Kansas Statutes 8-252a. Suspension or revocation of driving privileges of nonresident or unlicensed person
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 8-252a
- driver: means any person who drives, operates or is in physical control of a commercial motor vehicle, in any place open to the general public for purposes of vehicular traffic, or who is required to hold a commercial driver's license;
(l) "driver's license" means any driver's license or any other license or permit to operate a motor vehicle issued under, or granted by, the laws of this state, including:
(1) Any temporary license or instruction;
(2) the privilege of any person to drive a motor vehicle whether or not such person holds a valid license; or
(3) any nonresident's operating privilege;
(m) "employer" means any person, including the United States, a state or a political subdivision of a state, who owns or leases a commercial motor vehicle or assigns a person to drive a commercial motor vehicle;
(n) "endorsement" means an authorization to an individual's commercial driver's license required to permit the individual to operate certain types of commercial motor vehicles;
(o) "felony" means any offense under state or federal law that is punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;
(p) "gross vehicle weight rating" means the value specified by the manufacturer as the maximum loaded weight of a single or a combination (articulated) vehicle. See Kansas Statutes 8-2,128
- Motor vehicle: means every vehicle that is self-propelled upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway except devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Kansas Statutes 8-273
- nonresident: means every person who is not a resident of this state. See Kansas Statutes 8-234a
- Person: means every natural person, firm, copartnership, association, corporation or school. See Kansas Statutes 8-273
- state: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands;
(6) "wireless communication device" means any wireless electronic communication device that provides for voice or data communication between two or more parties, including, but not limited to, a mobile or cellular telephone, a text messaging device, a personal digital assistant that sends or receives messages, an audio-video player that sends or receives messages or a laptop computer; and
(7) "religious organization" means any organization, church, body of communicants, or group, gathered in common membership for mutual support and edification in piety, worship and religious observances, or a society of individuals united for religious purposes at a definite place and which religious organization maintains an established place of worship within this state and has a regular schedule of services or meetings at least on a weekly basis and has been determined to be organized and created as a bona fide religious organization. See Kansas Statutes 8-234a
(a) Whenever a nonresident or a person who is unlicensed is convicted of any offense or is subject to a juvenile adjudication or an order of the division which would require the revocation or suspension of such person’s driving privileges, if the person had been issued a driver‘s license by the division, such nonresident’s privilege to operate a motor vehicle in this state or such unlicensed person’s privilege of obtaining a driver’s license issued by the division shall be revoked or suspended. Such revocation or suspension shall be for a period of time equal to the period of time that the driver’s license of a licensed driver would be revoked or suspended. If the driving privileges of a licensed driver would be restricted by a court or the division, the driving privileges of a nonresident shall be restricted in the same manner. If the driving privileges of a licensed driver would be restricted by a court or the division, an unlicensed driver shall be eligible to apply for a driver’s license during the period of restriction, but any license issued shall be subject to the same restrictions which would apply to a licensed driver.
(b) The division is hereby authorized to create a record with an identifying number and other identifying information, including address and date of birth, if known, for any nonresident or unlicensed driver subject to subsection (a). Such record shall include information showing any revocation, suspension or restriction entered under subsection (a) and the reason for such action in the same manner that records are maintained for licensed drivers, pursuant to Kan. Stat. Ann. § 8-249, and amendments thereto. If any such person becomes a licensed driver, the information contained in such record shall be included in the person’s driving record maintained by the division.
(c) The purpose of this section is to make nonresident and unlicensed drivers subject to the same driving sanctions as licensed residents.
(d) This section shall be part of and supplemental to the motor vehicle drivers’ license act, article 2 of chapter 8 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto.