After months of discussion, the Haysville City Council seemed to reach an agreement on the city’s sign ordinance at its Oct. 9 meeting.
A Kansas statute requires municipalities to allow the display of temporary political signs up to 45 days before an election. On Feb. 23, a bill repealing the Kansas statute passed 100-25 in the House of Representatives, but it died once it reached the Senate.
According to the Haysville Sun-Times, Haysville’s sign code is in conflict with the statue because it allows unlicensed, temporary signs to be displayed for up to 14 days before an election, but it doesn’t make an exception for political signs. Haysville’s city attorney proposed changing city sign code so that all temporary signs — both political and nonpolitical — can be displayed for 45 days during the pre-election periods outlined in state law.
This proposal would keep the city in line with the Kansas statue, as well as the “content-neutral” ruling from the Supreme Court.
(Read more: The Miami County Republic)