Wyandotte County, KS Drone Rules: Park Drone Restrictions (2026)

The baseline rule in Sec. 22-129(b)(3) prohibits intentionally or negligently operating a UAV over property the operator does not own, without consent from the owner or another person lawfully occupying it, and makes the flight subject to whatever restrictions that owner or occupant imposes. The same subsection then adds a proviso just for city-owned parks: it states that the foregoing shall not prohibit operating a UAV for recreational or hobby purposes in a city-owned park, so long as the operator and the UAV comply with all other requirements and restrictions of the section as well as federal and state law.

That means a park flight still has to clear the section's other five operating limits: staying a safe distance from non-consenting bystanders under (b)(1), not flying over a qualifying large event without dual consent under (b)(2), not flying while impaired under (b)(4), carrying no firearm or weapon under (b)(5), and not operating recklessly or carelessly under (b)(6). Subsection (c)(3) separately exempts Unified Government departments, including Parks and Recreation, using UAVs for their own operations, which is distinct from the public recreational-flying carve-out in (b)(3). The whole section, including the park exception, was adopted by Ord. No. O-144-22, § 1, on October 13, 2022.