§ 70.001 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   ALLEY. A public way within a block, generally giving access to the rear of lots or buildings and not used for general traffic circulation.
   ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE. Any motorized off-highway device 50 inches or less in width, having a manufacturer’s dry weight of 600 pounds or less, traveling on three or more low-pressure tires, designed with a seat or saddle for operator use, and handlebars or steering wheel for steering control.
   AMBULANCE. Any publicly or privately owned vehicle which is specifically designed, constructed or modified and equipped, and is intended to be used for, and is maintained or operated for the emergency transportation of persons who are sick, injured, wounded or otherwise incapacitated or helpless.
   APARTMENT COMPLEX. Any premises having one or more apartments, a means to enter and depart from those apartments and for the parking of motor vehicles of occupants and their guests.
   ARTERIAL STREET. Any U.S. or state numbered route, controlled-access highway, or other major radial or circumferential street or highway designated by local authorities within their respective jurisdictions as part of a major arterial system of streets or highway.
   AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Any emergency vehicle of a municipal department or public service corporation as designated or authorized by proper local authorities; police vehicle; vehicle of the Fire Department and ambulance.
   BICYCLE. Every device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, having two tandem wheels, except scooters and similar devices.
   BUS. Every motor vehicle, other than a commuter van, designed for carrying more than ten persons.
   BUSINESS DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a street, when within 600 feet along the street 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 collectively on both sides of the street.
   CAMPING TRAILER. A trailer, not used commercially, constructed with partial side walls which fold for towing and unfold to provide temporary living quarters for recreational camping or travel use and of a size or weight not requiring an overdimension permit when towed on a highway.
   CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT. Both sides of Main Street between the Santa Fe Railroad tracks on the west and the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks on the east; both sides of Chambers Street between Matthews and Mulberry Streets; both sides of Mulberry Street between Seminary Street and Chambers Street; and that area bounded by:
      (1)   West boundary. Both sides of Broad Street between Tompkins Street and Water Street;
      (2)   North boundary. Both sides of Water Street between Broad Street and Seminary Street;
      (3)   East boundary. Both sides of Seminary Street between Water Street and Tompkins Street; and
      (4)   South boundary. Both sides of Tompkins Street between Broad Street and Seminary Street.
   COMMERCIAL VEHICLE. Any vehicle operated for the transportation of persons or property in the furtherance of any commercial or industrial enterprise, for-hire or not-for-hire, but not including a commuter van, a vehicle used in a ride-sharing arrangement when being used for that purpose, or a recreational vehicle not being used commercially.
   COMMUTER VAN. A motor vehicle designed for the transportation of not less than seven nor more than 16 passengers, which is:
      (1)   Used in a ridesharing arrangement; or
      (2)   Owned or leased by or on behalf of a company or an employee organization and operated on a nonprofit basis with the primary purpose of transporting employees of the company between the employees’ homes and the company’s place of business or a public transportation station and in which the operating, administrative, maintenance and reasonable depreciation costs are paid principally by the persons utilizing the COMMUTER VAN.
   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 those points only as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over the street, highway or roadway.
   CROSSWALK. Any of the following:
      (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 in the absence of a sidewalk on one side of the highway, the part of the highway included within the extension of the lateral line of the existing sidewalk to the side of the highway without the sidewalk, with the extension forming a right angle to the centerline of the highway; or
      (2)   Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface placed in accordance with the provisions in the Manual adopted by the Illinois Department of Transportation.
   DRIVER. Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
   EXPLOSIVES. Any chemical compound or mechanical mixture that is commonly used or intended for the purpose of producing an explosion and which contains any oxidizing and combustive units or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities or packing that an ignition by fire, by friction, by concussion, by percussion or by detonator of any part of the compound or mixture may cause such a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the resultant gaseous pressures are capable of producing destructive effects on contiguous objects or of destroying life of limb.
   FARM TRACTOR. Every motorized device designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing wagons, plows, mowing machines and other implements of husbandry, and every implement of husbandry which is self-propelled, excluding all-terrain vehicles and off-highway motorcycles as defined in this chapter.
   FIRE LANE. The travel lane, on private and public property, designated by the City Manager, for use by firefighting equipment, or related emergency equipment.
   FLAMMABLE LIQUID. Any liquid which has a flashpoint of 70ºF, or less, as determined by a tagliabue or equivalent closed-cup test device.
   FLEET. One or more commercial motor vehicles.
