts, except the seeds, of the opium poppy, after mowing. (r) "School property" means property upon which is located a structure used by a unified school district or an accredited nonpublic school for student instruction or attendance or extracurricular activities of pupils enrolled in kindergarten or any of the grades one through 12. This definition shall not be construed as requiring that school be in session or that classes are actually being held at the time of the offense or that children must be present within the structure or on the property during the time of any alleged criminal act. If the structure or property meets the above definition, the actual use of that structure or property at the time alleged shall not be a defense to the crime charged or the sentence imposed. (s) "Simulated controlled substance" means any product that identifies itself by a common name or slang term associated with a controlled substance and that indicates on its label or accompanying promotional material that the product simulates the effect of a controlled substance. History: L. 2009, ch. 32, § 1; L. 2010, ch. 109, § 13; L. 2012, ch. 150, § 7; L. 2017, ch. 57, § 1; L. 2018, ch. 101, § 4; L. 2019, ch. 37, § 10; L. 2022, ch. 99, § 1; L. 2023, ch. 94, § 2; L. 2024, ch. 67, § 1; July 1. Prev Article 57. - CRIMES INVOLVING CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES Next 2026. Powered by KLISS. Rendered: 2026-04-21T11:02:03. Head Rev No: 854889(I)

Statute | Kansas State Legislature 2025-2026 Legislative Sessions Click here to view the 2023-2024 Regular Sessions Home • News • Contact • Audio/Video House Proceedings Audio Stream Senate Proceedings Audio Stream Statehouse Live & Archive House, Senate & Committee Video House Leadership Roster --> Committees Assignments --> Rules Current Events Seating Chart Roster Chief Clerk of the House District Maps Senate Leadership Roster --> Committees Assignments --> Confirmations Rules Current Events Seating Chart Roster Secretary of the Senate District Maps Legislators Find your Legislator (by map) --> House Leadership House Roster Senate Leadership Senate Roster Committees Committees Standing Joint Special and Select Commission Subcommittee Task Force Other Conference Schedules Conference Committees Committee Bill Hearings Bills & Laws Senate Bills House Bills Statute Reports Actions and Subject Index Report How a bill becomes law (pdf) Kansas Constitution Contact the Revisor Journals House Journal Senate Journal What is a Journal? Calendars House Calendar Senate Calendar What Is A Calendar? Research Memos/Reports/Publications Appropriations Revenue/Taxation Redistricting About KLRD Historical 2024 Special Session 2023-2024 Regular Sessions 2021-2022 Regular Sessions 2021 Special Session 2020 Special Session 2019-2020 Regular Sessions 2017-2018 Regular Sessions 2016 Special Session 2015-2016 Regular Sessions 2013-2014 Regular Sessions 2013 Special Session 2011-2012 Regular Sessions 2000 - 2010 Committee Data Find Bill Bill/Resolution Lookup: Find Your Legislator Search by Your Address Legislative Deadlines Legislative Deadlines (PDF) Current Events Statute Legislative Resources Administrative Services Division of Post Audit Information Services Research Department Revisor of Statutes LCC Policies About the Legislature Other State Resources Kansas.gov Ethics Commission How Do I… Become A Legislative Intern Become A Legislative Page Apply For Session Work April 21, 2026 latest news: 5 x scrolling news items --> April 21, 2026 • --> -A +A --> House Status: Adjourned until Monday, January 11, 2027 at 02:00 p.m. Senate Status: Adjourned until Monday, January 11, 2027 at 02:00 p.m. current HB current SB --> --> you are here: Home » Statute » Chapter 19 » Article 37 » Section 9 » Legislators --> 2025 Statute Prev Article 37. - SANITATION CONTROLS Next 19-3709. Septic tank cleaning and hauling of sewage; licensing; fees; regulations; penalties for violation. In any county where any person, firm, corporation or association is engaging in the business of the cleaning of septic tanks and the hauling of sewage the board of county commissioners may provide by resolution for the licensing of such cleaners of septic tanks and haulers of sewage. The board of county commissioners may provide for licensing procedures, fees, bonding, inspection, removal of licenses, assignment of routes and other procedures and provisions related to the cleaning of septic tanks and hauling of sewage necessary to implement the administration of this act. Except as provided by this section, any person violating such resolution adopted by the board of county commissioners shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor. In counties where the prosecution of the violation of any such resolution is conducted in accordance with the provisions of the code for the enforcement of county codes and resolutions, the penalties prescribed pursuant to such code shall apply. History: L. 1971, ch. 98, § 1; L. 1991, ch. 81, § 3; April 18. Prev Article 37. - SANITATION CONTROLS Next 2026. Powered by KLISS. Rendered: 2026-04-21T10:50:49. Head Rev No: 854889(I)

