Kansas Statutes 8-143k. Temporary harvest permit for trucks or truck tractors engaged in farm custom harvesting operations
(a) The owner of any truck or truck tractor which is duly registered and licensed in some other state and is engaged in farm custom harvesting operations and desiring to operate in intrastate commerce in this state for a temporary period only, may obtain a harvest permit, in lieu of the thirty-day license in Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 8-143b or 8-143h, and amendments thereto, authorizing the operation of such truck or truck tractor on the highways of this state for a period of not to exceed 60 days from the date of issuance of such permit. For a foreign-based truck or truck tractor, the fee for each permit shall be $26, on January 1, 2013, $36, on January 1, 2014, $46 or 1/6 of the annual license fee for such vehicle, whichever sum is the larger. Where such fee is paid on a truck or truck tractor, no registration or fee shall be required for a trailer or semitrailer duly registered in this or another state and propelled by such truck or truck tractor. Application for such harvest permit shall be made to the division of vehicles of the department of revenue. The secretary of revenue may adopt rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this section.
(b) For the purpose of this section, “farm custom harvesting operations” means a person, firm, partnership, association or corporation engaged in farm custom harvesting operations if the truck or truck tractor is used to:
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 8-143k
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Division: means the division of vehicles of the department of revenue. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
- 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. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: means every natural person, firm, partnership, association or corporation. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
- 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. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- 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. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
- Truck: means a motor vehicle that is used for the transportation or delivery of freight and merchandise or more than 10 passengers. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
- 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. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
- 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. See Kansas Statutes 8-126
(1) Transport farm machinery, supplies, or both, to or from a farm, for custom harvesting operations on a farm;
(2) transport custom harvested crops only from a harvested field to initial storage or to initial market locations; or
(3) 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 vehicle.