For purposes of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
"COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE." Any motor vehicle designed or used for the transportation of property, not including a passenger bus, passenger automobile, panel delivery truck, or pickup truck.
"MOBILE HOME." Living quarters equipped and used for sleeping and eating, which may be moved from one location to another over a public street by being pulled behind a motor vehicle.
"MOTOR VEHICLE." Every vehicle which is self-propelled.
"POLE TRAILER." Every vehicle without motive power designed to be drawn by another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle by means of a reach, or pole, or by being boomed or otherwise secured to the towing vehicle, and ordinarily used for transporting long or irregularly shaped loads such as poles, pipes or structural members capable, generally, of sustaining themselves as beams between the supporting connections.
"SEMITRAILER." Every vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that some part of its weight and its load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle.
"TRAILER." Every vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.
"TRANSPORT." To move any motor vehicle requiring placards upon any public thoroughfare, highway, or street.
"TRUCK TRACTOR." Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
"VEHICLE." Every mechanical device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, including motor vehicles, truck-tractors, and semitrailers, severally, as herein defined, but excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(Ord. 983, passed 10-19-20)