Overland Park, KS

Kansas has no statewide building code, so Overland Park sets residential pool barrier rules itself. The city adopted the 2024 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code and amended…

Overland Park requires a building permit for residential pools and spas. The only exemption covers prefabricated above-ground pools under 24 inches deep holding 5,000 gallons or less…

Overland Park allows fences up to 8 feet of any standard building material, but a permit from the Code Administrator is required and the finished surface must face outward. Front yards…

Fences and walls in Overland Park top out at 8 feet above average grade. Residential fences also can't go in the front yard except a low decorative entry fence, and corner lots must…

Overland Park requires a fence permit from the Code Administrator for any new fence, any extension of an existing fence, and any replacement or reconstruction of 50% or more of an…

Overland Park treats retaining walls as accessory structures under 18.390.140(C)(3). A wall must be justified by lot topography, sit at least 2 feet off any street right-of-way, and…

Unincorporated Johnson County has no fence height or setback code in this Code of Resolutions; disputes over a shared boundary fence go instead through a formal 'fence viewer' process…

No person may store, sell, use, explode, discharge or possess any fireworks within Overland Park city limits. The only exception is a supervised public display run by a permitted…

Overland Park makes it unlawful to burn vegetation, leaves, waste or other combustible material in the open, unless the burn is specifically allowed under the International Fire Code's…

Kansas maps no fire hazard severity zones and enforces no statewide wildland-urban interface code, and Overland Park adopts none. What governs instead is the city fire code, a fire…

Overland Park requires a fire code permit before kindling any open fire in the city, but Fire Code § 105.5.36 carves out one express exception: recreational fires. Backyard fire pits…

Overland Park does not require every pet to be spayed or neutered, but once a dog or cat is officially designated a dangerous animal, its owner has 10 days to have it sterilized and…

Municipal Code § 6.10.020 bans owning, keeping or harboring any "dangerous animal," a term § 6.10.010(A) defines by name to include lions, tigers, bears, wolves, apes, large monkeys…

Overland Park limits any combination of dogs and cats to four per household under Municipal Code 6.04.050. Want a fifth pet or more? You need an annual Special Animal Permit from the…

Overland Park doesn't require cats to be leashed, but Municipal Code 6.08.020(B) puts owners on the hook the moment a cat strays: once a neighbor complains about trespassing, any…

Overland Park lets residents keep bees, but Municipal Code 6.14.030 fixes exact placement rules: hives must sit at least 25 feet from an adjoining home's property line, 75 feet from…

Overland Park's leash law is stricter than most: Municipal Code 6.08.020(A) requires dogs be confined to their owner's residential property, and even off-property on a leash, that…

A pet grooming shop in Overland Park is a "Commercial Animal Establishment" under Municipal Code 6.09.005(F), which sweeps in kennels, pet shops, and stables alongside groomers…

Overland Park bans steel-jaw leghold traps citywide, but Municipal Code 6.09.045 lets the Chief of Police authorize trapping a specific coyote that's damaging private property or…

Overland Park has no general microchip mandate for pets. Municipal Code 6.10.030(E)(8) only requires it once a dog is declared dangerous: the owner must give the City Clerk proof of…

Animal hospitals, large-animal veterinarians and kennels are not by-right uses anywhere in Overland Park; the Governing Body must approve a special use permit under Municipal Code…

Overland Park allows backyard hens on residential lots of at least 0.20 acre under a permit issued by the City Clerk. Roosters are banned on any property under three acres, along with…

Overland Park has no ordinance banning the feeding of deer or other wildlife. Feeding that draws rodents, creates odors, or annoys neighbors is reachable as a nuisance under Title 7…

Overland Park has no breed-specific ban. Municipal Code 6.10.010 defines a "dangerous animal" by bite history and behavior, not breed, and 6.10.010(C) expressly says a prior…

Overland Park sets hard dB(A) ceilings that scale by zoning and time of day: 60 dB(A) daytime in residential areas dropping to 55 at night, with commercial and industrial zones allowed…

Overland Park's noise ordinance, not its animal code, is what a neighbor invokes against a barking dog: owning, keeping or harboring an animal that howls, barks or emits audible sounds…

Overland Park bans loud vehicle repair, rebuilding or stationary engine testing that carries across a property line between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m., and separately makes any vehicle stereo…