Statute | Kansas State Legislature 2025-2026 Legislative Sessions Click here to view the 2023-2024 Regular Sessions Home • News • Contact • Audio/Video House Proceedings Audio Stream Senate Proceedings Audio Stream Statehouse Live & Archive House, Senate & Committee Video House Leadership Roster --> Committees Assignments --> Rules Current Events Seating Chart Roster Chief Clerk of the House District Maps Senate Leadership Roster --> Committees Assignments --> Confirmations Rules Current Events Seating Chart Roster Secretary of the Senate District Maps Legislators Find your Legislator (by map) --> House Leadership House Roster Senate Leadership Senate Roster Committees Committees Standing Joint Special and Select Commission Subcommittee Task Force Other Conference Schedules Conference Committees Committee Bill Hearings Bills & Laws Senate Bills House Bills Statute Reports Actions and Subject Index Report How a bill becomes law (pdf) Kansas Constitution Contact the Revisor Journals House Journal Senate Journal What is a Journal? Calendars House Calendar Senate Calendar What Is A Calendar? Research Memos/Reports/Publications Appropriations Revenue/Taxation Redistricting About KLRD Historical 2024 Special Session 2023-2024 Regular Sessions 2021-2022 Regular Sessions 2021 Special Session 2020 Special Session 2019-2020 Regular Sessions 2017-2018 Regular Sessions 2016 Special Session 2015-2016 Regular Sessions 2013-2014 Regular Sessions 2013 Special Session 2011-2012 Regular Sessions 2000 - 2010 Committee Data Find Bill Bill/Resolution Lookup: Find Your Legislator Search by Your Address Legislative Deadlines Legislative Deadlines (PDF) Current Events Statute Legislative Resources Administrative Services Division of Post Audit Information Services Research Department Revisor of Statutes LCC Policies About the Legislature Other State Resources Kansas.gov Ethics Commission How Do I… Become A Legislative Intern Become A Legislative Page Apply For Session Work April 21, 2026 latest news: 5 x scrolling news items --> April 21, 2026 • --> -A +A --> House Status: Adjourned until Monday, January 11, 2027 at 02:00 p.m. Senate Status: Adjourned until Monday, January 11, 2027 at 02:00 p.m. current HB current SB --> --> you are here: Home » Statute » Chapter 19 » Article 2 » Section 36 » Legislators --> 2025 Statute Prev Article 2. - COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Next 19-236. Emergency expenses; no-fund warrants; tax levies; limitations. That in addition to the powers already given by law, the board of county commissioners of each county shall have power at any meeting, in case of great loss or damage to life or property, to assist in burying the dead, caring for the wounded, rendering temporary aid to the distressed, preventing disease and pestilence, and cleaning up debris, and to issue no-fund warrants of the county therefor not exceeding 1% of the taxable property of the county, and to levy a tax at the first tax levying period thereafter to pay such warrants. Such warrants shall be issued, registered, redeemed and bear interest in the manner and in the form prescribed by K.S.A. 79-2940, and amendments thereto, except they shall not bear the notation required by such section and shall be issued without the approval of the state board of tax appeals. History: L. 1903, ch. 43, § 1 (Special Session); R.S. 1923, 19-236; L. 1963, ch. 157, § 1; L. 1999, ch. 154, § 33; L. 2008, ch. 109, § 39; L. 2014, ch. 141, § 33; July 1. Prev Article 2. - COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Next 2026. Powered by KLISS. Rendered: 2026-04-21T10:34:29. Head Rev No: 854889(I)

Kansas Statutes Skip to main content 2026 Kansas Statutes Prev Article 4. - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT; POWERS OF GOVERNING BODY Next 13-436. Health and sanitation; election, when. To make regulations to secure the general health of the city; to prevent and remove nuisances; to regulate or prohibit the construction of privy vaults and cesspools, and to regulate or suppress those already constructed; to compel and regulate the connection of all property with sewers; to suppress hogpens; to regulate or suppress slaughterhouses and stockyards, and prescribe and enforce regulations for cleaning and keeping the same in order; and the cleaning and keeping in order of warehouses, stables, alleys, yards, private ways and grounds, outhouses, and other places where offensive matter is kept or allowed to accumulate, and to compel and regulate the removal of garbage and filth beyond the city limits; and also to provide for taxing and to tax the cost of abating or removing any nuisance against any lot or tract of ground upon which the same is located and maintained, and to levy, certify and collect the same as a special assessment, in the same manner as for repairing and building sidewalks, in all cases where the owner, occupant or agent of said property shall fail, refuse or neglect to abate or remove said nuisance, after receiving notice to do so and being given a reasonable time in which to remove or abate the same, where said city has been compelled to abate or remove said nuisance. The city may, when authorized by a majority of the votes cast at an election held for the purpose of voting funds to pay for the same, also establish and construct or cause to be established and constructed crematories, desiccating or reduction works, within or without the city, for the purpose of destroying dead animals, night soil, and garbage, and make all rules necessary for the operation of the same. History: L. 1903, ch. 122, § 56; L. 1905, ch. 109, § 1; March 21; R.S. 1923, § 13-436. Prev Article 4. - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT; POWERS OF GOVERNING BODY Next © 2026 Revisor of Statutes, State of Kansas arrow_upward Top

