Wichita, KS

Wichita charges short-term rental operators a $225 annual license fee per dwelling unit, plus a $50 fee for any required re-inspection, under the city's short-term rental licensing…

Wichita's City Council can revoke a short-term rental license after just two violations of Chapter 3.40 or any applicable city ordinance or state statute within a 12-month period…

Wichita requires every short-term rental owner or responsible party to carry at least $250,000 in liability insurance per unit, covering guest injuries and damage to neighbors or…

Wichita bans loud or nuisance noise at any short-term rental and cuts off outdoor amplified sound at 10:00 p.m., binding the renters themselves, not just the owner, and applying even…

Wichita does not require a short-term rental to be the owner's primary residence: both owner-occupied and non-owner-occupied units are licensed, though non-owner-occupied rentals can…

Wichita caps overnight occupancy in a short-term rental at two adults per bedroom plus two more, so a two-bedroom unit tops out at six adults, and caps any gathering at double that…

Wichita makes it unlawful for owners or anyone else to advertise a short-term rental on a Hosting Platform or Booking Service without a valid city license, and separately unlawful to…

Wichita requires every short-term rental owner to obtain an annual $225 city license before renting a dwelling unit for stays of 28 days or less, with a separate license required for…

Wichita requires owner-occupied short-term rentals to keep the owner on site while guests stay, and non-owner-occupied units to have a responsible party reachable 24/7 and on scene…

Wichita requires an annual $225 license for every short-term rental unit; renting a room or home for 28 days or less without one is unlawful and can bring misdemeanor penalties.

When Wichita's city manager declares a snow emergency, parking is banned on designated snow emergency routes until streets are cleared curb to curb, with towing authorized citywide.

Leaving a vehicle parked on any Wichita street for 48 hours or more without moving it violates Municipal Code Sec. 11.52.020(31). The city treats the vehicle as a public nuisance under…

Wichita is one of the Kansas cities that actually used the authority in K.S.A. 8-1103(c) to publish numbers rather than defer to the state. Chapter 11.99 caps a private-property tow at…

Wichita bans parking in front of or within eight feet of any driveway or alley approach, in intersections, on sidewalks, and left-wheel-to-curb against traffic except on designated…

Wichita bans parking, storing or leaving an abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, rusted, junked or inoperable vehicle on private property for more than two days under Municipal Code Sec…

Wichita lets residents paint house numbers on their curb, but only black-on-white in an exact size, and never in a red, yellow, or restricted parking zone.

Wichita caps loading zone stops at 15 minutes and bans truck loading downtown during the 4:30-6 p.m. weekday rush.

Wichita bans parking any motor vehicle, including RVs and boat trailers, on a required front or side yard, and bans parking on any unpaved surface citywide.

Wichita caps street parking of trucks, buses, RVs and trailers in residential districts at two hours unless a Use of Street Permit is issued.

Wichita bans parking any motor vehicle on the required front yard or side yard of a residential lot, and separately bars parking on any unpaved surface anywhere in the city. Vehicles…

Wichita caps Pit Bull ownership at two adult dogs per premises, requires microchipping for every Pit Bull, and bans unaltered adult Pit Bulls unless the owner holds a dog-breeder…

Wichita makes it unlawful to feed a wild animal or bird anywhere in a city park where the Director of Park and Recreation has posted no-feeding signs, and separately bans hunting…

Wichita bans killing squirrels or songbirds citywide, with narrow exceptions for licensed wildlife-control work on nuisance or diseased animals.

Wichita requires an Animal Maintenance Permit to keep livestock like horses, cattle, sheep, or goats, and caps density at one animal per acre of unbuilt land.

