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 labelled on a map of the City of Potwin 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 1990)

Any conductor, engineer, or other person who shall move any railroad train or locomotive across or within the right of way of any street in the city, at a greater rate of speed than 25 miles per hour, shall, upon conviction, be fined any sum not exceeding $25; and each run through or within the city shall constitute a separate offense.

(Ord. 404, Sec. 1; Code 1990)

It is unlawful for the directing officer or operator of any railroad train to direct the operation of or to operate a railroad train in such a manner as to prevent the use of any street in the city, for the purpose of travel for a period of time longer than five minute, except that this provision shall not apply to trains or cars in motion, except those engaged in switching.

(Ord. 404, Sec.2; Code 1990)

(a)   It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to park any truck with a registered gross weight exceeding 12,000 pounds, or any bus, recreational vehicle, trailer, truck tractor, semi-trailer, or the trailer component thereof, regardless of weight, upon any street or alley within a residential district in the City of Potwin, Kansas, except as provided in subsection (b).

(b)   The prohibition set forth in subsection (a) shall not apply to:

(1)   Public utility trucks.

(2)   Any truck, bus, recreational vehicle, trailer, truck tractor, semi-trailer or the trailer components thereof, may be parked on any street or alley within a residential district in the City of Potwin, Kansas, for so long as may be reasonably necessary to make deliveries of cargo therefrom to stores, residences or business establishments in said city, or to load cargo into such trailers from said premises for delivery elsewhere.

(3)   An exception of eight (8) hours shall apply to the parking of trucks, buses, recreational vehicles, trailers, truck trailers, semi-trailers, or the trailer components thereof, in case of breakdown or emergency necessitation such parking.

(c)   Residential district is defined as the territory contiguous to and including a street or alley not comprising a business district when the property on such street or alley for a distance of 200 feet or more is in the main improved with residences or residences and buildings not in use for business.

(d)   Every person, firm or corporation convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this section shall, for the first conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00), or by imprisonment of not more than ten (10) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and for a subsequent conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment of not more than twenty (20) days or by both such fine and imprisonment; upon a third conviction such person shall be punishable by a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by imprisonment of not more than six (6) months or by both such fine and imprisonment. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that each day of violation constitutes a new and separate offense.

(Ord. 690; Code 2022)