Kansas Statutes Annotated

K.S.A. § 8-248 (2026)

Notice of change of address or name

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8-248. Notice of change of address or name. Whenever any person, after applying for or receiving a driver's license shall move from the mailing address or residence address named in such application or in the license issued to such person, or when the name of the licensee is changed by marriage or otherwise, such person, within 10 days thereafter, shall notify the division in writing of such person's old and new mailing and residence addresses or of such former and new names and of the number of any driver's license then held by such person.

The division shall mail all notices to the person's last known mailing address furnished to the division by the person if such address is different from the person's residence address.

History: L. 1937, ch. 73, § 15; L. 1949, ch. 104, § 19; L. 1959, ch. 49, § 16; L. 1975, ch. 36, § 19; L. 1991, ch. 37, § 2; July 1.

CASE ANNOTATIONS

1. In prosecution under K.S.A. 8-262, state must offer proof that copy or written notice of order of suspension was mailed to last-known address of license. State v. Jones, 231 Kan. 366, 368, 644 P.2d 464 (1982).

2. Burden on license holder to notify division when holder moves from address on license or license application. State v. Moffett, 240 Kan. 406, 408, 728 P.2d 1330 (1986).

3. Cited; general civil and criminal statutes of limitations as inapplicable to habitual violator proceedings (K.S.A. 8-284 et seq.) examined. State v. Graham, 12 Kan. App. 2d 803, 805, 758 P.2d 247 (1988).

4. Cited in holding district court's reliance upon defendant's actual knowledge that driver's license suspended was harmless error. State v. Lara, 18 Kan. App. 2d 386, 391, 853 P.2d 1168 (1993).

5. Revocation notice by regular mailing to defendant's last known address satisfied minimum due process requirements. State v. Lewis, 23 Kan. App. 2d 758, 765, 935 P.2d 1072 (1997).

6. Violation does not prove concealment and toll running of statute of limitation. Underhill v. Thompson, 37 Kan. App. 2d 870, 877, 158 P.3d 987 (2007).


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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 9 cases, 1982–2012 · leading case: State v. Moffett, 728 P.2d 1330 (Kan. 1986).
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State v. Moffett, 728 P.2d 1330 (Kan. 1986). · cites it 5× “” K.S.A. 8-248 provides: “Notice of change of address or name.”
Underhill v. Thompson, 158 P.3d 987 (Kan. Ct. App. 2007). “One of Underhill’s theories of concealment is that Thompson failed to update his driver’s license address, in violation of K.SA. 8-248. Nevertheless, “[a] violation of 8-248, requiring a driver to update his or her address, in itself, does not prove concealment and toll the…”
State v. Graham, 758 P.2d 247 (Kan. Ct. App. 1988). · cites it 2× “” By counting all eighteen months from Graham’s third conviction to the filing of the petition, the court considered not only the delay in the Division’s action, which included the delay of more than six months between the Division’s first and second certification apparently…”
State v. Jones, 644 P.2d 464 (Kan. 1982). “K.S.A. 8-248 makes it incumbent upon every holder of a driver’s license to notify the division within ten days of the time the holder moves from the address designated on the holder’s license.”
State v. Thrash, 987 P.2d 345 (Kan. 1999). · cites it 2× “Therefore, the notice should be mailed to the address on the license or application unless superseded by a notice from the license holder pursuant to K.S.A. 8-248 advising the Division of an address change.”
Morris v. Morris, 10 P.3d 771 (Kan. Ct. App. 2000). “Virginia states that Kelly was in clear violation of K.S.A. 8-248. The address on his driver’s license was Win-sky’s old address in Admire, Kansas.”
State Ex Rel. Srs v. Ketzel, 275 P.3d 923 (Kan. Ct. App. 2012). “The photocopy of Bradish’s driving license from 2005 attached to her affidavit did not reflect Bradish’s Hong Kong address, but an old Kansas address that Ketzel claims was foreclosed upon.”
State v. Lara, 853 P.2d 1168 (Kan. Ct. App. 1993). · cites it 5× “” “K.S.A. 8-248 makes it incumbent upon every holder of a driver’s license to notify the division within ten days of the time the holder moves from the address designated on the holder’s license.”
State v. Lewis, 935 P.2d 1072 (Kan. Ct. App. 1997). “K.S.A. 8-248 (licensee must provide written notice to division within 10 days of change of address).”
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