Lawrence, KS

In the City of Lawrence, Section 302.9.2 of the amended property maintenance code limits residential driveway parking to vehicles no longer than 24 feet or taller than nine feet, and…

In the City of Lawrence, Section 302.8 of the amended property maintenance code bans keeping any inoperable, unlicensed, or disassembled vehicle on exterior property. No vehicle or…

In the City of Lawrence, Section 302.9.1 of the amended property maintenance code bars parking or storing a motor vehicle in any front, side, or rear yard unless it sits on an approved…

In the City of Lawrence, a detached-dwelling or duplex lot may keep up to three recreation vehicles or trailers, with no more than one large RV or large trailer, under Section 302.9.4…

Leaving a vehicle parked, stored or standing on a Lawrence public street or parking lot for more than 48 consecutive hours is unlawful under City Code § 17-407. Lawrence Police…

In the City of Lawrence, City Code § 17-130 bars parking, standing or stopping on a sidewalk, double-parked on the roadway side of another parked vehicle, in front of a driveway, or…

In the City of Lawrence, a vehicle may sit in a marked loading zone only long enough to load or unload, capped at 30 minutes under City Code § 17-401. Bus loading zones are reserved…

Kansas sets no statewide cap on hookup, mileage or storage charges and creates no drop fee for an owner who returns before the truck leaves. K.S.A. 8-1103 instead gives the towing…

In the City of Lawrence, the Section 3-108 animal list allows hens as pets but bans keeping roosters, turkeys, geese, swans, peafowl, guinea fowl, ostriches and emus outright. Goats…

In the City of Lawrence, ownership is capped at four dogs and four cats twelve weeks or older at the same address, under Sections 3-108(a)(1)-(2) and 3-114. Anyone who wants to keep…

In the City of Lawrence, Chapter 3 of the Municipal Code bans owning any animal within city limits unless it appears on the Section 3-108 exclusion list. Common pets, farm species tied…

In the City of Lawrence, it is unlawful to own or keep a dog, cat or other animal that runs at large under Section 3-202. An animal escapes that ban only if it's on a leash under…

In the City of Lawrence, cats get treatment other animals don't under Section 3-202: a cat on its owner's own property is never deemed at large, and a certified 'community cat', an…

In the City of Lawrence, pets don't need microchips as a general rule, but Section 3-502(g)(7) forces every owner whose animal is convicted of being a dangerous animal to microchip it…

In the City of Lawrence, the code bars its own dangerous-animal process from targeting a dog by breed: Section 3-502(d) says no animal may be declared dangerous based solely on its…

Kansas does not license or register beekeepers. The old apiary-inspection law is repealed; bees and beekeeping equipment now fall under the Plant Pest and Agriculture Commodity…

Kansas Administrative Regulation 115-8-23, adopted by the Wildlife and Parks Commission, prohibits baiting and feeding of wildlife on all public lands statewide. The 2023 amendment…

In the City of Lawrence, Appendix Q, "Tiny Houses," of the 2018 International Residential Code is specifically adopted, so tiny houses built as one- and two-family dwellings can use…

In the City of Lawrence, a one-story detached accessory shed, playhouse or similar storage structure does not need a building permit as long as its floor area stays at 200 square feet…

In the City of Lawrence, Section 303.2 of the amended property maintenance code requires a private swimming pool, hot tub, or spa deeper than 24 inches to be completely surrounded by a…

Before work starts on a swimming pool or nonresidential spa in the City of Lawrence, plans must go to the health department for a written construction permit. No building, plumbing…

In the City of Lawrence, Section 704.6.1 of the amended property maintenance code requires existing Group I-1 and R occupancies, meaning most existing residential buildings, to have…

The City of Lawrence requires an operational permit before kindling or maintaining any open fire on public or private ground under amended IFC Section 105.6.32 (Sec. 8-208)…

The City of Lawrence prohibits the possession, manufacture, storage, sale, use, and handling of fireworks under amended IFC Section 5601.1.3 (Sec. 8-227), with narrow exceptions for…

