13-10694 Amend Standard Traffic OrdinanceSummary Published in The Salina Journal on April �, 2013.
Posted on the City of Salina's website from April 16-30, 2013.
ORDINANCE NUMBER 13-10694
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 38, SECTION 38-1 OF THE SALINA CODE BY
ADDING LOCAL AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 85 OF THE 2012 STANDARD TRAFFIC
ORDINANCE AND REPEALING EXISTING SECTION 38-1.
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BE IT ORDAINED by the Governing Body of the City of Salina, Kansas:
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Section 1. Amendment. Section 38-1 of Chapter 38 of the Salina Code is hereby amended as
follows:
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,' 40 l
Edition (2012), 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 12-10663, 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:
Section 33. 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:
(1) 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;
(2) In any school zone, twenty (20) miles per hour;
(3) In any non -arterial residential district, thirty (30) miles per hour;
(4) In any alley, ten (10) miles per hour;
(5) 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 transporting students to or from school, or functions or
activities."
(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. 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;
Section 114.4. Unlawful Operation of a Golf Cart
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a golf cart:
(4)
On a crosswalk;
governmental, educational or not-for-profit event resulting in the need for
(5)
Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 30 feet of points on the
railroad rights-of-way and is compliant with all other applicable laws or
curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless a different length
ordinances.
is indicated by signs or markings;
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Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping,
(1) In front of a public or private driveway;
standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
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(3) Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
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Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a
(5) Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a
highway tunnel;
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when properly sign -posted;
(8)
On any railroad tracks;
(c) Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of, and
(9)
On any controlled -access highway;
(10)
In the area between roadways of a divided highway, including crossovers;
(2) At any place where official signs prohibit parking.
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At any place where official signs prohibit stopping;
(12)
Alongside the curb of a street where the curb is painted yellow.
(e) No person shall stand or park a vehicle in areas designated as fire lanes upon public
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Fully or partially upon any unsurfaced area adjoining a public roadway; or
(14)
Fully or partially within in any yard except upon a driveway, adjacent surfaced
as follows:
parking area or enclosed area in compliance with the Salina Zoning Code.
Except:
(1)
when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic;
(2)
in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or official traffic
control device; or
Section 114.4. Unlawful Operation of a Golf Cart
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a golf cart:
(3) Parking necessitated by an isolated or intermittent commercial,
governmental, educational or not-for-profit event resulting in the need for
overflow parking when the overflow parking occurs outside of public or
railroad rights-of-way and is compliant with all other applicable laws or
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ordinances.
(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.
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(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.
(d) Amendment. Section 114.4 of the Standard Traffic Ordinance is hereby amended to read
as follows:
Section 114.4. Unlawful Operation of a Golf Cart
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a golf cart:
(1) On any interstate highway, federal highway, or state highway;
(2) On any public highway or street within the corporate limits of the City of Salina;
(3) On any street or highway with a posted speed limit greater than 30 miles per
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hour; or
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(b) The provisions of subsection (a) shall not prohibit a golf cart from crossing a federal,
a state or local street or highway or a sidewalk within a crosswalk.
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13 (e) A golf cart shall be operated on any public street or highway in compliance with
provisions of subsection (b) only during the hours between sunrise and sunset (K.S.A.
Supp. 8-15, 108)
Section 2. Repealer. Existing Section 38-1 is hereby repealed.
Section 3. Effective. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect 90 days from and after its
adoption and publication by the following summary once in the official city newspaper.
Ordinance No. 13-10694 Summary
On April 15, 2013, the City of Salina, Kansas, passed Ordinance No. 13-10694. The
ordinance amends the Chapter 38, Section 38-1 of the Salina Code by adding local
amendments to Section 85 of the Standard Traffic Ordinance pertaining to stopping,
standing, and parking of vehicles. A complete copy of the ordinance is available at
www.salina-ks.gov or in the office of the city clerk, 300 W. Ash Street, free of charge.
This summary is certified by the city attorney.
Introduced: April 8, 2013
Pas d: April 5, 2013
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' Norman M. Je mgs, Mayor
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Lieu Ann Elsey, CMC,