ARTICLE 1. STANDARD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE

14-101. Standard traffic ordinance incorporated.

There is hereby incorporated by reference for the purpose of regulating traffic within the corporate limits of the City of Satanta, Kansas, that certain standard traffic ordinance known as the ·’Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas Cities”, 51st Edition published in 2024, 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 (3) copies of said Standard Traffic Ordinance shall be marked or stamped “Official Copy as Adopted by Ordinance No. 427 “, 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 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. The Standard Traffic Ordinance currently adopted by the City shall be amended or supplemented, as the case may be, by all other sections of this article regardless of whether such other sections were adopted before or after the current Standard Traffic Ordinance.

EXCEPTIONS. Certain ordinance of the City of Satanta, Kansas, including but not limited to the following, are re-enacted and retained and not repealed by the passage of the Standard Traffic Ordinance. The following ordinances are ordinances of the City of Satanta, Kansas, regarding traffic regulations, which are in effect in addition to the Standard Traffic Ordinance:

(a) Ordinance No. 200 – “AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE OPERATION OF A MOTOR VEHICLE UPON ANY STREET, DRIVE, AVENUE, ALLEY, OR PUBLIC WAY IN THE CITY OF SATANTA, KANSAS; DEFINING OFFENSE FOR CARELESS DRIVING AND PROVIDING PENALTIES THEREFORE, AND AMENDING, BY ADDITION, ORDINANCE NO. 198 OF THE CITY OF SATANTA,, KANSAS,” Passed May 4, 1977.

(b) Ordinance No. 324 – “AN ORDINANCE RESTRICTING, REGULATING, AND PROHIBITING CERTAIN PARKING AND DRIVING OF CERTAIN TRUCKS, TRACTORS, SEMI-TRAILERS, TRANSPORTS, BUSES, VANS, CAMPERS, IMPLEMENTS, MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT, AND OTHER VEHICLES UPON ANY STREET, AVENUE, ALLEY, PUBLIC WAY, OR RIGHT-OF-WAY WITHIN THE CITY OF SATANTA, KANSAS, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF; AND PROHIBITING THE USE OF JAKE BRAKES WITHIN THE CITY OF SATANTA, KANSAS AND PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION THEREOF.” Passed December 2003.

(Ord. 379; Ord. 387; Code 2017; Ord. 392; Ord. 395; Ord. 401; Ord. 408; Ord. 411; Ord. 421; Ord. 425; Ord. 427)

14-102. Traffic infractions and traffic offenses.

(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.

(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 2017)

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 2017)