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Kansas DUI penalties breakdown: every component, line by line
Our Kansas DUI costs page gives the state overview. This page does the narrower job: it prices each component of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 8-1567 for a first, second and third conviction, the mandatory minimums, the restricted-license and interlock route, and the reinstatement charges the state actually publishes — with no added-up total.
The first offence, component by component
A first Kansas DUI under § 8-1567 is a Class B nonperson misdemeanour, and its mandatory element is time, not money: the driver must serve at least 48 consecutive hours of imprisonment or, in the court's discretion, perform 100 hours of public service, and that minimum must be served before or as a condition of any probation, suspension or reduction of sentence. The full sentencing range is 48 hours to six months, with a fine of $750 to $1,000 — the highest first-offence fine floor among the states in this run. The court must also order the driver to enrol in and complete the alcohol and drug safety action education programme or a treatment programme under § 8-1008, or both, so the evaluation-and-programme layer is a statutory component of every Kansas sentence, not a discretionary add-on.
Kansas separates the criminal sentence from the Division of Vehicles' administrative action, and the administrative track is where the interlock cost lands. Published state summaries describe a first offence as a 30-day suspension followed by a restriction to driving only an interlock-equipped vehicle, with repeat offences moving to a one-year suspension followed by a year or more of interlock restriction, and a refusal producing a one-year suspension followed by three further years of interlock-only driving. The interlock itself is leased from a provider at the driver's expense for the whole restricted period, so in Kansas the length of the restriction — six months, a year, or several years after a refusal — is a bigger cost driver than the $750 fine floor that gets most of the attention.
Second and third offences, and what escalates
A second conviction is a Class A nonperson misdemeanour carrying 90 days to one year and a fine of $1,250 to $1,750, structured in a way unique to Kansas: as a condition of any probation, the driver must serve at least 120 hours of confinement, which must include at least 48 hours of imprisonment and may otherwise be completed through a work release programme or house arrest under electronic monitoring. A third conviction carries 90 days to one year and $1,750 to $2,500, with no eligibility for probation, suspension, reduction or parole until the full 90 days are served — served, if work release or house arrest is granted, as at least 2,160 hours of confinement after the first 48 consecutive hours inside. Whether that third conviction is a misdemeanour or a nonperson felony turns on whether a prior conviction falls within the preceding ten years.
Refusal, the restricted license, and reinstatement charges
Kansas is also a diversion state, and that matters to how these figures should be read: a driver who is granted and completes diversion avoids the conviction tiers above, but diversion has its own application, evaluation and programme charges set through the prosecuting authority and the court, and a diversion counts as a prior for later sentencing if a new offence occurs. Our diversion page covers that route separately. For a convicted driver, reinstatement after the administrative suspension requires satisfying the interlock restriction and the Division of Vehicles' restoration conditions; Kansas does not publish a single DUI-specific reinstatement tariff separate from its ordinary licensing fees, so none is tabled here rather than guessed.
| DUI component | Published amount |
|---|---|
| First conviction (§ 8-1567(b)(1)(A)) | Class B nonperson misdemeanour; 48 consecutive hours to 6 months, or 100 hours of public service in the court's discretion; fine $750–$1,000; alcohol and drug evaluation and any education or treatment ordered |
| Second conviction (§ 8-1567(b)(1)(B)) | Class A nonperson misdemeanour; 90 days to 1 year; fine $1,250–$1,750; as a condition of probation the driver serves at least 120 hours of confinement, including at least 48 hours of imprisonment, with the balance by work release or house arrest |
| Third conviction (§ 8-1567(b)(1)(C)–(D)) | 90 days to 1 year; fine $1,750–$2,500; no probation, suspension or parole eligibility until 90 days are served; a Class A misdemeanour, or a nonperson felony where a prior conviction falls within the preceding 10 years |
| Administrative action (Division of Vehicles summaries) | First offence: 30-day suspension followed by a period restricted to an interlock-equipped vehicle; repeat offences and refusals carry a 1-year suspension followed by a longer interlock restriction — refusal is followed by 3 further years of interlock-only driving in the published summaries |
| Evaluation component | Alcohol evaluation is a priced component in published Kansas summaries; the treatment that follows an evaluation is provider-billed, not a statutory tariff |
Sources: Kan. Stat. Ann. § 8-1567(b) (penalty tiers verbatim, Kansas Legislature); Kansas Division of Vehicles administrative suspension and interlock summaries as reproduced in state DUI references. Last verified: October 2026.
The fine is one line in a longer stack — court costs, program fees, interlock, supervision and reinstatement all bill separately. Price the layers that apply to your case in the calculator.
Open the DUI cost calculatorWhat this state does not publish as a single figure
Kansas court costs, the treatment programme that follows an § 8-1008 evaluation, diversion programme charges, probation supervision and the interlock provider's installation and monthly charges are not set in § 8-1567 and vary by court, county and provider. They are therefore described on this page as components a Kansas driver will be billed for, without a statewide dollar figure the statute does not support. There is likewise no published Kansas figure for the effect of a DUI on car insurance prices, and none is estimated here; Kansas prices its DUI consequences through the fine ranges, confinement minimums and interlock restriction periods set out above.
There is no added-up statewide total on this page for the same reason: the published components above are the figures the statute, the licensing agency or the court schedule actually sets, and the remaining components are billed case by case. Adding them together would produce a number no Kansas authority has published. Use the table to price the components that apply to a specific case, and use our first-offense cost guide, second-offense guide and third-offense guide for the national pattern each component follows.
Common questions
- What is the minimum a first Kansas DUI must serve?
- 48 consecutive hours of imprisonment, or 100 hours of public service in the court's discretion, under § 8-1567 — and it must be served before or as a condition of any probation or suspended sentence.
- How much is the fine for a second Kansas DUI?
- $1,250 to $1,750, with a sentence of 90 days to one year structured around at least 120 hours of confinement including 48 hours of imprisonment.
- When is a third Kansas DUI a felony?
- A third conviction is a nonperson felony where the driver has a prior conviction within the preceding ten years; otherwise it is sentenced as a Class A nonperson misdemeanour at the same $1,750–$2,500 and 90-day-to-one-year range.
Related cost guides: Kansas DUI costs overview, second-offense DUI costs, DUI refusal costs, ignition interlock costs, license reinstatement fees.
Sources: Kan. Stat. Ann. § 8-1567(b) (penalty tiers verbatim, Kansas Legislature); Kansas Division of Vehicles administrative suspension and interlock summaries as reproduced in state DUI references. Last verified: October 2026. This page is educational information about costs only — not legal advice. Laws and fees change; confirm current figures with your court and your state's driver-licensing agency.