§ 35-39. Rules and regulations.

(a)

The traffic engineer or the chief of police may make and enforce temporary regulations to cover emergencies or special conditions, signs being properly posted, which shall be effective for the period of the duration of such emergency or special condition and no longer.

(b)

The traffic engineer may make permanent regulations necessary to make effective the traffic ordinances of the city, make permanent regulations otherwise regulating or controlling traffic when necessary or advisable, post signs, place and remove traffic-control devices and signals, conduct investigations of traffic conditions, plan the operation of traffic on the streets and highways of the city, and test traffic-control devices under actual conditions of traffic, except the director of parking control shall make regulations designating and supervising parking zones, parking zone rates, parking meter zones, parking meter rates, and shall regulate them in conformity to the provisions of article XII of this chapter.

(c)

The traffic engineer and the director of parking control shall keep a record of all regulations adopted by them under the power and authority granted by this section. Such regulations shall also be filed with the unified government clerk. The traffic engineer and the director of parking control, in making such regulations, except emergency regulations and regulations covering special occasions, shall give notice to the public by publishing the regulations once in the official newspaper of the unified government. The regulations shall become effective five days after the date of such publication.

(Code 1964, § 36-8; Code 1988, § 35-31; Ord. No. 53410, § 1, 1-7-1975; Ord. No. 64514, § 1, 8-18-1983; Ord. No. 65069, § 3, 10-16-1986)

State law reference

Municipal authority to adopt temporary or experimental regulations, K.S.A. 8-2002(a)(22).