99-9952 1999 STOCmed'WmM ui.
ORDINANCE NUMBER 99-9952
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 38
THE SALINA CODE PERTAINING TO TRAFFIC AND MOTOR VEHICLES BY
SECTION 38-1 AND REPEALING THE EXISTING SECTION.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Governing Body of the City of Salina, Kansas:
Section 1. That Section 38-1 of the Salina Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 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,' 27th Edition (1999),
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 99-9952', 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 functions or activities, at a speed greater than forty-five
(45) miles per hour on any roadway having a dirt, sand or gravel
surface, and in no event shall a school bus be driven to and from
school, or functions or activities, in excess of fifty-five (55) miles
per hour, notwithstanding any maximum speed limit in excess
thereof. The provisions of this subsection 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 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. 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
)n and publication once in the official city newspaper.
Introduced: October 11, 1999
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s Octo er 18, 1999
3, e Sha , Mayor
a R. Weber, Deputy City Clerk