Printable Format8-1,200. Gadsden flag license plate; requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2022, any owner or lessee of one or more passenger vehicles, trucks of a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less, motorcycles or travel trailers, who is a resident of the state of Kansas, may apply for and be issued one distinctive license plate for each such passenger vehicle, truck, motorcycle or travel trailer, a Gadsden flag license plate. Such license plate shall be issued for the same period of time as other plates upon proper registration and payment of the regular license fee as provided in K.S.A. 8-143, and amendments thereto.
(b) Any applicant or renewal for a Gadsden flag license plate authorized by this section shall make an annual payment of a Gadsden flag license plate fee of $25 to the county treasurer for each license plate to be issued. Any fee received pursuant to this section shall be used to support the Kansas state rifle association.
(c) Any applicant for a license plate authorized by this section may make application for such license plate not less than 60 days prior to such person's renewal of registration date on a form prescribed and furnished by the director of vehicles. Application for the registration of a passenger vehicle, truck, motorcycle or travel trailer, and issuance of the license plates under this section shall be made by the owner or lessee in a manner prescribed by the director of vehicles upon forms furnished by the director.
(d) No registration or license plate issued under the authority of this section shall be transferable to any other person.
(e) Renewals of registration under this section shall be made annually, upon payment of the fee prescribed in subsection (a), in the manner prescribed in K.S.A. 8-132(b), and amendments thereto. No renewal of registration shall be made to any applicant until such applicant has filed a form with the director as provided in subsection (b). If such form is not filed, the applicant shall be required to comply with K.S.A. 8-143, and amendments thereto, and return the distinctive license plate to the county treasurer of such person's residence.
(f) The Gadsden flag license plate shall have a background design, an emblem or colors that designate the license plate as a Gadsden flag license plate.
(g) Annual Gadsden flag license plate fee payments collected by county treasurers under this section shall be remitted to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the Gadsden flag license plate fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury and shall be administered by the state treasurer. All expenditures from the Gadsden flag license plate fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the state treasurer or the state treasurer's designee. Payments from the Gadsden flag license plate fund shall be made on a monthly basis to the appropriate designee of the Kansas state rifle association.
History: L. 2021, ch. 95, ยง 10; July 1.