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Ordinance 24-11221 2024 Uniform Public Offense Code

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10/16/2024 5:01:00 PM

ORDINANCE NUMBER 24-11221

 

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 25, SECTION 25-1 OF THE UNIFORM PUBLIC OFFENSE CODE FOR KANSAS CITIES, 40th EDITION (2024); ADDING LOCAL AMENDMENTS TO THE 2024 UNIFORM PUBLIC OFFENSE CODE AND REPEALING EXISTING SECTION 25-1.

 

 

      BE IT ORDAINED by the Governing Body of the City of Salina, Kansas:

 

      Section 1. Amendment. Section 25-1 of the Salina Code is amended to read as follows:

 

Sec. 25-1.  INCORPORATING UNIFORM PUBLIC OFFENSE CODE.

 

(a) Incorporation by Reference. The Uniform Public Offense Code, 40th Edition (2024), published by the League of Kansas Municipalities, Topeka, Kansas, (the “Uniform Public Offense Code”) is adopted and incorporated by reference save and except such articles, sections, parts or portions as are hereafter omitted or amended. At least one copy of the Uniform Public Offense Code shall be marked or stamped “Official Copy as Adopted by Ordinance No. 24-11221,” with all sections or portions thereof intended to be omitted or amended clearly marked to show any such omission or amendment and to which shall be attached a copy of this ordinance, and filed with the city clerk to be open to inspection and available to the public at all reasonable business hours.

 

(b) Omissions.  Sections 6.14, 6.15, 6.16, 6.17, 7A.1, 7A.2, 7A.3, 7A.4, 9.9.3, 9.9.4, 9.9.6, 10.13, 10.18, 10.24, 10.25, 10.26, 11.3, and 11.15 of the Uniform Public Offense Code are hereby omitted.

 

(c) Amendment. Section 7.14 of the Uniform Public Offense Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

 

Sec. 7.14. Electioneering.

 

(a) (1) Electioneering is:

(A)       knowingly attempting to persuade or influence eligible voters to vote for or against a particular candidate, party or question submitted, including wearing, exhibiting or distributing labels, signs, posters, stickers or other materials that clearly identify a candidate in the election or clearly indicatessupport or opposition to a question submitted election within any polling place on election day or advance voting site during the time period allowed by law for casting a ballot by advance voting or within a radius of 250 feet from the entrance thereof; or 

(B)       if committed by a candidate:

          1. Touching or handling any voter’s ballot during the voting process;
          2. distributing ballots or counting ballots;
          3. hindering or obstructing any voter from voting or from entering and leaving the polling place; or
          4. hindering or obstructing any election board worker from performing election duties.

      (2)        Electioneering shall not include bumper stickers affixed to a motor vehicle that is used to transport voters to a polling place or to an advance voting site for the purpose of voting.

(b) The provisions of subsection (a)(1)(B) shall not apply to:

    1. The secretary of state, any election official or any counter election officer;
    2. a candidate for precinct committeeman or committeewoman who is employed by a county election office and is engaged in the performance of such employee’s duties;
    3. a candidate for any office not specified in paragraphs (1) or (2) who is employed by a county election office and is engaged in the performance of  such employee’s duties, if such employee does not appear as a candidate for office on any ballot such employee touches, handles, distributes or counts;  or
    4. a candidate transmitting or delivering an advance voting ballot in accordance with K.S.A. 25-2437(b) and amendments thereto.

(c) (1)   As used in this section, “advance voting site” means the central county election   office or satellite advance voting sites designated as such pursuant to subsection (c) of K.S.A. 25-1122, and amendments thereto, and adult care homes and         hospital based care units at the time of an election participating in the voting procedures in K.S.A. 2020 Supp. 25-2812, and amendments thereto.

     (2)   Candidate means an individual who has declared such individual’s candidacy pursuant to K.S.A. 25-205 et seq., and amendments thereto, or has been nominated for elected office pursuant to K.S.A. 25-301 et seq., and amendments thereto, in the     election for which the individual is charged with having violated the provisions of           this section.     

(d)       Electioneering is a Class C violation.

            (K.S.A. 25-2430)

 

(d)  Amendment. Section 9.1 of the Uniform Public Offense Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

 

      Sec. 9.1. Disorderly Conduct.

 

(a) Disorderly Conduct is one or more of the following acts that the person knows or should know will alarm, anger or disturb others or provoke an assault or other breach of the peace:

 

(1)        Brawling or fighting;

(2)        Disturbing an assembly, meeting or procession, not unlawful in its character;

(3)        Using fighting words; or

(4)      Willfully throwing, depositing or placing any substance upon any property in which another has an interest without the consent of such other person, when such action does not constitute criminal damage to property. 

                  Disorderly conduct is a Class C violation.

 

(e) Amendment.  Section 10.5 of the Uniform Public Offense Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

 

      Sec. 10.5. Unlawful Discharge of a Firearm.

 

      (a)        Unlawful discharge of a firearm is the reckless discharge of a firearm within or into the corporate limits of any city.          

      (b)        This section shall not apply to the discharge of any firearm within or into the corporate limits of any city if:

(1)        The firearm is discharged in the lawful defense of one’s person, another person or one’s property;

(2)        The firearm is discharged at a private or public shooting range;

(3)        The firearm is discharged to lawfully take wildlife unless prohibited by the department of wildlife and parks or the governing body of the city;

(4)        The firearm is discharged by authorized law enforcement officers, animal control officers or a person who has a wildlife control permit issued by the Kansas department of wildlife and parks;

(5)        The firearm is discharged by special permit of the chief of police or by the sheriff when the city has no police department;

(6)        The firearm is discharged using blanks;

(7)        The firearm is discharged in lawful self-defense or defense of another person against an animal attack (K.S.A. Supp. 26-6308a);

(8)        The firearm is discharged by a legitimate gunsmith in pursuit of his or her trade;

(9)        The firearm is discharged by the Executive Director of the Salina Airport Authority, or his designee, on Airport property for wildlife hazard reduction purposes pursuant to the Salina Municipal Airport Rules and Regulations.                             

                  Unlawful discharge of firearms is a Class B violation.

 

(f)  Amendment. Section 10.6 of the Uniform Public Offense Code is hereby amended toread as follows:

 

      Sec. 10.6.   Air Gun, Air Rifle, Bow and Arrow, Slingshot, BB Gun or Paintball Gun.             The unlawful operation of an air gun, air rifle, bow and arrow, slingshot, BB gun or paint  ball gun is the shooting, discharging or operating of any air gun, air rifle, bow and arrow, slingshot, BB gun or paint ball gun, within the city, except:

 

(a)        Within the confines of a building or other structure from which the projectiles cannot escape; or

(b)        Instructional programs relating to shooting, discharging, or operating an air gun, air rifle, paintball gun, BB gun, bow and arrow, or slingshot, administered under the supervision of either (1) the city, by permit, upon city park property or (2) an                           accredited educational institution upon appropriately zoned property owned by the educational institution.

      Unlawful operation of an air gun, air rifle, bow and arrow, slingshot, BB gun or paint ball gun is a Class C violation.

 

      Section 2.  Repealer.   Existing Section 25-1 is hereby repealed.

      Section 3.  Publication. The City Clerk shall cause this ordinance, as soon as practicable after it has been passed and signed, to be published on the City’s website as the designated official city newspaper.

      Section 4.  Effective date. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption and publication.

 

 

                                                                                          Passed:            October 14, 2024

 

                                                                                                      

 

                                                                                          Bill Longbine, Mayor


ATTEST: 

Jenifer Scheibler, Deputy City Clerk

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