Wichita requires every groomer, pet shop, kennel, breeder, rescue or animal day care business to meet the facility standards in Municipal Code Sec. 6.04.176: two-year animal records…

Wichita's zoning code treats veterinary clinics as a regulated commercial use. Limited animal care facilities in General Office and Limited Commercial districts must keep all animals…

Every dog or cat over five months old in Wichita must be microchipped under Municipal Code Sec. 6.04.040(f)(15), unless a veterinarian has declared a chip dangerous or not in the…

Wichita exempts cats from its running-at-large law, but abandoned or feral cats are declared a public nuisance that Animal Control can trap, and owned cats still need rabies shots and…

Wichita forces owners of any unaltered dog impounded for running at large to have it surgically sterilized within 30 days of redemption, at their own expense, unless they pay an extra…

Wichita caps most properties at three dogs and three cats total, with separate limits on rabbits, fowl, and pigeons. Owners who want more must get an Animal Maintenance Permit from the…

Wichita bans keeping, harboring, or exhibiting dangerous wild animals like lions, wolves, and venomous reptiles, plus other exotic and wild animals, unless under direct USDA-licensed…

Wichita does not ban retail pet sales outright, but Municipal Code Sec. 6.04.156 confines animal sales to a licensed pet shop, a state-licensed animal shelter, or property licensed for…

Wichita bans dogs and other non-cat animals from running at large citywide, requiring a lead, cord, rope, chain, or secure fenced enclosure at all times.

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…

Wichita bans electrically charged and barbed-wire fences in residential zoning districts, plus spikes or broken glass on any fence or retaining wall.

Wichita's housing code, Sec. 20.04.070(8), makes every dwelling owner responsible for keeping fences, screening, and retaining walls 12 inches or taller in sound structural condition…

Wichita caps yard fences and screening walls at eight feet, dropping to three feet near street corners and driveways for sightlines.

Wichita only requires a building permit for fences and freestanding walls taller than eight feet: shorter residential and screening fences can go up without one under the city's…

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…

Wichita caps grass, weeds, and other vegetation at 12 inches; taller growth on any lot is a declared public nuisance the city can abate and bill to the owner.

Wichita exempts planned sustainable landscapes made mostly of native plants from the city's 12-inch weed nuisance rule, provided the planting is maintained, weed-free, edged, and set…

Wichita requires owners of property abutting a street to prune trees so limbs and undergrowth clear at least seven feet above the sidewalk and 13.5 feet above the street, under…

Water collected in rain barrels, cisterns or tanks from rainfall or storm runoff is not counted as "water" under Wichita's outdoor watering ordinance, so harvested rainwater is exempt…

Wichita allows residential composting of biodegradable garbage, yard waste and tree waste by right under Municipal Code Sec. 7.08.070, as long as the compost is made from material…

Wichita bans spray-irrigation watering between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. every day, forbids sprinkler watering on Mondays altogether, and assigns odd-numbered addresses to…

Wichita's zoning code bans synthetic turf from counting as required landscaping: Sec. 28.06.070.B states flatly that 'the use of artificial trees, shrubs, vines, turf, or other plants…

Removing or altering a tree in a Wichita street, public right-of-way, or park requires written permission from the Parks and Recreation Director before any cutting begins.

Owning, keeping or harboring an animal whose loud, frequent, excessive or habitual barking, howling or yelping unreasonably interferes with a neighbor's use of their property is…

Every motor vehicle operated in Wichita must run a working muffler or noise-suppressing system at all times, and drivers may never install a cut-out, bypass or similar device that lets…

Wichita bars construction noise outside 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., with permits from the Director of Public Works allowed only for urgent public-safety work outside those hours.

Wichita caps residential sound at 50 decibels between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m., a stricter nighttime limit than the 55-decibel daytime cap the noise ordinance sets for the same zone.

Wichita's noise code sets zone-based decibel ceilings for amplified sound, loudspeakers, and sound systems: 55 db(A) by day and 50 db(A) by night in residential areas, with higher caps…

Wichita caps sound at 55 db(A) daytime and 50 db(A) nighttime in residential zones, with higher ceilings for commercial, industrial and park areas.

Near McConnell Air Force Base, Wichita's airport overlay districts bar hotels, schools, day cares, and dense housing from high-noise, high-accident-risk zones beneath the runway…

Detached sheds and other accessory structures in Wichita must sit at least 5 feet off the rear lot line (10 feet from an alley centerline), stay behind the front setback line set for…

Wichita allows one accessory apartment per single-family lot, but only as a Conditional Use approved by the Planning Commission, not by right.

