Topeka ? Shawnee County is the latest community in Kansas to permit Sunday liquor sales, and the city of Topeka could take up the issue next month.

County commissioners approved a resolution allowing liquor stores to open from noon to 7 p.m. Sundays, starting Oct. 5. The resolution would apply outside Topeka and other cities in the county.

Meanwhile, Topeka City Council member Jeff Preisner said he planned to place a proposed ordinance allowing Sunday sales on the council’s agenda in August.

Kansas law bans Sunday sales of packaged liquor, but last year a Wyandotte County District Court judge ruled the law was not uniform, allowing cities and counties to “opt out” of some provisions. His decision permitted Sunday sales in Wyandotte County.

During this year’s legislative session, lawmakers considered a bill to make the state’s Liquor Control Act uniform but could not agree on whether the long-standing ban on Sunday sales should remain in place.

Since then, eight other communities have approved Sunday sales, including the cities of Lawrence and Overland Park.

In Shawnee County, approval of Sunday sales came on a 3-0 vote Monday. Chairman Vic Miller said the prospect of losing sales to cities like Lawrence led the commission to act.

“It looks like everybody around us is in the process of doing it, so why should we wait?” he said Tuesday.

Representatives of Shawnee County Prevention and Recovery Services and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, along with several residents, have expressed concern that allowing Sunday sales would increase problems caused by alcohol.