08-10464 Adopt 2008 Standard Traffic Ordinance(Published in the Salina Journal on August �_, 2008)
ORDINANCE NUMBER 08-10464
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 38,
SECTION 38-1 OF THE SALINA CODE BY ADOPTING THE 2008 STANDARD TRAFFIC
ORDINANCE AND LOCAL AMENDMENT S AND REPEALING THE EXISTING SECTION.
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BE IT ORDAINED by the Governing Body of the City of Salina, Kansas:
Section 1. That Section 38-1 of Chapter 38 of the Salina Code is hereby amended to read
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as follows:
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"Sec. 38-1. Incorporating Standard Traffic Ordinance.
(a) Incorporation by reference. There is hereby incorporated by reference for the
purpose of regulating traffic within the corporate limits of the City of Salina, Kansas,
that certain standard traffic ordinance known as the'Standard Traffic Ordinance for
Kansas Cities,' 36`i' Edition (2008), prepared and published in book form by the
League of Kansas Municipalities, Topeka, Kansas, except as Sections 33 and 85
contained therein are modified as set forth in paragraphs (b) and (c) below. No
fewer than three (3) copies of the Standard Traffic Ordinance shall be marked or
stamped'Office Copy as Adopted by Ordinance Number 08-10464, 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 to inspection and available to the public at all
reasonable hours.
(b) Amendment. Section 33 of the Standard Traffic Ordinance is hereby amended
to read as follows:
Maximum speed limits.
(a) Except when a special hazard exists that requires lower speed for
compliance with Section 32, the limits specified in this section or established
as hereinafter authorized shall be maximum lawful speeds, and no person shall
drive a vehicle at a speed in excess of such maximum limits:
In any city park, fifteen (15) miles per hour, unless posted
differently, in which case the maximum speed limit shall be the
posted speed limit;
In any school zone, twenty (20) miles per hour;
In any non -arterial residential district, thirty (30) miles per hour;
In any alley, ten (10) miles per hour;
In all other locations, fifty-five (55) miles per hour, unless posted
differently, in which case the maximum speed limit shall be the
posted speed limit.
The maximum speed limits established by or pursuant to this paragraph
shall be of force and effect regardless of whether signs are posted giving
notice thereof.
(b) No person shall drive a school bus to or from school, or interschool or
intraschool functions or activities, at a speed in excess of the maximum speed
limits provided in subsection (a), except that the board of education of any
school district may establish by board policy lower maximum speed limits for
the operation of such district's school buses. The provision of this subsection
relating to school buses shall apply to buses used for the transportation of
students enrolled in community colleges or area vocational schools, when
such buses are transnortina students to or from school. or functions or
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(c) Amendment. Section 85 of the Standard Traffic Ordinance is hereby amended
to read as follows:
"Section 85. Stopping, Standing or Parking Prohibited in Specified Places.
Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with law
or the directions of a police officer or official traffic -control device, no person shall:
(a) Stop, stand or park a vehicle:
(1) On the roadway side.of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge
or curb of a street;
(2) On a sidewalk;
(3) Within an intersection;
(4) On a crosswalk;
(5) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 30 feet of
points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety
zone, unless a different length is indicated by signs or markings;
(6) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when
stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
(7) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or
within a highway tunnel;
(8) On any railroad tracks;
(9) On any controlled -access highway;
(10) In the area between roadways of a divided highway, including
crossovers;
(11) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping; or
(12) Alongside the curb of a street where the curb is painted yellow.
(b) Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not except momentarily to
pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers:
(1) In front of a public or private driveway;
(2) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
(3) Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
(4) Within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign
or traffic -control signal located at the side of the roadway;
(5) Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on
the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within
75 feet of said entrance, when properly sign -posted;
(6) . At any place when official signs prohibit standing.
(c) Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the
purpose of, and while actually engaged in, loading or unloading property or
passengers:
(1) Within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;
(2) At any place where official signs prohibit parking.
(d) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control into any
such prohibited area or away. from a curb such a distance as is unlawful.
(e) No person shall stand or park a vehicle in areas designated as fire lanes
upon public or private property."
Section 2. That the existing Section 38-1 of the Salina Code is hereby repealed.
Section 3. That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption
and publication once in the official city newspaper.
Introduced: August 25, 2008
Passed: August 25, 2008
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ATTEST: John . Vanier II, Mayor
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Lieu Ann Elsey, CMC, ty Clerk