8-1,134. Permanent registration of city, county, township, water district school district, community college or technical college vehicles; utility vehicles five-year registration. (a) Except as provided in subsection (c): (1) Each motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer owned or leased by any city, county, township, water district or school district of this state or by any agency or instrumentality of any city, county or township and used exclusively for governmental, water district or school district purposes and not for any private purposes, which is not otherwise exempt from registration; or (2) each truck tractor, trailer or semitrailer leased by a community college or technical college and used exclusively for a truck driver training program, which is not otherwise exempt from registration, shall be registered for a fee established by rules and regulations adopted by the secretary of revenue, except that such fee shall not exceed the actual cost of such registration. Such registration shall be permanent in nature and designed in such a manner as to remain with a vehicle for the duration of the life span of the vehicle, the duration of the lease or until the title is transferred to an owner who is not a city, county, township, water district, school district, community college or technical college.

(b) License plates issued for city, county, township, water district, school district, community college or technical college vehicles shall be distinctive and shall contain the words city, county, township, water district, school district, community college or technical college, as applicable and there shall be no year date thereon.

(c) Vehicles registered under this section which are used for utility purposes shall be issued license plates as prescribed by subsection (b), except that such license plates shall be issued for periods of five years, but shall be required to pay all license fees imposed pursuant to K.S.A. 8-143, and amendments thereto, as though such vehicles were registered annually. The secretary of revenue shall design decals to be affixed to such license plates containing the word utility and the date the registration is to expire.

(d) The secretary of revenue shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

History: L. 1987, ch. 43, § 1; L. 1988, ch. 41, § 2; L. 1994, ch. 221, § 2; L. 1995, ch. 41, § 1; L. 2003, ch. 11, § 1; L. 2005, ch. 62, § 1; L. 2015, ch. 49, § 3; L. 2017, ch. 46, § 1; July 1.