Kan. Admin. Regs. § 36-1-35 - Definitions
(a) "Carrier"
means the person, firm, or company who has been authorized by the Kansas
department of transportation to move oversize or overweight loads.
(b) "Convoy" means similar permitted loads
traveling together on the same section of highway.
(c) "Critical location" means a section of
highway on which, because of limited maneuverability, the driver must reduce
the speed of the transporting vehicle to a speed significantly less than that
of the prevailing traffic.
(d)
"Custom-harvesting operation" means a person, firm, partnership, association,
or corporation engaged in custom-harvesting operations, if a truck or truck
tractor is used to perform the following:
(1)
transport farm machinery, supplies or both, to or from a farm, for
custom-harvesting operations on a farm;
(2) transport custom-harvested crops only
from a harvested field to initial storage or to initial market locations; or
(3) transport agricultural
products produced by that owner or commodities purchased by that owner for use
on the farm owned or rented by the owner of that vehicle.
(e) "Daylight hours" means that span of time
between one-half hour before sunrise and one-half hour after sunset.
(f) "Department" means the Kansas department
of transportation.
(g) "Escort
warning sign" means a yellow sign with black lettering and with a minimum
dimension of five feet long and 12 inches high. The letters "oversize load"
shall be visible on the face of the sign. The letters shall be eight inches in
height, with a brush stroke of not less than 1 1/8 inches.
(h) "Large structure" means any load that
exceeds either sixteen feet, six inches in width or 18 feet in height.
(i) "Nondivisible" means any load
or vehicle exceeding the applicable dimensions or weight limitations that, if
separated into smaller loads or vehicles, would result in having any of the
following effects:
(1) compromise the
intended use of the vehicle;
(2)
destroy the value of the load or vehicle; or
(3) require more than eight work hours to
dismantle, using appropriate equipment.
The applicant for a nondivisible load permit has the burden of proof as to the number of work hours required to dismantle the load.
(j) "Oversize or
overweight load" or "load" means a vehicle or load exceeding the maximum sizes
and weights defined in
K.S.A.
8-1902,
8-1904 and
8-1909.
(k) "Oversize warning sign" means a yellow
sign, with black letters and having minimum dimensions of seven feet long and
18 inches high. The letters "oversize load" shall be visible on the face of the
sign and shall be a minimum of 10 inches high, with a brush stroke of not less
than 1 2/5 inches.
(l) "Permit"
means a document issued by the secretary or secretary's designee and permitting
the grantee to move a vehicle or load that is oversize, overweight, or both,
over the highways that are under the jurisdiction of the secretary.
(m) "Secretary" means the Kansas secretary of
transportation or the secretary's designee.
(n) "Special mobile equipment," for purposes
of these regulations, in
K.S.A.
8-1467 shall include special purpose
machinery either self-propelled or towed as a trailer or semitrailer, or oil
field rigging truck-tractor semitrailer combination, for which the useful
revenue-producing service is performed at its destination.
(o) "Superload" means either of the
following:
(1) a vehicle transporting a
nondivisible load that is in excess of 150,000 pounds gross weight; or
(2) a vehicle transporting a
nondivisible load in which any group or groups of axles exceed the limitations
of these regulations.
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