SCHOOL ZONE SAFETY
Kenosha Police
Department
PARKING TICKET
PAYMENT METHODS
1) CREDIT CARD
If you wish to pay by telephone or internet using
VISA, Master Card or DISCOVER, please call
(866) 353-7144 or log on to
https://www.kenosha.org/departments/police/public-
information/parking-ticket-information. A
convenience fee will be applied for each citation paid.
2) MAIL (DO NOT MAIL CASH)
Make a check or money order payable to the City of
Kenosha and write the ticket number and vehicle
license plate number on the check or money order.
Include your name and address on the envelope. Use
the envelope provided and mail to:
City of Kenosha Police Department Citation
Processing Center
P.O. Box 3214
Milwaukee, WI 53201-3214
3) DROP BOX (DO NOT DEPOSIT CASH)
Payment may be made by utilizing the 24-hour drop
boxes located on 10th Avenue, outside the Public
Safety Building, (1000 55th Street) or inside the Safety
Building at the Police Department counter. No
postage stamp is required. The Police Department
does not make change or issue payment receipts, so
payment by check or money order are required.
Payments from the drop boxes are forwarded to the
payment center the next business day.
Please Note:
If you wish to contest a parking ticket, please call
(866)353-7144 within 10 days of the citation date.
Wisconsin Department of Transportation will
suspend your vehicle registration and refuse
renewal of any of your vehicles if you fail to pay or
contest this citation in court within forty (40) days
from citation date. Illegally parked vehicles with
tickets over 30 days old may be towed at the
vehicle owner’s expense.
ADULT SCHOOL CROSSING GUARDS
Where there is an adult crossing
guard at a crosswalk, you have to
obey the crossing guard’s directions.
While driving or bicycling on the
street:
· Stop when directed by the crossing guard.
· Stop no closer than 10 feet from the crossing
guard.
· Do not block a crosswalk or intersection.
· Stay stopped until the pedestrians and the cross-
ing guard have reached the curb, and stay stopped
until the crossing guard has dropped their stop
sign. This is your direction to proceed.
When walking or bicycling to school, always cross
with the adult school crossing guard when one is
present. Student walkers and bicyclists and their
parents should remain on the sidewalk until the
crossing guard has stopped all traffic and gives you a
verbal okay to cross. Bicyclists crossing with the
adult crossing guard should dismount and walk across
the street.
TIPS FOR DRIVERS
· Slow down in school zones.
· Expect increased traffic in and around school
zones and allow extra time for dropping and
picking up your kids.
· Do not park in areas posted with “No Parking”
signs.
· Be alert, children are unpredictable and are likely
to dart between cars or forget to look both ways
before crossing in front of vehicles.
· Obey crossing guards, safety patrol and police
personnel.
· Do not text or talk on the phone while driving.
SCHOOL ZONE SAFETY AND PARKING
ENFORCEMENT
The City of Kenosha frequently receives requests
from parents, neighbors, and school officials
concerned about children’s safety near schools.
Traffic signs around school property are placed to
direct motorists, pedestrians, and bicyclists, and
provide separate spaces for motorists and buses to
drop children off at the school.
The Police and Community Service Officers of the
Kenosha Police Department visit schools throughout
the year to enforce correct parking and increase
safety for kids attending school.
If you are not complying with the parking
requirement, be prepared to receive a parking
ticket. Citations do not have to be issued on
scene. You could receive a citation in the mail
for a violation that was witnessed by one of our
officers.
As it is not practical for schools to provide enough
parking for everyone, it is the driver’s responsibility
to park their car legally and to help ease parking
issues and keep the school’s students safe.
NO STOPPING
STANDING OR PARKING
and related signs are used where it
is illegal to stop or leave standing
any vehicle.
In these areas, you may not drop a child off, pick
a child up, wait in your car or park your car.
NO PARKING ON SCHOOL DAYS
and related signs indicate areas where you
may stop and unload passengers but may
not leave your vehicle unattended. These
signs are used in areas where parents can
drop off or pick up their children near
schools.
In these areas, you must be actively
engaged in loading or unloading your child.
State laws prohibit Stopping, Standing, or Parking in
the following areas all the time, whether or not there
are signs indicating these restrictions.
Stopping, Standing or Parking are prohibited:
¨ Within an intersection.
¨ On a crosswalk.
¨ On a sidewalk or sidewalk area.
¨ On the roadway side of any parked vehicle
(double parking) .
¨ Anywhere else stopping, standing or parking is
prohibited, limited or restricted by official traffic
signs.
Parking is prohibited:
¨ In a loading zone.
¨ Within 10 feet of a fire hydrant.
¨ Within 4 feet of the entrance to an alley or a
private road or driveway.
¨ Within 15 feet of a crosswalk.
¨ Anywhere else parking is
prohibited, limited or restricted by
official traffic signs.
SCHOOL ADVANCE WARNING
Signs are placed in advance of school grounds and
may be placed in advance of crosswalks children use
on their way to and from school. These signs are
intended to remind motorists that a school is nearby.
You need to watch for children, slow
down and be prepared to stop when
children are present, and yield to children
crossing the street at crosswalks.
SCHOOL SPEED LIMIT
The speed limit on a street adjacent to a
school, and at any school crossing, is set
by State Statute at 15 mph unless posed otherwise.
This speed limit applies whenever children are
playing within the sidewalk area or are near the
school, or at an intersection or mid-block crosswalk
marked with a School Crossing sign.
This reduced speed limit is also in effect any time a
school crossing guard is in a crosswalk signed as a
school crossing or is placing or removing cones in the
street near a crosswalk signed as a school crossing.
SCHOOL CROSSING
Signs are located at crosswalks used by
children on their way to and from school.
These crosswalks may be located at an intersection or
at a mid-block crossing location.
Always yield to pedestrians at crosswalks.
Remember that not all crosswalks are marked.
A crosswalk is simply the extension of a sidewalk
across a street at an intersection, whether or not the
crosswalk is marked.
A crosswalk can also exist at a mid-block location if
the crossing is marked or signed. Since many schools
are located mid-block, not at corners, there is often a
mid-block crosswalk.
THE SAFETY OF CHILDREN
It is important that we drive responsibly, whether in a
school zone or not. Although children may be
concentrated near a school, every street in every
neighborhood at some time has children and other
pedestrians using the street and sidewalks. Appropriate
driving includes slowing and being prepared to stop
for pedestrians, stopping as directed by crossing
guards and yielding to pedestrians in crosswalks.
Whenever possible, children are encouraged to take
the bus or walk to school to reduce congestion and
traffic hazards near school grounds.
Kenosha Police Department
1000-55th Street
Kenosha, Wisconsin 53140
(262) 605-5212
www.kenoshapolice.com