Kansas bans open burning statewide but exempts range, pasture and prairie management fires under K.A.R. 28-19-648, provided the burner notifies the local fire control authority…

In the City of Lawrence, Section 3-501(a) makes it a nuisance offense to own, possess, harbor or keep any animal, including a dog or cat, whose frequent or prolonged noise disturbs the…

The City of Lawrence bans any excessive, unreasonable or unusually loud noise that disturbs the repose, health, peace or safety of ordinary-sensitivity neighbors, at any hour, rather…

In the City of Lawrence, operating a radio, television, musical instrument, phonograph or other electronic sound device so loudly that it disturbs the peace, quiet or repose of…

Playing a vehicle sound system loud enough to be heard 50 feet away on a Lawrence street, alley, parking lot or driveway is a traffic offense under City Code § 17-127(c). Officers do…

In the City of Lawrence, Kansas, the city will not issue a short-term rental license for a non-owner-occupied property in an R-1 or R-2 low-density residential district or a PD planned…

Anyone renting a dwelling unit to a transient guest for fewer than 30 days in the City of Lawrence must first get a short-term rental license from the Department of Planning and…

Every owner licensed to operate a short-term rental in the City of Lawrence pays an annual license fee set in the city fee schedule under Lawrence City Code § 6-1355, due at…

Short-term rental units in the City of Lawrence must stay within the occupancy limits set for their zoning district under § 20-601(d) of the land development code, applied to…

A person, owner, or licensee with more than three short-term rental license revocations in the City of Lawrence becomes a 'habitual violator' under Lawrence City Code § 6-1370 and…

In the City of Lawrence, a retaining wall six feet or less, measured from the bottom of the footing to the top, needs no building permit unless it holds back a surcharge or Class I, II…

In the City of Lawrence, a fence six feet or under does not need a building permit, under Lawrence City Code § 5-223(a)(2). Once a fence goes over six feet, it drops out of that…

In the City of Lawrence, residential fence height is capped by yard under City Code § 16-604: 4 feet in front yards (3 feet for masonry or solid, more-than-half-closed fences), 4 feet…

In the City of Lawrence, electrically charged fences and standalone barbed wire fencing are banned around dwelling plots citywide under City Code § 16-604(d), with one exception…

Kansas requires owners of adjoining lands to build and maintain the partition fence between them in equal shares, as long as both occupy or improve their land, unless they agree…

In the City of Lawrence, vegetation counts as unlawful excessive growth once it reaches 12 inches tall (or 12 inches long if matted down) under City Code § 18-302. Section 18-304 makes…

In the City of Lawrence, the parks and recreation director controls planting, care and removal of every tree in a public right-of-way or park under City Code § 18-104. A property owner…

In the City of Lawrence, new synthetic turf installed after March 10, 2012 needs planning director approval before it goes into a yard. Turf must be limited, small scale use, and the…

In the City of Lawrence, outdoor lawn and garden watering can be restricted only after the city commission declares a water watch, warning, or emergency by resolution. Once declared…

In the City of Lawrence, any owner whose tree overhangs a public street or right-of-way must trim it to keep an eight-foot clear space above the street or sidewalk and to avoid…

In the City of Lawrence, a residential property owner can voluntarily register with the codes enforcement division to grow 'natural landscaping', letting vegetation reach its natural…

Kansas permits rainwater harvesting on private property without state-level restrictions. The Kansas Water Appropriation Act exempts captured rainwater from water-right permitting when…

The City of Lawrence applies Appendix K of the amended International Fire Code (Sec. 8-238) to residential day care facilities, capping licensed day care at ten children and group day…

Kansas has no cottage food permit and no annual sales ceiling. K.S.A. 65-689(d)(4) simply exempts a person who produces food for distribution directly to the end consumer from the food…

Kansas never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit. Cooking meals to order and selling them from a home kitchen is conducting a food establishment, which K.S.A. 65-689(a) makes…

In the City of Lawrence, releasing anything but uncontaminated stormwater into the storm drainage system is unlawful, and property owners have ongoing maintenance duties to keep…

In the City of Lawrence, once the lowest floor of a building in a flood hazard area, including the basement, is placed, the builder must submit an elevation certification under…

