There is hereby incorporated by reference for the purpose of regulating traffic within the corporate limits of the City of Douglass, Kansas that certain standard traffic ordinance known as the “Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas Cities,” 52nd Edition of 2025, prepared and published in book form by the League of Kansas Municipalities, Topeka, Kansas. No fewer than three copies of said Standard Traffic Ordinance shall be marked or stamped “Official Copy as Adopted by Ordinance No. 932,” and to which shall be attached a copy of this article 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.
(Ord. 752, Sec. 1; Code 2007; Ord. 764; Ord. 775; Ord. 790; Ord. 803; Ord. 818; Ord. 830; Ord. 842; Ord. 865; Code 2017; Ord. 888; Ord. 911; Code 2022; Ord. 922; Ord. 932)
(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 the traffic infraction in K.S.A. 8-2118.
(b) 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.
(Code 1992; Ord. 818; Ord. 830; Ord. 842; Ord. 865; Ord. 888; Ord. 911; Code 2022; Ord. 922; Ord. 932)
(a) Sections 114.1, 114.2, 114.3, 114.4, 114.5 of the Standard Traffic Ordinance are repealed with said topics regulated by Chapter 14, Article 4 of the Douglass Code (Special Purpose Vehicles).
(b) Section 3 of the Standard Traffic Ordinance is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 3. Emergency, Temporary and Experimental Regulations. The mayor, the mayor’s designee, the chief of police or city traffic engineer is hereby empowered to make regulations necessary to make effective the provisions of this and other traffic ordinances of the city, to establish no parking zones on special occasions to expedite traffic or for safety purposes, signs being properly posted, to make and enforce temporary or experimental regulations to cover emergencies or special conditions or to determine the advisability of permanent regulations for recommendation to the governing body, and test traffic-control devices under actual conditions of traffic. No temporary or experimental regulation shall remain in force for more than 90 days. (K.S.A. 8-2001; 8 2002, as amended)
(Ord. 743, Sec. 3; Code 2007; Ord. 932; Ord. 935)
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 $30 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 1992, 14-103)