Title 2 - Administration and Personnel

2.33.285 Definitions

The definitions within K.S.A. 12-4113, and amendments thereto, shall apply when the words or phrases defined therein are used in this Chapter, except where this Section or another Section in this Chapter provides a different definition or a particular context clearly requires a different meaning. In addition, the following words and phrases whenever used in this Chapter shall be understood as defined in this Section except where a different definition in the Code clearly applies or a particular context clearly requires a different meaning:

Administrative Function means the establishment and maintenance of adequate fiscal, personnel, clerical, and administrative policies and procedures for the efficient functioning of the municipal court, including but not limited to:

1. i.
   Responsibility for all personnel and administrative matters involving all municipal court employees, to include providing the necessary direction and supervision regarding compliance with the direction of the municipal court judges relating to the administration of the Judicial Function of the municipal court.
2. ii.
   Responsibility to the presiding judge of the municipal court for the implementation of the policies of the municipal court with respect to the Judicial Functions of the municipal court.
3. iii.
   Issuing all process of the municipal court, administer oaths, file and preserve all papers, docket cases and set the same for trial and performing such further acts as may be necessary to carry out the duties, responsibilities, and administration of the municipal court.
4. iv.
   Collecting, receiving, accounting for, and paying to appropriate City or State official monthly all fines, costs, fees, and forfeited bonds paid into the municipal court or assessed as part of a judgment.
5. v.
   Making reports to the judicial administrator of the State of Kansas and furnishing the information when requested by the judicial administrator or a departmental justice on such forms furnished by the judicial administrator, and approved by the Kansas Supreme Court.
6. vi.
   Providing direct supervision to offenders as set forth in sentencing orders or diversion agreements; meeting with offenders to ensure compliance regarding education, treatment, fines, jail and other requirements; and performing such other duties as the City Manager or their designee may deem appropriate.
7. vii.
   Responsibility for the security, safety and orderly function of the municipal court.
8. viii.
   Enforcing and serving court orders and processes, maintaining public order in the court operations and facilities, protecting the court and its officers in the exercise of their Judicial Functions, and executing all orders issued or made by lawful authority of the municipal court and the municipal court judges.
9. ix.
   Making arrests or otherwise taking persons into custody; detaining or otherwise restraining persons; carrying firearms, concealed or otherwise; serving process; or exercising any other lawful power necessary to execute or enforce municipal court orders or performing duties as specified in this Chapter or as those duties might be determined by the City Manager or their designee or the municipal court judges.

City Officer means those individuals designated as a City Officer by the City Manager or pursuant to O.P.M.C. Chapter 2.66. Said officers shall have the authority to investigate violations of City ordinances, order compliance, and issue complaints and notices to appear.

Complaint means a sworn written statement, or a written statement by a law enforcement officer or City Officer, of the essential facts constituting a violation of an ordinance.

Confinement, confine, imprisonment or imprison means any restrained environment in which the court and law enforcement agency intend to retain custody and control of the accused person including, but not limited to any adult detention center, a juvenile detention center as allowed by law, house arrest, assignment to a community corrections residential center or any other environment approved by the City. 

Judicial Function means a municipal court judge or presiding judge’s exercise of the powers set forth in O.P.M.C. Section 2.33.290.

(History:  Ord. No. MCC-3463 §1, 2024)

Effective on: 1/5/2025