A permanent dwelling in a residential district must meet the Unified Zoning Code's Residential-Design Manufactured Home standards: a double-pitched roof, site-built-style siding, and a…

No single UZC section is titled 'garage conversion.' Turning a garage into living space is regulated as a change of use plus, if it becomes a second unit, an Accessory Apartment under…

Wichita requires a 60-inch fence or a locked safety cover around every home hot tub and spa pool whenever it is not under adult supervision, with self-latching gates to keep children…

Above-ground pools that hold water deeper than 24 inches need a MABCD permit and a compliant barrier under the adopted 2018 IRC. At a licensed day-care home, an above-ground pool must…

Wichita caps LP-gas (propane) storage under its Fire Code amendment: any one installation's aggregate water capacity cannot exceed 125 gallons, and containers larger than that are…

Wichita caps recreational backyard fires at 3 feet in diameter and 2 feet high, keeping them at least 25 feet from any structure without needing a burn permit.

Wichita bans firework discharge year-round except a narrow Fourth of July window: safe-and-sane fireworks June 27–July 5, aerial fireworks only July 3–5, both limited to 10 a.m. to…

Every new and existing residential building in Wichita must have approved, working smoke alarms, and owners are legally responsible for installing and maintaining them.

Wichita bans open burning that's smoky, offensive, or hazardous, and even permitted burns are capped to firewood, limbs, and wood chips.

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…

Wichita caps home occupation signs at two square feet, bans illumination, and requires the sign be mounted flat against the dwelling's main face under the Unified Zoning Code's home…

Wichita's zoning code allows home occupations by right in any dwelling unit or accessory structure, capping floor area at 50% and outside staff at one, but SF-10 and SF-5 lots face…

Wichita home occupations cannot display or sell inventory to walk-in customers on-site: retail sales are limited to items family members or employees actually make in the home, per the…

Running a family day care home in Wichita requires both state KDHE registration and a City of Wichita home occupation license before you take in a single child.

Kansas is highly permissive: under K.S.A. 65-689, homemade foods that do not require time and temperature control for safety and are sold directly to the end consumer are exempt from…

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…

Wichita levies a license/occupation tax on every calling, trade, profession, or business operating in the city, with the tax amount set by the specific classification and fee schedule…

Camping on any Wichita street, sidewalk, park, or other public property is a public nuisance, with a 48-hour notice to vacate before citation or property removal.

Wichita requires a $100 annual city license for adult entertainment establishments, which must sit at least 500 feet from churches, schools, parks, homes, and each other.

Wichita's zoning code lists Vehicle Repair, General and Vehicle Repair, Limited among the uses a home occupation license can never cover in ordinary residential districts. Fixing cars…

Wichita treats e-cigarettes and vape devices as tobacco products, so any retailer selling them needs a $260/year City Licensing tobacco products license before opening for business.

Wichita pawnbrokers must hold a $500 annual license under Charter Ordinance No. 192, cap loan interest at 10 percent per month, and keep pledged goods off the market for at least 90…

Wichita confines tattoo and body piercing shops to the GC, OW, IP, LI, GI and AFB zoning districts, at least 200 feet from any school, park or residential district, and requires the…

Operating a massage therapy business in Wichita without a license is unlawful under Wichita Municipal Code Sec. 3.55.030. The city requires a two-year business license costing $200…

Wichita requires anyone buying, selling or trading secondhand merchandise to hold an annual $100 license under Charter Ordinance No. 192, separate from the $500 pawnbroker license…

Wichita requires a City-issued emergency wrecker company license before any operator can tow wrecked or disabled vehicles, and it bans wreckers from soliciting business or…

Wichita treats an unrepaired leak in a private water service line as a public nuisance, with a seven-day repair deadline after notice.

