Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 8 > Article 28 - Peer-to-Peer Vehicle Sharing Program Act

• Act: means the peer-to-peer vehicle sharing program act. See Kansas Statutes 8-2802
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Peer-to-peer vehicle sharing: means the authorized use of a shared vehicle by an individual other than the shared vehicle's owner through a peer-to-peer vehicle sharing program. See Kansas Statutes 8-2802
• Peer-to-peer vehicle sharing program: means a business platform that connects vehicle owners with drivers to enable the sharing of vehicles for financial consideration. See Kansas Statutes 8-2802
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• 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
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Shared vehicle: means a vehicle that is available for sharing through a peer-to-peer vehicle sharing program. See Kansas Statutes 8-2802
• Shared vehicle driver: means an individual who has been authorized to drive the shared vehicle by the shared vehicle owner under a vehicle sharing program agreement. See Kansas Statutes 8-2802
• Shared vehicle owner: means the registered owner, or a person or entity designated by the registered owner, of a vehicle made available for sharing to shared vehicle drivers through a peer-to-peer vehicle sharing program. See Kansas Statutes 8-2802
• 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.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Vehicle sharing delivery period: means the period of time during which a shared vehicle is being delivered to the location of the vehicle sharing start time, if applicable, as documented by the governing vehicle sharing program agreement. See Kansas Statutes 8-2802
• Vehicle sharing period: means the period of time that commences with the vehicle sharing delivery period or, if there is no vehicle sharing delivery period, that commences with the vehicle sharing start time and, in either case, that ends at the vehicle sharing termination time. See Kansas Statutes 8-2802
• Vehicle sharing program agreement: means the terms and conditions applicable to a shared vehicle owner, a shared vehicle driver and a peer-to-peer vehicle sharing program that govern the use of a shared vehicle through a peer-to-peer vehicle sharing program. See Kansas Statutes 8-2802
• Vehicle sharing start time: means the time when the shared vehicle becomes subject to the control of the shared vehicle driver at or after the time the reservation of a shared vehicle is scheduled to begin as documented in the records of a peer-to-peer vehicle sharing program. See Kansas Statutes 8-2802
• Vehicle sharing termination time: means the earliest of the following events:

  (1) The expiration of the agreed-upon period of time established for the use of a shared vehicle according to the terms of the vehicle sharing program agreement if the shared vehicle is delivered to the location agreed upon in the vehicle sharing program agreement;

  (2) when the shared vehicle is returned to a location as alternatively agreed upon by the shared vehicle owner and shared vehicle driver as communicated through a peer-to-peer vehicle sharing program and such alternatively agreed upon location is incorporated into the vehicle sharing program agreement; or

  (3) when the shared vehicle owner or the shared vehicle owner's authorized designee takes possession and control of the shared vehicle. See Kansas Statutes 8-2802