§ 70.01 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Vehicles of any Fire Department, police vehicles, and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal department or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the Chief of Police or the City Council.
   CROSSWALK. The portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the extension of curb and property lines at intersections, or any other portion of a roadway clearly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
   INTERSECTION. The area embraced within the extension of the lateral curb lines or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of two or more streets or highways which join one another at an angle whether or not such street or highway crosses the other.
   MOTOR VEHICLE. Every vehicle, as herein defined, which is self-propelled.
   OPERATOR. Any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
   PARKING. The standing of a vehicle whether attended or unattended, upon a roadway or street otherwise then temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading, or in obedience to traffic regulations or traffic signs and signals.
   VEHICLE. Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(Prior Code, § 6.0101)