§ 401.49 Right-of-Way

   “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)

§ 401.491 Road Service Vehicle

   “Road service vehicle” means wreckers, utility repair vehicles, and state, county and municipal service vehicles equipped with visual signals by means of flashing, rotating or oscillating lights.

(RC 4511.01(JJJ); Ord. No. 188-16. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)

§ 401.50 Roadway

   “Roadway” means that portion of a street or highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, except the berm or shoulder. If a street or highway includes two (2) or more separate roadways, the term “roadway” means any such roadway separately but not all such roadways collectively.

(RC 4511.01(EE); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)

§ 401.501 Rollerskates

   Rollerskates means a device, propelled solely by human power, worn on the user’s feet like shoes, consisting of a shoe or boot with wheels attached on the bottom of the shoe or boot allowing the user to be propelled over land by alternate action of the legs, this includes devices commonly known as “rollerblades.”

(Ord. No. 1084-95. Passed 5-13-96, eff. 5-25-96 without the signature of the Mayor)

§ 401.51 Safety Zone

   “Safety zone” means the area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and protected or marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times.

(RC 4511.01(MM); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)

§ 401.52 School Bus

   “School bus” means every bus designed for carrying more than nine (9) passengers which is owned by a public, private or governmental agency or institution of learning and operated for the transportation of children to or from a school session or a school function, or owned by a private person and operated for compensation for the transportation of children to or from a school session or a school function; provided “school bus” does not include a bus operated by a municipally owned transportation system, a mass transit company operating exclusively within the territorial limits of the City, or within such limits and the territorial limits of municipal corporations immediately contiguous to the City, nor a common passenger carrier certified by the Public Utilities Commission unless such bus is devoted exclusively to the transportation of children to and from a school session or a school function, and “school bus” does not include a van or bus used by a licensed child day-care center or type A family day-care home to transport children from the child day-care center or type A family day-care home to a school if the van or bus does not have more than fifteen (15) children in the van or bus at any time.

(RC 4511.01(F); Ord. No. 91-96. Passed 3-18-96, eff. 3-26-96)

§ 401.53 Semitrailer

   “Semitrailer” means every vehicle designed or used for carrying persons or property with another and separate motor vehicle so that in operation a part of its own weight or that of its load, or both, rests upon and is carried by another vehicle.

(RC 4511.01(N); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)

§ 401.531 Shared-Use Path

   “Shared-use path” means a bikeway outside the traveled way and physically separated from motorized vehicular traffic by an open space or barrier and either within the highway right-of-way or within an independent alignment. A shared-use path also may be used by pedestrians, including skaters, joggers, users of manual and motorized wheelchairs, and other authorized motorized and non-motorized users.

(RC 4511.01(PPP); Ord. No. 188-16. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)

§ 401.54 Sidewalk

   “Sidewalk” means that portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for the use of pedestrians.

(RC 4511.01(FF); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)