For the purposes of this title, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. Any passage or way for public use which serves rear entrances to real property.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Vehicles of the police and fire forces, vehicles assigned to or authorized for official use by state and federal peace officers, vehicles of the armed forces of the United States while actually engaged in official business and ambulances, and emergency vehicles of the municipal departments of the city, of the United States, of the state, of the county and the repair or service vehicles of any public service corporation while actually engaged in emergency service and which vehicles may be specifically designated or authorized as that by the Board of Public Works and Safety.
AUTOMOBILE TRAILER, TRAILER COACH, TRAILER, CAMPER, or HOUSE CAR. A vehicle or structure so designed and constructed in a manner as will permit occupancy thereof for sleeping quarters for one or more persons, or the conduct of business or profession, occupation, or trade (or use as a selling or advertising device), and so designed that it is or may be mounted on wheels and used as a conveyance on highways or city streets, propelled or drawn by its own or other motive power.
BICYCLE. Any foot-propelled vehicle, irrespective of the number of wheels in contact with the ground.
BOARD. Unless otherwise stated, means the Board of Public Works and Safety of the city.
BOAT TRAILER. Every vehicle without motor power designed and including every pole trailer and every two-wheel homemade trailer when used to haul boats.
BUREAU. Unless otherwise stated, means the Traffic Bureau of the Police Department of the city.
BUS. Every motor vehicle designed for carrying passengers for hire and used for the transportation of persons and every motor vehicle other than a taxicab designed and used for the transportation of persons for compensation.
BUS LOADING ZONE. A place adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.
BUSINESS DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a highway when 50% or more of the frontage thereon for a distance of 500 feet or more is occupied by buildings in use for business.
CROSSWALK. The portion of a roadway at an intersection, included within the prolongation or connection of the lateral lines of the sidewalks from the curb to the opposite curbs, when unmarked, also any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere 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.
FAR SIDE BUS STOPS. A bus loading zone established immediately beyond any intersection or established within any block, excepting those immediately preceding any intersection.
FREIGHT CURB LOADING ZONE. A space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of freight during the times prescribed.
HOLIDAY. January 1, May 30, July 4, the first Monday in September, December 25, the day designated and set aside by the President of the United States as a day of Thanksgiving, and the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday.
INTERSECTION. 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 at or approximately at right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different highways, joining at any other angle, may come in conflict.
LANED ROADWAY. A roadway which is divided into three or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
LIMITED-ACCESS STREET OR HIGHWAY. Every highway, street, or roadway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting property or lands and other persons have no legal right of access to or from the same, except at points only and in a manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over the highway, street, or roadway.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Every vehicle which is self-propelled, but not operated upon rails or tracks.
MOTORCYCLE. Every motor vehicle having a 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.
MUNICIPAL PARKING LOT. The area owned, operated, or leased for operation by the municipality and used for off-street parking of vehicles.
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD. Whenever certain hours are named in this title, unless otherwise provided, it shall mean United States Central Standard time or daylight savings time, as may be in current use in the city.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES. All signs, signals, markings, and devices not inconsistent with this chapter placed or erected by authority of the Board of Public Works and Safety or official having jurisdiction for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNALS. Any device, whether manually, electrically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop, slow down, or proceed.
OWNER OF VEHICLE. A person who holds the legal title to a vehicle or the conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor.
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 or in obedience to traffic regulations or official traffic signs or signals.
PARKWAY. The portion of a public street or way between the sidewalk and curb or between the sidewalk and roadway where there is no curb.
PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot.
POLICE OFFICER. Every member of the city police force and any person duly authorized to direct or regulate traffic or 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 or manager and those having express or implied permission from the owner or manager, but not by other persons.
RAILROAD. A carrier of persons or property upon cars operated upon stationary rails.
RAILROAD TRAIN. A steam, electric, oil, motor, or otherwise driven or propelled engine or locomotive, with or without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business district, when the property on the highway for a distance of 500 feet or more is in the main improved with residences and buildings in use for business.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The privilege of the immediate use of the street or highway.
ROADWAY. The portion of a street improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel.
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.
SIDEWALK. The portion of the street between the curb lines or the lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians.
STOP or STOPPING.
(1) Complete cessation of movement.
(2) When prohibited, STOP or STOPPING means any stopping of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, 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 the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any party thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
TAXICAB STAND. A fixed area along the curb, set aside for taxicabs to stand or wait for passengers.
THROUGH STREET OR HIGHWAY. Every street or portion thereof at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting streets is required by law to stop before entering or crossing the same and where stop signs or traffic control signals are erected as provided in this chapter.
TRAFFIC. Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using any street for purposes of travel.
TRAFFIC CODE. This title, together with its schedules and amendments, if any.
TRUCK. Every motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transporting of property, including tractors, trailers, and commercial vehicles.
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 stationary rails or tracks.
(Prior Code, § 70.001) (Ord. 3092, passed - -1975)