As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following definitions unless otherwise designated:
“Alley” means a public right-of-way, other than a street, road, crosswalk, or easement, that provides secondary access for the abutting property.
“Board” means to the board of public works and safety of the city.
“Boat” means a watercraft of a large range of sizes designed to float, plane, work or travel on water.
“Bureau” means to the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
“Bus” means a road vehicle designed to carry passengers or a modified road vehicle that is designed to carry passengers for camping, traveling, or as a construction utility vehicle.
“City” means the City of Columbus, Indiana.
“Commercial Vehicle” means any vehicle having more than two axles, or any single commercial vehicle or combination of said vehicles which exceed twenty-two feet in length, any single commercial vehicle or combination of said vehicles eighty four inches or more in width, or any single commercial vehicle or combination of said vehicles having a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of fifteen thousand pounds or more.
“Construction Vehicles and Equipment” means heavy duty vehicles specially designed for construction tasks.
“Lienholder” means a person holding a valid lien, mortgage, security interest or interest under a conditional sales contract, or a person noted as a lienholder according to the records of the bureau.
“Nonmotorized Vehicle” means any trailer or any other device that is not self-propelled.
“Officer” means:
1. A regular member of the police department;
2. An individual of an agency other than the police department designated by the board to enforce this chapter.
“Owner” means the last known record titleholder of a vehicle according to the records of the bureau under I.C. Ch. 9-22-1.
“Parts” means all components of a vehicle that as assembled do not constitute a complete vehicle.
“Person” means individual, firm, corporation, association, fiduciary or governmental entity.
“Planning Department” means the Columbus- Bartholomew Planning Department .
"Private property" means all property other than public property.
“Public property” means a public right-of-way, street, highway, alley, part or other state, county or municipal property.
“Recreational Vehicle” means any building, structure, or vehicle designed and/or used for seasonal living or sleeping and/or recreational purposes and equipped with wheels to facilitate movement from place to place (either under its own power or towed by another vehicle). “Recreational vehicles” include automobiles when used for living or sleeping purposes, pick-up truck coaches, motorized homes, boats, travel trailers, snow mobiles, and camping trailers not meeting the definition of a manufacture of mobile home.
“Right-of-way” means a strip of land, other than an easement, dedicated for public use and to be occupied or intended to be occupied by a street, pedestrian way, crosswalk, railroad, electric transmission line, oil or gas pipeline, water main, sanitary or storm sewer main, drainage swale, or for another special use. The boundaries of such rights-of-way are considered to be the lot lines of adjoining property.
“Trailer” means a long platform or box with wheels that is pulled behind a truck or car and used to transport things.
“Towing service” means a business that engages in moving or removing disabled vehicles and, once removed, to store or impound vehicles.
“Vehicle” means an automobile, motorcycle, truck, trailer, semitrailer, tractor, bus, school bus, recreational vehicle or motor home.
(Ord. 34-2016 § 1, 2016; Ord. 07-10 § 2 (part), 2007)