Ord. 685 UPOC

CITY OF TROY, KANSAS

ORDINANCE NO. 685

AN ORDINANCE REGULATING PUBLIC OFFENSES WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF TROY, KANSAS; INCORPORATING BY REFERENCE THE “UNIFORM PUBLIC OFFENSE CODE FOR KANSAS CITIES, EDITION OF 2014; AMENDING SECTION 13.1 OF THE UNIFORM PUBLIC OFFENSE CODE FOR KANSAS CITIES, EDITION OF 2014; AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 679 AND ALL OTHER ORDINANCES PREVIOUSLY ENACTED BY THE CITY OF TROY RELATIVE TO OFFENSES SPECIFICALLY SPOKEN TO IN THIS ORDINANCE.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF TROY, KANSAS:

SECTION 1. There is hereby incorporated by reference for the purpose of regulating public offenses within the corporate limits of the City of Troy, Kansas, that certain code known as the “Uniform Public Offense Code”, Edition of 2014, prepared and published in book form by the League of Kansas Municipalities, Topeka, Kansas. No fewer than three copies of said Uniform Public Offense Code shall be marked or stamped “Official copy as adopted by Ordinance No. 685”, 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 hours.

SECTION 2. Section 13.1 of the aforesaid Uniform Public Offense Code is hereby amended to provide as follows:

“APPLICATION; KANSAS CRIMINAL CODE AND

LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS OF KANSAS

DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND PARKS. The

provisions of the Kansas Criminal Code (K.S.A. Supp. 21-

5101 K.S.A. Supp. 21-6712 inclusive and amendments thereto)

and the provisions of K.S.A. 32-1011 declaring certain acts

to be unlawful, which are in their nature applicable

to the jurisdiction of the city and in respect to which no

special provision is made by ordinance of the City are

applicable to this Uniform Public Offense Code.”

SECTION 3. Ordinance No. 679 of the City of Troy and all other ordinances heretofore adopted by the City of Troy, Kansas which speak to matters specifically addressed in this ordinance are hereby repealed and replaced with the provisions of this Ordinance.

SECTION 4. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in The Kansas Chief, the official city newspaper.

Passed by the governing body of the City of Troy, Kansas, the 7th day of October, 2014.

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Robert D. Jenkins, Mayor

ATTEST:

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Jane M. Boeh, City Clerk

(SEAL)