Kansas legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Kansas HB2124: Providing cities the authority to allow the driving of golf carts upon sidewalks and permitting local authorities with jurisdiction over city residence districts to reduce the maximum speed limit from 30 miles per hour to 25 miles per hour without an engineering and traffic investigation
Status: Signed into law, April 9, 2026
What the bill says
An act concerning traffic regulations; providing cities the authority to allow the driving of golf carts upon sidewalks; permitting local authorities with jurisdiction over residence districts to reduce the maximum speed limit from 30 miles per hour to 25 miles per hour in their respective residence districts without an engineering and traffic investigation; amending K.S.A. 8-1560 and 8-1575 and repealing the existing sections.
From the enrolled text, April 9, 2026:
AN ACT concerning traffic regulations; providing cities the authority to allow the driving of golf carts upon sidewalks; permitting local authorities with jurisdiction over residence districts to reduce the maximum speed limit from 30 miles per hour to 25 miles per hour in their respective residence districts without an engineering and traffic investigation; amending K.S.A. 8-1560 and 8-1575 and repealing the existing sections. Section 1. K.S.A. 8-1560 is hereby amended to read as follows: 81560. (a) Whenever local authorities in their respective jurisdictions determine on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that the maximum speed permitted is greater or less than is reasonable and safe under the conditions found to exist upon a highway or part of a highway, the local authority may determine and declare a reasonable and safe maximum limit thereon which (2) increases the limit within an urban district but does not to exceed the maximum speed of 65 miles per hour; (3) decreases the limit outside an urban district, but not to not less than 20 miles per hour, except as authorized by K.S.A. 8-1560a, and amendments thereto; (4) decreases the limit within an urban district in a school zone to not less than 20 miles per hour, except that any such decreased limit shall apply only during the hours in which students are …