Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 68 > Article 22 - Highway Beautification

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Business area: means any part of an adjacent area, except areas adjacent to scenic byways, designated by the secretary of transportation, which is:

  (1) Zoned for industrial or commercial activities under the authority of any law or by a local zoning authority; or

  (2) an unzoned commercial or industrial area as herein defined. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232

• Comprehensive zoning: means zoning by local zoning authorities of each parcel of land under the jurisdiction of the local zoning authority placed in a zoning classification pursuant to a comprehensive plan or reserved for future classification. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• controlled area: means an area which is adjacent to the right-of-way on any interstate or primary highway and is visible from the main traveled way. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• 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.
• Department: means the Kansas department of transportation. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• Erect: means to construct, build, raise, assemble, place, affix, attach, create, paint, draw or in any other way bring into being or establish, but it shall not include any of the foregoing activities when performed as an incident to the change of advertising message or customary maintenance or repair of a sign structure. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• Freeway: means any primary highway which is a divided arterial highway with four or more lanes available for through traffic with full control of access and grade separation at intersections. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Highway: means a highway as defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• Interstate highway: means any highway at any time officially designated as a part of the national system of interstate and defense highways by the secretary of transportation and approved by the appropriate authority of the federal government. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Local zoning authority: means an incorporated city or a county which is authorized by law to zone areas within its jurisdiction and which has an active zoning authority. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• Main traveled way: means the traveled way of a highway on which through traffic is carried. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• Maintain: means to keep in a state of continuing existence. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• Minor: means any person defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• 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.
• Primary highway: means any highway, other than an interstate highway, that was part of the federal-aid primary system in existence on June 1, 1991, and any highway which is not on such system but which is on the national highway system. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Residence: means the place which is adopted by a person as the person's place of habitation and to which, whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention of returning. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• road: include public bridges and may be construed to be equivalent to "county way" "county road" "common road" "state road" and "territorial road. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Safety rest area: means an area or site established and maintained within or adjacent to the highway right-of-way, which area is under public supervision or control and for the convenience of the traveling public. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• Secretary: means the secretary of transportation. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• Sign display: means a single panel or part of the sign, including trim and background, which contains a message or messages. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• Sign facing: means and includes a sign display or displays at the same location and facing the same direction. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• Sign structure: means and includes all components of the sign, which may include poles, bracings, lateral supports, vehicles, displays and other materials of every kind and nature used to support a facing or facings on which advertising is placed. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Traveled way: means the portion of a roadway for the movement of vehicles, exclusive of shoulders and auxiliary lanes. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• Unzoned commercial or industrial area: means an area which is not zoned by state or local law, regulation or ordinance, which is within 660 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of the controlled area, and on which there is located one or more permanent structures devoted to a commercial or industrial activity or on which a commercial or industrial activity is actually conducted, whether or not a permanent structure is located thereon, which meets all the requirements specified in subsection (h) of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• Vegetation control: means a program authorized hereunder, providing for the control of vegetation on state rights-of-way which shall be of benefit to the state as well as providing assistance to sign owners. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• Visible: means capable of being seen without visual aid by a person of normal visual acuity. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
• Zoned commercial or industrial areas: means those areas which are comprehensively zoned for business, industry, commerce or trade pursuant to a state or local zoning ordinance or resolution or an area which is zoned for business, industry, commerce or trade pursuant to a state or local zoning ordinance or regulation. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232