   FLEET SAFETY VEHICLE. Any motor vehicle which is used to supervise operations of vehicles of the second division on the highway so as to promote safety and legal operations of the second division vehicle.
   FOR-HIRE. The operation of a vehicle for compensation and subject to federal regulation by the Interstate Commerce Commission or to state regulation by the State Commerce Commission and those vehicles governed by Chapters 8 and 9 under the Illinois Vehicle Code () and regulated by the Secretary of State.
   GROSS WEIGHT. The weight of a vehicle, whether operated singly or in combination without load, plus the weight of the load thereon.
   HANDICAP PARKING SPACE. The parking space, on public or private property, designated by the City Manager and marked with appropriate signs and/or markings restricting the space to vehicles operated by or transporting handicapped persons.
   HANDICAPPED PERSON. Every natural person who is unable to walk 200 feet or more unassisted by another person or without the aid of a walker, crutches, braces, prosthetic device or a wheelchair or without great difficulty or discomfort due to the following impairments: neurologic, orthopedic, respiratory, cardiac, arthritic disorder, blindness or the loss of function or absence of a limb.
   HOUSE TRAILER.
      (1)   A trailer or semi-trailer equipped and used for living quarters or for human habitation (temporarily or permanently) rather than for the transportation of freight, goods, wares and merchandise; or
      (2)   A house trailer or a semi-trailer which is used commercially (temporarily or permanently), that is, for the advertising, sales, display or promotion of merchandise or services, or for any other commercial purpose except the transportation of property for hire or the transportation of property for distribution by a private carrier.
   IMPLEMENT OF HUSBANDRY. Every vehicle designed and adapted exclusively for agricultural, horticultural or livestock-raising operations, including farm wagons, wagon trailers or like vehicles used in connection therewith, of for lifting or carrying an IMPLEMENT OF HUSBANDRY. IMPLEMENT OF HUSBANDRY does not include any farm wagon, wagon trailer or like vehicle having a gross weight of more than 36,000 pounds.
   IMPROVED HIGHWAY. Any roadway of concrete, brick, asphalt, macadam and crushed stone or gravel.
   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 roadways joining at any other angle may come in conflict. Where a highway includes two roadways 40 feet or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of the divided highway by an intersecting highway shall be regarded as a separate INTERSECTION. The junction of an alley with a street or highway does not constitute an INTERSECTION.
   JUNK VEHICLE. A vehicle which has been or is being disassembled, crushed, compressed, flattened, destroyed or otherwise reduced to a state in which it no longer can be returned to an operable state.
   LANE-CONTROL SIGNAL. An official traffic-control device consisting of an electrically controlled and illuminated signal of a square or rectangular design and employing distinctive colors or symbols used to control the direction of vehicular flow on the particular lane to which the indication applies.
   LANED ROADWAY. A roadway which is divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
   LOADING ZONE. The space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or material.
   MEDICAL CARRIER. Any publicly or privately owned vehicle which is specifically designed, constructed or modified and equipped, and is intended to be used for, and is maintained or operated for the nonemergency transportation of persons for compensation for the purpose of obtaining medical services.
   MEDICAL TRANSPORT VEHICLE. Includes any ambulance, medical carrier and rescue vehicle.
   MERGING TRAFFIC. A maneuver executed by the drivers of vehicles on converging roadways to permit entry into the junction thereof, wherein the driver of each vehicle involved is required to adjust his or her vehicular speed and lateral position so as to avoid a collision with any other vehicle.
   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.
   MOTOR HOME, MINI MOTOR HOME or VAN CAMPER.  
      (1)   A self-contained motor vehicle, not used commercially, designed or permanently converted to provide living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, with direct walk-through access to the living quarters from the driver’s seat.
      (2)   Effective January 1, 1991, a self-contained motor vehicle, not used commercially, designed or permanently converted to provide living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, with direct walk-through access to the living quarters from the driver’s seat. The vehicles must include at least four of the following:
         (a)   A cooking facility with an onboard fuel source;
         (b)   A gas or electric refrigerator;
         (c)   A toilet with exterior evacuation;
         (d)   A heating or air conditioning system with an onboard power or fuel source separate from the vehicle engine;
         (e)   A potable water supply system that includes at least a sink, a faucet and a water tank with an exterior service supply connection; and/or
         (f)   A 110–125-volt electric power supply.