Wichita's landscape code limits how much required landscape area a new development can cover in turf grass. Under Sec. 28.06.070(N), no more than 75% of required landscaped area may be…

Wichita requires pedestrians to use crosswalks between signalized intersections and in the congested downtown area; crossing mid-block elsewhere is legal but the pedestrian must yield…

Wichita bans loitering that blocks streets, sidewalks or building entrances, but an officer must first order you to move on: refusing that dispersal order, not the loitering itself, is…

Wichita's aggressive-solicitation law, Chapter 5.50 of the Municipal Code, makes it a misdemeanor to touch, block, threaten, curse at, or follow someone in any public place to solicit…

Wichita police can order a noisy party to disperse on the spot, and hosts who don't help stop it face the same noise citation as guests.

Wichita bans smoking inside every City-designated dog park and within ten feet of its perimeter under Sec. 6.04.218(b)(11) of the Municipal Code. The rule sits inside the chapter…

Wichita bans skateboarding on public streets and highways citywide, in a defined downtown business district, and in all city-owned parking lots and garages, with reckless downtown…

Urinating or defecating anywhere in public view in Wichita, on a street, alley, public building or private property not designated as a restroom, is a misdemeanor under Municipal Code…

Wichita bans consuming or possessing an open container of alcohol on public streets, alleys, roads, sidewalks or highways, and inside vehicles on those rights-of-way, under Municipal…

Wichita police cite rather than arrest adults 21+ caught with 32 grams or less of marijuana or marijuana paraphernalia, capping the penalty at a $50 fine under a 2015 voter-approved…

Wichita requires a city license to run a street or sidewalk vending cart, and confines sidewalk carts to the central business district under tight placement, sanitation, and time…

Wichita food trucks may vend anywhere the Wichita/Sedgwick County Unified Zoning Code allows, but Sec. 3.15.070(a) fences that in: no parking within 150 feet of an open restaurant's…

Running a food truck, trailer, or cart anywhere in Wichita without a City Treasurer-issued Mobile Food Vending license and decal is unlawful under Sec. 3.15.020. An annual license runs…

Wichita requires every child care facility to hold a state license or registration plus, for home-based operations, a city home occupation license before opening.

Wichita's central inspection division, headed by the superintendent of central inspection acting as building official, inspects structures and triggers the city's dangerous-building…

Wichita's Fire Code amendments require an automatic sprinkler system throughout every building with a Group R fire area (apartments, hotels, dormitories, assisted living). One- and…

Wichita's housing code requires every dwelling unit to have safe, functioning locking devices on all exterior doors and ground-floor windows, a baseline landlords and owner-occupants…

Wichita's code lists 'roofing' as its own permit category. A reroof or roof-covering job needs a permit issued by the Office of Central Inspection before work starts, same as building…

Any electrical installation in Wichita, including owner-occupant work on a single-family home's service panel, needs a permit issued under the city's electrical code, which adopts the…

Wichita runs plumbing and gas-fitting work off a single incorporation clause: Wichita Municipal Code Sec. 21.01.010 adopts the Wichita/Sedgwick Unified Building and Trade Code by…

Wichita requires every single-family occupant to arrange weekly residential trash pickup under Municipal Code Sec. 7.08.030(b)(1), collected by a solid waste collector using a…

Wichita Municipal Code Sec. 10.04.125 makes it unlawful to place any dumpster or garbage container larger than 100 gallons in a street, alley, sidewalk, or public right-of-way…

Wichita encourages recycling but requires that paper, glass, plastic and metal set out for collection be stored in an enclosed building or enclosed container, not left loose outside.

Wichita treats leaves, grass clippings, and small branches as ordinary residential trash if leaves and grass go in bags and limbs are bundled to four feet long and eighteen inches…

Illegally dumping waste matter on public or private property in Wichita is a misdemeanor carrying a mandatory fine of $1,000 to $2,500 on a first conviction, up to 12 months in jail…

Wichita's Municipal Code Sec. 7.08.030 sets exact container rules for residential trash: 30-to-35-gallon cans or health-officer-approved 70-to-108-gallon wheeled carts, kept…

Wichita requires weekly trash collection from a licensed hauler, with containers stored behind the front yard setback except on collection day when they can go to the curb.