Kansas Statutes Skip to main content 2026 Kansas Statutes Prev Article 17. - UNIFORM ACT REGULATING TRAFFIC; EQUIPMENT OF VEHICLES Next 8-1741. Windshields and windows; damaged windshields prohibited; obstruction or impairment prohibited; wipers. (a) No person shall drive any motor vehicle with any sign, poster or other nontransparent material upon the front windshield, side wings or side or rear windows of such vehicle which substantially obstructs, obscures or impairs the driver's clear view of the highway or any intersecting highway. (b) No person shall drive any motor vehicle with a damaged front windshield or side or rear windows which substantially obstructs the driver's clear view of the highway or any intersecting highway. (c) The windshield on every motor vehicle shall be equipped with a device for cleaning rain, snow or other moisture from the windshield, which device shall be so constructed as to be controlled or operated by the driver of the vehicle. (d) Every windshield wiper upon a motor vehicle shall be maintained in good working order. History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1741; L. 1993, ch. 37, § 1; July 1. Prev Article 17. - UNIFORM ACT REGULATING TRAFFIC; EQUIPMENT OF VEHICLES Next © 2026 Revisor of Statutes, State of Kansas arrow_upward Top

Kansas Statutes Skip to main content 2026 Kansas Statutes Measures Affecting This Section Enacted only HB 2459 — Requiring any person who is 17 years of age and under to wear a helmet when operating an electric-assisted scooter or electric-assisted bicycle and modifying the definition and operation of electric-assisted scooters to include certain specifications and maximum operating speeds. (amending · As Introduced) Prev Article 1. - GENERAL PROVISIONS Next 8-126. Registration of vehicles; definitions. As used in this act: (a) "All-terrain vehicle" means any motorized nonhighway vehicle, other than an electric-assisted bicycle, that is 55 inches or less in width measured from the outside of one tire rim to the outside of the other tire rim, having a dry weight of 1,500 pounds or less, traveling on three or more nonhighway tires. (b) "Autocycle" means a three-wheel motorcycle that has a steering wheel and seating that does not require the operator to straddle or sit astride it. (c) "Commission" or "state highway commission" means the director of vehicles of the department of revenue. (d) "Contractor" means a person, partnership, corporation, local government, county government, county treasurer or other state agency that has contracted with the department to provide services associated with vehicle functions. (e) "Department" or "motor vehicle department" or "vehicle department" means the division of vehicles of the department of revenue, acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents. When acting on behalf of the department of revenue pursuant to this act, a county treasurer shall be deemed to be an agent of the state of Kansas. (f) "Division" means the division of vehicles of the department of revenue. (g) "Electric-assisted bicycle" means the same as defined in K.S.A. 8-1489, and amendments thereto. (h) "Electric-assisted scooter" means every self-propelled vehicle, other than an electric-assisted bicycle, that has at least two wheels in contact with the ground, an electric motor, handlebars, a brake and a deck that is designed to be stood upon when riding. (i) "Electric personal assistive mobility device" means a self-balancing two nontandem wheeled device, designed to transport only one person, with an electric propulsion system that limits the maximum speed of the device to 15 miles per hour or less. (j) "Electric vehicle" means a vehicle that is powered by an electric motor drawing current from rechargeable storage batteries or other portable electrical energy storage devices, provided the recharge energy must be drawn from a source off the vehicle, such as, but not limited to: (1) Residential electric service; (2) an electric vehicle charging station, also called an EV charging station, an electric recharging point, a charging point, electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) or a public charging station. (k) "Electronic certificate of title" means any electronic record of ownership, including any lien or liens that may be recorded, retained by the division in accordance with K.S.A. 8-135d, and amendments thereto. (l) "Electronic notice of security interest" means the division's online internet program that enables a dealer or secured party to submit a notice of security interest as defined in this section, and to cancel the notice or release the security interest using the program. This program is also known as the Kansas elien or KSelien. (m) "Farm tractor" means every motor vehicle designed and used as a farm implement power unit operated with or without other attached farm implements in any manner consistent with the structural design of such power unit. (n) "Farm trailer" means every trailer and semitrailer as those