There is hereby incorporated by reference for the purpose of regulating traffic within the corporate limits of the City of Cherryvale, Kansas, that certain standard traffic ordinance known as the “Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas Cities,” Edition of 2023, prepared and published in book form by the League of Kansas Municipalities, Topeka, Kansas, save and except such articles, section, parts or portions as are hereafter omitted, deleted, modified or changed. No fewer than three copies of said Standard Traffic Ordinance shall be marked or stamped “Official Copy as Adopted by Ordinance No. 23-4755,” 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 section or said ordinance, and filed with the city clerk to be open to inspection and available to the public at all reasonable hours. The police department, municipal judge, and all administrative departments of the city charged with enforcement of the ordinance shall be supplied, at the cost of the city, such number of official copies of such Standard Traffic Ordinance similarly marked as may be deemed expedient.
(Code 2001, 8-101; Ord. 13-4634; Code 2014; Ord. 14-4649; Ord. 15-4666; Ord. 16-4676; Ord. 17-4682; Ord. 18-4698; Ord. 19-4722; Ord. 23-4755)
(a) An ordinance traffic infraction is a violation of any section of this article that prescribes or requires the same behavior as that prescribed or required by a statutory provision that is classified as a traffic infraction in K.S.A. 8-2118.
(a) All traffic violations which are included within this article, and which are not ordinance traffic infractions, as defined in subsection (a) of this section, shall be considered traffic offenses.
The fine for violation of an ordinance traffic infraction or any other traffic offense for which the municipal judge establishes a fine in a fine schedule shall not be less than $10 nor more than $500 except for speeding which shall not be less than $10 nor more than $500. A person tried and convicted for violation of an ordinance traffic infraction or other traffic offense for which a fine has been established in a schedule of fines shall pay a fine fixed by the court not to exceed $500.
(Code 2001, 8-202; Code 2014)
Amendments to the Standard Traffic Ordinance incorporated in Section 14-101 of this Article shall be as follows:
Section 33. Maximum Speed Limits -is amended by the addition of the following sections:
(a)(6) The governing body has determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that the speed limit under State law and Section 33 of the Standard Traffic Ordinance is greater than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist on certain streets, and hereby determines and declares that the reasonable and safe speed limit on the following streets is twenty (20) miles per hour:
(A) Willow Street from N. Liberty Street to Neosho Street;
(B) Neosho Street from Willow Street to Front Street;
(C) Park Street from Liberty Street to Walnut Street;
(D) Clark Street from Liberty Street to Walnut Street;
(E) Main Street from Summit Street to Liberty Street;
(F) Carson Street from Main Street to 11th Street;
(G) 9th Street from Galveston to Carson; and
(H) Galveston from 7th to 9th Street.
(a)(7) All streets and thoroughfares adjoining school property shall be designated as school zones, and during each and every school day all drivers of motor vehicles shall take special heed and use extraordinary precaution so that no harm or injury may be done to any school child. No motor vehicle shall be driven in a school zone at a speed greater than twenty (20) miles per hour. Appropriate signs or signals shall be placed marking the boundaries of such school zones and indicating the maximum speed limit as herein set out, also to include the portion of 6th Street between Baldwin Street and Wilson Street which shall also be designated as a school zone and that a safe and reasonable speed for that zone shall be twenty (20) miles per hour between the hours of 7:00-8:30 a.m. and 3:00-4:30 p.m. and is hereby set at that limit.
(a)(8) All areas on streets posted with differing speed limits, including but not limited to:
(a) 10 mph - Areas posted in and around Lake Tanko.
(b) 10 mph - Areas posted in and around Lincoln Central Elementary School.
(Code 2001, 8-102; Ord. 13-4634; Code 2014; Ord. 14-4649: Ord. 15-4666; Ord. 16-4676; Ord. 17-4682; Ord. 17-4688; Ord. 18-4698; 19-4722; Ord. 23-4755)