   MOTOR-DRIVEN CYCLE. Every motorcycle and every motor scooter with less than 150 cubic centimeter piston displacement, including motorized pedalcycles.
   MOTOR VEHICLE. Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails, except for vehicles moved solely by human power and motorized wheelchairs. MOTOR VEHICLES are divided into two divisions:
      (1)   First division. Those motor vehicles which are designed for the carrying of not more than ten persons; and
      (2)   Second division. Those motor vehicles which are designed for carrying more than ten persons; those motor vehicles designed or used for living quarters; those MOTOR VEHICLES which are designed for pulling or carrying freight, cargo or implements of husbandry; and those MOTOR VEHICLES of the first division remodeled for use and used as motor vehicles of the second division.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-146
   MOTORIZED PEDALCYCLE. A motor-driven cycle whose speed attainable in one mile is 30 miles per hour or less, which is equipped with a motor that produces two brake horsepower or less. If an internal combustion engine is used, the displacement shall not exceed 50 cubic centimeter displacement and the power drive system shall not require the operator to shift gears.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-148.2
   MOTORIZED WHEELCHAIR. Any self-propelled vehicle designed for and used by a handicapped person, that is incapable of a speed in excess of eight miles per hour on level ground.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-148.3
   MULTIPURPOSE PASSENGER VEHICLE. A passenger-carrying vehicle which is constructed either on a truck chassis or with special features for occasional off-road operation.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-148.3b
   NONCOMMERCIAL VEHICLE. Any vehicle that is not a commercial vehicle.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-148.6
   NOT-FOR-HIRE. Operation of a commercial vehicle in furtherance of any commercial or industrial enterprise but not for-hire.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-153
   OFF-HIGHWAY MOTORCYCLE. Any motorized device designed to travel primarily off-highway on two wheels, having a seat or saddle for the use of the operator, upon or by which any person, persons or property may be transported or drawn.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-153.1
   OFFICIAL TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES. All signs, signals, markings and devices which conform with the state Manual and not inconsistent with law placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-154
   OPERATE. To ride in or on, other than as a passenger, use or control in any manner the operation of any device or vehicle, whether motorized or propelled by human power.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-154.1
   OPERATOR. Every person who operates or is in actual physical control of any device or vehicle whether motorized or propelled by human power.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-154.2
   OWNER. A person who holds legal title of a vehicle, or in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof 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 in the event a mortgagor of the vehicle is entitled to possession, then the conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor shall be deemed the OWNER.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-155
   PARADE. Any PARADE, march, ceremony, show, exhibition, pageant or procession of any kind, or any similar display, in or upon any street, highway or sidewalk.
   PARK or PARKING. The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than when temporarily and actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-156
   PARKING SPACE. Any area in a parking lot or street which has been marked for parking by lines painted on the pavement and/or by the placement of signs.
   PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-158
   PNEUMATIC TIRE. Every tire in which compressed air is designed to support the load.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-160
   POLICE OFFICER. Every officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-162
   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.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-163
   RAILROAD. A carrier of persons or property upon cars, other than streetcars, operated upon stationary rails.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-166
   RAILROAD-HIGHWAY GRADE CROSSING. The intersection of stationary rails owned or used in the operation of a railroad corporation across a highway.
Statutory reference:
    Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-166.1
   RAILROAD SIGN OR SIGNAL. Any sign, signal or device, other than an official traffic-control signal or device, erected in accordance with the laws governing same and intended to give notice of the presence of railroad tracks or the approach of a railroad train.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-167
   RAILROAD TRAIN. A steam engine, electric or other motor, with or without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails, except streetcars.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-168
   RESCUE SQUAD. A voluntary association of individuals or a Fire Department dedicated to saving lives through the rescue of persons entrapped in wrecked vehicles or other hazardous circumstances and associated with some unit of government.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-171.6
   RESCUE VEHICLE. Any publicly or privately owned vehicle which is specifically designed, configured and equipped for the performance of access and extrication of persons from hazardous or life-endangering situations, as well as for the emergency transportation of persons who are sick, injured, wounded or otherwise incapacitated or helpless.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-171.8
   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 300 feet or more is in the main improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-172
   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.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-177
   ROAD TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon either independently or any part of the weight of a vehicle or load so drawn.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-178
   ROADWAY. The portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term ROADWAY as used herein shall refer to any roadway separately but not to all the roadways collectively.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-179
   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 signs as to be plainly visible at all times which part is set apart as a SAFETY ZONE.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-181
   SCHOOL BUS.  
