For the purpose of this title, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning. Whenever any words and phrases used herein are not defined herein, but are defined in the state laws regulating the operation of vehicles, any such definition therein shall be deemed to apply to such words and phrases used herein, except when the context otherwise requires.
ALLEY
or
ALLEYWAY(S).
A street intended to provide access to the rear or side of lots or buildings in urban districts and not intended for the purpose of through vehicular traffic.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE.
Vehicles of the Fire Department, police vehicles, and such ambulances as are operated by or for health and hospital corporations. However, ambulances and other vehicles which are owned by persons, firms or corporations other than hospitals, and are used in emergency services, may be designated as emergency vehicles, if such vehicles are authorized to operate as such by the Public Service Commission of Indiana.
BICYCLE.
Every device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, having two tandem wheels either of which is more than 14 inches in diameter.
BUSINESS DISTRICT.
The territory contiguous to and including a street when the property along one or both sides is zoned for business uses as provided in the B-1 and B-2 and B-3 or M (manufacturing), including any overlays, for these zoning districts.
COMMON COUNCIL.
A simple majority vote of the elected governing body of the city, which consists of four Council members and the Mayor and is called the Common Council.
CROSSWALK.
(1) That 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, regardless of the presence of pavement markings.
(2) Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
DRIVER.
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
HOLIDAY.
The following days of the year shall be designated as holidays: the first day of January, commonly known as New Year's Day; the last Monday of May, commonly known as Memorial Day; July fourth, commonly known as Independence Day; the first Monday of September, commonly known as Labor Day; the fourth Thursday of November, commonly known as Thanksgiving Day; and December twenty-fifth, commonly known as Christmas Day.
INTERSECTION.
(1) The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two streets which join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different streets joining at any other angle may come in conflict.
(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 a separate intersection.
(3) The junction of any alley with a street shall not constitute an intersection.
LOADING ZONE.
A space reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or property.
METER PARKING SPACE.
Any marked-off parking space within the parking meter zone which is, or is to be, regulated by use of a parking meter.
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD.
Whenever certain hours are named herein, they shall mean standard time or daylight-saving time, as may be in current use in the city.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES.
All signs, signals, markings and devices not inconsistent with this title 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 or leaving of a vehicle, either occupied or not, upon a public street for a period of time in excess of five minutes.
PARKING METER
or
MECHANICAL PARKING TIME INDICATOR.
Any mechanical device erected at any parking space by authority of this traffic code to indicate the length of time during which a vehicle may be parked in a particular metered parking place.
PARKING SPACE
or
PARKING PLACE.
A designated portion of the surface of a street of sufficient length and depth to accommodate a vehicle of reasonable dimensions to be parked. Such designated portion shall be specified and marked off as provided in this traffic code.
PEDESTRIAN.
Any person afoot.
PERSON.
Every natural person, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation.
POLICE OFFICER.
Every officer of the Police Department or any officer, including reserve officers, authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT.
The territory contiguous to and including a street when the property along both sides is zoned for residential uses as provided in the R-1, R-2 and R-3 zoning districts.
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
or
DRIVE.
That portion of a street improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. In the event 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.
SIDEWALK.
That portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral lines, of a roadway and the adjacent property lines, intended for use by pedestrians.
STAND
or
STANDING.
The halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
STATE LAW.
Indiana laws regulating and relating to motor vehicles and their operation.
STOP.
When required means complete cessation from movement.
STOP
or
STOPPING.
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 directions of a police officer or traffic-control sign or signal.
STREET.
The entire width between boundary lines of every way publicly maintained, when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
TRAFFIC.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using any street for purposes of travel.
TRAFF1C-CONTROL SIGNAL.
Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternatively directed to stop and permitted to proceed.
TRUCK.
Every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.
VEHICLE.
Every device in, upon or by which any person o r property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
WORKSITE
or
WORK ZONE.
An area temporarily designated by sign or other manner for city or utility employees to perform tasks on or near city streets/alleys/drives or other roadways.
(Ord., passed 11-20-78; Am. Ord. 2006-09, passed 4-17-06)