There is hereby incorporated by reference for the purpose of public offenses within the corporate limits of the City of Marysville, Kansas, that certain code known as the “Uniform Public Offense Code for Kansas Cities,” Edition of 2023, prepared and published in book form by the League of Kansas Municipalities, Topeka, Kansas, save and except such articles, sections, parts or portions as are hereafter omitted, deleted, modified or changed. No fewer than three copies of the Uniform Public Offense Code shall be marked or stamped “Official Copy as Adopted by Ordinance No. 1922,” with all sections or portions thereof intended to be omitted or changed clearly marked to show any such omission or change and to which shall be attached a copy of this article or said ordinance, and filed with the City Clerk to be open to inspection and available to the public at all reasonable hours.

(Ord. 1865; Code 2020; Ord. 1901; Ord. 1909; Ord. 1922)

The following paragraphs of Uniform Public Offense Code are changed to read as follows:

(a)   9.5. MAINTAINING PUBLIC NUISANCE.

Maintaining a public nuisance is by act, or by failure to perform a legal duty, intentionally causing or permitting a condition to exist which injures or endangers the public health, safety and welfare. See Chapter 8, Health and Welfare, of the Code of the City of Marysville as it relates to nuisances.

(b)   10.13. BARBED WIRE.

It shall be unlawful for any person to construct, set up or maintain any barbed wire or barbed wire fence or enclosure within the city, except after application to the Zoning Administrator and good cause is shown that such fencing is necessary for protection of property and/or person.

(Code 2011)