For the purpose of this title, the following definitions and the other definitions in Neb. RS 60-606 through 60-676 shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. A highway intended to provide access to the rear or side of lots or buildings and not intended for the purpose of through vehicular traffic.
(Neb. RS 60-607)
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Such fire department vehicles, police vehicles, rescue vehicles and ambulances as are publicly owned, such other publicly or privately owned vehicles as are designated by the Director of Motor Vehicles and such publicly owned military vehicles of the National Guard as are designated by the Adjutant General pursuant to Neb. RS 55-133.
(Neb. RS 60-610)
BUSINESS DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a highway when, within any 600 feet along such highway, there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, including, but not limited to, hotels, banks, office buildings, railroad stations or public buildings which occupy at least 300 feet of frontage on one side or 300 feet collectively on both sides of a highway.
(Neb. RS 60-613)
HIGHWAY. The entire width between the boundary limits of any street, road, avenue, boulevard or way which is publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
(Neb. RS 60-624)
MANUAL. The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices adopted by the Department of Transportation pursuant to Neb. RS 60-6,118.
(Neb. RS 60-631)
MOTOR VEHICLE. Every self-propelled land vehicle, not operated upon rails, except bicycles, mopeds, self-propelled chairs used by persons who are disabled and electric personal assistive mobility devices.
(Neb. RS 60-638)
PEACE OFFICER. The Village Marshal or other chief law enforcement official, any village police officer or any other person authorized to enforce village ordinances. With respect to directing traffic only, PEACE OFFICER shall also include any person authorized to direct or regulate traffic.
(Neb. RS 60-646)
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a Business District when the property on such highway for a distance of 300 feet or more is in the main improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business.
(Neb. RS 60-654)
ROADWAY. The portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. If a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term ROADWAY shall refer to any such roadway separately but not to all such roadways collectively.
(Neb. RS 60-656)
SCHOOL CROSSING ZONE. The area of a roadway designated to the public by the Board of Trustees as a school crossing zone through the use of a sign or traffic control device as specified by the Board in conformity with the Manual, but does not include any area of a freeway. A school crossing zone starts at the location of the first sign or traffic control device identifying the school crossing zone and continues until a sign or traffic control device indicates that the school crossing zone has ended.
(Neb. RS 60-658.01)
SHOULDER. The part of the highway contiguous to the roadway and designed for the accommodation of stopped vehicles, for emergency use and for lateral support of the base and surface courses of the roadway.
(Neb. RS 60-661)
TRAFFIC. Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, and vehicles and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using any highway for purposes of travel.
(Neb. RS 60-669)
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE. Any sign, signal, marking or other device not inconsistent with the state’s Rules of the Road placed or erected by authority of the Board of Trustees or any official having jurisdiction for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
(Neb. RS 60-670)
TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL. Any signal, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed.
(Neb. RS 60-671)
TRAFFIC INFRACTION. The violation of any provision of the state’s Rules of the Road or of any law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation regulating traffic which is not otherwise declared to be a misdemeanor or a felony or, in this title, an offense.
(Neb. RS 60-672)
VEHICLE. Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved solely by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(Neb. RS 60-676)