Kansas Statutes Chapter 8. Automobiles and Other Vehicles § 8-1,102. Same; renewal, when; fees; penalty; operation without registration not authorized; director may change registration date, when

(a) Apportioned fleet registration shall be renewed annually on January 1 of each year with such registration to be completed on or before March 1 of each year, and such registration shall expire on December 31 of each year. Apportioned fleet registration fees and other fees prescribed by this act shall be due January 1 of each year and shall be payable on or before March 1 of each year. If such registration fees and any other fees prescribed in this act are not paid by March 1 of each year, the owner of any vehicle for which such registration fees are delinquent shall be subject to a penalty fee of $2 for each fleet vehicle listed in an original or renewal application, but the sum of such penalty fee shall not exceed $100.

(b) Nothing in the provisions of subsection (a) shall be deemed to authorize the operation, prior to March 1 of any year on the highways of this state, of any vehicle required to be registered under the provisions of K.S.A. 8-1,101 to 8-1,123, inclusive, and amendments thereto, unless and until such vehicle is duly registered.

(c) If the director of vehicles determines that appropriate identification cannot be issued to vehicles required to be registered under the provisions of this act prior to March 1 of a registration year, the director may fix a different date for the registration enforcement for such registration year.