Kansas Ordinances (2026)

Kansas has no statewide minimum-house-size law banning tiny homes, but the Kansas Manufactured Housing Act classifies every factory-built dwelling: a manufactured home erected on site…

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 The old apiary-inspection law is repealed; bees and beekeeping equipment now fall under the Plant Pest and Agriculture Commodity…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 Right to Farm Act (K.S.A. 2-3201 et seq.) protects established agricultural operations, including livestock and poultry, from nuisance lawsuits when nonagricultural uses…

Kansas prohibits private possession of dangerous regulated animals statewide under K.S.A. 32-1301 et seq. The ban covers big cats, bears, and non-native venomous snakes, with limited…

Kansas K.S.A. 21-6412 criminalizes animal cruelty statewide, including failure to provide adequate food, water, shelter, or veterinary care, which captures hoarding scenarios. The law…

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…

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

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 requires statewide erosion and sediment controls on construction sites disturbing one or more acres under KDHE's general NPDES permit, mandating SWPPPs, best management…

Kansas regulates floodplain development statewide under K.S.A. 12-766 and the NFIP, with the Division of Water Resources permitting construction in regulated floodways. Participating…

Kansas regulates stormwater discharges statewide through KDHE's NPDES program under K.S.A. 65-164 and 65-165, requiring construction, industrial, and municipal separate storm sewer…

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…

Consumer fireworks are legal in Kansas. The State Fire Marshal licenses and registers sellers under the Kansas Fireworks Act, bottle rockets and certain devices are banned statewide…

Kansas restricts open burning statewide under KDHE air quality regulations. Burning trash, tires, and most waste is prohibited, and prescribed burns in eastern counties face April…

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…

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 makes it unlawful to run a mobile food unit without a valid food establishment license from the Kansas Department of Agriculture. The truck must pass inspection, and the…

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 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 requires statewide licensing of family day care homes through the Kansas Department of Health and Environment under K.S.A. 65-503, setting universal capacity, background check…

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…

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

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…

Kansas law makes noxious weed control an individual legal duty under K.S.A. 2-1314(a): every person must control and eradicate designated noxious weeds on land they own or supervise…

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…

Kansas regulates abandoned vehicles statewide under K.S.A. 8-1102, defining when vehicles become abandoned and authorizing law enforcement removal, towing, and disposition through…

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…

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…

K.S.A. 58-2553 requires Kansas landlords to meet building and housing codes, maintain common areas and major systems in safe working order, supply running and hot water and reasonable…

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…

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 applies state and local transient guest taxes to short-term rentals of 28 days or fewer, in addition to state and local sales tax. Hosts and platforms must collect and remit…

Kansas state law prohibits cities and counties from regulating the placement or number of political signs on private property during the 45 days before any election and the two days…

Kansas issues no statewide solar building permit: cities and counties handle that. But every grid-tied rooftop system must meet the Net Metering and Easy Connection Act's…

At every KDHE-licensed child care facility in Kansas, each inground pool must be fenced at least five feet high with self-closing, self-locking gates, water held between pH 7.2 and 7.8…

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

Kansas has no statewide mandate forcing residents or businesses to recycle. But under the Solid Waste Management Act, every county's solid waste management plan must set a schedule for…

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…