Kansas Parks Agency Sets 2013 Legislative Agenda
Associated Press - Fri 07:39 AM 01/25/2013
This year's legislative agenda for the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism focuses heavily on boats and boating.
This year's legislative agenda for the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism focuses heavily on boats and boating.
The department says on its website its legislative initiatives this session include a proposal that would phase out the property tax on boats.
The proposal calls for reducing the tax from 30 percent of appraised value to 20 percent in 2014, 10 percent in 2015 and zero in 2016.
The agency also wants to bring laws on boating under the influence in line with those for driving motor vehicles, and require people 21 and older to take boater education before operating without supervision. Kansas currently exempts people 21 and older from having to take a boating course.
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Aurora.
Friday 25 January 2013 08:54 Report this comment
Sure they want to bring boating laws in line with motor vehicles. They see they can collect registration and licence fees yearly and they can then over come their short fall.
mickbenimble
Saturday 26 January 2013 12:06 Report this comment
So you are into deleting comments that don't agree with your views? As I said, maybe the KDWP should spend more time trying to solve issues such the release of water from our area lakes, use an approach of education instead of ticketing people to death, quit requiring courses as a revenue stream, do your patrols and quit contracting with the Geary Co. Sheriff dept., you have less patrols so you should have less people.........Nothing in this is false so if the truth hurts,
Wakeupalready
Sunday 27 January 2013 00:45 Report this comment
"mickbenimble" Your saying KDWP (by the way its KDWPT now not KDWP anymore) contracts with the Geary County Sheriffs Department for patroling the lake? You should probably check your facts before you post information you apparently know nothing about.