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HOUSE BILL No. 2124
AN ACT concerning traffic regulations; providing cities the authority to allow the driving
of golf carts upon sidewalks; permitting local authorities with jurisdiction over
residence districts to reduce the maximum speed limit from 30 miles per hour to 25
miles per hour in their respective residence districts without an engineering and
traffic investigation; amending K.S.A. 8-1560 and 8-1575 and repealing the existing
sections.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 8-1560 is hereby amended to read as follows: 8-
1560. (a) Whenever local authorities in their respective jurisdictions
determine on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that
the maximum speed permitted is greater or less than is reasonable and
safe under the conditions found to exist upon a highway or part of a
highway, the local authority may determine and declare a reasonable
and safe maximum limit thereon which that:
(1) Decreases the limit at intersections;
(2) increases the limit within an urban district but does not to
exceed the maximum speed of 65 miles per hour;
(3) decreases the limit outside an urban district , but not to not less
than 20 miles per hour, except as authorized by K.S.A. 8-1560a, and
amendments thereto;
(4) decreases the limit within an urban district in a school zone to
not less than 20 miles per hour, except that any such decreased limit
shall apply only during the hours in which students are normally en
route to or from school ,. Such zones and hours to shall be determined
by ordinance or resolution of such local authority; or
(5) decreases the limit within any residence district , but not to not
less than 20 miles per hour.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (h), local authorities in their
respective jurisdictions may determine by an engineering and traffic
investigation the proper maximum speed for all arterial streets and shall
declare a reasonable and safe maximum limit thereon which that may
be greater or less than the maximum speed permitted under this act for
an urban district or other location in which the arterial street is situated,
except that in no event shall any local authority establish any such
maximum limit in excess of 65 miles per hour.
(c) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (4) of subsection
(a)(4), any altered limit established as authorized shall be effective at
all times or during hours of darkness or at other times as may be
determined when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected
upon such street or highway.
(d) Any alteration of maximum limits on city connecting links
shall not be effective until such alteration has been approved by the
secretary of transportation.
(e) If local authorities in their respective jurisdictions have
established a speed limit within any residence district which that is less
than 30 miles per hour, prior to the effective date of this act, such speed
limit shall be deemed valid and shall not require an engineering and
traffic investigation.
(f) Local authorities in their respective jurisdictions may establish
the speed limit within a road construction zone, as defined in K.S.A. 8-
1458a, and amendments thereto, upon any highway under the
jurisdiction of such local authorities.
(g) The provisions of K.S.A. 8-1560b, and amendments thereto,
shall apply to the limitations on speed limits provided by subsection (a)
of this section.
(h) Local authorities who have jurisdiction over county or
township highways may determine, based on an engineering and traffic
investigation or without an engineering and traffic investigation, the
proper maximum speed for such county or township highways and
shall declare a reasonable and safe maximum limit thereon which that
may be greater or less than the maximum speed permitted under this
act, except that in no event shall any local authority establish any such
maximum limit in excess of 65 miles per hour.
(i) Local authorities who have jurisdiction over city residence
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districts may reduce the maximum speed limit in their respective
residence districts from 30 miles per hour to 25 miles per hour without
the engineering and traffic investigation required by subsection (a).
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 8-1575 is hereby amended to read as follows: 8-
1575. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), no person
shall drive any vehicle upon a sidewalk or sidewalk area except upon a
permanent or duly authorized temporary driveway.
(b) The governing body of any city is hereby authorized, by
ordinance duly passed, to allow for the driving of a golf cart upon a
sidewalk, as defined in K.S.A. 8-1495, and amendments thereto, if the
driver of the golf cart is a person 16 years of age or older and holds a
valid class C driver's license and the street or highway adjacent to the
sidewalk prohibits the operation of golf carts pursuant to K.S.A. 8-
15,108, and amendments thereto.
Sec. 3. K.S.A. 8-1560 and 8-1575 are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
I hereby certify that the above BILL originated in the HOUSE, and was
adopted by that body
HOUSE adopted
Conference Committee Report
Speaker of the House.
Chief Clerk of the House.
Passed the SENATE
as amended
SENATE adopted
Conference Committee Report
President of the Senate.
Secretary of the Senate.
APPROVED
Governor.