In the City of Lawrence, any building permit application must include a site plan marking flood hazard areas, floodways and design flood elevations. Lots zoned RS3 or RS5 mapped as…

In the City of Lawrence, any construction site or subdivision that disturbs one acre or more of soil must have a city-approved stormwater pollution prevention plan (SWP3) before work…

In the City of Lawrence, licensed peddlers, solicitors, and transient merchants may not work residential zoning districts between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m., and must honor any posted "No…

In the City of Lawrence, anyone acting as a peddler, solicitor, or transient merchant must first obtain a solicitor's license from the city clerk. The clerk runs a police background…

In the City of Lawrence, Section 309.6 of the amended property maintenance code authorizes the code official to issue bed bug extermination regulations, which must be posted on the…

In the City of Lawrence, Sections 309.3 and 309.4 of the amended property maintenance code split pest-elimination duty by occupancy type: the occupant of a single-family home or…

In the City of Lawrence, no store, gas station, or kiosk may sell tobacco or vape products without a tobacco retail license from Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health (L-DCPH)…

In the City of Lawrence, anyone who buys jewelry, bullion, coins, or silverware for resale must register with the chief of police, keep a detailed handwritten purchase register for…

The City of Lawrence does not license massage parlors as standalone businesses; instead, chapter 6, article XIX requires every individual massage therapist and bodywork practitioner to…

In the City of Lawrence, no one may open or keep running a pawnshop without first obtaining a city pawnbroker license, and every application must disclose the owners, the business…

In the City of Lawrence, running a sex shop, or any of the sexually oriented nonentertainment businesses the code lists, without a city-issued sex shop license is unlawful, and so is…

In the City of Lawrence, Lawrence City Code § 9-407 tells residents exactly where and when to set out trash carts: within six feet of the alley or curb, out no earlier than 24 hours…

In the City of Lawrence, every single-family and multiple-family home not served by a trash dumpster must use a city-owned roll-out trash cart for garbage, refuse, and yard waste…

In the City of Lawrence, Lawrence City Code § 9-408 makes it unlawful for any resident, business, contractor, or builder to accumulate or deposit refuse on a lot, driveway, alley…

Lawrence's Municipal Services and Operations Department collects yard waste, meaning leaves, grass, and small trimmings under 0.5 inch thick, separately from trash on the regular…

In the City of Lawrence, the city holds the exclusive right to collect and dispose of residential refuse, and no one else may run a trash-hauling service without a city license or…

In the City of Lawrence, residential bulk items too large for the weekly cart route, ranges, bed frames, washers, water heaters, refrigerators, air conditioners, and big rolls of…

In the City of Lawrence, Lawrence City Code § 9-508 lists exactly what residents may set out for recycling, glass containers, mixed paper, newsprint, office paper, bagged shredded…

In the City of Lawrence, businesses, industrial sites, and institutions are billed as commercial customers under Lawrence City Code § 9-412(b): the minimum commercial rate of $34.03 a…

In the City of Lawrence, the city runs single stream curbside recycling for every single-family and multifamily dwelling under Lawrence City Code § 9-502, picked up once every other…

In the City of Lawrence, a rented dwelling in violation of the property maintenance code is automatically a violation of the rental licensing article, and basement bedrooms must have…

In the City of Lawrence, every owner renting a dwelling unit on a long-term basis (30 days or more) must first obtain a rental license from Planning and Development Services and pay an…

Under K.S.A. 58-2564, a Kansas landlord must give a 3-day written notice for nonpayment of rent before terminating. For other material lease violations, the tenant gets a 30-day…

Kansas does not require just cause for eviction. The Kansas Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (K.S.A. 58-2540 et seq.) governs statewide eviction procedures, allowing no-cause…

Under K.S.A. 58-2557, a Kansas landlord may enter a rented dwelling only at reasonable hours and after reasonable notice to the tenant, except in emergencies. The statute sets no fixed…

Under K.S.A. 58-2570, either party may end a month-to-month tenancy with at least 30 days' written notice effective on a rent-paying date, or a week-to-week tenancy with 7 days'…

