For the purpose of this title, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. Every way or place in public ownership and customarily used for vehicular travel, wide enough to permit only one motor vehicle to travel thereon at any one time.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Vehicles of and used by the Fire Department of the town or used by any peace officer in the town, including all ambulances, emergency vehicles, and all Police and Fire Department vehicles coming into the town to render police, fire, or other emergency services to the citizens of the town.
BICYCLE. Any foot-propelled vehicle, irrespective of the number of wheels in contact with the ground.
CROSSWALK.
(1) The part of a roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs, or in the absence of curbs from the edge of the traversable roadway.
(2) Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossings by lines or other markings on the surface.
DRIVER. Every person who drives or is actually in physical control of a vehicle.
INTERSECTION. The area embraced within the promulgation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of the two highways which join one another at or approximately at right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict.
MOTORCYCLE. Every motor vehicle having a saddle for the use of the rider and designated 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.
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD. Standard time or daylight saving time, as may be in current use in the town.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVISES. All signs, signals, markings, and devises not inconsistent with this chapter placed or erected by authority of a body or official having jurisdiction for the purposes of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic.
PARK. When prohibited, means standing of vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading.
PASSENGER BUS. A motor vehicle designed and used for mass transportation of persons for hire generally on designated routes.
PASSENGER CURB LOADING ZONE. A space apart adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading and unloading of passengers.
PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot.
PERSONA. Every natural person, firm, co-partnership, association, or corporation.
POLICE OFFICER. Town Marshal, sheriff, deputy sheriffs, state police officers, and any other persona vested with police powers to enforce the law or to make arrests.
PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY. Every way or place in private ownership and used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having express or implied permission from the owner, but not by the other persons.
RAILROAD. A carrier of persons or property upon cars other than street cars, operated upon stationary rails.
RAILROAD TRAINS. A steam engine, diesel, electric, or other motor, with or without cars coupled thereto.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The privilege of the immediate use of the roadway.
ROADWAY. The portion of a street or highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel.
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.
SIDEWALK. The portion of a street between the curb lines or the lateral lines of the roadway and adjacent property lines intended for the use of the pedestrians.
STOP, STOPPING, OR STANDING.
(1) When required, means cessation of movement.
(2)When prohibited, means any stopping or standing 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.
STREET or HIGHWAY. The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purpose of vehicular travel.
THROUGH STREET. Every street or highway, or portion thereof, at the entrance to which vehicular traffic from intersection streets or highway is required by law to stop before entering or crossing the same and when stop signs are erected as provided by this act.
TRAFFIC. Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, or other conveyances either singly or together while using any street for purpose of travel.
TRAFFIC CONTROL. Any device, whether manually, electrically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to proceed.
VEHICLE. Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon the highway, except a device moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
YIELD. To temporarily slow down or stop for the purpose of giving up the privilege of the immediate use of the roadway.
(Ord. 107, passed 5-18-1962)