History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-2001; July 1.
(1) Regulating or prohibiting stopping, standing or parking;
(2) regulating traffic by means of police officers or official traffic-control devices;
(3) regulating or prohibiting processions or assemblages on the highways;
(4) designating particular highways or roadways for use by traffic moving in one direction as authorized in K.S.A. 8-1521, and amendments thereto;
(5) establishing speed limits for vehicles in public parks notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(3) of K.S.A. 8-1560, and amendments thereto;
(6) designating any highway as a through highway or designating any intersection or junction of roadways as a stop or yield intersection or junction;
(7) restricting the use of highways as authorized in K.S.A. 8-1912, and amendments thereto;
(8) regulating the operation of bicycles and requiring the registration and inspection of same, including the requirement of a registration fee;
(9) regulating or prohibiting the turning of vehicles or specified types of vehicles;
(10) altering or establishing speed limits as authorized in K.S.A. 8-1560, and amendments thereto;
(11) establish school zones as provided in subsection (a)(4) of K.S.A. 8-1560, and amendments thereto;
(12) designating no-passing zones as authorized in K.S.A. 8-1520, and amendments thereto;
(13) prohibiting or regulating the use of controlled-access roadways by any class or kind of traffic as authorized in K.S.A. 8-1525, and amendments thereto;
(14) prohibiting or regulating the use of heavily traveled streets by any class or kind of traffic found to be incompatible with the normal and safe movement of traffic;
(15) establishing minimum speed limits as authorized in subsection (b) of K.S.A. 8-1561, and amendments thereto;
(16) designating hazardous railroad grade crossings as authorized in K.S.A. 8-1552, and amendments thereto;
(17) designating and regulating traffic on play streets;
(18) prohibiting pedestrians from crossing a roadway in a business district or any designated highway except in a crosswalk as authorized in K.S.A. 8-2006, and amendments thereto;
(19) restricting pedestrian crossings at unmarked crosswalks as authorized in K.S.A. 8-2007, and amendments thereto;
(20) regulating persons propelling push carts;
(21) regulating persons upon skates, coasters, sleds and other toy vehicles;
(22) adopting and enforcing such temporary or experimental regulations as may be necessary to cover emergencies or special conditions;
(23) adopting such other traffic regulations as are specifically authorized by this act.
(b) No local authority shall erect or maintain any official traffic-control device at any location so as to require the traffic on any state highway to stop before entering or crossing any intersecting highway unless approval in writing has first been obtained from the secretary of transportation.
(c) No ordinance, resolution or regulation enacted under paragraph (4), (5), (6), (7), (9), (10), (12), (13), (14), (16), (17) or (19) of subsection (a) of this section shall be effective until official traffic-control devices giving notice of such local traffic regulations are erected upon or at the entrances to the highway or part thereof affected as may be most appropriate.
(d) No ordinance, resolution or regulation enacted under paragraph (5), (10) or (22) shall establish a speed limit in excess of the speed limit established by or pursuant to subsection (a) of K.S.A. 8-1558, and amendments thereto, or paragraph (2) of subsection (a) or subsection (b) of K.S.A. 8-1560, and amendments thereto.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-2002; L. 1975, ch. 39, § 33; L. 1975, ch. 427, § 52; L. 1996, ch. 15, § 8; Mar. 7.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-2003; L. 1975, ch. 427, § 53; Aug. 15.
(b) No local authority shall place or maintain any traffic-control device upon any highway under the jurisdiction of the secretary of transportation, except by the latter's permission.
(c) The secretary of transportation shall post signs informing motorists that conviction of a traffic infraction, which is defined as a moving violation in accordance with rules and regulations adopted pursuant to K.S.A. 8-249, and amendments thereto, committed within a road construction zone, as defined in K.S.A. 8-1458a, shall result in a fine which is double the fine listed in the uniform fine schedule in K.S.A. 8-2118, and amendments thereto.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-2004; L. 1975, ch. 426, § 50; L. 1994, ch. 220, § 9; April 21.
(b) Local authorities in exercising those functions referred to in subsection (a) shall be subject to the direction and control of the secretary of transportation with respect to highways and streets designated by the secretary as connecting links in the state highway system.
(c) In townships located in Douglas, Johnson, Riley, Shawnee and Sedgwick counties, the township board shall place and maintain traffic-control devices, other than regulatory signs, on township roads under the board's jurisdiction. In addition, such township board shall place and maintain regulatory signs on township roads under the board's jurisdiction consistent with resolutions of the board of county commissioners of the county in which the township road is located. For this purpose, a regulatory sign is a sign setting forth a regulation, the violation of which subjects the operator of the motor vehicle to fine, imprisonment, or both.
Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as precluding the board of county commissioners from placing and maintaining traffic-control devices on township roads, if the board determines that traffic-control devices or signs placed by a township are inadequate, but the board of county commissioners shall have no obligation to do so.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-2005; L. 1975, ch. 427, § 54; L. 2003, ch. 87, § 1; July 1.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-2006; L. 1975, ch. 39, § 34; L. 1975, ch. 427, § 55; Aug. 15.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-2007; L. 1975, ch. 427, § 56; Aug. 15.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-2008; L. 1975, ch. 39, § 35; L. 1975, ch. 427, § 57; Aug. 15.
(b) Any officer or employee of any school district who violates any of the rules and regulations or fails to include obligation to comply with such rules and regulations in any contract executed on behalf of a school district shall be guilty of misconduct and subject to removal from office or employment. Any person operating a school bus under contract with a school district who fails to comply with any of the rules and regulations shall be guilty of breach of contract and such contract shall be canceled after notice and hearing by the responsible officers of such school district.
(c) The provisions of this section shall be subject to the provisions contained in K.S.A. 8-2009a, and amendments thereto.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-2009; L. 1975, ch. 426, § 51; L. 1976, ch. 40, § 10; L. 1994, ch. 201, § 5; July 1.
(b) The state board of education is authorized to establish the procedure to be followed when request for approval of any such school bus is submitted under this section. The approval shall be in writing and a copy of the written approval shall be carried in the school bus at all times, but failure to carry such copy of the written approval shall not affect the status of the school bus as an approved school bus. The state board of education shall maintain a list of all such school buses which have been approved by the board.
History: L. 1976, ch. 40, § 11; L. 1994, ch. 201, § 6; L. 1997, ch. 133, § 3; July 1.
(b) Any vehicle designated as an authorized emergency vehicle prior to the effective date of this act, may continue to operate as an authorized emergency vehicle, as long as: (1) The ownership of such vehicle remains unchanged; and (2) the use of such vehicle for purposes for which such vehicle was designated remains unchanged, except that all future operation of such vehicle as an authorized emergency vehicle shall be in accordance with this section and such other applicable provisions of law.
(c) The following vehicles shall not be required to be designated by the board of county commissioners as authorized emergency vehicles:
(1) Fire department vehicles or police vehicles which are publicly owned;
(2) motor vehicles operated by ambulance services permitted by the emergency medical services board under the provisions of K.S.A. 65-6101 et seq., and amendments thereto; and
(3) wreckers, tow trucks or car carriers, as defined by K.S.A. 66-1329, and amendments thereto, and having a certificate of public service from the state corporation commission.
(d) Any vehicle designated under the provisions of this section, as an authorized emergency vehicle in the county in which such vehicle is located, shall be a valid designation of such vehicle in any other county and such vehicle shall be authorized to operate as an authorized emergency vehicle without being required to obtain any additional designation in any other county.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-2010; L. 1975, ch. 427, § 58; L. 1992, ch. 141, § 4; L. 1993, ch. 199, § 2; L. 1996, ch. 180, § 3; L. 2003, ch. 61, § 3; July 1.
(2) if a partnership, by a member of the partnership or an authorized agent; or
(3) if a corporation or municipality, by an officer or authorized agent of the corporation or municipality.
(b) The following vehicles, upon approval by the board of county commissioners, may be designated as emergency vehicles:
(1) Civil defense vehicles;
(2) emergency vehicles operated by public utilities;
(3) the privately owned vehicles of firefighters or volunteer firefighters;
(4) the privately owned vehicles of police officers; or
(5) any other vehicle, when it is determined by the board of county commissioners that such designation is necessary to the preservation of life or property or carrying out of emergency governmental functions.
History: L. 1992, ch. 141, § 1; L. 1993, ch. 199, § 3; L. 1996, ch. 180, § 4; L. 2003, ch. 61, § 4; July 1.
History: L. 1992, ch. 141, § 2; L. 1993, ch. 199, § 4; July 1.
(b) The provisions of this section shall be part of and supplemental to the uniform act regulating traffic on highways.
History: L. 2003, ch. 61, § 1; July 1.
(b) When the secretary of transportation or any local authority determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that such a traffic hazard exists, the secretary or such local authority shall notify the owner and order that the hazard be removed within ten (10) days.
(c) The failure of the owner to remove such traffic hazard within ten (10) days shall constitute an offense punishable by a penalty of ten dollars ($10) and every day said owner shall fail to remove it shall be a separate and distinct offense.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-2011; L. 1975, ch. 427, § 59; Aug. 15.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-2012; July 1.