Article 1. Standard Traffic Ordinance

14-101. Standard Traffic Ordinance incorporated; revisions.

(a) There is hereby incorporated by reference for the purpose of regulating traffic within the corporate limits of the City of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, that certain standard traffic ordinance known as the Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas Cities, 40th Edition of 2024, prepared and published in book form by the League of Kansas Municipalities, Topeka, Kansas. One copy of said Standard Traffic Ordinance shall be marked or stamped "Official Copy as Adopted by Ordinance No. 941, 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.

(b) Deletions.

(1) Sections 114.1, 114.2, 114.4, and 114.5 are hereby deleted with a substitute provisions (an article relating to Special Purpose Vehicles) having been enacted elsewhere in this chapter.

(2) Subsection 109.1 relating to the operation of motorized skateboards is hereby deleted.

(Ord. 852, Sec. 1; Code 2012; Ord. 913; Code 2023; Ord. 941)

14-102. Same; traffic infractions and traffic offenses.

(a) An ordinance traffic infraction is a violation of any section of this ordinance 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. Supp. 8-2118.

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

(Ord. 852, Sec. 2; Code 2012; Ord. 913; Ord. 941)

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 $25.00 nor more than $500.00, except for speeding which shall not be less than $25.00 nor more than $500.00. 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.

(Ord. 852, Sec. 3; Code 2012; Ord. 913; Ord. 941)