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CITY OF CLEVELAND, OHIO CODE OF ORDINANCES
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CLEVELAND
PART ONE: ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART TWO: HEALTH CODE
PART THREE: LAND USE CODE
PART FOUR: TRAFFIC CODE
TITLE I: ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 401 - DEFINITIONS
§ 401.01 Meaning of Words and Phrases
§ 401.02 Agricultural Tractor
§ 401.03 Alley
§ 401.031 Arterial Street
§ 401.04 Automatically Operated Gate
§ 401.041 Beacon
§ 401.05 Bicycle
§ 401.06 Bus
§ 401.07 Business District
§ 401.08 Center or Center Line of Street
§ 401.081 Child Day-Care Center and Type A Family Day-Care Home
§ 401.09 Coach
§ 401.10 Commercial Car or Truck
§ 401.101 Commercial Motor Vehicle
§ 401.11 Commercial Tractor
§ 401.12 Commercial Unit
§ 401.13 Controlled-Access Highway
§ 401.14 Crosswalk
§ 401.15 Driver or Operator
§ 401.151 Electric Personal Assistive Mobility Device
§ 401.152 E-Bike
§ 401.153 E-Scooter
§ 401.16 Emergency Vehicle
§ 401.161 Explosives
§ 401.17 Expressway
§ 401.171 Flammable Liquid
§ 401.18 Freeway
§ 401.19 Funeral Escort Vehicle
§ 401.20 Gross Weight
§ 401.201 Highway Maintenance Vehicle
§ 401.202 Highway Traffic Signal
§ 401.21 Intersection
§ 401.22 Laned Street or Highway
§ 401.23 Median
§ 401.231 Mobility Device
§ 401.24 Motor Carrier
§ 401.25 Motor Vehicle
§ 401.26 Motorcycle
§ 401.261 Motorized Bicycle or Moped
§ 401.262 Motorized Wheelchair
§ 401.263 Multi-Wheel Agricultural Tractor
§ 401.27 Municipal Parking Facility
§ 401.28 Municipal Parking Facility Drive
§ 401.29 Net Weight
§ 401.291 Operate
§ 401.30 Operate for Hire
§ 401.31 Park or Parking
§ 401.32 Parking Key or Parking Card
§ 401.33 Parking Meter
§ 401.331 Parking Meter Zone
§ 401.34 Parking Place
§ 401.35 Parking Space
§ 401.36 Parking Token
§ 401.37 Pedestrian
§ 401.371 Pedestrian Way
§ 401.38 Person
§ 401.39 Pole Trailer
§ 401.40 Police Officer
§ 401.401 Predicate Motor Vehicle or Traffic Offense
§ 401.402 Private Road Open to Public Travel
§ 401.41 Private Road or Driveway
§ 401.42 Public Hack
§ 401.43 Public Safety Vehicle
§ 401.44 Railroad
§ 401.45 Railroad Sign or Signal
§ 401.46 Railroad Train
§ 401.47 Receiving Station
§ 401.48 Residence District
§ 401.481 Ridesharing Arrangement
§ 401.49 Right-of-Way
§ 401.491 Road Service Vehicle
§ 401.50 Roadway
§ 401.501 Rollerskates
§ 401.51 Safety Zone
§ 401.52 School Bus
§ 401.53 Semitrailer
§ 401.531 Shared-Use Path
§ 401.54 Sidewalk
§ 401.55 Sight-Seeing Car
§ 401.551 Skateboard
§ 401.56 Standing
§ 401.561 State Highway
§ 401.57 State Route
§ 401.58 Stop (When Required)
§ 401.59 Stop or Stopping (When Prohibited)
§ 401.60 Stop Intersection
§ 401.61 Street or Highway
§ 401.62 Taxicab
§ 401.63 Taximeter
§ 401.64 Through Street or Highway
§ 401.65 Thruway
§ 401.66 Traffic
§ 401.67 Traffic Control Device
§ 401.68 Traffic Control Signal
§ 401.69 Trailer
§ 401.70 Truck
§ 401.71 Truck Zone
§ 401.72 Urban District
§ 401.73 Vehicle
CHAPTER 403 - ENFORCEMENT, COMPLIANCE AND PENALTY
CHAPTER 405 - IMPOUNDING
TITLE III: STREETS AND TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES
TITLE V: VEHICLES
TITLE VII: PARKING
TITLE IX: PEDESTRIANS, BICYCLES AND MOTORCYCLES
TITLE XI: WATER TRAFFIC CODE
TITLE XIII: HELICOPTERS AND OTHER AIRCRAFT
PART FIVE: MUNICIPAL UTILITIES AND SERVICES CODE
PART SIX: OFFENSES AND BUSINESS ACTIVITIES CODE
TITLE VIIA: CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD FORM-BASED CODE
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§ 401.101 Commercial Motor Vehicle
   “Commercial motor vehicle” means any motor vehicle designed or used to transport persons or property that meets any of the following qualifications:
   (a)   Any combination of vehicles with a gross vehicle weight or combined gross vehicle weight rating of twenty-six thousand one (26,001) pounds or more, provided the gross vehicle weight or gross vehicle weight rating of the vehicle or vehicles being towed is in excess of ten thousand (10,000) pounds;
