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“Public hack” or “hack” means any public vehicle whose owner or driver secures or accepts passengers for hire on the public streets, or in public or quasi- public places, except carriages as defined in division (a) of Section 447.01 and vehicles operated by the Cleveland Regional Transit Authority.
(Ord. No. 2459-A-91. Passed 12-14-92, eff. 12-18-92)
“Public safety vehicle” means any of the following:
(a) Ambulances, including private ambulance companies under contract to a municipal corporation, township, or county, and private ambulances and nontransport vehicles bearing license plates issued under RC 4503.49.
(b) Motor vehicles used by public law enforcement officers or other persons sworn to enforce the criminal and traffic laws of the state.
(c) Any motor vehicle when properly identified as required by the Ohio Director of Public Safety, when used in response to fire emergency calls or to provide emergency medical service to ill or injured persons, and when operated by a duly qualified person who is a member of a volunteer rescue service or a volunteer fire department, and who is on duty pursuant to the rules or directives of that service. The State Fire Marshal shall be designated by the Ohio Director of Public Safety as the certifying agency for all public safety vehicles described in this division (c).
(d) Vehicles used by fire departments, including motor vehicles when used by volunteer firefighters responding to emergency calls in the fire department service when identified as required by the Ohio Director of Public Safety.
Any vehicle used to transport or provide emergency medical service to an ill or injured person, when certified as a public safety vehicle, shall be considered a public safety vehicle when transporting an ill or injured person to a hospital, regardless of whether the vehicle has already passed a hospital.
(e) Vehicles used by the motor carrier enforcement unit for the enforcement of orders and rules of the Public Utilities Commission as specified in RC 5503.34.
(RC 4511.01(E); Ord. No. 188-16. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
“Railroad sign or signal” means any sign, signal or device erected by authority of a public body or official or by a railroad and intended to give notice of the presence of railroad tracks or the approach of a railroad train.
(RC 4511.01(SS); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
“Receiving station” means any garage or parking lot which is guarded by an attendant at all times, to which vehicles may be removed under regulations set forth in this Traffic Code, when not called for by the owner before the hour of closing such parking lot or before the hour at which such parking lot becomes unattended.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
“Residence district” means the territory, not comprising a business district, fronting on a street or highway, including the street or highway, where, for a distance of three hundred (300) feet or more, the frontage is improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business.
(RC 4511.01(OO); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
“Ridesharing arrangement” means the transportation of persons in a motor vehicle where such transportation is incidental to another purpose of a volunteer driver and includes ridesharing arrangements known as carpools, vanpools, and buspools.
(RC 4511.01(DDD); Ord. No. 188-16. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
“Right-of-way” means either of the following, as the context requires:
(a) The right of a vehicle, streetcar, trackless trolley, or pedestrian to proceed uninterruptedly in a lawful manner in the direction in which it or he or she is moving in preference to another vehicle, streetcar, trackless trolley, or pedestrian approaching from a different direction into its or his or her path;
(b) A general term denoting land, property, or the interest therein, usually in the configuration of a strip, acquired for or devoted to transportation purposes. When used in this context, right-of-way includes the roadway, shoulders or berm, ditch, and slopes extending to the right-of-way limits under the control of the state or local authority.
(RC 4511.01(UU); Ord. No. 91-96. Passed 3-18-96, eff. 3-26-96)
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