For the purpose of this traffic code, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE. Any motor vehicle for off-road use, which is 50 inches or less in width; has a dry weight of 600 pounds or less; travels on three or more low-pressure tires; is designed for operator use only with no passengers; and has a seat or saddle designed to be straddled by the operator and handle bars for steering control.
(KRS 189.010)
ALLEY or ALLEYWAY. Any public way not more than 20 feet wide affording, generally, a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting properties.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Vehicles of the Fire Department, police vehicles and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the Chief of Police of the city.
BICYCLE. Every device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, having two tandem wheels either of which is more than 20 inches in diameter.
BUSINESS DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a highway when, within any 600 feet along such highway, there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, including, but not limited to, hotels, banks or office buildings, railroad stations and public buildings which occupy at least 300 feet of frontage on one side or 300 feet collectively on both sides of the highway.
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE. Every vehicle designed, maintained or used primarily for the transportation of property.
CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAY. Every highway, street or roadway 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 highway, street or roadway.
CROSSWALK.
(1) The part of a roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs or, in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway; and
(2) Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
CURB LOADING ZONE. A space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
DRIVER. Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
FREIGHT CURB LOADING ZONE. A space adjacent to a curb for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of freight or passengers.
HIGHWAY. Every way or place, whatever nature, when any part of it is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, license or privilege, for the purpose of vehicular traffic.
(KRS 186.010)
IMMOBILIZE. To render a vehicle temporarily immobile by means of a wheel clamp, boot or similar device.
INTERSECTION.
(1) 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 highways which join one another, but do not necessarily continue, at approximately right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different highways joining at any other angle may come into conflict; or
(2) Where a highway includes two roadways 30 feet or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such divided highway by an intersecting highway shall be regarded as a separate INTERSECTION. If the intersecting highway also includes two roadways 30 feet or more apart, every crossing of two roadways of the highways shall be regarded as a separate INTERSECTION. The junction of a private alley with a public street or highway shall not constitute an INTERSECTION.
(KRS 189.010)
LANED ROADWAY. A roadway which is divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
LICENSE. Any operator’s license, temporary instruction permit or temporary license issued under the laws of the state pertaining to the licensing of operators.
(KRS 187.290)
MOTOR TRUCK. Any motor-propelled vehicle designed for carrying freight or merchandise. It shall not include self-propelled vehicles designed primarily for passenger transportation, but equipped with frames, racks or bodies having a load capacity of not exceeding 1,000 pounds.
(KRS 189.010)
MOTORCYCLE. Every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD. Whenever certain hours are named herein, they shall mean standard time or daylight saving time as may be in current use in the city.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES. All signs, signals, markings and devices not inconsistent with this traffic code placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
OPERATOR. The person in actual physical control of a vehicle.
(KRS 189.010)
OWNER. A person who holds the legal title of a vehicle. If a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease, with the vendee or lessee entitled to possession of the vehicle, upon performance of the contract terms, for a period of 365 days or more and with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of possession vested in the conditional vendee or lessee or, if a mortgagor of a vehicle is entitled to possession, the conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor shall be deemed the OWNER.
(KRS 186.010)
PARK or PARKING. The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
PASSENGER CURB LOADING ZONE. A place adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.
PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot.
PERSON. Every natural person, firm, co- partnership, association or corporation.
POLICE OFFICER. Every officer of the Municipal Police Department or any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY. Every way or place in private ownership and used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having express or implied permission from the owner, but not by other persons.
RAILROAD. A carrier of persons or property upon cars, other than streetcars, operated upon stationary rails.
RAILROAD TRAIN. A steam engine, electric or other motor, with or without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails, except streetcars.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business district when the property on such highway for a distance of 300 feet or more is in the main improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian approaching under such circumstances of direction, speed and proximity as to give rise to danger of collision unless one grants precedence to the other.
ROADWAY.
(1) The portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder; and
(2) If a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term ROADWAY, as used herein, shall refer to any such roadway separately, but not to all such roadways collectively.
(KRS 189.010)
SAFETY ZONE. The area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone.
SEMI-TRAILER. A vehicle designed to be attached to, and having its front end supported by, a motor truck or truck-tractor, intended for the carrying of freight or merchandise and having a load capacity of over 1,000 pounds.
(KRS 189.010)
SHARP CURVE. A curve of not less than 30 degrees.
(KRS 189.010)
SIDEWALK. The portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for use of pedestrians.
STAND or STANDING. The halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
STEEP GRADE. A grade exceeding 7%.
(KRS 189.010)
STOP or STOPPING.
(1) When required, means complete cessation from movement; and
(2) When prohibited, means any halting even momentarily of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic-control sign or signal.
STREET or HIGHWAY.
(1) The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel; and
(2) Included in this definition shall be every way in the property owned by the Housing Authority of the city.
THROUGH HIGHWAY. Every highway or portion thereof on which vehicular traffic is given preferential right-of-way, and at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is required by law to yield right-of-way to vehicles on such through highway in obedience to either a stop sign or a yield sign, when such signs are erected as provided in this traffic code.
TRAFFIC. Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for purposes of travel.
TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNAL. Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed.
TRAFFIC DIVISION. The Traffic Division of the Police Department of the city or, in the event a Traffic Division is not established, then the Police Department of the city.
TRAILER. Any vehicle designed to be drawn by a motor truck or truck-tractor, but supported wholly upon its own wheels, intended for the carriage of freight or merchandise and having a load capacity of over 1,000 pounds.
(KRS 189.010)
TRUCK-TRACTOR. Any motor-propelled vehicle designed to draw and to support the front end of a semi-trailer. The semi-trailer and the truck-tractor shall be considered to be one unit.
(KRS 189.010)
UNOBSTRUCTED HIGHWAY. A straight, level, first-class road upon which no other vehicle is passing or attempting to pass, and upon which no other vehicle or pedestrian is approaching in the opposite direction, closer than 300 yards.
VEHICLE. Includes all agencies for the transportation of persons or property over or upon the public highways of the commonwealth and all vehicles passing over or upon the highways. MOTOR VEHICLE includes all vehicles, as defined above, except: road rollers; road graders; farm tractors; vehicles on which power shovels are mounted; construction equipment customarily used only on the site of construction and which is not practical for the transportation of persons or property upon the highways; vehicles that travel exclusively upon rails; vehicles propelled by electric power obtained from overhead wires while being operated within any municipality or where the vehicles do not travel more than five miles beyond the city limits of any municipality; and vehicle propelled by muscular power.
(KRS 189.010)
(1984 Code, § 70.01) (Ord. O-34-67, passed 5-25-1967; Ord. O-51-86, passed 9-9-1986; Ord. O-7-88, passed 2-9-1988; Ord. O-47-94, passed 12-13-1994; Ord. O-4-98, passed 2-17-1998)