Wherever in this title the following terms are used, they shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section:
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE: Vehicles of the fire department, (fire patrol), police vehicles and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of the municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the chief of police.
CONGESTED DISTRICTS: All streets or parts of streets within the following boundaries:
First Street on the north to Third Street on the south.
Second Avenue on the west and Fifth Avenue on the east.
In all cases, the entire width of the street or avenue mentioned shall be included within the congested districts.
CROSSWALK: That portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the prolongation 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 prolongation of the lateral curb lines or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of two (2) 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.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNALS: All signals, not inconsistent with this title, placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction for the purpose of directing, warning or regulated traffic.
OPERATOR: Any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
PARKING: The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon a roadway otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading, or in obedience of traffic regulations or traffic signs or signals.
PEDESTRIAN: Any person afoot.
POLICE OFFICER: Every officer of the municipal police department or any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY: Every road or driveway not open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
RIGHT OF WAY: The privilege of the immediate use, of the street or highway.
ROADWAY: That portion of a street or highway between the regularly established curb lines or that part devoted to vehicular traffic.
SIDEWALK: That portion of a street between the curb lines and the adjacent property lines.
STREET OR HIGHWAY: Every way set apart for public travel, except footpaths.
TRAFFIC: Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using streets for purposes of travel.
TRAILER: Every "vehicle", as defined herein, including without limitation, vehicles commonly known as camper trailers, travel trailers, boat trailers, utility trailers, horse trailers, flatbed trailers, car haulers, and all other types and kinds of trailers. For purposes of sections 10-6-13 and 10-6-14 of this title, the term "trailer" shall specifically include those recreational motorized vehicles commonly known as motor homes, bumper towed campers and fifth wheel trailers.
VEHICLE: Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. (Ord. 355, 3-1-1943; amd. Ord. 848, 9-20-2004)