66-1,140. Rules and regulations governing registration and fees for certain vehicles used temporarily; vehicles entering state on occasional trips; designation of superintendent of the highway patrol as issuing agent; acknowledgments. (a) The commission shall make reasonable rules and regulations specifying circumstances under which substitute or extra trucks, truck tractors or passenger vehicles to be used temporarily in cases of emergency or for special occasional trips by carriers currently licensed by the commission may be registered and shall prescribe and collect a reasonable registration fee therefor, not exceeding $10 for each truck, truck tractor or passenger vehicle. The term of such registration shall be for such period of time as the commission shall prescribe by rules and regulations.

(b) The commission shall also provide for special registration for trucks, truck tractors or passenger vehicles not registered under the provisions of K.S.A. 66-1,139, and amendments thereto, which enter the state only on an occasional trip or in temporary service and shall collect $15 as a fee therefor.

(c) By contract entered into by the commission, the superintendent of the Kansas highway patrol and the secretary of the department of revenue, the commission may designate the superintendent and secretary as agents authorized to provide the special registrations under either subsection (a) or (b) so that such registrations will be obtainable at motor carrier inspection stations and department of revenue offices. In such event, the superintendent or the superintendent's designee and the secretary or the secretary's designee may provide such special registrations pursuant to the terms and conditions of the applicable contract. The commission or its designated agent shall acknowledge special registration under either subsection (a) or (b), which acknowledgment shall accompany the vehicle and be used and accepted as evidence of such registration; and when necessary, such acknowledgment shall be by telegram.

History: L. 1955, ch. 297, § 3; L. 1956, ch. 50, § 3; L. 1957, ch. 350, § 3; L. 1977, ch. 304, § 21; L. 1988, ch. 266, § 5; L. 2003, ch. 124, § 31; July 1.