{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-8-1-138","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 8-1,138","heading":"Registration of vehicles; residency; exceptions.","body":"(a) For purposes of article 1 of chapter 8 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, a person shall be deemed to be a resident of a county in this state if:\n(1) The person, including a student, is registered to vote in such county; or\n(2) the person, partnership, company, firm, corporation or association maintains an office within such county to lease or rent motor vehicles, if such motor vehicles are operated within the state for a period exceeding 60 days.\n(b) For purposes of article 1 of chapter 8 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, there is a rebuttable presumption that a person is a resident of a county in this state if any of the following exist:\n(1) The person, other than a student, owns, leases or rents a place of domicile within such county and remains in such county for a period exceeding 90 days, except for infrequent or brief absences;\n(2) the person enrolls the person's child in a school district, all or any part of which is located in such county, unless out-of-state tuition is being charged for the attendance of the child at school in such school district;\n(3) the person has a place of domicile in such county and has accepted employment or engages in any trade, profession or occupation within this state;\n(4) any individual, partnership, company, firm, corporation or association maintains a main or branch office or warehouse facility within such county or bases and operates motor vehicles in such county, if such motor vehicles are garaged in such county for a period exceeding 90 days; or\n(5) any individual, partnership, company, firm, corporation or association operates motor vehicles in intrastate haulage in this state, if such motor vehicles are garaged in such county for a period exceeding 90 days.\n(c) For purposes of this section, resident does not include:\n(1) A student who is enrolled for at least nine hours of credit at a college or university in this state, if the student has a domicile in another state and has a valid driver's license and vehicle registration issued by the state of domicile; and\n(2) members of the armed forces who are stationed in the state, provided such members' vehicles are properly registered in such members' state of residence.","path":["Chapter 8.—AUTOMOBILES AND OTHER VEHICLES","Article 1.—GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch08/008_001_0138.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:09:53Z","sha256":"0342c721645acfbfb6a48c79b6972911d3564704412db532c61b55d41a596005","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-8-1-137","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-8-1-139"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}