From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 22, 1974:

In accordance with recent changes in Kansas University parking regulations, violators were no longer to be automatically sent to the county court if they didn’t appeal or pay traffic tickets within 14 days. The decision, agreed to by both university officials and county probate judge Mike Elwell, had been made to relieve the load of violations recently referred to the court. More than 2,500 tickets had been written on campus since the policy making use of the court had been put into effect this fall. The policy had resulted from a KU judiciary decision the previous spring saying that the KU Traffic Court had no authority to try traffic tickets, which were misdemeanors. Violators now had five options: Pay the fine; appeal the ticket through KU’s Traffic Court; request prosecution in county court, appeal through both courts, or ignore the ticket and suffer the consequences, which included a hold placed on student records and diplomas.