Chapter XIV · Traffic

Article 1. Standard Traffic Ordinance

Sections 14-101 to 14-105 · 5 sections

14-101 Incorporating standard traffic ordinance.

There is hereby incorporated by reference for the purpose of regulating traffic within the corporate limits of the City of Osawatomie, Kansas, that certain standard traffic ordinance known as the “Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas Cities,” Edition of 2026 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 Incorporated by the Code of the City of Osawatomie,” 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 article, 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 the 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 2010; Ord. 3678; Ord. 3725; Ord. 3751; Code 2018; Ord. 3765; Ord. 3776; Ord. 3788; Ord. 3798; Ord. 3815; Ord. 3834; Ord. 3851; Ord. 3874; Ord. 3881)

14-102 Same; amendment to Section 33.

Section 33 of the Standard Traffic Ordinance as adopted is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 33. Maximum Speed Limits.

(a)Except as provided in subsection (b) and except when a special hazard exists that requires lower speed for compliance with K.S.A. 8-1557, and amendments thereto, the limits specified in this subsection or established as authorized by law shall be maximum lawful speeds, and no person shall operate a vehicle at a speed in excess of such maximum limits:

(1)In any business district, 20 miles per hours;

(2)In any urban district, 30 miles per hour;

(3)On any separated multilane highway, as designated and posted by the secretary of transportation, 70 miles per hour;

(4)On any county or township highway, 55 miles per hour; and

(5)On all other highways, 65 miles per hour.

(b)No person shall drive a school bus to or from school, or interschool or intra-school functions or activities, at a speed in excess of the maximum speed limits provided in subsection (a), except that the board of education of any school district may establish by board policy lower maximum speed limits for the operation of such district’s school buses. The provisions of this subsection relating to school buses 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, or functions or activities. (K.S.A. Supp. 8-1558)

(c)The maximum speed limits in this section may be altered as authorized in K.S.A 8-1559 and K.S.A 8-1560, and amendments thereto.

(d)The Governing Body having determined upon the basis of a traffic investigation that the speed limits permitted under state law and Section 33 of the Standard Traffic ordinance are less than reasonable and safe on some streets and are more than reasonable and safe on other streets, and does determine and declare that the speed limit (except when a special hazard exists that requires lower speed for compliance with Section 32) on the streets hereinafter set forth be the limits specified in this section, and no person shall drive a vehicle at a speed in excess of such maximum limits:

(1)Speed not in excess of 20 miles per hour shall be lawful on the following streets:

(A)Main Street between 15th Street and 18th Street.

(B)Lockhart Lane between Main Street and Parker Avenue.

(C)14th Street between Parker Avenue and north end of 14th Street.

(D)15th Street between Parker Avenue and north end of 15th Street.

(E)Charles Street.

(Code 2010; Ord. 3678; Ord. 3725; Ord. 3751; Code 2018; Ord. 3768; Ord. 3815; Ord. 3834; Ord. 3851; Ord. 3874; Ord. 3881)

14-103 Same; amendment to Section 93.

Section 93 of the Standard Traffic Ordinance as adopted is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 93. Parking Disabled and Other Vehicles.

(a) No person shall park or store any farm machinery, trailer or semi-trailer of any kind, or parts of the same, or any dead, damaged or disabled motor vehicle or farm machinery, trailer or semi-trailer of any kind, in the roadway of any highway, or between the property line or sidewalk and the curb line of any street. No person shall park or store any operable motor vehicle between the property line or sidewalk and the curb line of any street except on a designated driveway.

(b) A person shall not use the public highway to abandon vehicles or use the highway to leave vehicles unattended in such a manner as to interfere with public highway operations. When a person leaves a motor vehicle on a public highway or other property open to use by the public, the city having jurisdiction of such highway or other property open to use by the public, after 48 hours or when the motor vehicle interferes with public highway operations, may remove and impound the motor vehicle. (K.S.A. 8-1102)

(K.S.A. 8-1102; Code 2010; Ord. 3678; Ord. 3725; Ord. 3751; Code 2018; Ord. 3815; Ord. 3834; Ord. 3851; Ord. 3874; Ord. 3881)

14-104 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. 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.

(Ord. 3632, Sec. 5; Code 2008; Ord. 3725; Ord. 3751; Code 2018)

14-105 Penalty for scheduled fines.

The fine for violation of an ordinance traffic infraction or any other traffic offense shall be established by the Municipal Judge.

(Code 2008; Ord. 3725; Ord. 3751; Code 2018)