Overland Park lets construction, demolition and drilling run without decibel or time-of-day limits between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. Outside that window, any construction sound plainly audible…

Overland Park bars any radio, stereo, speaker or other sound amplification device from being played loud enough to cross a property line between midnight and 6 a.m. Between 6 a.m. and…

Overland Park has no leaf-blower-specific ordinance. Blowers fall under the garden tool clause of the noise chapter, which bars operation plainly audible across a property line only…

Chapter 7.08 sets numeric dB(A) limits measured off the source property: 60 daytime and 55 nighttime in residential areas. Amplified sound plainly audible across a property line…

Overland Park requires 8 feet of tree and shrub clearance over public sidewalks, 13.5 feet over improved thoroughfares or truck routes, and 12.5 feet over all other streets, plus fixed…

Homeowners may remove trees from their own property without a city permit. Overland Park's tree rules cover right-of-way and public trees, nuisance abatement, and development…

Ordinance NU-3437 (2023) rewrote the Weed and Vegetation Enforcement Act to protect a Planned Sustainable Landscape from the eight-inch height rule. Native beds must be edged, set back…

Property Maintenance Code section 7.25.302.13 permits rain barrels in residential districts without a permit. One barrel of roughly 65 gallons or less per downspout is allowed on any…

The Weed and Vegetation Enforcement Act caps uncontrolled vegetation at eight inches. Owners get ten days from mailing of a certified notice to self-abate. The city then mows and…

Overland Park's municipal code contains no artificial or synthetic turf provision. The Weed and Vegetation Enforcement Act reaches only living vegetation, so synthetic lawns generate…

The Kansas Water Appropriation Act (K.S.A. 82a-701 et seq.) gives the Chief Engineer of the Division of Water Resources authority over water use during droughts. The Governor may…

Overland Park bans parking or storing a Commercial Vehicle, defined as anything over 10,000 pounds GVWR, longer than 20 feet, wider or taller than 8 feet, or a step van, box van, bus…

Overland Park lets each residence store one boat, camper, travel trailer, fifth-wheel, hauling trailer or motorhome, but only behind a wall or fence in the side or rear yard, using no…

In Overland Park, a paved driveway or parking area in the front yard can cover no more than 35% of that yard for a one-family house or 50% for a two-family house, per Municipal Code…

Overland Park doesn't set a fixed number of loading berths citywide; instead Section 18.430.190 requires loading areas "adequate to serve the uses or categories of uses proposed" to be…

Overland Park bans parking or storing an inoperable vehicle anywhere on private property unless it sits inside a garage or building. Code Compliance treats a covered or plate-screened…

Overland Park added OPMC 12.04.085.3 in 2024 to prohibit blocking a marked EV charging stall unless the vehicle is plugged in, in both private and public lots. Fines start at $100…

Overland Park sets no citywide overnight street-parking ban, but layers strict residential rules: RVs, boats and trailers must be screened behind a fence in a side or rear yard…

Overland Park Municipal Code 12.04.085 bars stopping, standing or parking in front of any driveway, within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, within 20 feet of a crosswalk, on sidewalks, in…

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…

Overland Park allows accessory dwelling units only within land zoned PRN, Planned Residential Neighborhood District. City code caps each lot at one ADU, sets a 400 square foot minimum…

Detached sheds and accessory buildings in Overland Park must sit in the rear yard, at least 3 feet from interior lot lines and 20 feet from any street right-of-way. Coverage in the…

Overland Park sets a hard minimum of 864 square feet of livable floor area for any single-family dwelling, and the Planning Commission assigns each subdivision a minimum size class as…

Home occupations in Overland Park can only see patrons between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m., and are capped at 10 business-related vehicle visits a day (arrivals plus departures); licensed day…

Overland Park allows home occupations as an accessory use to a residence, but the business must stay entirely inside the home, out of garages and accessory buildings, invisible from…

Overland Park allows licensed day care homes in every residential district as an accessory use. The provider must hold a KDHE license and live on site, outdoor play areas must be…

Kansas exempts shelf-stable homemade foods sold directly to the consumer from food establishment licensing, with no sales cap. Overland Park's home occupation rules are the pinch…

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…

Overland Park's Charter Ordinance No. 99 folds short-term rentals directly into its transient guest tax: any home, cabin, apartment or condo advertised through an online booking…

