For the purpose of this traffic code, the following definitions shall 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.
AMBULANCE. A motor vehicle constructed, reconstructed or arranged for the purpose of transporting ill, sick or injured persons.
BICYCLE.
(1) A BICYCLE is any device propelled solely by human power upon which any person or persons may ride, having a seat or saddle for the use of each rider, and:
(a) On a bicycle, two tandem wheels, either of which is 20 inches or more in diameter;
(b) On a tricycle, three wheels in any configuration, of which at least one is 20 inches or more in diameter; or
(c) On a quadcycle, four wheels in any configuration, of which at least two are 20 inches or more in diameter.
The wheel diameter provisions of this definition shall not apply to recumbent bicycles.
(2) An ELECTRIC-ASSISTED BICYCLE is any bicycle with:
(a) Two or three wheels;
(b) Fully operative pedals for human propulsion and equipped with an electric motor:
1. With a power output not to exceed 1,000 watts;
2. Incapable of propelling the device at a speed of more than 20 miles per hour on level ground; and
3. Incapable of further increasing the speed of the device when human power alone is used to propel the device at a speed of 20 miles per hour or more.
An ELECTRIC-ASSISTED BICYCLE shall meet the requirements of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards as set forth in federal regulations, and shall operate in such a manner that the electric motor disengages or ceases to function when the brakes are applied.
(3) A MOTORIZED BICYCLE is any bicycle having:
(a) Fully operative pedals for propulsion by human power;
(b) An automatic transmission; and
(c) A combustion engine with a piston or rotor displacement of 50 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 miles per hour on level ground.
(4) As used in this title, the term BICYCLE shall include tricycles, quadcycles, or similar human- powered devices, electric-assisted bicycles, and motorized bicycles, unless otherwise specifically indicated.
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.
(1) Any clearly marked center lane.
(2) 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. In the event a vehicle or vehicles are parked on one side of the roadway only, then the center lane is equally distanced from the side of the parked vehicle or vehicles toward the street and curb on the opposite roadway. If vehicles be parked on each side of the roadway, then the center lane is equally distanced from the edges of the parked vehicles.
COMMERCIAL VEHICLES. Every vehicle designed, maintained or used primarily for the transportation of property.
CROSSWALK. The 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. 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.
ELECTRIC-ASSISTED BICYCLE. See BICYCLE.
EMERGENCY. An unforeseeable occurrence of temporary duration causing or resulting in 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 a manner as to impede the flow of traffic.
EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Vehicles of the Fire and Police Departments and legally authorized ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations.
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 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 the divided street by an intersecting street, shall be regarded as a separate intersection. In the event the intersecting street also includes two roadways 30 feet or more apart, then every crossing of two roadways of the streets shall be regarded as separate intersections.
LANED ROADWAY. A roadway which is divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
LIMITED ACCESS HIGHWAY. A highway, street or roadway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting property or lands and other persons have no legal right of access, except at the points and in the manner as may be determined by the
public authority having jurisdiction over the highway, street or roadway.
LIMIT LINES. Boundaries of parking areas, loading zones and non-traffic areas and lines indicating the proper place for stopping where stops are required.
LOADING ZONE. A space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or material.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Every vehicle which is self-propelled.
MOTOR-DRIVEN CYCLE. Any motor vehicle having:
(1) A power source that:
(a) If the power source is a combustion engine, has a piston or rotor displacement of greater than 35 cubic centimeters but less than 150 cubic centimeters regardless of the number of chambers in the power source;
(b) If the power source is electric, has a power output of greater than 1,000 watts; and
(2) A seat or saddle for the use of each rider;
(3) Not more than three wheels in contact with the ground.
A MOTOR-DRIVEN CYCLE requires a driver’s license of proper class with endorsement.
MOTORCYCLE. Any motor vehicle having:
(1) A seat or saddle for the use of each rider;
(2) Not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor; and
(3) A combustion engine with a piston or rotor displacement of greater than 150 cubic centimeters.
MOTORIZED BICYCLE. See BICYCLE.
MOTORIZED SCOOTER. Any vehicle having:
(1) Not more than three wheels in contact with the ground;
(2) Handlebars and a foot support or seat for the use of the operator;
(3) A power source that is capable of propelling the vehicle at a maximum design speed of not more than 25 miles per hour on level ground; and
(a) If the power source is a combustion engine, has a piston or rotor displacement of 35 cubic centimeters or less regardless of the number of chambers in the power source;
(b) If the power source is electric, has a power output of not more than 1,000 watts.
For the purpose of this section, an electric personal assistive mobility device, bicycle, electric-assisted bicycle, or motorized bicycle, as defined in this section, shall not be considered a MOTORIZED SCOOTER. A motorized scooter shall not be required to be registered under the laws of this state. The operator of a motorized scooter shall not be required to possess a driver’s license or to comply with the vehicle insurance or financial responsibility laws of this state.
OFFICIAL TIME. Whenever certain hours are named herein, they shall mean Central Standard Time or Daylight Savings Time, as may be in current use in the city.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICE. 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 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 providing the loading and unloading is in an authorized place.
PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot.
POLICE OFFICER. Every officer of the Municipal Department, 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 express or implied permission from the owner.
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 the 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 or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the shoulders. In the event a street includes two or more separate roadways, the term ROADWAY, as used herein, shall refer to any roadway, separately, but not to all 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 at lateral lines of the roadway and adjacent property lines, intended for use of pedestrians.
STANDING. Any stopping of a vehicle whether occupied or not.
STOP or STOPPING.
(1) When required, the complete cessation from movement.
(2) When not required, any stopping of a vehicle, 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) Stop signs are erected, as provided in this title.
TRAFFIC. Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances, either singularly or together, while using any highway or street for the purpose of travel.
TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICE. Any device legally authorized and used for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
TRAFFIC ENGINEER. Appointed by the City Manager and will be responsible for all traffic-control devices, signs, signals and markings.
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, not used exclusively upon streets, rails or tracks.
(Prior Code, § 16-102) (Am. Ord. 1737, passed 12-7-04)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions; definitions for State Motor Vehicle Code, see 47 O.S. §§ 1-101 to 1-186