Chapter XIV · Traffic

ARTICLE 1. STANDARD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE

Sections 14-101 to 14-105 · 5 sections

14-101 Standard traffic ordinance incorporated.

There is hereby incorporated by reference for the purpose of regulating traffic within the corporate limits on the City of Sedgwick, Kansas, that certain standard traffic ordinance known as the “Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas Cities”, Edition 2025, prepared and published in book form by the League of Kansas Municipalities, Topeka, Kansas, save and except such articles, sections, parts or portions as are hereafter omitted, deleted, modified or changed. One copy of said Standard Traffic Ordinance shall be marked or stamped “Official Copy as Adopted by Ordinance No. 1081”, with all sections or portions thereof intended to be omitted or changed clearly marked to show any such omission or change including but not limited to sections 114.2, 114.3, 114.4, and 114.5, and to which shall be attached a copy of 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.

(Ord. 967; Code 2016; Ord. 992; Ord. 1020; Ord. 1027; Ord. 1034; Ord. 1043; Ord. 1054; Ord. 1061; Ord. 1072; Ord. 1081)

14-102 Traffic infractions and traffic offenses.

(a)An ordinance traffic infraction is a violation of any section of this chapter 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.

(b)All traffic violations that are included within this chapter, and are not ordinance traffic infractions, as defined in subsection (a) of this section, shall be considered traffic offenses.

(Code 2016; Ord. 992; Ord. 1020; Ord. 1027; Ord. 1034; Ord. 1043; Ord. 1054; Ord. 1061; Ord. 1072; Ord. 1081)

14-103 Penalty for scheduled fines.

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 2014; Ord. 1054; Ord. 1061; Ord. 1072; Ord. 1081)

14-104 Deletions.

Sections 114.2, 114.4 and 114.5 of the Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas Cities are deleted.

(Ord. 967; Code 2016)

14-105 Applicable to parking lots, mobile home parks and trailer courts.

The Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas Cities, and any amendments or additions thereto, as adopted by the Governing Body of the City of Chapman, Kansas, shall apply to municipal parking lots, school parking lots, private parking lots, mobile home park drives and trailer court drives which are privately owned but set aside for common usage.

(Ord. 806; Code 2016)