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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.
I am not aware of every Kansas city that has incorporated this series of codes (as not Not all cities upload their code to municode.com and not all municipal courts and police offices are willing to assist me in makign the information public over the phoone) phone, but I know that all cities in 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:
(a)No person shall stand in ''or in proximity to'' a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride from the driver or occupant of any vehicle.
As of March 2012, Wyandotte County Unified Government is the only municipal body of any sizeable population in the state of Kansas that I have found has been confirmed to not have adopted the KS STO or a similar statute prohibiting hitchhiking anywhere near a road. This means that it ''should be legal'' to hitchhike in Wyandotte County.
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.
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