terms are defined in this section, designed and used primarily as a farm vehicle. (o) "Foreign vehicle" means every motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer that shall be brought into this state otherwise than in ordinary course of business by or through a manufacturer or dealer and has not been registered in this state. (p) "Golf cart" means a motor vehicle that does not have fewer than three wheels in contact with the ground, an unladen weight of not more than 1,800 pounds, is designed to be and is operated at not more than 25 miles per hour and is designed to carry not more than four persons including the driver. (q) "Highway" means every way or place of whatever nature open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purpose of vehicular travel. The term "highway" does not include a roadway or driveway upon grounds owned by private owners, colleges, universities or other institutions. (r) "Implement of husbandry" means every vehicle designed or adapted and used exclusively for agricultural operations, including feedlots, and only incidentally moved or operated upon the highways. "Implement of husbandry" includes, but is not limited to: (1) A farm tractor; (2) a self-propelled farm implement; (3) a fertilizer spreader, nurse tank or truck permanently mounted with a spreader used exclusively for dispensing or spreading water, dust or liquid fertilizers or agricultural chemicals, as defined in K.S.A. 2-2202, and amendments thereto, regardless of ownership; (4) a truck mounted with a fertilizer spreader used or manufactured principally to spread animal dung; and (5) a mixer-feed truck owned and used by a feedlot, as defined in K.S.A. 47-1501, and amendments thereto, and specially designed and used exclusively for dispensing food to livestock in such feedlot. (s) "Lien" means a security interest as defined in this section. (t) "Lightweight roadable vehicle" means a multipurpose motor vehicle that is allowed to be driven on public roadways and is required to be registered with, and flown under the direction of, the federal aviation administration. (u) "Manufacturer" means every person engaged in the business of manufacturing motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers. (v) "Micro utility truck" means any motor vehicle that is not less than 48 inches in width, has an overall length, including the bumper, of not more than 160 inches, has an unladen weight, including fuel and fluids, of more than 1,500 pounds, can exceed 40 miles per hour as originally manufactured and is manufactured with a metal cab. "Micro utility truck" does not include a work-site utility vehicle or recreational off-highway vehicle. (w) "Motor vehicle" means every vehicle, other than a motorized bicycle, electric-assisted bicycle or a motorized wheelchair, that is self-propelled. (x) "Motorcycle" means every motor vehicle, including autocycles, designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, except an electric-assisted bicycle or any such vehicle as may be included within the term "tractor" as defined in this section. (y) "Motorized bicycle" means every device, other than an electric-assisted bicycle, having two tandem wheels or three wheels, that may be propelled by either human power or helper motor, or by both, and has: (1) A motor that produces not more than 3.5 brake horsepower; (2) a cylinder capacity of not more than 130 cubic centimeters; (3) an automatic transmission; and (4) the capability of a maximum design speed of no more than 30 miles per hour. (z) "Motorized wheelchair" means any self-propelled vehicle designed specifically for use by a physically disabled person and such vehicle is incapable of a speed in excess of 15 miles per hour. (aa) "New vehicle dealer" means every person actively engaged in the business of buying, selling or exchanging new motor vehicles, travel trailers, trailers or vehicles who holds a dealer's contract therefor from a manufacturer or distributor and has an established place of business in this state. (bb) "Nonresident" means every person who is not a resident of this state. (cc) "Notice of security interest" means a notification to the division from a dealer or secured party of a purchase money security interest as provided in article 9 of chapter 84 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, upon a vehicle that has been sold and delivered to the purchaser describing the vehicle and showing the name, address and acknowledgment of the secured party as well as the name and address of the debtor or debtors and other information the division requires. (dd) "Oil well servicing, oil well clean-out or oil well drilling machinery or equipment" means a vehicle constructed as a machine used exclusively for servicing, cleaning-out or drilling an oil well and consisting in general of a mast, an engine for power, a draw works and a chassis permanently constructed or assembled for one or more of those purposes. The passenger capacity of the cab of a vehicle shall not be considered in determining whether such vehicle is oil well servicing, oil well clean-out or oil well drilling machinery or equipment. (ee) "Owner" means a person who holds the legal title of a vehicle, or in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale thereof with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of