State v. Zeit

Leben, J.:

Kansans who operate vehicles on the roadways of Kansas must register them with the division of motor vehicles. But self-propelled cranes — defined by statute as cranes where an operator controls them from a permanent housing or module on the crane and the crane is not used to transport other property — are exempt from this requirement. An employee of Midwest Crane & Rigging, Kirk Zeit, was convicted of a misdemeanor for operating one of the company’s cranes on a roadway when it was not registered. We must set aside this conviction because the vehicle at issue meets the statutory…