The Standard Traffic Ordinance as adopted is hereby modified by adding thereto the following:

The governing body may, by resolution, establish and fix the location of such traffic control devices as may be deemed necessary to guide and warn traffic under the provisions of this chapter, other traffic ordinances and the state laws.  The city shall place and maintain such traffic control signs, signals and devices when and as may be required by the authority of the governing body to make effective the provisions of this chapter and other ordinances for the regulation of traffic.  Any official traffic control device placed pursuant to this section shall be marked and labeled on a map of the City of Hesston for the purpose of displaying all such traffic control devices and shall be filed with the city clerk to be open to inspection and available to the public at all reasonable hours of business.

(Code 1990)

(a)   The legal speed zone on Randall Street from the south line of Lincoln Boulevard to the east line of Ridge Road is hereby set at 35 m.p.h.

(b)   It shall be unlawful for any motor vehicle to exceed the limit of speed in the zone described in subsection (a).

(Ord. 020-1988-044, Secs. 1:2)

A “No Parking” zone is established on the south line of Randall Street beginning at the west line of South Lancaster Street and continuing west to the east line of College Drive. 

(Ord. 020-1989-046, Sec. 1)

A no truck-parking zone is hereby established on both sides of the six hundred (600) block of Plaza Boulevard in Hesston, Kansas.

(Ord. 020-2004-112; Code 2007)

It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to use or operate within the city any mechanical exhaust device designed to aid in the stopping or braking of a vehicle in a manner so as to create excess, loud, or unusual explosive noise from a vehicle. 

(Ord. 020-1998-086, Sec. 1; Code 2003)

It shall be unlawful to park a truck with a manufacturer’s rated capacity of over three-quarter ton (with the exception of a pick-up truck), or a bus, truck tractor, road tractor, farm tractor, trailer, semi-trailer, boat, boat trailer or camper trailer on any street in a residential district for a period of time longer than two hours, except that parking for a period of time longer than two hours is permitted when it is necessary for the loading or unloading of merchandise and a permit, issued by the police department, authorizing such parking is in possession of the operator or in the vehicle at the time the vehicle is parked for a period of time over two hours. Permits shall be issued for each time that over-parking is necessary. Such a permit shall be only upon a showing that traffic will not be obstructed or public safety endangered.

(Ord. 020-2006-120; Code 2007)

At such times as there shall be in force and effect a resolution of the Board of Education of USD No. 460 consenting to the traffic and parking regulations of the city being applicable to and enforceable upon improved portions of property owned by USD No. 460 which are provided for the operation and/or parking of vehicles as defined in the Standard Traffic Ordinance, then such private property shall thereafter be deemed to be under the traffic and parking regulations of the city, as provided by law, in addition to such regulations as by law are by their terms applicable to private property; provided, however, that such regulations shall not be enforceable on such property until there shall be posted at each entrance thereto a permanently lettered and clearly legible sign with a legend stating that the traffic and parking regulations of the city are enforced on such property.

(Ord. 020-2002-099, Sec. 1; Code 2003)