Ordinances and Resolutions
To view copies of ordinances referred in the City Code, please visit the Ordinances and Resolutions page.
2021 Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas Cities as modified by the City of Lawrence, KS.
Following are Ordinances of the City of Lawrence adopted prior to January 1, 2018.
Disclaimer: This online version of the City Code is provided for the public’s convenience. This is not the official version of the City Code. The official version of the Code of the City of Lawrence, January 1, 2018 edition, can be found in the Office of the City Clerk, 3rd floor, City Hall, 6 E 6th Street, Lawrence, Kansas. The online version may not include ordinances adopted after the above date. The City of Lawrence shall not be liable for any errors, inaccuracies or omissions of the information contained in the on-line version of the code.
Code of the City of Lawrence · 2018 Edition
- Chapter 1 – Administration (PDF, 219 KB)
- Chapter 2 – Airport (PDF, 25 KB)
- Chapter 3 – Regulation of Animals (PDF, 97 KB)
- Chapter 4 – Beverages (PDF, 85 KB)
- Chapter 5 – Building and Construction (PDF, 767 KB)
- Chapter 6 – Business Licenses, Taxes and Regulations (PDF, 390 KB)
- Chapter 7 – Department of Public Transit (PDF, 15 KB)
- Chapter 8 – Fire and Medical Department (PDF, 181 KB)
- Chapter 9 – Health and Sanitation (PDF, 301 KB)
- Chapter 10 – Human Relations (PDF, 134 KB)
- Chapter 11 – Mobile Home and Manufactured Housing Parks (PDF, 36 KB)
- Chapter 12 – Municipal Court (PDF, 18 KB)
- Chapter 13 – Police (PDF, 81 KB)
- Chapter 14 – Public Offenses (PDF, 183 KB)
- Chapter 15 – Public Property, Parks and Recreation (PDF, 28 KB)
- Chapter 16 – Streets, Sidewalks and Right-of-way (PDF, 278 KB)
- Chapter 17 – Traffic (PDF, 254 KB)
- Chapter 18 – Trees (PDF, 63 KB)
- Chapter 19 – Utilities (PDF, 298 KB)
- Chapter 20 – Land Development Code (PDF, 3.4 MB)
- Chapter 20, Article 8 – Subdivision Regulations (PDF, 598 KB)
- Chapter 21 – Smartcode (PDF, 8 KB)
- Chapter 22 – Conservation of Historic Resources Code (PDF, 1 MB)
- Appendix A – Charter Ordinances
- Appendix B – Franchise Agreements
- Index