possession vested in the conditional vendee or in the event a vehicle is subject to a lease of 30 days or more with an immediate right of possession vested in the lessee; or in the event a party having a security interest in a vehicle is entitled to possession, then such conditional vendee or lessee or secured party shall be deemed the owner for the purpose of this act. (ff) "Passenger vehicle" means every motor vehicle, as defined in this section, that is designed primarily to carry 10 or fewer passengers, and is not used as a truck. (gg) "Person" means every natural person, firm, partnership, association or corporation. (hh) "Pole trailer" means any two-wheel vehicle used as a trailer with bolsters that support the load, and do not have a rack or body extending to the tractor drawing the load. (ii) "Recreational off-highway vehicle" means any motor vehicle not greater than 75 inches in width measured from the outside of one tire rim to the outside of the other tire rim, having a dry weight of 3,500 pounds or less, traveling on four or more nonhighway tires. (jj) "Road tractor" means every motor vehicle designed and used for drawing other vehicles, and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon independently, or any part of the weight of a vehicle or load so drawn. (kk) "Self-propelled farm implement" means every farm implement designed for specific use applications with its motive power unit permanently incorporated in its structural design. (ll) "Semitrailer" means every vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a motor vehicle that some part of its own weight and that of its own load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle. (mm) "Specially constructed vehicle" means any vehicle that shall not have been originally constructed under a distinctive name, make, model or type, or that, if originally otherwise constructed shall have been materially altered by the removal of essential parts, or by the addition or substitution of essential parts, new or used, derived from other vehicles or makes of vehicles. (nn) "Trailer" means every vehicle without motive power designed to carry property or passengers wholly on its own structure and to be drawn by a motor vehicle. (oo) "Travel trailer" means every vehicle without motive power designed to be towed by a motor vehicle constructed primarily for recreational purposes. (pp) "Truck" means a motor vehicle that is used for the transportation or delivery of freight and merchandise or more than 10 passengers. (qq) "Truck tractor" means every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles, and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle or load so drawn. (rr) "Used vehicle dealer" means every person actively engaged in the business of buying, selling or exchanging used vehicles, and having an established place of business in this state and who does not hold a dealer's contract for the sale of new motor vehicles, travel trailers or vehicles. (ss) "Vehicle" means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, excepting electric personal assistive mobility devices or devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. (tt) "Vehicle functions" means services relating to the application, processing, auditing or distribution of original or renewal vehicle registrations, certificates of title, driver's licenses and division-issued identification cards associated with services and functions set out in articles 1, 2 and 13 of chapter 8 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto. "Vehicle functions" may also include personal property taxation duties set out in article 51 of chapter 79 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, and other vehicle-related events described in article 1 of chapter 8 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto. (uu) "Work-site utility vehicle" means any motor vehicle that is not less than 48 inches in width, has an unladen weight, including fuel and fluids, of more than 800 pounds and is equipped with four or more nonhighway tires, a steering wheel and bench or bucket-type seating allowing at least two people to sit side-by-side, and may be equipped with a bed or cargo box for hauling materials. "Work-site utility vehicle" does not include a micro utility truck or recreational off-highway vehicle. History: L. 1929, ch. 81, § 1; L. 1937, ch. 72, § 1; L. 1955, ch. 294, § 1; L. 1956, ch. 48, § 1; L. 1957, ch. 57, § 1; L. 1968, ch. 411, § 1; L. 1972, ch. 342, § 29; L. 1973, ch. 25, § 1; L. 1975, ch. 426, § 27; L. 1977, ch. 28, § 1; L. 1978, ch. 29, § 1; L. 1982, ch. 36, § 2; L. 1984, ch. 26, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 27, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 28, § 1; L. 1985, ch. 42, § 1; L. 1988, ch. 40, § 1; L. 1991, ch. 33, § 13; L. 1992, ch. 166, § 1; L. 1994, ch. 235, § 1; L. 1996, ch. 220, § 3; L. 1997, ch. 119, § 1; L. 2000, ch. 179, § 5; L. 2001, ch. 19, § 2; L. 2002, ch. 16, § 2; L. 2002, ch. 134, § 1; L. 2005, ch. 71, § 1; L. 2006, ch. 135, § 1; L. 2007, ch. 68, § 1; L. 2008, ch. 167, § 3; L. 2009, ch. 91, § 4; L. 2009, ch. 143, § 2; L. 2010, ch. 164, § 4; L. 2011, ch. 66, § 2; L. 2013, ch. 92, § 1; L. 2015, ch. 48, § 2; L. 2015, ch. 100, § 1; L. 2019, ch. 61, § 9; L. 2021, ch. 72, § 1; L. 2022, ch. 43, § 1; July 1. 