6.2 Ordinance No. 22-11132 2022 Standard Traffic OrdinanceCITY OF SALINA
REQUEST FOR CITY COMMISSION ACTION DATE TIME
10/10/2022 4:00 P.M.
AGENDA SECTION ORIGINATING DEPARTMENT: FISCAL APPROVAL:
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BY:
City Clerk's Office FINAL APP VAL:
ITEM
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Page 1 BY: JoVonna A. Rut City Clerk BY:
ITEM: Ordinance No. 22-11132
Second reading of Ordinance No. 22-11132, amending Chapter 38, Article I of the City of Salina
Code by adopting the 2022 Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas Cities published by the
League of Kansas Municipalities.
BACKGROUND:
Ordinance No. 22-11132 was passed on first reading on October 3, 2022. Since that time no
comments have been received.
FISCAL NOTE:
There would be no fiscal impact on the City of Salina if this request is approved.
COMMISSION ACTION OR RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Staff has identified the following options for the City Commission's consideration:
1.) Approve Ordinance No. 22-11132 on second reading.
2.) Approve Ordinance No. 22-11132 on second reading with amendments as the City
Commission deems appropriate.
3.) Postpone consideration of Ordinance No. 22-11132 on second reading to a specified date and
time and provide staff direction regarding additional information or amendments the City
Commission would like to request for their further consideration.
4.) Vote to deny Ordinance No. 22-11132 on second reading if it is not in the public's interest to
vacate the existing north -south utility easement.
Staff recommends Option #1
Attachments:
CC: Ordinance No. 22-11132
(Summary published in The Salina Journal on September , 2022.)
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ORDINANCE NUMBER 22-11132
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 38, SECTION 38-1 OF THE SALINA CODE
BY INCORPORATING BY REFERENCE THE STANDARD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE
FOR KANSAS CITIES, 49th EDITION (PUBLISHED IN 2022); ADDING LOCAL
AMENDMENTS TO THE 2022 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, 49th Edition (2022), 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 22-11132" with all sections orportions 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. '*rk
(b) Amendments. Section 4 of the Standard Traff c 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 of this 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
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13. Additionally, Community Service Technicians shall at all times be
empowered to enforce any other ordinance of this 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:
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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
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of any school district may establish by board policy lower maximum speed
-n 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:
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(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;
(12) Alongside the curb of a street where the curb is painted
yellow;
(13) 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
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utilization;
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;
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(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 Trak 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 x
(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.
(Summary published in The Salina Journal on September_, 2022.)
(Published on the City of Salina's website for a minimum of one week from September_, 2022.)
Ordinance No. 22-11132 Summary
On October 10, 2022, the City of Salina, Kansas, passed Ordinance No. 22-11132. The
ordinance amends Chapter 38, Section 38-1 of the Salina Code by adopting the Standard
Traffic Ordinance 49a' Edition (2022) 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 38-1. A complete copy of the ordinance is available
at www.salina-ks.aov or in the office of the city clerk, 300 W. Ash Street, free of charge.
This summary is certified by the City Attorney.
Introduced: October 3, 2022
Passed: October 10, 2022
Trent W. Davis, M.D., Mayor
[SEAL]
ATTEST:
JoVonna A. Rutherford, City Clerk
The publication summary set forth above is certified this
Greg A Bengtson, City Attorney
day of September, 2022.