ARTICLE 2. SCOPE OF ORDINANCE

Sec. 2. Provisions of Ordinance Refer to Vehicles Upon the Streets and Highways; Exceptions.

The provisions of this ordinance relating to the operation of vehicles refer exclusively to the operation of vehicles upon streets and highways within this city except:

(a) Where a different place is specifically referred to in a given section; and

(b) The provisions of Sections 29 to 31, inclusive, of this ordinance, and the provisions of Article 10 of Chapter 8 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, shall apply upon streets and highways and elsewhere throughout the city.

(K.S.A. Supp. 8-1501)

Sec. 3. Emergency, Temporary and

Experimental Regulations. The chief of police or city traffic engineer is hereby empowered to make regulations necessary to make effective the provisions of this and other traffic ordinances of the city, to establish no parking zones on special occasions to expedite traffic or for safety purposes, signs being properly posted, to make and enforce temporary or experimental regulations to cover emergencies or special conditions or to determine the advisability of permanent regulations for recommendation to the governing body, and test traffic-control devices under actual conditions of traffic. No temporary or experimental regulation shall remain in force for more than 90 days.

(K.S.A. 8-2001; 8-2002, as amended)

Sec. 4. Authority of Police.

Police officers of the city shall at all times be empowered to enforce the provisions of this and other traffic ordinances of this city and temporary and emergency rules and regulations of the chief of police, and may at any time direct and control traffic in person or by visible or audible signals: provided, that in the event of fire, temporary traffic congestion or other emergency, or to expedite the flow of traffic or to safeguard pedestrians, officers may direct traffic as conditions require notwithstanding the provisions of this ordinance and other traffic ordinances.

(K.S.A. 8-2001; 8-2002)