Chapter 14 · Traffic

Article 1. Standard Traffic Ordinance

Sections 14-101 to 14-104 · 4 sections

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 Hesston, Kansas, that certain standard traffic ordinance known as the Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas Cities (53^rd Edition) prepared and published in book form by the League of Kansas Municipalities in 2026, save and except such article, sections, parts or portions as are hereafter omitted, deleted, modified or changed, such incorporation being authorized by K.S.A. 12-3009 through 12-3012, inclusive, as amended. No fewer than three (3) copies of the STO shall be marked or stamped “Official Copy as adopted by Ordinance No. 020-2026-192” 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 section and filed with the City Clerk to be open to inspection and available to the public at all reasonable hours.

(Ord. 020-2023-185; Ord. 020-2024-187; Ord. 020-2025-189; Ord. 020-2026-192)

14-102 Same; 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.

(Ord. 020-1989-047, Sec. 2)

14-103 Same; 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 $10.00 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 $500.00.

(Code 1991)

14-104 Same; amendment.

Section 51 of the Standard Traffic Ordinance is hereby amended to read as follows:

The driver of any vehicle shall not turn the vehicle so as to proceed in the opposite direction or to enter a parking space on the side of the street opposite that in which he or she is traveling on any street which shall be marked with a double yellow line.

(Ord. 020-1978-020)