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Kansas Statutes Skip to main content 2026 Kansas Statutes Prev Article 37. - ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION Next 2-3713. Same; amounts. (a) Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 2-3712, and amendments thereto, there is hereby imposed environmental assessments as follows: (1) An annual assessment of $100 to be paid by each custom blender required to be licensed pursuant to K.S.A. 2-1201a, and amendments thereto. Such assessment shall be paid to the secretary of agriculture by the custom blender at the time and in the manner provided by law for payment of the custom blender's license fee. (2) An annual assessment of $40 for each commercial fertilizer required to be registered pursuant to K.S.A. 2-1202, and amendments thereto. Such assessment shall be paid to the secretary of agriculture by the applicant for registration at the time and in the manner provided by law for payment of the registration fee for the commercial fertilizer. (3) An annual assessment of $30 for each agricultural chemical required to be registered pursuant to K.S.A. 2-2204, and amendments thereto, other than an agricultural chemical classified as an antimicrobial pesticide, as defined by 7 U.S.C. § 136(mm). Such assessment shall be paid to the secretary of agriculture by the applicant for registration at the time and in the manner provided by law for payment of the registration fee for the agricultural chemical. (4) An annual assessment to be paid by each pesticide dealer required to be registered pursuant to K.S.A. 2-2469, and amendments thereto. If the annual sales of pesticides from the previous year by a pesticide dealer from a business location are less than $2,500, the annual assessment shall be $5. If the annual sales of pesticides from the previous year by a pesticide dealer from a business location are equal to or greater than $2,500, the annual assessment shall be $80. Such assessment shall be paid to the secretary of agriculture by the pesticide dealer at the time and in the manner provided by law for payment of the dealer's registration fee. (5) An annual assessment of $.00025 per bushel of storage capacity of each public warehouse required to be licensed pursuant to K.S.A. 34-228, and amendments thereto, or pursuant to the federal warehouse act. Such assessment shall be paid to the secretary of agriculture by the applicant for licensure at the time and in the manner provided by law for payment of the warehouse license fee. (6) An annual assessment of $.00025 per bushel of storage capacity of each public warehouse in this state that is licensed pursuant to the United States warehouse act. Such assessment shall be paid to the secretary of agriculture by the licensee on or before August 31 of each year. (7) An annual assessment of $1,000 to be paid by the responsible party for a site that has been sold or leased but where the seller or lessor still retains responsibility for cleaning up the site. Such assessment shall be paid to the secretary of agriculture by the responsible party on or before September 30 of each year. (b) The secretary of agriculture shall remit to the state treasurer all moneys collected by the secretary from assessments paid pursuant to this section. The state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount of the remittance in the state treasury and credit it to the fund. (c) The secretary of agriculture shall adopt rules and regulations establishing procedures for payment and collection of all environmental assessments. (d) The secretary of agriculture shall have the authority to reimburse or refund a person if an error occurred in the payment of an assessment. (e) For a remediated site to be eligible for reimbursement under K.S.A. 2-3708(b), and amendments thereto, all applicable environmental assessments must be paid for such site. History: L. 2000, ch. 82, § 13; L. 2001, ch. 47, § 1; L. 2008, ch. 6, § 2; L. 2019, ch. 2, § 2; July 1. Prev Article 37. - ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION Next © 2026 Revisor of Statutes, State of Kansas arrow_upward Top

Kansas Statutes Skip to main content 2026 Kansas Statutes Prev Article 14. - SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF AGRICULTURAL SEEDS Next 2-1415. Definitions. As used in this act: (a) "Agricultural seed" means the seed of grass, legume, forage, cereal, fiber crops, oil seed, food plot seed and any cannabis sativa crop authorized by state law, or mixtures thereof. "Agricultural seed" does not include those seeds generally classified as vegetable, fruit, flower, tree or shrub and grown for personal use or commercial sale, except that cover crop seed shall be considered agricultural seed. (b) "Person" means any individual, member of a partnership, corporation, agents, brokers, company, association or society. (c) "Conditioned" means cleaned, or cleaned and blended, to meet the requirements of agricultural seed for the purpose of being planted or seeded. (d) "Kind" means one or more related species or subspecies that singly or collectively is known by one common name, and includes, among others, wheat, oat, vetch, sweet clover and alfalfa. (e) "Variety" means a subdivision of a kind that is characterized by growth, yield, plant, fruit, seed or