There is hereby incorporated by reference for the purpose of regulating public offenses within the corporate limits of the City of Belleville, Kansas, that certain code known as the “Uniform Public Offense Code”, 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. A copy of said Uniform Public Offense Code shall be marked or stamped “Official Copy as Adopted by Ordinance 1060”, 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 said ordinance, and filed with City Clerk to be open to inspection and available to the public at all reasonable hours.

(Ord. 960; Code 2016; Ord. 984; Ord. 992; Ord. 1008; Code 2021; Ord. 1037; Ord. 1050; Ord. 1060)

Section 10.13 of the Uniform Public Offense Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

BARBED WIRE OR ELECTRIFIED WIRE. It shall be unlawful for any person to construct, set up or maintain barbed wire or barbed wire fence or electrified wire or electrified wire fence or enclosure within the city.

Violation of this section is a Class C violation.

(Ord. 960; Code 2016; Ord. 984; Ord. 1008; Code 2021; Ord. 1037; Ord. 1050; Ord. 1060)

Section 10.6 (a) of the Uniform Public Offense Code is hereby changed to read as follows:

       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, in a manner so as to allow a projectile shot or discharged from any such device to leave the property on which it was discharged.

(Ord. 1037; Ord. 1050; Ord. 1060)