Overland Park runs a rental licensing and inspection program under OPMC Chapter 5.75. Every rental dwelling needs a license, renewed every two years, and the city inspects the exterior…

A rental dwelling only keeps its Overland Park Rental License if it stays livable: the City won't license or renew a property that has been declared dangerous, unsafe for habitation…

Kansas law flatly bars Overland Park, and every city, county or township in the state, from enacting rent control. K.S.A. 12-16,120(a) prohibits any local ordinance or resolution that…

Overland Park has no just-cause eviction ordinance. Kansas landlords end a month-to-month tenancy with 30 days' written notice and no stated reason. Nonpayment triggers a 3-day…

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…

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 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…

Every park owned and operated by Overland Park is closed to the public between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. The closure applies to everyone regardless of age. The Parks and Recreation Director…

Maintained vertical illuminance at the property line of residentially zoned property cannot exceed 0.5 footcandles, measured five feet above grade. Light cast on a public street cannot…

Billboards in Overland Park need a Special Use Permit and can only carry indirect or non-illuminated lighting under the sign code. Digital displays are barred entirely from standard…

Overland Park has no dark-sky ordinance and no DarkSky International designation. Chapter 18.435, adopted in 2024, does comparable work: every outdoor fixture must be zero uplight and…

Kansas is landlocked, so no coastal program exists anywhere in the state. Development near water in Overland Park runs through FEMA floodplain permits under OPMC 18.360, stream…

A land disturbance permit from Planning and Development Services precedes clearing, grading, filling or excavating. The exemption is narrow: under one acre, fill under three feet and…

Overland Park requires a floodplain development permit for any construction, substantial improvement or manufactured-home placement in the Special Flood Hazard Area before work begins…

New construction or substantial improvement in Overland Park's mapped Special Flood Hazard Areas must set the lowest floor at least two feet above Base Flood Elevation, a freeboard…

Overland Park holds its own NPDES MS4 permit from KDHE and runs two ordinances: 16.210 requires treatment of runoff from new development and redevelopment, and 15.10.400 requires…

Closing an Overland Park street for a block party falls under the city's parade permit law. Any procession, gathering or display on a street that interferes with normal traffic flow…

Overland Park requires a parade permit from the Chief of Police for any march, race, procession or similar display that interferes with normal traffic flow, filed at least seven days…

Overland Park requires a phone reservation through the Parks and Recreation Department at least seven days before a picnic shelter is needed. Groups must number between 20 and 100…

A street fair, festival or concert in Overland Park is a Type 3 Special Event under § 18.380.060, requiring a Special Event Permit and, in most cases, City Council approval. Only…

Overland Park requires a separate $250 annual Adult Business license before any sexually oriented business can open, and bars locations within 600 feet of a school, church, day care…

Operating a massage establishment or in-office massage business in Overland Park requires a City Clerk license before opening. Applicants pay a $300 annual, non-refundable filing fee…

Overland Park regulates non-consent tows from private lots under Municipal Code Chapter 12.21. Property owners or tow operators must post specific warning signs, notify police within…

Anyone operating as a pawnbroker in Overland Park must hold a City Clerk-issued license under Municipal Code Chapter 5.52. Applicants pay a $25 annual fee, must be U.S. citizens and…

Overland Park regulates secondhand merchandise and precious metal dealers through the same Chapter 5.52 license as pawnbrokers, requiring a $25 annual City Clerk license plus a weekly…

Overland Park bars outdoor automobile repairs on residentially zoned or used property between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m., covering everything from brake jobs to engine overhauls. Repairs fully…

Kansas regulates the retail sale of electronic cigarettes and vapor products with a minimum purchase age of 21 and licensing requirements.