      (1)   Every motor vehicle owned or operated by or for any of the following entities for the transportation of persons regularly enrolled as students in grade 12 or below in connection with any activity of the entity:
         (a)   Any public or private primary or secondary school;
         (b)   Any primary or secondary school operated by a religious institution; or
         (c)   Any public, private or religious nursery school.
      (2)   SCHOOL BUS does not include the following:
         (a)   A bus operated by a public utility, municipal corporation or common carrier authorized to conduct local or interurban transportation of passengers when the bus is not traveling a specific school bus route, but is:
            1.   An a regularly scheduled route for the transportation of other fare-paying passengers;
            2.   Furnishing charter service for the transportation of groups on field trips or other special trips or in connection with other special events; or
            3.   Being used for shuttle service between attendance centers or other educational facilities.
         (b)   A motor vehicle of the first division.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-182
   SEMI-TRAILER. Every vehicle without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that some part of its weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-187
   SHOPPING CENTER. Premises having one or more stores with which there is provided, on privately owned property used by the public, a means to enter and depart from those stores and for the parking of motor vehicles of customers or patrons.
   SHOULDER. The portion of the highway adjacent to the roadway for accommodating stopped vehicles or for emergency use.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-187.1
   SIDEWALK. The portion of a street between the curblines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for use of pedestrians.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-188
   SPEED-CHANGE LANE. An auxiliary lane, including tapered areas, primarily for the acceleration or deceleration of vehicles entering or leaving the through traffic lanes.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-193
   STAND or STANDING. The halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than when temporarily and actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-194
   STINGER-STEERED SEMI-TRAILER. Every semi-trailer which has its kingpin on a projection to the front of the structure of the semi-trailer and is combined with the fifth wheel of the truck tractor at a point not less than two feet to the rear of the center of the rearmost axle of the tractor.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-198
   STOP. When required, means complete cessation from movement.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-199
   STOP or STOPPING. 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.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-200
   STREET or HIGHWAY. The entire width between boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-201
   SUBURBAN DISTRICT. The portion of the city other than the business and residence districts.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-203
   TERRACE. The portion of a public street which lies between the curb and the nearest boundary line of the public street.
   THROUGH STREET. Every street 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 the THROUGH STREET in obedience to either a stop sign or a yield sign, when the signs are erected.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-205
   TOW TRUCK. Every truck designed or altered and equipped for and used to push, tow or draw vehicles by means of a crane, hoist, towbar, towline or auxiliary axle, or to render assistance to disabled vehicles.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-205.1
   TOWER. A person who owns or operates a tow truck or a wrecker.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-205.2
   TRAFFIC. Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for purposes of travel.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-207
   TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNAL. Any official traffic-control device other than a railroad sign or signal, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-208
   TRAILER. Every vehicle without motive power in operation, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-209
   TRAVEL TRAILER. A trailer, not used commercially, designed to provide living quarters for recreational camping or travel use, and of a size or weight not requiring an overdimension permit when towed on a highway.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-210.01
   TRUCK. Every motor vehicle, except a road tractor or a truck tractor, designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-211
   TRUCK CAMPER. A truck, not used commercially, when equipped with a portable unit designed to be loaded onto the bed which is construed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, travel or camping use.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-211.01
   TRUCKSTER. Every motor vehicle or motorcycle with three wheels designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-211.1
   TRUCK TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-212.5
   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, devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks and snowmobiles as defined in the Snowmobile Registration and Safety Act (ILCS Ch. 625, Act 40, §§ 1-1 et seq.).
      (1)   For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise prescribed, a device shall be considered to be a VEHICLE until the time it either comes within the definition of a junk vehicle or a junking certificate is issued for it.
      (2)   VEHICLES are divided into two divisions:
         (a)   First division. Those motor vehicles which are designed for the carrying of not more than ten persons; and
         (b)   Second division. Those vehicles which are designed for carrying more than ten persons; those designed or used for living quarters and those vehicles which are designed for pulling or carrying property, freight or cargo; those motor vehicles of the first division remodeled for use and used as motor vehicles of the second division; and those motor vehicles of the first division used and registered as school buses.
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-217
(1990 Code, § 28-1) (Ord. 79-690, passed 9-17-1979; Ord. 82-852, passed 3-15-1982; Ord. 94-1599, passed 11-21-1994)
Statutory reference
   Definitions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, §§ 101–218.5