CHARTER RESOLUTION NO. 20
A CHARTER RESOLUTION prohibiting the use of county roadways under the jurisdiction and control of the Board of Commissioners, Rush County, Kansas, by commercial trucks, commercial buses and other commercial vehicles;
WHEREAS, it has been determined by the Board of Commissioners, Rush County, Kansas, that commercial trucks, commercial buses and other commercial motor vehicles use roadways under the jurisdiction and control of the Board of Commissioners, Rush County; and
WHEREAS, roadways under the jurisdiction and control of the Board of Commissioners, Rush County, Kansas, are not roadways compatible with the normal and safe movement of such commercial trucks, commercial buses and other commercial motor vehicles.
NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to provisions of K.S.A. 8-1912 the Board of Commissioners, Rush County, Kansas resolve as follows;
1. It shall be unlawful for any commercial truck, commercial bus or other commercial motor vehicle to use any roadway located in Rush County, Kansas, under the jurisdiction and control of the Board of Rush County Commissioners.
2. Official traffic signs giving notice of the regulation shall be erected and places at appropriate entrances to said roadways.
3. It shall be as defense to a prosecution for violation of this charter resolution, that the commercial truck, commercial bus or other commercial motor vehicles, at the time of operation on said roadways, and either a point of origin or a destination located within the confines of Rush County, Kansas.
4. The term “COMMERCIAL” as used in this charter resolution shall mean the hauling of goods or passengers for hire.
5. Any person convicted of a violation of this charter resolution shall be sentenced to a period of not more than thirty (30) days in the Rush County Jail or shall be assessed a fine of not more than $500.00 or shall be sentenced to a combination of such fine and imprisonment.
6. This charter resolution shall be published once each week for two (2) consecutive weeks in the official county newspaper.
7. This charter resolution shall take effect sixty (60) days after final publication unless it is submitted to a referendum, as set forth in K.S.A. 19-101B, in which event it shall take effect when approved by a majority of the electors voting hereon.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Commissioners, Rush County, Kansas this 10th day of April, 2005.
SEAL
ATTEST:
Barbara Matal, County Clerk