§ 35-882. Height and length of vehicles and loads.

(a)

No vehicle including any load shall exceed a height of 14 feet, except that a vehicle transporting cylindrically shaped bales of hay as authorized by section 35-880(d) and amendments thereto may be loaded with such bales secured to a height not exceeding 14½ feet. Should a vehicle so loaded with bales strike any overpass or other obstacle, the operator of the vehicle shall be liable for all damages resulting.

(b)

No motor vehicle including the load shall exceed a length of 45 feet extreme overall dimension inclusive of front and rear bumpers except as provided in subsection (d) of this section.

(c)

Except as otherwise provided in subsections (d), (e), (f), (g), and (h) of this section and section 35-890 and amendments thereto, no combination of vehicles coupled together shall exceed a total length of 65 feet.

(d)

The length limitations in subsection (b) shall not apply to a truck tractor. No semitrailer which is being operated in combination with a truck tractor shall exceed 59½ feet in length. No semitrailer or trailer which is being operated in a combination consisting of truck tractor, semitrailer, and trailer shall exceed 28½ feet in length.

(e)

The limitations in this section governing maximum length of a semitrailer or trailer shall not apply to vehicles operating in the daytime when transporting poles, pipes, machinery, or other objects of a structural nature which cannot readily be dismembered, except that it shall be unlawful to operate any such vehicle or combination of vehicles which exceeds a total length of 85 feet unless a special permit for such operation has been issued by the unified government engineer pursuant to section 35-889 and amendments thereto or by the secretary or an agent or designee of the secretary pursuant to K.S.A. 8-1911 and amendments thereto. The limitations in this section shall not apply to vehicles transporting such objects operated at nighttime by a public utility when required for emergency repair of public service facilities or properties or when operated under special permit as provided in section 35-889 or in K.S.A. 8-1911, but in respect to such night transportation every such vehicle and load shall be equipped with a sufficient number of clearance lamps on both sides and marker lamps upon the extreme ends of any projecting load to clearly mark the dimensions of such load.

(f)

The limitations of this section governing the maximum length of combinations of vehicles shall not apply to a combination of vehicles consisting of a truck tractor towing a house trailer if such combination of vehicles does not exceed an overall length of 97 feet.

(g)

The length limitations of this section shall not apply to stinger-steered automobile or boat transporters, or one truck and one trailer vehicle combination, loaded or unloaded, used in transporting a combine to be engaged in farm custom harvesting operations, as defined in K.S.A. 8-143j(d) and amendments thereto. A stinger-steered automobile or boat transporter, or one truck and one trailer vehicle combination, loaded or unloaded, used in transporting a combine to be engaged in farm custom harvesting operations, as defined in K.S.A. 8-143j(d) and amendments thereto shall not exceed an overall length limit of 75 feet, exclusive of front and rear overhang.

(h)

The length limitations of this section shall not apply to drive-away saddlemount or drive-away saddlemount with fullmount vehicle transporter combination. A drive-away saddlemount or drive-away saddlemount with fullmount vehicle transporter combination shall not exceed an extreme overall dimension of 97 feet.

(Code 1964, § 36-291; Code 1988, § 35-785; Ord. No. 53410, § 1, 1-7-1975; Ord. No. 53976, § 15, 7-22-1975; Ord. No. 58345, § 11, 7-27-1978; Ord. No. 63165, § 3, 7-23-1981; Ord. No. 64514, § 6, 8-18-1983; Ord. No. 65069, § 13, 10-16-1986; Ord. No. 65393, § 4, 1-19-1989; Ord. No. 65479, § 24, 11-16-1989; Ord. No. 65589, § 7, 12-20-1990; Ord. No. 66164, § 29, 10-17-1996; Ord. No. O-103-06, § 15, 10-5-2006)

State law reference

Similar provisions, K.S.A. 8-1904.