other characteristics by which it can be differentiated from other plants of the same kind. (f) "Hard seed" means seeds that because of hardness or impermeability do not absorb moisture or germinate under seed testing procedure. (g) "Label" means the statements written, printed, stenciled or otherwise displayed upon, or attached to, a container of agricultural seed, and includes other written, printed, stenciled or graphic representations, in any form whatsoever, pertaining to any agricultural seed, whether in bulk or in containers, and includes declarations and affidavits. (h) "Secretary" means the secretary of the Kansas department of agriculture or the secretary's authorized representative. (i) "Weed seed" means the seeds of plants considered weeds in this state and includes noxious weed seed, prohibited weed seed and restricted weed seed, as determined by the methods established by rules and regulations adopted by the secretary. (j) (1) "Noxious weed seed" means the seed of any species of plant declared to be a noxious weed by the secretary pursuant to K.S.A. 2-1314(a), and amendments thereto, and any rules and regulations adopted thereunder. (2) "Noxious weed seed" does not include the seed of any weed species: (A) Listed as a noxious weed by a board of county commissioners pursuant to K.S.A. 2-1314(d), and amendments thereto, or designated as a noxious weed by an emergency declaration of the secretary pursuant to K.S.A. 2-1314c, and amendments thereto; and (B) not subsequently declared a statewide noxious weed by the secretary pursuant to K.S.A. 2-1314(a), and amendments thereto, and rules and regulations adopted thereunder. (k) "Prohibited weed seed" means the seeds or bulblets of plant species that are highly destructive and are difficult to control with cultural practices that are commonly accepted as effective and with the use of herbicides. "Prohibited weed seed" includes the seeds of any species of plant designated as prohibited weed seed in any rules and regulations adopted by the secretary in consultation with landowner organizations, seed industry organizations and programs within the college of agriculture at Kansas state university. (l) "Restricted weed seed" means weed seeds or bulblets that are: (1) Objectionable in agricultural crops, lawns and gardens of this state and that can be controlled with cultural practices that are commonly accepted as effective or with the use of herbicides; and (2) designated as restricted weed seeds pursuant to rules and regulations adopted by the secretary in consultation with landowner organizations, seed industry organizations and programs within the college of agriculture of Kansas state university. (m) "Advertisement" means all representations, other than those on the label, disseminated in any manner, or by any means, relating to agricultural seed. (n) "Record" means all information relating to any shipment of agricultural seed and includes a file sample of each lot of such seed. (o) "Stop sale order" means an administrative order, authorized by law, restraining the sale, use, disposition and movement of a definite amount of agricultural seed. (p) "Seizure" means a legal process, including an order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, that allows the secretary to take possession of a definite amount of agricultural seed and undertake or order the disposition of the seed as the court may direct pursuant to K.S.A. 2-1422a, and amendments thereto. (q) "Lot" means a definite quantity of agricultural seed, identified by a lot number or other mark, every portion or bag of which is uniform, within recognized tolerances for the factors which appear in the labeling. (r) "Germination rate" means the percentage of seeds capable of producing normal seedlings under ordinarily favorable conditions, in accordance with the methods established by rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this act. (s) "Pure seed" means the kind of seed declared on the label, exclusive of inert matter, agricultural or other crop seeds and weed seeds. (t) "Inert matter" means all matter that is not seeds, as determined by the secretary. (u) "Other agricultural seeds or other crop seeds" means seeds of agricultural seeds other than those included in the percentage or percentages of kind or variety and includes collectively all kinds and varieties not named on the label. (v) (1) "Hybrid" means the first generation seed of a cross produced by a method of hybridization that will produce pure seed of which 75% or more contains the genetic material of each of the parent plants and by combining: (A) Two or more inbred lines; (B) one inbred or a single cross with an open pollinated variety; or (C) two varieties or species, other than open pollinated varieties of corn (Zea mays). (2) "Hybrid" does not include the second generation or subsequent generations resulting from such crosses. (w) "Type" means a group of varieties that are so similar that the individual varieties cannot be clearly differentiated except under special conditions. (x) "Treated" means that the seed has had a substance applied to such seed that is designed to reduce, control or repel certain disease organisms, insects or other pests and includes an application of a substance designed to increase seedling vigor. (y) "Tested" means