   (b)   Any single vehicle with a gross vehicle weight or gross vehicle weight rating of twenty-six thousand one (26,001) pounds or more;
   (c)   Any single vehicle or combination of vehicles that is not a class A or class B vehicle, but is designed to transport sixteen (16) or more passengers including the driver;
   (d)   Any school bus with a gross vehicle weight or gross vehicle weight rating of less than twenty-six thousand one (26,001) pounds that is designed to transport fewer than sixteen (16) passengers including the driver;
   (e)   Is transporting hazardous materials for which placarding required under subpart F of 49 C.F.R. part 172, as amended;
   (f)   Any single vehicle or combination of vehicles that is designed to be operated and to travel on a public street or highway and is considered by the federal motor carrier safety administration to be a commercial motor vehicle, including, but not limited to, a motorized crane, a vehicle whose function is to pump cement, a rig for drilling wells, and a portable crane.
(RC 4506.01(D); Ord. No. 188-16. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
§ 401.11 Commercial Tractor
   “Commercial tractor” means every motor vehicle having motive power designed or used for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon, or designed or used for drawing other vehicles while carrying a portion of such other vehicles, or the load thereon, or both.
(RC 4511.01(I); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
§ 401.12 Commercial Unit
   “Commercial unit” means any commercial tractor, truck, trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer or commercial car; or any other combination of these vehicles, when a commercial tractor, truck or commercial car is actually connected to one (1) or more trailers, semitrailers, or pole trailers for the purpose of drawing such vehicles.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
§ 401.13 Controlled-Access Highway
   “Controlled-access highway” means every street or highway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right of access to or from the same, except at such points only and in such manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over such street or highway.
(RC 4511.01(CC); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
§ 401.14 Crosswalk
   “Crosswalk” means:
   (a)   That part of a roadway at intersections ordinarily included within the real or projected prolongation of property lines and curb lines or, in the absence of curbs, the edges of the traversable roadway;
   (b)   Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere, distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface;
   (c)   Notwithstanding divisions (a) and (b) of this section, there shall not be a crosswalk where local authorities have placed signs indicating no crossing.
(RC 4511.01(LL); Ord. No. 188-16. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
§ 401.15 Driver or Operator
   “Driver” or “operator” means every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle, trackless trolley, or streetcar.
(RC 4511.01(Y); Ord. No. 835-03. Passed 6-10-03, eff. 6-12-03)
§ 401.151 Electric Personal Assistive Mobility Device
   “Electric personal assistive mobility device” means a self-balancing two (2) non-tandem wheeled device that is designed to transport only one (1) person, has an electric propulsion system of an average of seven hundred fifty (750) watts, and when ridden on a paved level surface by an operator who weighs one hundred seventy (170) pounds has a maximum speed of less than twenty (20) miles per hour.
(RC 4501.01(TT); Ord. No. 188-16. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
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