Old furniture, appliances, and other bulky items can sit outside a Wichita home for up to seven days before the resident or property owner must arrange removal by a licensed hauler or…

Wichita doesn't run a mandatory curbside recycling program. Municipal Code Sec. 7.08.060 only encourages recycling and requires that any recyclables be stored in an enclosed container…

Wichita requires new or substantially improved homes in the mapped floodplain to raise their lowest floor, including any basement, at least two feet above base flood elevation, and…

Wichita bans building any dock, pier, or ramp on the Big Arkansas River bank without the Park Board's written OK first.

Wichita requires a grading permit and approved drainage plan for construction that disturbs one acre or more of land; smaller landscaping and gardening projects are exempt from the…

Wichita Municipal Code Sec. 16.32.020 bars introducing anything but stormwater into the city's municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4), with a narrow list of exempt flows like lawn…

Wichita requires a separate floodplain development permit before any construction, substantial improvement, or manufactured home placement in a special flood hazard area shown on the…

Wichita prohibits launching, flying or landing an unmanned aircraft at, from, or near any Wichita Airport Authority facility, including Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport…

Flying a motorized remote-control aircraft on Wichita park property is confined to spots the Park and Recreation Department has posted for that use. Sec. 9.03.320 of the Code of the…

Running a generator, portable engine or air compressor in Wichita without an effective muffler is a noise nuisance under Municipal Code Sec. 5.63.010(b)(3). The exhaust of any…

Bars and nightclubs in Wichita's commercial zones must stay under 60 db(A) by day and 55 db(A) overnight, or five db(A) over background noise, under Municipal Code Sec. 5.63.030. The…

Wichita bans loud noise from loading or unloading delivery trucks, opening containers, or hauling materials over city streets, whether the truck sits at a dock or drives through a…

Playing a car stereo loud enough to be heard, bass reverberations included, from fifty feet or more away is a misdemeanor in Wichita under Municipal Code Sec. 11.38.380. The ban covers…

In the Old Town Overlay (OT-O) District, window signs and temporary on-site signs attached to or painted on glass cannot cover more than 25 percent of the window surface, per Unified…

Wichita lets ground, monument or pole signs near an elevated freeway structure rise higher than the normal cap, so businesses along the downtown highway couplet can still be seen above…

Inflatable Santas, snowmen, and other seasonal yard displays on private property in Wichita are exempt from the city's sign code entirely: no sign permit, size limit, or duration cap…

Digital billboards and other electronic message signs in Wichita can run as bright as they want by day, but Sec. 24.04.220(p) caps nighttime brightness at 3,000 nits and requires…

Political and other temporary signs placed in Wichita's public rights-of-way are a nuisance under Sec. 24.04.215 and subject to immediate removal, but the section carves out an…

Wichita caps signs advertising a garage or miscellaneous sale at 4 square feet and confines them to residential zoning districts under Sec. 24.04.190(9) of the Sign Code. The sale…

Wichita's Unified Zoning Code requires outdoor lighting on nonresidential development, base, pole and fixture alike, to use cut-off luminaires that cut light trespass and glare…

Illuminated signs near a Residential Zoning District, including off-site billboards, must go dark from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. and be shaded so they don't cast bright light onto homes or…

Wichita's zoning code requires outdoor lighting fixtures on nonresidential development to use cut-off luminaires, cap mounting height at half the distance to the neighboring lot, and…

Wichita requires written city approval before residents block off a street for a block party, capped at five hours.

Reserving a shelter, picnic facility, athletic field, or building in a Wichita park requires a permit and rental fee through the Park and Recreation Department, applied for at least…

Wichita requires a parade permit before staging any procession that closes streets or reroutes traffic; organizers must file with the City Treasurer at least seven business days ahead…

Wichita requires a community event permit before any street fair, festival, carnival, or fair can operate, and that single permit works as an umbrella covering every vendor selling at…

Restaurants need a City Engineer-issued sidewalk café permit before putting tables, seating or diverters on a public sidewalk, including for serving alcohol outside.

