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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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§ 401.202 Highway Traffic Signal
   “Highway traffic signal” means a power- operated traffic control device by which traffic is warned or directed to take some specific action. “Highway traffic signal” does not include a power- operated sign, steadily illuminated pavement marker, warning light, or steady burning electric lamp.
(RC 4511.01(MMM); Ord. No. 188-16. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
§ 401.21 Intersection
   “Intersection” means:
   (a)   The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two (2) highways that join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different highways that join at any other angle might come into conflict, or two (2) or more municipal parking lot drives which join one another. The junction of an alley or driveway with a roadway or highway does not constitute an intersection unless the roadway or highway at the junction is controlled by a traffic control device.
   (b)   If a highway includes two (2) roadways that are thirty (30) feet or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such divided highway by an intersecting highway constitutes a separate intersection. If both intersecting highways include two (2) roadways thirty (30) feet or more apart, then every crossing of any two (2) roadways of such highways constitutes a separate intersection.
   (c)   At a location controlled by a traffic control signal, regardless of the distance between the separate intersections as described in division (b) of this section:
      (1)   If a stop line, yield line, or crosswalk has not been designated on the roadway within the median between the separate intersections, the two (2) intersections and the roadway and median constitute one (1) intersection.
      (2)   Where a stop line, yield line, or crosswalk line is designated on the roadway on the intersection approach, the area within the crosswalk and any area beyond the designated stop line or yield line constitute part of the intersection.
      (3)   Where a crosswalk is designated on a roadway on the departure from the intersection, the intersection includes the area that extends to the far side of the crosswalk.
(RC 4511.01(KK); Ord. No. 188-16. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
§ 401.22 Laned Street or Highway
   “Laned street” or “highway” means a street or highway, the roadway of which is divided into two (2) or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
(RC 4511.01(GG); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
§ 401.23 Median
   “Median” means the area between two (2) roadways of a divided highway, measured from edge of traveled way to edge of traveled way, but excluding turn lanes. The width of a median may be different between intersections, between interchanges, and at opposite approaches of the same intersection.
(RC 4511.01(NNN); Ord. No. 188-16. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
§ 401.231 Mobility Device
   "Mobility device" means small mobility devices, such as scooters, e-scooters, e-bikes, or other similar devices. A mobility device does not include those designed solely for use by a child, or those used as assistive mobility devices by persons with disabilities, or those defined as an electronic personal assistive mobility device.
(Ord. No. 396-2020. Passed 6-3-20, eff. 6-9-20)
§ 401.24 Motor Carrier
   “Motor carrier” means any person engaged exclusively in the operation of motor vehicles for carrying persons for hire from points within the City to points outside the City.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
§ 401.25 Motor Vehicle
   “Motor vehicle” means every vehicle propelled or drawn by power other than muscular power or power collected from overhead electric trolley wires, except motorized bicycles, road rollers, traction engines, power shovels, power cranes, and other equipment used in construction work and not designed for or employed in general highway transportation, hole-digging machinery, well-drilling machinery, ditch-digging machinery, farm machinery, and trailers designed and used exclusively to transport a boat between a place of storage and a marina, or in and around a marina, when drawn or towed on a street or highway for a distance of no more than ten (10) miles and at a speed of twenty- five (25) miles per hour or less.
(RC 4511.01(B); Ord. No. 188-16. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
§ 401.26 Motorcycle
   “Motorcycle” means every motor vehicle, other than a tractor, having a seat or saddle for the use of the operator and designed to travel on not more than three (3) wheels in contact with the ground, including, but not limited, to motor vehicles known as “motor-driven cycle”, “motor scooter”, “cab-enclosed motorcycle”, or “motorcycle” without regard to weight or brake horsepower.
(RC 4511.01(C); Ord. No. 188-16. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
§ 401.261 Motorized Bicycle or Moped
   “Motorized bicycle” or “moped” means any vehicle that either has two (2) tandem wheels or one (1) wheel in the front and two (2) wheels in the rear, that may be pedaled, and that is equipped with a helper motor of not more than fifty (50) cubic centimeters piston displacement that produces no more than one (1) brake horsepower and is capable of propelling the vehicle at a speed of no greater than twenty (20) miles per hour on a level surface. "Motorized bicycle" or "moped" does not include an electric bicycle.
(RC 4501.01(L), 4511.01(H); Ord. No. 1178-2019. Passed 10-7-19, eff. 10-8-19)
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