There is hereby incorporated by reference for the purpose of regulating traffic within the corporate limits of the City of Sylvia, Kansas, that certain standard traffic ordinance known as the “Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas Cities”, Edition of 2024, prepared and published in electronic form by the League of Kansas Municipalities, Topeka, Kansas. One copy of said Standard Traffic Ordinance shall be marked or stamped “Official Copy as Adopted by Ordinance No. 390,” and to which shall be attached a copy of said ordinance, and filed with the city clerk to be open to inspection and available to the public at all reasonable hours. The police department, municipal judge, and all administrative departments of the city charged with enforcement of the ordinance shall be supplied, at the cost of the city, such number of official copies of such Standard Traffic Ordinance similarly marked, as may be deemed expedient.

(Ord. 390; Ord. 405; Code 2025)

(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.

(a)   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. 390; Code 2025)

The fine for violation of an ordinance traffic infraction or any other traffic offense in 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 a violation of an ordinance traffic offense in which a fine has been established in a schedule of fines shall pay a fine fixed by the court not to exceed $500.00 along with court fees of $94.50.

(Ord. 390; Ord. 400; Code 2025)