Kansas prohibits rent control. Under K.S.A. 12-16,120, no county, city, township, or other political subdivision may enact or enforce any ordinance that controls the amount of rent…

Kansas law (K.S.A. 58-2550) caps a residential security deposit at one month's rent for an unfurnished unit and 1.5 months' rent if furnished, plus up to half a month's rent as a pet…

Under K.S.A. 60-503, a squatter can claim title to real property only after 15 years of open, exclusive and continuous possession, held either under a knowingly adverse claim or a…

In the City of Lawrence, city employees and police officers cannot ask about or document a resident's immigration status except where federal law requires it. City Code § 1-1003 bars…

In the City of Lawrence, every licensed rental unit is inspected on roughly a three-year cycle, with the code official sampling 20 percent (up to 25 units) of an owner's licensed…

In the City of Lawrence, a tenant's complaint about a licensed rental dwelling can trigger a code official inspection even when the landlord otherwise qualifies for the six-year…

In the City of Lawrence, automatic fire sprinkler systems are not mandatory for one- and two-family dwellings: § 5-609 amends the 2018 IRC to make residential sprinklers optional, and…

In the City of Lawrence, the Property Maintenance Code requires a carbon monoxide alarm in any dwelling that has a fuel-fired appliance or an attached garage opening directly into the…

The City of Lawrence enforces the 2018 International Plumbing Code, adopted at Lawrence City Code § 5-801, and requires a permit before any regulated plumbing work under § 5-220…

The City of Lawrence enforces the 2017 National Electrical Code (NFPA 70) with local amendments, adopted at Lawrence City Code § 5-701, and requires a permit before any regulated…

The City of Lawrence requires a permit before anyone builds, enlarges, alters, repairs, moves, demolishes or changes the occupancy of a building, or touches a regulated electrical…

The City of Lawrence's building official inspects permitted work at fixed stages set out in Lawrence City Code §§ 5-303 through 5-315: footing and foundation, framing…

In the City of Lawrence's downtown district, a business must hold a sidewalk hospitality license before using the adjoining public sidewalk for outdoor seating, paying a…

In the City of Lawrence's downtown district, converting on-street parking to a private parklet requires a hospitality license, and the city caps parklets at 12 licensed parking spaces…

A block party in the City of Lawrence, defined at Lawrence City Code § 6-1502 as a resident-organized outdoor gathering on a local street, is a special event and needs a special event…

A parade in the City of Lawrence, defined at Lawrence City Code § 6-1502 as a march or procession that obstructs or interferes with normal traffic flow, needs a special event permit…

In the City of Lawrence, anyone promoting an event for profit or to attract the public in a city park must get a permit first from the Department of Parks, Recreation and Culture under…

Any mobile food vendor operating in the City of Lawrence needs a mobile food vendor's license from the city clerk before selling from a cart, trailer, or truck. The application…

Mobile food vendors in the City of Lawrence cannot sell food or beverages from the public right-of-way, including sidewalks and street margins, unless the sale is part of a…

The City of Lawrence limits mobile food vendors to improved surfaces in commercial, industrial, and nonresidential special purpose zoning districts under Sec. 6-1711(b). Vendors also…

In the City of Lawrence, smoking is illegal not just inside enclosed public places and workplaces but also in any "access point": the ten-foot radius outside a doorway, open window, or…

The City of Lawrence bans aggressive panhandling: touching a person without consent, blocking someone's path or an entrance, badgering after a refusal, following a person who walks…

In the City of Lawrence, drinking or carrying an open container of alcoholic liquor on public streets, alleys, sidewalks, roads, highways or public parking lots is a misdemeanor under…

In the City of Lawrence, riding a skateboard, roller skates, roller blades or similar device is unlawful on the sidewalks and public parking lots of a defined downtown zone bounded…

In the City of Lawrence, urinating or defecating on any street, sidewalk, alley, park, public building, public property, private parking lot, or any place open to public view is a…

In the City of Lawrence, being part of a party or gathering loud enough to disturb the peace, quiet or repose of nearby neighbors violates City Code § 14-416(c), and a police officer…