Wichita's municipal code lists invasive plants, brush, and woody vines as unlawful "weeds" whenever they aren't properly controlled, putting them in the same nuisance category as…

In Wichita, the Park and Recreation Director alone decides when, where, and what species of tree get planted in parkways, street rights-of-way, and park property, not the abutting…

Wichita levies a 6% transient guest tax on gross receipts for hotel, motel, or tourist court lodging rented to guests staying 28 consecutive days or less.

Grilling and cooking fires in Wichita's parks are boxed in tightly: Municipal Code Sec. 9.03.260 bans open fires on park property outright and only allows cooking in ovens, stoves or…

Wichita's zoning code exempts unincorporated Sedgwick County farmland from the code and warns neighbors that Kansas' right-to-farm law can block nuisance suits, but that exemption…

Wichita's Unified Zoning Code exempts unincorporated Sedgwick County farmland from zoning rules, but that exemption stops at the city line -- farms and buildings inside Wichita's…

Wichita requires a right-of-way use permit before placing any private structure on or over public sidewalks, streets, or easements.

Wichita bans obstructing streets, alleys, and sidewalks with dumpsters, boulders, fences, goods, or other objects without a right-of-way permit, backed by removal and a daily usage fee.

When Wichita's City Engineer finds a public sidewalk, curb, gutter, or drive approach out of spec and the contractor who built it can't be found, isn't licensed and bonded, or won't…

Wichita cyclists must use a usable bike path once one exists alongside the street rather than ride in the roadway, and can't ride more than two abreast except inside a lane or path…

Wichita permits dockless shared electric scooters on streets, bike lanes, and multiuse paths but bans sidewalk riding, caps speed at 20 mph, and prohibits parking in transit zones…

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…

Wichita's Housing Code makes tenants responsible for exterminating insects and rodents in their own unit, but shifts that duty to the property owner once two or more units are infested.

Wichita's Lodging Establishment Code requires every licensed hotel and motel to prevent bed bug entrance, harborage, and breeding, and to use professional pest control services for…

Wichita's Unified Zoning Code sets minimum front, rear and side yard setbacks separately for each base zoning district. In the common SF-5 Single-Family District, houses must sit back…

Wichita's Unified Zoning Code caps homes in the SF-20, SF-10, SF-5, and TF-3 residential districts at 35 feet, with multifamily districts allowed up to 45 feet under the property…

Wichita's Unified Zoning Code caps building footprint at 30 percent of the site for nonresidential Community Unit Plan (CUP) developments, the unified-control projects of six or more…

Wichita's Housing Code requires every rental dwelling to have a kitchen sink, a private toilet and lavatory, a bathtub or shower, and hot and cold running water connected to all three…

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…

Wichita's City Council can designate buildings, structures, sites, objects, including monuments, statuary, and fountains, and districts as Wichita Register Historic Properties after…

Wichita residents can trigger a housing inspection by filing a written petition, signed by at least five residents, with the Director charging that a dwelling is unfit for human…

Wichita caps garage and yard sales at two per address a year, three consecutive days each, and requires a $2.50-a-day license from the city treasurer.

Downtown Wichita property owners must clear sidewalk snow and ice by 5 p.m. the same day or by noon the next day, on a storm-end-time schedule, or face a per-foot city charge.

Wichita's central inspection superintendent can declare a structurally unsafe, fire-hazardous, or uninhabitable building a public nuisance, triggering a City Council hearing that…

Wichita bans uncultivated grass, weeds, or vegetation over twelve inches on any lot, vacant or occupied, plus the street and alley frontage abutting it.

Anyone conducting door-to-door or temporary retail sales in Wichita must get a transient merchant license from the city treasurer before doing business, per Wichita Municipal Code…

Wichita closes all city park property and recreation facilities from midnight to 6 a.m. without a permit under Municipal Code Sec. 9.03.040. The downtown skate park keeps separate…

Wichita bars unsupervised minors from public places overnight: 11 p.m.-6 a.m. weeknights for kids 15 and under, midnight-6 a.m. for 16-17 year-olds, with later weekend cutoffs.

Installing or altering a solar energy system in Wichita requires a permit under the city's adopted Solar Energy Installations code, with set fees, mandatory site inspections, and a…

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 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…