Kanopolis Standard Traffic Ordinance

(First published in the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter September 22, 2016)

ORDINANCE 2016-O-02

 

AN ORDINANCE REGULATING TRAFFIC WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE 

CITY OF KANOPOLIS, KANSAS, INCORPORATING BY REFERENCE THE “STANDARD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE FOR KANSAS CITIES,” 2016 EDITION WITH CERTAIN OMISSIONS, CHANGES, AND ADDITIONS PRESCRIBING ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS, PROVIDING CERTAIN PENALTIES AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NUMBER 2015-O-02

 

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF KANOPOLIS:

 

SECTION 1: INCORPORATING STANDARD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE. There is hereby incorporated by reference for the purpose of regulating traffic within the corporate limits of the City of Kanopolis, Kansas, that certain standard traffic ordinance known as the “Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas Cities, “ Edition of 2015 prepared and published in book form by the League of Kansas Municipalities, Topeka, Kansas.  No fewer than three copies of said Standard Traffic Ordinance shall be marked or stamped; “Official Copy as Adopted by Ordinance No. 2016-O-02 with all sections or portions thereof intended to be omitted or changed clearly marked to show any such omission or change and to which shall be attached a copy of this ordinance, and filed with the city clerk to be open for inspection and available to the public at all reasonable hours.  The police department, municipal judge and all administrative departments of the city charged with enforcement of the ordinance shall be supplied, at the cost of the city, such number of official copies of such Standard Traffic Ordinance similarly marked, as may be deemed expedient.

SECTION 2: TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS AND TRAFFIC OFFENSES:

(a) An ordinance traffic infraction is a violation of any section of this ordinance that prescribed or requires the same behavior as that prescribed or required by a statutory provision that is classified as a traffic infraction in K.S.A. 8-2118

 

(b) All traffic violations which are included within this ordinance, and which are not ordinance traffic infractions, as defined in subsection (a) of this section, shall be considered traffic offenses.

 

SECTION 3: PENALTY FOR SCHEDULED FINES: The fine for violation of an ordinance traffic infraction or any other traffic offense for which the municipal judge establishes a fine in a fine schedule shall not be less than $10.00 or more than $500.00.  A person tried and convicted for violation of an ordinance traffic infraction or other traffic offense for which a fine has been established in a schedule of fines shall pay a fine fixed by the court not to exceed $500.00.

 

SECTION 4: REPEAL: Ordinance 2015-O-02 is repealed in its entirety.

 

SECTION 5: EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the official city newspaper.

 

Passed by the City Council of Kanopolis, Kansas this 13th day of September, 2016.

 

Signed by the Mayor of Kanopolis this 13th day of September, 2016.

 

Russell I. Bunch, Mayor

 

(SEAL)

 

ATTEST

 

Yvonne E. Stoppel – City Clerk

 

ATTEST;

 

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