In the City of Lawrence, it's unlawful to possess or use marijuana and THC anywhere under City Code § 14-902, mirroring Kansas's statewide controlled substances ban. The Lawrence…

In the City of Lawrence, window signs skip the sign permit only within limits. Nonilluminated first-floor window signs mounted two to 12 feet above grade need no permit in…

In the City of Lawrence, billboards are banned outright, along with animated, flashing, scrolling, and traveling message signs. The only digital displays the sign code allows are…

In the City of Lawrence, political yard signs get their own exception to the normal temporary-sign caps. A lot may carry extra temporary signs, without counting toward the usual number…

The City of Lawrence bans camping, sleeping outdoors with bedding, storing belongings, building fires or pitching a tent, on private property without the owner's consent, and in the…

The City of Lawrence has no blanket ban on sitting or lying on a sidewalk. City Code § 16-815(c) instead makes it unlawful to intentionally obstruct traffic in the public right-of-way…

The City of Lawrence charges a flat $65.00 permit fee for solar, thermal and photovoltaic systems that require no structural change to the building, under Lawrence City Code §…

In the City of Lawrence, the building safety manager is designated the primary enforcing officer for dangerous, unsafe structures. Before any structure citywide is ordered removed…

In the City of Lawrence, owners, agents, tenants and anyone in charge of a property must keep it free of weeds and other vegetation that grows 12 inches or taller, or the codes…

In the City of Lawrence, the property owner of record next to a public sidewalk must clear snow or ice within 48 hours after it stops accumulating, under City Code § 16-113. Sanding is…

In the City of Lawrence, every calling, trade, profession, or business gets sorted into a license classification with its own occupation tax, set out in the section 6-108 fee schedule…

In the City of Lawrence, a site, structure or object earns protected landmark status only after the Historic Resources Commission and the City Commission designate it and add it to the…

In the City of Lawrence, anyone under 18 may not wander, loiter or play on a public street, alley, sidewalk, vacant lot or other public place during curfew hours, generally 11:00 p.m…

In the City of Lawrence, public parks close overnight under City Code § 15-204: normal hours run 6:00 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., while Burcham Park keeps a shorter window of 5:00 a.m. to…

Lawrence bicyclists must use a usable bike path adjacent to a roadway instead of riding in the street, under City Code § 17-125(d), and can ride two abreast except where such a path…

In the City of Lawrence, any company operating shared electric-assisted scooters needs a written agreement approved by the city commission before deploying devices on city streets…

Kansas lets golf carts on public roads by default outside city limits, then caps that permission hard. K.S.A. 8-15,108 makes it unlawful to operate a golf cart on any interstate…

In the City of Lawrence, it's unlawful to let a hedge fence overhang and block a public sidewalk under City Code § 16-104, one piece of a wider set of Chapter 16 rules that keep the…

In the City of Lawrence, the city commission can order a property owner's adjoining sidewalk reconstructed or repaired by resolution under City Code § 16-208. If the owner doesn't…

Anyone using the public right-of-way in the City of Lawrence on a temporary basis, from a sidewalk dumpster to construction staging, must first get a ROW permit from Municipal Services…

The City of Lawrence writes bass into its vehicle noise code by name. City Code § 17-127(a) defines 'audible' to include bass reverberations felt or heard from a vehicle sound system…

In the City of Lawrence, anyone planting a tree in the public right-of-way must follow spacing and clearance rules in City Code § 18-105: large trees 40 to 60 feet apart, medium trees…

Kansas does not permit marijuana dispensaries because cultivation, distribution, and sale of marijuana remain illegal under K.S.A. 21-5705; cities and counties cannot zone for or…

Kansas prohibits all marijuana cultivation, including home growing, under K.S.A. 21-5705 and 21-5706, with no recreational or medical exception; cities cannot authorize personal…

Kansas prohibits cities and counties from setting a local minimum wage above the state and federal floor for private employers.

Kansas allows permitless concealed carry for adults 21 and older, while still issuing optional permits for reciprocity in other states.

Kansas broadly preempts cities and counties from regulating firearms, ammunition, components, and accessories beyond what state law specifically authorizes.

