ARTICLE 1. STANDARD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE
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 Tonganoxie, Kansas, that certain standard traffic ordinance known as the Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas Cities, 49th Edition (the “STO”), 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 added or changed. One official copy of the STO shall be marked or stamped “Official Copy as Adopted by Ordinance No. 1507,” with all sections or portions thereof intended to be added or changed clearly marked to show any such addition or change and to which shall be attached a copy of Ordinance No. 1507, and filed with the city clerk to be open to inspection and available to the public at all reasonable hours. The police department, municipal court judge, and all administrative departments of the city charged with enforcement of the STO shall be supplied, at the cost of the city, such number of official copies of the STO similarly marked as may be deemed expedient.
(Ord. 1507, Sec. 1)
14-102. SAME; ADDITIONS AND AMENDMENTS.
Sections 33.2, 103.1, 104.1 and 116.1 are hereby added to the STO, and Section 136 of the STO is hereby changed, to read as follows:
Sec. 33.2. Local Speed Limits.
The City Council, based on sound engineering and traffic principles and in the furtherance of public safety, having established maximum speed limits on all streets within the city hereby determines and declares that the maximum speed limits shall be as follows:
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) and except when a special hazard exists that requires lower speed for compliance with Section 32 of the STO, the limits specified in this section or established as authorized by law shall be maximum lawful speeds, and no person shall operate a vehicle at a speed in excess of such maximum limits, except where otherwise posted:
(1) Twenty miles per hour (20 mph) in any business district;
(2) Thirty miles per hour (30 mph) in any residential district, except where otherwise posted;
(3) Twenty miles per hour (20 mph) in any park;
(4) As posted in all school zones between the hours of 7:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M., on regular school days as designated by the school calendar of the school with the zone;
(5) On any county or township highway, fifty-five miles per hour (55 mph), except where otherwise posted;
(6) On all other highways, sixty-five miles per hour (65 mph), except where otherwise posted.
(7) Except as provided in subsection (b), the maximum speed limit on Fall Creek Drive within the City limits of Tonganoxie shall be 20 miles per hour.
(b) Whenever the person in possession or control of any private property used by the public for purposes of vehicular traffic by permission of the owner, shall cause to be posted at each entrance thereto a permanently lettered and clearly legible sign with the following legend: Traffic Regulations of the City of Tonganoxie, Kansas, enforced on this property. Speed Limit_____. Then such private property shall thereafter be deemed to be under the traffic regulations of the city as provided by law.
Sec. 103.1. Loud Amplification Systems; Noises from Vehicles.
No person operating or occupying a motor vehicle on a street, highway, alley, parking lot or driveway shall operate or permit operation of any sound producing device or any amplification system from within a vehicle so that the sound is plainly audible at a distance of fifty feet (50’) or more from the vehicle.
Sec. 104.1. Careless Driving.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or operate a vehicle upon a highway or a street or public-access private property (e.g., parking lot) in a careless or heedless manner or in an inattentive manner, or without due caution or circumstances, or in any manner not constituting reckless driving but so as to endanger any person or property.
(b) Every person convicted of a violation of this section shall be fined an amount not more than $150 and may be imprisoned for a period of not more than 10 days.
Sec. 116.1. Bicycling on Specific Sidewalks Prohibited.
It shall be unlawful for any person to use a bicycle on the sidewalks on 4th Street from Main to Green Streets.
Sec. 136. Use of Coasters, Skate Boards, Roller Blades, Rollers Skates and Similar Devices Restricted.
(a) No person upon roller skates, or riding in or by means of any coaster, toy vehicle, roller blades, skate boards, or similar device, shall go upon any roadway except while crossing a street at a crosswalk and except upon streets set aside as play streets.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to use a coaster, roller skates, skateboards, roller blades or any other similar device on the streets or sidewalks on 4th Street from Main Street to Green Street.
(Ord. 1507, Sec. 1)
14-103. SAME; TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS AND TRAFFIC OFFENSES.
(a) An ordinance traffic infraction is a violation of any section of this chapter 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 (as may be amended).
(b) All traffic violations that are included within this chapter and are not ordinance traffic infractions as defined in subsection (a) of this section shall be considered traffic offenses.
(Ord. 1507, Sec. 1)
14-104. 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 nor more than $500, except for speeding which will not be less than $55 nor more than $500. 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. (Ord. 1294; Ord. 1323; Ord. 1341)