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As of 2010 the "Standard Traffic Ordinances for Kansas Cities" prepared and published in book form by the Kansas League of Municipalities declares ''hitchhiking illegal'' in all cities which adopt it's code.
Not all cities upload their code to municode.com and not all municipal courts and police offices are willing to assist in makign making the information public over the phone, but Johnson county as well as the cities of Manhattan, Topeka, Lawrence, Emporia, El Dorado, Salina, Fort Scott, Leavenworth and Hutchinson have adopted the code. To be safe, try to hitchhike outside of the city limits of major towns in the state of Kansas.
The exact wording of KS STO 69(a) is as follows:
However when outside the limits of a city/municipal body and off the interstate and paved portion of any road or on the shoulder of said road, it is never illegal to hitchhike in the state of Kansas. Do not let the police bully you and try to tell you otherwise.
== General Getting Through ==
There is a cluster of truck stops along the road to [[Colorado]], however it is advisable to catch a ride going all thorough the State until ''Limon'' in [[Colorado]]. In Kansas itself, there are two big rest-truck stops which are actual point of interest. Those consists of before [[Lawrence]] on I70 and before [[Topeka]] also on I70.
== Experiences ==
:''I live lived in Kansas for a long time and have hitched through countless times. The cops will frequently try to lie to me about it being illegal to hitchhike in the entire state. I typically tell them I am going to continue hitchhiking and I know what the law says. This has lead to me being falsely arrested only once even when I was not in breach of the law, although they he let me go within minutes presumably out of fear of after talking to his supervisor and suddenly became a lawsuitnice guy when I insisted on taking him to court ;]. As for rides, getting them can be difficultanywhere outside of I-70. I have waited over 6 hours on multiple occasions. When possible avoid Kansas stay on interstate 70 and go try to catch a ride all the way through Nebraska or Texasthe state.'' - [[User:Thewindandrain|Thewindandrain]] 0:42:21, 6 March 2012 (CET)
== Cities ==
[[Category:Kansas]]
[[Category:United States]]
[[trash:Kansas]]
