For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. Any narrow highway ordinarily located in the interior portion of platted blocks and ordinarily used for service or delivery purposes at the rear of stores, dwellings, or buildings.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. When equipped as prescribed in 47 O.S. § 1-103(B), means:
(1) Vehicles of Fire Departments;
(2) Ambulances or vehicles specified pursuant to 63 O.S. § 1-2512 of licensed ambulance service providers;
(3) State vehicles of law enforcement agencies;
(4) County vehicles of sheriffs and full-time commissioned deputies;
(5) Municipal vehicles of Police Departments;
(6) Vehicles owned and operated by the United States Marshals Service or the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
(7) Vehicles of State National Guard units designated by the Adjutant General for support to civil authorities; or
(8) Vehicles owned and operated by any local organization for emergency management as defined by 63 O.S. § 683.3.
BICYCLE. A device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, having two tandem wheels. As used in this chapter, the term BICYCLE shall include tricycles, quadcycles, or similar human-powered devices, electric-assisted bicycles, and motorized bicycles unless otherwise specifically indicated.
BICYCLE, ELECTRIC-ASSISTED. Any bicycle with:
(1) Two or three wheels; and
(2) Fully operative pedals for human propulsion and equipped with an electric motor:
(a) With a power output not to exceed 1,000 watts;
(b) Incapable of propelling the device at a speed of more than 30 mph on level ground; and
(c) Incapable of further increasing the speed of the device when human power alone is used to propel the device at a speed of 30 mph or more.
BICYCLE, MOTORIZED. Any bicycle having:
(1) Fully operative pedals for propulsion by human power;
(2) An automatic transmission; and
(3) A combustion engine with a piston or rotor displacement of 150 cubic centimeters or less, regardless of the number of chambers in the engine, which is capable of propelling the bicycle at a maximum design speed of not more than 30 mph on level ground.
BUS. Every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than ten passengers and used for the transportation of persons, and every motor vehicle, other than a taxicab, designed and used for the transportation of persons for compensation.
BUSINESS DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a highway if there are buildings within 600 feet of the highway in use for business or industrial purposes, including, but not limited to, hotels, banks, or office buildings, railroad stations, and public buildings which occupy at least 300 feet of frontage on one side or 300 feet collectively on both sides of the highway.
CENTER LANE. Any clearly marked center lane. If the CENTER LANE is not marked and no cars are parked on the roadway, then the CENTER LANE is equally distanced between the curbs or traveled portion of the roadway. If vehicles are parked on one side of the roadway only, then the CENTER LANE is equally distanced from the side of the parked vehicles toward the street and curb on the opposite roadway. If vehicles are parked on each side of the roadway, then the CENTER LANE is equally distanced from the edges of the parked vehicles.
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE. Every vehicle designed, maintained, or used primarily for the transportation of property.
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE, CLASS A. Any combination of vehicles, except a class D motor vehicle, with a gross combined weight rating of 26,001 or more pounds, provided the gross vehicle weight rating of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAY. Every highway, street, or roadway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right of access to or from the same, except at such points only and in such manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over such highway, street, or roadway.
CROSSWALK. Part of a roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the street measured from the curbs; or in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway. The term CROSSWALK also means any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
DOUBLE PARK. Parking or stopping a vehicle on the roadway side of another vehicle already parked adjacent to the edge or curbing of the roadway.
DRIVER or OPERATOR. A person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
EMERGENCY. An unforeseeable occurrence of temporary duration causing or resulting in an abnormal increase in traffic volume, cessation or stoppage of traffic movement, or creation of conditions hazardous to normal traffic movement, including fire, storm, accident, riot, or spontaneous assembly of large numbers of pedestrians in such a manner as to impede the flow of traffic.
EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Vehicles of the Fire Department, police vehicles, and ambulances.
HIGHWAY. See STREET or HIGHWAY.
INTERSECTION.
