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 Blue Rapids 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 1988; Code 2013)

No person shall drive a motor vehicle on 6th Street between Lincoln Street and East Avenue; on East Avenue from 5th to 6th Streets or on Chestnut Street from 5th to 6th Streets in the city, at a speed in excess of 15 miles per hour.

(Ord. 1219, Sec. 1; Code 2013)

(a)   No person shall park any semi-truck, tractor or semi-trailer singular or in combination, regardless of registered gross weight on any street within the city limits except for the limited purpose of loading or unloading and then in no event in excess of 24 hours without special permission from the city police department.

(b)   No person shall drive any vehicle with a gross weight in excess of 24,000 pounds on any street in the city except on the following identified streets:

(1)   Highway 9 and Highway 77;

(2)   Western Avenue from Highway 9 and Highway 77 south to the railroad tracks.

(3)   Gypsum Street from Highway 9 and Highway 77 south to 10th Street;

(4)   10th Street between Gypsum Street and Western Avenue;

(5)   South Genesee from Highway 9 and Highway 77 south to the alley located south of the Blue Rapids Cooperative Association;

(6)   Main Street from Highway 9 and Highway 77 south through the City of Blue Rapids;

(7)   11th Street commencing at the intersection of 11th and Genesee and continuing east to Old Irving Road and then to the city limits on the Old Irving Road;

(8)   7th Street between south Genesee and Sharp Street;

(9)   Florence Street between Genesee and the Public Circle;

(10) Nichols Street south of Highway 9 and Highway 77 to Florence Street;

(11) Yuron Street south of the Public Circle to 7th Street; and

(12) Sharp Street south of the Public Circle to 7th Street.

(c)   Any person convicted of a violation of the provisions of this article shall be punished by a fine not less than $10 nor more than $500 and shall be assessed as restitution the actual cost of repairing any damage caused by the violation hereof.

(Ord. 1835, Sec. 1:3; Code 2013)

(a)   Parking is to be prohibited at all times on certain streets. When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall at any time park a vehicle upon any of the following described streets or parts of streets:

       On the north and south side of Fifth Street from Nichols Street to North Street. This shall include all buses, trucks, cars, commercial vehicles, trailers and farm machinery. Except this shall not prohibit any authorized personnel responding to an emergency.

(b)   When necessary in the interest of public safety, health and general welfare, the city foreman and/or city marshal is authorized to limit any parking on any street within the corporate limits of the city for the purpose of snow removal, fire protection, traffic safety, road repair and construction.

(Ord. 1204, Sec. 1:2; Code 2013)

No person shall park any vehicle in a parking space either on public or private property which is clearly marked as being reserved for use of handicapped person or persons, unless vehicle bears a special license plate, permanent placard or temporary placard issued pursuant to K.S.A. 8-161 or K.S.A. 8-1,125 and amendments thereto. Further, the police chief shall be empowered to establish new Handicapped Parking Areas for a period of 90 days or until approved or disapproved by the governing body. The handicapped signs shall meet requirements of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and at the expense of the businessman or property owner. The governing body of the city shall designated and establish the following areas as Handicapped Parking Only.

(a)   Lot 33, Public Square.

(Code 2013)

(a)   Vehicles prohibited within certain streets and residential zones. No vehicle or part of such vehicle shall be parked or stored in the front yard area of any lot in a residential zone or the side area facing a street on a comer lot in a residential zone. Parking spaces are defined where non-vegetation/ non grass hard surface as brick, gravel, rock, asphalt, concrete, or equivalent material. Provided, however, this section shall not apply to vehicles parked on publicly owned or operated property, nor to currently licensed vehicles parked on permanently constructed driveways with a driveway curb cut within such front or side set-back area. Temporary exceptions can be given for moving and unloading items not to exceed 14 days.

(b)   Violation of any provision of this section shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and any person violating any such provision shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00).

(Ord. 2018)