Every licensed day care home and child care facility in Overland Park gets a second layer of oversight: Fire Department inspections under Municipal Code Chapter 5.18, on top of the…

Overland Park requires a building permit before you build, enlarge, alter, repair, move, demolish or change the occupancy of any building, or install or replace electrical, gas…

Overland Park does not require fire sprinklers in new one- and two-family homes or townhouses. The city's amended International Residential Code deletes Section R313 outright, the…

Overland Park requires every elevator, escalator and dumbwaiter in the city, whether in an apartment building, office tower or retail store, to be maintained in compliance with ASME…

Overland Park enforces the 2024 International Plumbing Code by reference as its own Plumbing Code, with all deletions, additions and changes marked in the city's official copy. Permit…

Overland Park enforces the NFPA 70 National Electrical Code, 2023 Edition, as its Electrical Code, adopted by reference with local amendments marked in an official copy at the City…

Overland Park does not need words or melody to prove a noise violation: its code defines a plainly audible sound as one that can simply be heard, and says outright that bass alone…

Before Overland Park issues or renews a Rental License, the City inspects the exterior of the property and any common areas; after that, further exterior inspections happen whenever…

Overland Park's rental-licensing chapter says flatly that the City won't act as a landlord-tenant arbiter: it won't hear complaints from either side unless they're specifically tied to…

New residential development in Overland Park must plant one street tree per 40 feet of frontage within the right-of-way, spaced 15 to 40 feet apart, with extra trees required per…

Overland Park's tree chapter creates a City Forester and the Legacy of Greenery Committee but designates no heritage, landmark, or specimen trees. No tree on private property carries…

Overland Park places sidewalk upkeep on the adjacent property owner, not the city. If the City Engineer flags a slab as hazardous, the owner gets a Notice to Repair with up to 60 days…

Overland Park requires anyone building, maintaining, or placing a fixed facility in the public right-of-way abutting their property, including private encroachments near sidewalks, to…

Overland Park's traffic code flatly prohibits stopping, standing or parking a vehicle on a sidewalk anywhere in the city, one of a dozen specified places vehicles may never occupy…

Overland Park makes it a public offense to dump, deposit, wash or spill leaves, debris, rubbish or any other material into streets, sidewalks, bike-hike trails, rights-of-way, gutters…

Overland Park requires every home and business generating recyclables to keep enough approved containers on hand and to store them so they don't attract pests or spill into storm…

Overland Park requires licensed haulers to collect residential yard waste, meaning grass clippings, leaves, and tree and brush trimmings, at least once a week for a minimum of 40 weeks…

Overland Park requires trash containers, trash compactors and roll-off recycling containers at multi-family, non-residential and commercial or industrial sites to be screened on all…

Overland Park ended its city-run bulky item program in 2022. Every permitted hauler must give each residential customer at least one bulky pickup per year at no extra charge, plus…

Overland Park lets residents set carts at the curb no more than 24 hours before the scheduled collection. Between pickups, hauler-issued carts may sit within two feet of the house; any…

Overland Park runs no municipal trash service and has no citywide pickup day. Residents and homes associations contract directly with one of the city's permitted private haulers, and…

Every permitted Overland Park hauler must collect recycling at least weekly, provide a cart, and fold the cost into the basic service charge with unlimited volume. Glass stays out of…

Overland Park's Weed and Vegetation Enforcement Act classifies bamboo as an Invasive Plant and allows it on private property only when it is actively Controlled: planted, trimmed and…

Overland Park's Weed and Vegetation Enforcement Act bans Noxious Weeds on private property, defined by reference to the Kansas Administrative Regulations Category A, B and C noxious…

Overland Park makes it unlawful to park or leave a shared bike, e-bike or e-scooter in a bicycle lane, and its electric-assisted scooter rules require riders to use an adjacent bike…

Overland Park Municipal Code 12.04.135 treats electric-assisted bicycles as bicycles, not motor vehicles, exempting riders from insurance, licensing, titling and plates. Class 3…

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…

Overland Park makes it unlawful to urinate or defecate on any street, sidewalk, alley, park, public building, private parking lot, or anywhere else open to public view. Municipal Code…

Overland Park bans selling, serving, drinking, or possessing an open container of intoxicating liquor on any public street, sidewalk, parking lot, public property, or inside a vehicle…

Overland Park Municipal Code 12.04.136 bans skateboards, roller skates, roller blades and similar devices from the Downtown Business District, from public roadways, tennis courts and…

Overland Park holds the owner or person in control of a residence liable if a social gathering of five or more people becomes a nuisance party under Section 11.28.106. Police can order…

Overland Park does not ban loitering outright, but Section 11.28.070 makes it illegal to obstruct or block a public street, sidewalk, or building so it interferes with the free passage…

Johnson County's smoking law reaches outdoors too: Sec. 38-1(d)(2)(s) bars smoking within ten feet of any public entrance in unincorporated Johnson County. The buffer carves out the…