Kansas permits the open carry of firearms by lawful adults statewide and prevents cities and counties from banning open carry.

Kansas doesn't license private casinos: the state owns and operates them itself. K.S.A. 74-8734 caps casino gaming at one state-run "lottery gaming facility" per gaming zone in four…

Kan. Const. art. 15, § 3a lets the legislature license bingo for nonprofits, and the Kansas Charitable Gaming Act, K.S.A. 75-5171 et seq., vests that power exclusively in the state: no…

Kansas carves out no exception for private, in-home, or friendly wagering. K.S.A. 21-6403(a) defines "bet" broadly, then lists ten specific exclusions -- business deals, contest…

Kansas legalized sports wagering in 2022 under K.S.A. 74-8781, but only as a state lottery product: there's no path to run an independent sportsbook. Every legal wager runs through one…

Kansas's HOA governance act, the Uniform Common Interest Owners Bill of Rights Act (K.S.A. 58-4601 et seq.), contains no assessment-lien provision. For condominiums, K.S.A. 58-3123…

KUCIOBORA requires board and committee meetings to be open to owners, with at least five days' notice, and bars final votes in executive session (K.S.A. 58-4612). Associations must…

Kansas protects a few owner displays from HOA bans. Under K.S.A. 58-4617 an association may not prohibit the U.S. flag (rules must follow federal law), the Kansas flag, or candidate…

Kansas protects flag display in a homeowners association only through K.S.A. 58-4617(d), part of the Kansas Uniform Common Interest Owners Bill of Rights Act, and only in a common…

Kansas sets no dollar cap on a homeowners association fine, requires no notice-and-hearing before one is imposed, and grants no statutory cure period. The Kansas Uniform Common…

Kansas gives an association a judicial foreclosure remedy, but a narrow one. Under K.S.A. 58-3710 for townhouses and K.S.A. 58-3123 for condominiums, unpaid common expenses become a…

Kansas runs sobriety checkpoints, but no Kansas statute authorises them. A full-text search of the Kansas Statutes Annotated returns zero hits for "checkpoint," "sobriety" and…

Kansas has no statute that expressly grants a right to record police, and none that bans it. The controlling provision is the breach of privacy statute, K.S.A. 21-6101, which is a…

Kansas is usually listed as a stop-and-identify state, and K.S.A. 22-2402(1) does let an officer who reasonably suspects a crime stop a person in a public place and demand a name, an…

Kansas has no statute that defines consent to a vehicle search, and it no longer has a statute authorising searches at all: K.S.A. 22-2501, the old search-incident-to-arrest section…

Kansas limits how local zoning can restrict bona fide agricultural operations and works alongside the Right to Farm Act to protect farmers.

Kansas protects established agricultural operations from nuisance lawsuits brought after non-farm uses move into the surrounding area.

Kansas prohibits the sale of cigarettes, tobacco, and vapor products to anyone under 21 years of age statewide.

Kansas allows auxiliary lighting but counts and measures it. K.S.A. 8-1719 permits not more than two spot lamps, two fog lamps, two auxiliary passing lamps and two auxiliary driving…

Kansas never wrote a closed list of things allowed on a windshield, so there is no Kansas provision a dash cam has to fit into. The whole of the rule is K.S.A. 8-1741(a), which forbids…

Lane splitting is expressly illegal in Kansas. K.S.A. 8-1595(c) says no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or rows of vehicles, and…

Kansas has a dedicated plate-cover statute. K.S.A. 8-15,110, enacted in 2010, makes it unlawful to display a plate covered in whole or in part with any clear or opaque material or any…

No Kansas statute mentions radar detectors. A full-text search of the Kansas Statutes Annotated for "radar" returns a single section, K.S.A. 28-826, which merely defines a military…

Kansas allows studded tires, but the dates are not in the statute. K.S.A. 8-1742(c) permits studs only if the secretary of transportation approves them by regulation, and the two…

Kansas sets a single figure for tint: under K.S.A. 8-1749a(a)(3) the total light transmission must not be less than 35% wherever a sun screening device is used with an existing one…