For the purpose of this title, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Vehicles of the Fire Department, police and ambulances designated or authorized by the Chief of Police.
BLOCK. A portion of any street located between two intersections next adjacent to each other.
BUSINESS DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to a highway, where 75% or more of frontage thereon for a distance of 300 feet or more is occupied by buildings in use for business purposes.
CROSSWALK. The portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the prolongation or connection of the lateral lines of sidewalks at intersections. Any portion of a roadway distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
DRIVER. Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
INTERSECTIONS. The area embraced within the prolongation of the lateral curb lines or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of two or more highways which join one another at any angle whether or not one highway crosses the other.
MOTOR VEHICLES. Every vehicle, which is self-propelled, and every vehicle, which is propelled by electric power, obtained by trolley wires, but not operated by rails, and every vehicle designed to run upon the highways, which is pulled by a self-propelled vehicle.
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD. Whenever certain hours are named herein they shall mean standard time or daylight savings time as may be in current use in this town.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES. All signs, signals, markings and devices not inconsistent with this title placed or erected by authority of the governing body or the official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNALS. Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to proceed.
PARK. The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading.
PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot.
PERSON. Every natural person, firm, partnership, association, corporation or governmental agency.
POLICE OFFICER. Every officer of the Municipal Police Department or any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violation of traffic regulations.
PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY. Every road or driveway not open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purpose of vehicular travel.
PUBLIC CONVEYANCE. Any vehicles other than a taxicab or railroad train, for transporting for fare.
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to a highway not comprising a business district where 75% or more of the frontage for a distance of 300 feet or more is mainly occupied by dwellings or by dwellings and buildings in use for business purposes.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The privilege of the immediate use of the roadway.
ROADWAY. The portion of a street or highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the shoulder.
SAFETY ZONE. The area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is so plainly marked or indicated by proper signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone.
SIDEWALK. The 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.
STANDING. Any stopping of a vehicle, whether occupied or not.
STOP. When required, means complete cessation of movement.
STOP or STOPPING. When prohibited, means any stopping of a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with the direction of a police officer, or traffic control sign or signal.
STREET or HIGHWAY. The entire width between property lines of every way or place of whatever nature, when any part thereof is open to the use of the public as a matter of right, for the purposes of vehicular traffic.
TRAFFIC. Pedestrian, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, street cars and other conveyances either singly or together, while using any street for purposes of travel.
TRUCKS. Those primarily commercial and service vehicles whose gross vehicle weight (gvw) exceeds 10,000 pounds; features more than two axles; or both. Excluded from this definition shall be trucks, including those operated by public safety, utility, sanitation or service providers, when traveling directly to a destination address along a prohibited roadway, for loading, unloading, servicing, responding to an emergency, or accessing the operator’s personal residence (so long as the truck is not parked on the prohibited street); if and when there is no alternative route to the destination address on streets or alleys where truck traffic is not prohibited.
VEHICLE. Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon fixed rails or tracks; provided that for the purposes of this title, bicycles shall be deemed vehicles, and every rider of a bicycle upon a street or highway shall be subject to the provisions of this title applicable to the driver of vehicle except those which, by their nature, can have no application.
(Prior Code, § H-I-1) (Ord. passed 6-12-2012)