that a representative sample of the lot of agricultural seed in question has been subjected to examination and such sample's purity and germination rate has been determined. (z) "Native grass seed" means the seeds of aboriginal or native prairie grasses. (aa) "Chaffy range grasses" means Bluestems, Gramas, Yellow Indian grass, wildryes, buffalograss and any other grass that has seeds that tend to bind together because of attached husks, hulls, brans or other plant parts that do not readily separate from the seeds during conditioning and prevent the seeds from moving independently of each other. (bb) "Certified seed" means any class of pedigreed seed or plant parts for which a certificate of inspection has been issued by an official seed certifying agency. (cc) "Certifying agency" means: (1) An agency that is authorized under the laws of a state, territory or possession to officially certify seed and has standards and procedures approved by the secretary of agriculture of the United States department of agriculture to assure the genetic purity and identity of the seed certified; or (2) an agency of a foreign country that is determined by the secretary of agriculture of the United States department of agriculture to be an agency that adheres to procedures and standards for seed certification comparable to those adhered to generally by seed certifying agencies under paragraph (1). (dd) "Blend" means a combination of two or more varieties of the same kind of agricultural seed in which each variety comprises more than 5% of the whole. (ee) "Mixture" means a combination of two or more kinds of agricultural seed in which each kind comprises more than 5% of the whole. (ff) "Brand" means a term or mark that is proprietary in nature, whether or not it is a registered or copyrighted term or mark. (gg) "Commercial means" includes all forms of advertising for which a person must pay another for the dissemination or distribution of the advertisement. (hh) "Grower of agricultural seed" means an individual whose primary occupation is farming and who sells or offers or exposes for sale agricultural seed that the individual has grown without the use of a common carrier or a third party as an agent or broker. (ii) "Wholesaler" means any person who is in the business of selling agricultural seed to any person other than the end user. (jj) "Retailer" means any person who sells agricultural seed to the end user. (kk) "Seed conditioner" means any person who is in the business of cleaning seed for a fee or compensation. (ll) "Wild mustard (Brassica spp.)" means Indian mustard (Brassica juncea), Sahara mustard (B. tournefortii), field mustard (B. rapa), black mustard (B. nigra), bird rape (B. campestris) and all other members of the wild mustard (Brassica spp.) genus when occurring incidentally in agricultural seeds. (mm) "Cover crop seed" means the seed of any plant that is planted to provide seasonal soil cover for the purpose of protecting or enriching the soil, whether harvested or not. "Cover crop seed" does not include the seeds of any plant of the genus cannabis. (nn) "Food plot" means a planted area set aside for the purpose of providing a supplementary source of nutrition to wildlife or other non-domesticated animals and that is not intended to be harvested for sale. (oo) "Feminized seed" means seeds produced by a cannabis sativa plant that are specially bred, treated or genetically engineered to eliminate male chromosomes to produce only female plants. (pp) "Oil seed" means the seeds of any species that is grown as a crop primarily for the oil contained within the grain. (qq) "Seed" means a plant's dormant unit of sexual reproduction intended to be planted for germination. (rr) "Act" or "Kansas seed law" means the statutes contained in article 14 of chapter 2 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto. History: L. 1935, ch. 4, § 1; L. 1943, ch. 2, § 1; L. 1961, ch. 5, § 1; L. 1968, ch. 181, § 1; L. 1985, ch. 10, § 1; L. 1990, ch. 4, § 2; L. 1991, ch. 5, § 1; L. 1997, ch. 63, § 1; L. 1998, ch. 85, § 6; L. 2022, ch. 69, § 11; July 1. Prev Article 14. - SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF AGRICULTURAL SEEDS Next © 2026 Revisor of Statutes, State of Kansas arrow_upward Top

Kansas Statutes Skip to main content 2026 Kansas Statutes Prev Article 13. - WEEDS Next 2-1327. Same; harvesting and other machines; labeling. It shall be unlawful for any person, company or corporation to (1) bring any harvesting or threshing machinery, portable feed grinders, portable seed cleaners, or field ensilage cutters or other farm vehicles or machinery into the state without first cleaning such equipment free from all weed seed and litter, or (2) to move any harvesting or threshing machines, portable feed grinders, portable seed cleaners or field ensilage cutters from any field or farm infested with any noxious weed without first cleaning such equipment free from all weed seed and litter. Each such machine operated by a person doing work for another shall be labeled with an appropriate label on a form provided by the secretary of agriculture containing this section of the law. History: L. 1945, ch. 3, § 8; L. 1957, ch. 7, § 9; L. 2004, ch. 101, § 32; July 1. Prev Article 13. - WEEDS Next © 2026 Revisor of Statutes, State of Kansas arrow_upward Top