(a) Truck routes. The governing body shall be authorized to designate and establish truck routes through the city for the use of trucks or other commercial vehicles. All such routes shall be marked by suitable signs to advise the traveling public of existence of such truck route or routes.
(b) Same; definition. For the purposes of this section, TRUCKS OR OTHER COMMERCIAL VEHICLES means any truck, pickup truck trailer, tractor or any vehicle whether self-propelled by an engine or motor or whether the same is towed behind or pushed ahead of a motor vehicle when such vehicle or combination of vehicles has a gross weight of 26,000 pounds or more, including, but not limited to, any construction equipment such as motor patrols or graders, bulldozers or caterpillar-type tractors. GROSS WEIGHT shall mean the total weight of any truck or trailer or any other combination of vehicles being towed or pushed by a similar propelling vehicle.
(c) Same; trucks and other commercial vehicles required to follow truck routes. From and after the designation of truck routes as provided by this section, every truck or other commercial vehicle, as defined in division (b) above, shall use and follow such prescribed route or routes while in the city and shall not use any residential street or other street, except those designated and marked as truck routes; provided that, when it may be necessary for any such vehicle to deliver or unload cargo or to load or receive cargo at any destination within the city and the same is not prohibited by ordinance, such vehicle may leave the truck route at the street intersection nearest to the place of the truck route by the most direct street to the truck route.
(d) Same; truck routes designated. For purposes of this section, the following streets and avenues of the city are hereby designated as truck routes:
(1) All of Railroad Avenue within the city limits; and
(2) All of Elm Avenue west of 6th Street/State Highway 4, within the city limits
(e) Same; traffic control devices and markings. 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 section. 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 section. Any official traffic control device placed pursuant to this section shall be marked and labeled on a map of the city 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.
(f) Same; traffic offenses.
(1) An ordinance traffic infraction is a violation of any section of this section that prescribes or requires the same behavior as the prescribed or required by a statutory provision that is classified as a traffic infraction in K.S.A. 8-2118.
(2) All traffic violations that are included within this section and are not ordinance traffic infractions, as defined in K.S.A. 8-2118, shall be considered traffic offenses.
(g) Same; penalty for scheduled fines.
(1) The governing body shall be authorized to designate and establish a fine for the violation of a traffic offense under this section.
(2) The fine for violation of a traffic offense under this section shall be not less than $50, nor more than $500. A person tried and convicted for violation of an ordinance traffic offense shall pay a fine fixed by the court not to exceed $500.
(Ord. 2021-02, passed 8-9-2021)