301.32 RAILROAD TRAIN.

   "Railroad train" means a steam engine or an electric or other motor, with or without cars coupled thereto, operated by a railroad.

(ORC 4511.01(Q))

301.33 RESIDENCE DISTRICT.

   "Residence district" means the territory, not comprising a business district, fronting on a street or highway, including the street or highway, where, for a distance of 300 feet or more, the frontage is improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business.

(ORC 4511.01(OO))

301.335 RIDESHARING ARRANGEMENT.

   "Ridesharing arrangement" includes the transportation of persons in a motor vehicle where the transportation is incidental to another purpose of a volunteer driver, and includes ridesharing arrangements known as carpools, vanpools, and buspools.

(ORC 4511.01(DDD))

301.34 RIGHT-OF-WAY.

   "Right-of-way" means either of the following, as the context requires:

   (a)   The right of a vehicle or pedestrian to proceed uninterruptedly in a lawful manner in the direction in which it, he or she is moving, in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian approaching from a different direction into its, his or her path;

   (b)   A general term denoting land, property, or the interest therein, usually in the configuration of a strip, acquired for or devoted to transportation purposes. When used in this context, "right-of-way" includes the roadway, shoulders or berm, ditch, and slopes extending to the right-of-way limits under the control of the State or local authority.

(ORC 4511.01(UU))

301.35 ROADWAY.

   "Roadway" means that portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, except the berm or shoulder. If a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term "roadway" means any roadway separately, but not all the roadways collectively.

(ORC 4511.01(EE))

301.355 RURAL MAIL DELIVERY VEHICLE.

   "Rural mail delivery vehicle" means every vehicle used to deliver United States mail on a rural mail delivery route.

(ORC 4511.01(VV))

301.36 SAFETY ZONE.

   "Safety zone" means the area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians, and protected or marked or indicated by adequate signs so as to be plainly visible at all times.

(ORC 4511.01(MM))

301.37 SCHOOL BUS.

   "School bus" means every bus designed for carrying more than nine passengers which is owned by a public, private, or governmental agency or institution of learning, and operated for the transportation of children to or from a school session or a school function, or owned by a private person and operated for compensation for the transportation of children to or from a school session or a school function; provided "school bus" does not include a bus operated by a municipally owned transportation system, a mass transit company operating exclusively within the territorial limits of a municipality, or within such limits and the territorial limits of municipalities immediately contiguous to the municipality, nor a common passenger carrier certified by the Public Utilities Commission unless the bus is devoted exclusively to the transportation of children to and from a school session or a school function, and "school bus" does not include a van or bus used by a licensed child day-care center or Type A family day-care home to transport children from the child day-care center or Type A family day-care home to a school if the van or bus does not have more than 15 children in the van or bus at any time.

(ORC 4511.01(F); Ord. 11-1994. Passed 1-18-94.)

301.38 SEMITRAILER.

   "Semitrailer" means every vehicle designed or used for carrying persons or property with another and separate motor vehicle so that in operation a part of its own weight or that of its load, or both, rests upon and is carried by another vehicle.

(ORC 4511.01(N))