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ORDINANCE NUMBER 21-11087
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 38, SECTION 38-1 OF THE SALINA CODE BY
INCORPORATING BY REFERENCE THE STANDARD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE FOR
KANSAS CITIES, 48th EDITION (PUBLISHED IN 2021); ADDING LOCAL AMENDMENTS
TO THE 2021 STANDARD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE; AND REPEALING EXISTING
SECTION 38-1.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Governing Body of the City of Salina, Kansas:
Section 1. ADOPTION OF STANDARD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE.
Sec. 38-1. INCORPORATING STANDARD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE.
(a) Incorporation by Reference. The Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas Cities ,
48th Edition (2021), published by the League of Kansas Municipalities , Topeka,
Kansas , (the "Standard Traffic Ordinance ") is adopted and incorporated by
reference save and except such articles, sections , parts or portions as are hereafter
omitted or amended. At least one copy of the Standard Traffic Ordinance shall be
marked or stamped, "Official Copy as Adopted by Ordinance Number 21-11087"
with all sections or portions thereof intended to be omitted or amended clearly
marked to show any such omission or amendment 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 business hours.
(b) Amendments. Section 4 of the Standard Traffic Ordinance is hereby amended to
read as follows :
Section 4. Authority of Police and Other City Officials.
Police offers of the city shall at all times be empowered to enforce the provisions
of this and other traffic ordinances ofthis city and temporary and emergency rules
and regulations of the chief of police, and may at any time direct and control traffic
in person or by visible or audible signals: provided, that in the event of fire,
temporary traffic congestion or other emergency, or to expedite the flow of traffic
or to safeguard pedestrians , officers may direct traffic as conditions require
notwithstanding the provisions of this ordinance and other traffic ordinances .
(K.S .A. 8-2001; 8-2002). Community Service Technicians, parking officers, or
other similar officials designated by the City Manager (collectively "Community
Service Technicians") shall at all times be empowered to enforce the provisions of
this ordinance bearing upon stopping, standing, and parking, including, without
limitation, the provisions of Article 13. Additionally, Community Service
Technicians shall at all times be empowered to enforce any other ordinance of this
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city bearing upon stopping, standing, and parking, and shall also at all times be
empowered to enforce the temporary and emergency rules and regulations of the
chief of police bearing upon stopping, standing, and parking. Nothing in this
section shall be construed to limit the authority of city officials or employees from
enforcing the ordinances, rules, or regulations of this city.
(c) 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.
(d) 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;
(4) On a crosswalk;
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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;
Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction
when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or
within a highway tunnel;
On any railroad tracks;
On any controlled-access highway;
In the area between roadways of a divided highway, including
crossovers;
At any place where official signs prohibit stopping;
Alongside the curb of a street where the curb is painted yellow;_
Fully or partially upon any area of the public right-of-way
outside the curb of a street. For purposes of this section, "public
right-of-way" means the area of real property in which the City
has a dedicated or acquired interest for public utilization;
(14) Within a marked bicycle lane.
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
(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
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.
( d) Move a vehicle not lawfully under his or her control into any such
prohibited area or away from a curb such a distance as is unlawful.
( e) Stand or park a vehicle in areas designated as fire lanes upon public or
private property (K.S.A. 8-1571)
(e) 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 hour ; or
(4) On any public sidewalk.
(b) The provisions of subsection (a) shall not prohibit a golf cart from crossing a
federal , state or local street or highway or a sidewalk within a crosswalk.
( c) 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, unless equipped with:
(1) Lights as required for motorcycles by Sections 183 through Section 188
of this ordinance ; and
(2) A properly mounted slow-moving vehicle emblem as required by
K.S .A. 8-1717 , and amendments thereto. (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 from and after its adoption and
publication by the following summary once in the official city newspaper.
Ordinance No. 21-11087 Summary
On November 15, 2021 , the City of Salina, Kansas , passed Ordinance No. 21-11087. The
ordinance amends Chapter 38 , Section 38-1 of the Salina Code by adopting the Standard
Traffic Ordinance 48 111 Edition (2021) prepared and published in book form by the League
of Kansas Municipalities ; providing certain local amendments to Sections 4, 33, 85, and
114 .4 and repealing existing section 3 8-1. 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: November 8, 2021
Passed : November 15, 2021
Melissa Rose Hodges , Mayor
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The pubr ation summary set forth above is certified this /b-b'-J day of November, 2021.