Overland Park zones farmland as the A Agricultural District to preserve crop and livestock operations and hold land for future urban growth. Farming is allowed with no restriction on…

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

Overland Park's zoning code does not override private deed restrictions or HOA covenants; whichever standard is stricter controls. But the City itself never enforces a homeowners…

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 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…

Overland Park charges a transient guest tax of up to 9% on gross receipts hotels, motels and tourist courts collect from guests staying 28 consecutive days or less. Charter Ordinance…

Overland Park's Rat Control chapter requires every business building, including apartments, hotels, restaurants and warehouses, to be rat-proofed and kept rat-free to the Environmental…

Overland Park's Fire Code bars charcoal burners and other open-flame cooking devices, including smokers, from combustible balconies or within 10 feet of combustible construction. The…

Overland Park lets you post non-illuminated temporary signs directly on or behind your window glass without a sign permit under Municipal Code Section 18.440.030(F), but an illuminated…

Overland Park has no garage-sale-specific sign category. O.P.M.C. 5.44.035 sends sale signs to the Unified Development Ordinance, where a home may post up to three temporary stake…

K.S.A. 25-2711 bars Kansas cities from regulating the placement or number of political signs on private property during the 45 days before an election and two days after. Overland…

Overland Park's code contains no seasonal-decoration ordinance. Holiday lights and yard decorations on private property are unregulated as such. Limits arrive only when a display…

In R-1, the standard front yard is 20 feet, the rear yard 25 feet, and each side yard at least 7 feet with both sides totaling 20% of lot width. R-1A drops the front yard to 15 feet.

Overland Park sets maximum lot coverage only in multi-family districts: 50% in R-3/RP-3, 60% in RP-4 and RP-5, and 70% in RP-6. Single-family districts carry no coverage percentage at…

Every Overland Park residential district caps dwellings at two and one-half stories and 35 feet. Accessory structures are limited to one story and 20 feet, and never exceed the height…

Overland Park issues no general mobile vending license. A food truck operates only under a special event permit held by the property owner or organizer, or as a private-event caterer…

Chapter 5.60 keeps mobile vendors 125 feet from any street intersection and 125 feet from school property around the school day, caps any stop at five minutes, and bans sales between…

Selling food from a cart, stand, or vehicle on a public sidewalk or road right-of-way is banned outright in unincorporated Johnson County, even for permitted itinerant vendors.

Overland Park has no drone provision anywhere in its municipal code or Unified Development Ordinance. Commercial operators follow FAA Part 107 rules on certification, registration and…

No Overland Park ordinance addresses recreational drones. Hobby pilots follow FAA rules: registration above 250 grams, TRUST certificate and airspace authorization. Kansas treats…

JCPRD confines drones, model rockets and remote-control vehicles to designated areas of its parks and requires operators to be at least 16 years old and hold a valid JCPRD permit…

Kansas has no solar access law overriding homeowners association covenants. The Kansas Uniform Common Interest Owners Bill of Rights Act expressly authorizes aesthetic and design…

Overland Park permits solar collectors as an accessory use citywide and requires a building permit before installation. Placement rules differ for pitched roofs, flat roofs, walls and…

Overland Park caps garage sales at two per household at the same location each calendar year. Joint sales with neighbors count against every participating residence. Estate and moving…

Overland Park runs no no-knock registry. It runs a sign system: the City Clerk hands out a free No Solicitors decal, and Chapter 5.64 makes it a municipal offense for a solicitor to…

Overland Park issues no door-to-door solicitor permit or license. Chapter 5.64 regulates the time, place, and manner of solicitation instead, and Section 5.70.025 expressly exempts…

Kansas prohibits cultivating marijuana under K.S.A. 21-5705, with five to forty-nine plants reaching a drug severity level 3 felony. Overland Park adds municipal-court exposure by…

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…

Overland Park enforces an International Property Maintenance Code adopted as Chapter 7.25 alongside the Chapter 7.04 nuisance act. A public officer issues an abatement order giving no…

Overland Park has no ordinance requiring property owners to clear snow or ice from public sidewalks. The City asks residents to shovel voluntarily. Owners remain legally responsible…

Johnson County requires anyone doing paid storm debris removal, cleanup, or disaster repair work to register with the county once a state of disaster emergency is declared, with…

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 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 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…