Chapter XIV · Traffic

ARTICLE 1. STANDARD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE

Sections 14-101 to 14-104 · 4 sections

14-101 Incorporating standard traffic ordinance.

There is hereby incorporated by reference for the purpose of regulating traffic within the corporate limits of the City of Belle Plaine, Kansas, that certain standard traffic ordinance known as the Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas Cities, 52nd edition, prepared and published in book form by the League of Kansas Municipalities, Topeka, Kansas, save and except such articles, sections, parts or portions as are hereafter omitted, deleted, modified, or changed. One copy of said Standard Traffic Ordinance shall be marked or stamped “Official Copy as Adopted by Ordinance No. 1706,” 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 article or said 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.

(Ord. 1651; Code 2017; Ord. 1660; Ord. 1669; Ord. 1675; Ord. 1682; Ord. 1687; Ord. 1693; Ord. 1697; Ord. 1702; Ord. 1706)

14-102 Traffic infractions and traffic offenses.

(a)An ordinance traffic infraction is a violation of any section of this ordinance that prescribes 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 that 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.

(Ord. 1651; Code 2017; Ord. 1660; Ord. 1669; Ord. 1675; Ord. 1682; Ord. 1687; Ord. 1693; Ord. 1697; Ord. 1702; Ord. 1706)

14-103 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 nor more than $300.00, except for speeding which shall not be less than $25.00 nor more than $315.00. A person tried and convicted for violation of an ordinance traffic infraction or other traffic offense in which a fine has not been established in a schedule of fines shall pay a fine fixed by the court not to exceed $500.00.

(Ord. 1651; Code 2017; Ord. 1660; Ord. 1669; Ord. 1675; Ord. 1682; Ord. 1687; Ord. 1693; Ord. 1697; Ord. 1702; Ord. 1706)

14-104 Supplement to the standard traffic ordinance.

Article 7, Section 33, Subsection (a) of said Standard Traffic Ordinance is hereby changed to read as follows:

SEC. 33. MAXIMUM SPEED LIMITS.

(a)Pursuant to K.S.A. 8-1558, 8-1559, and 8-1560, the governing body, having determined on the basis of engineering and traffic investigations as such terms have been interpreted by the Kansas Supreme Court that the maximum speed limits established pursuant to K.S.A. 8-1558 are greater or less than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist within the corporate limits of the city, hereby deems it necessary to alter maximum speed limits established pursuant to K.S.A. 8-1559 and amendments thereto..

(b)Except as otherwise provided in this article establishing the maximum speed limit in school zones, the following maximum speed limits are hereby established.

(1)Logan Street from the north city limits to the south city limits: 30 mph;

(2)4th Avenue (Kansas State Highway 55) from Line to the east city limits: 30 mph;

(3)Any street in a residential district, as defined by K.S.A. 8-1456: 20 mph;

(c)Except for the speed limit established by the Secretary of Transportation described above in (b)(2), the maximum speed limits established herein shall be effective if official traffic control devices or signs giving notice of such maximum speed limits are erected upon or at the entrances to the highway or part thereof affected as may be more appropriate.

(d)A fine of double the amount of the fine normally applicable to and levied for exceeding the speed limit within a properly posted and designated construction zone within the city limits.

(Ord. 1674; Ord. 1675; Ord. 1682; Ord. 1687; Ord. 1693; Ord. 1697; Ord. 1702; Ord. 1706)