(1) The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curblines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadway of two streets, which join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different streets join at any other angle, may come in conflict; or
(2) Where a street includes two roadways 30 feet or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such divided street by an intersecting street shall be regarded as a separate
INTERSECTION. In the event such intersecting street also includes two roadways 30 feet or more apart, then every crossing of two roadways of such streets shall be regarded as separate INTERSECTIONS.
LANED ROADWAY. A roadway which is divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
LIMIT LINES. Boundaries of parking areas, loading zones, and nontraffic areas and lines indicating the proper place for stopping where stops are required.
LIMITED ACCESS HIGHWAY. See CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAY.
LOADING ZONE. A space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or material. A FREIGHT CURB LOADING ZONE is a loading zone for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of freight; a PASSENGER CURB LOADING ZONE is a loading zone for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.
MOTORCYCLE, MOTOR SCOOTER, and MOTOR BICYCLE. A motor vehicle, other than a tractor, having a seat or saddle for the use of the driver and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Every vehicle which is self-propelled or any vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails. As used in this chapter, the term MOTOR VEHICLE shall not include:
(1) Implements of husbandry, as defined in 47 O.S. § 1-125;
(2) Electric personal assistive mobility devices as defined in 47 O.S. § 1-114A;
(3) Motorized wheelchairs, as defined in 47 O.S. § 1-136.3; or
(4) Vehicles moved solely by human or animal power.
OFFICIAL TIME. Whenever certain hours are named herein, Central Standard Time, or Daylight Saving Time, as may be in current use in the city.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE. All signs, signals, markings, and devices not inconsistent with this chapter, placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic.
PARK or PARKING. The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of, and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers, provided such loading and unloading is in an authorized place.
PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot.
POLICE OFFICER. Every officer of the Municipal Police Department, or any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic, or to make arrests for violation of traffic regulations.
PRIVATE ROAD OR ROADWAY. A way or place in private ownership or leading to property in private ownership and used for vehicular traffic by the owner and those having expressed or implied permission from the owner.
RAILROAD. A carrier of persons or property upon cars other than streetcars operated upon stationary rails.
RAILROAD TRAIN. A steam engine, diesel, electric, or other motor, with or without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails, except streetcars.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business district.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian approaching under such circumstances of direction, speed, and proximity as to give rise to danger of collision unless one grants precedence to the other.
ROADWAY. The portion of a street improved, designed, ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the shoulders. If a street includes two or more separate roadways, the term ROADWAY, as used herein, shall refer to any such roadway, separately, but not to all such roadways collectively.
SAFETY ZONE. The area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times, while set apart as a SAFETY ZONE.
SCHOOL ZONE. All streets or portions of streets immediately adjacent to a school, or school ground, where same is adjacent and for a distance of 300 feet in each direction.
SIDEWALK. The portion of a street between the curblines or lateral lines of the roadway and adjacent property lines, intended for use of pedestrians.
STAND or STANDING. Any stopping of a vehicle, whether occupied or not.
STOP or STOPPING.
(1) When required, means the complete cessation from movement.
(2) When prohibited, means any halting, even momentarily, of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police officer or traffic signal.
STREET or HIGHWAY. The entire width between the boundary lines of every way, publicly maintained, when any part thereof is opened to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
THROUGH STREET OR HIGHWAY. A street, boulevard, or highway or portion thereof at the entrances to which:
(1) Vehicular traffic from intersecting streets or highways is required by law to come to a full stop before entering or crossing; and
(2) Traffic control devices are erected as provided in this chapter.
TRAFFIC. Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, and other conveyances, either singularly or together, while using any highway or street for purpose of travel.
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES OR SIGNALS. Any device legally authorized and used for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic.
URBAN DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including any street which is built up with structures devoted to business, industry, or dwelling houses situated at intervals of less than 100 feet for a distance of a quarter mile or more.
U-TURN. A turn by which a vehicle reverses its course of travel on the same street.
VEHICLE. Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway or street, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(Prior Code, § 42-2)
Statutory reference:
Definitions, state traffic code, see 47 O.S. §§ 1-101 et seq.