For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning. Words used in the present tense shall include the future tense; words in the singular number include the plural; words in the plural number include the singular; the word PERSON includes a firm, partnership or corporation as well as an individual; the term SHALL is always mandatory and not discretionary; and the word MAY is permissive.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES. Hermosa Town Board members, elected by the citizens of Hermosa, Custer County, South Dakota.
MOTOR VEHICLE. A vehicle, as herein defined, which is self-propelled.
OWNER. A person who holds the 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 a vehicle is entitled to possession, then the conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor is the owner for the purpose of this chapter.
PARKED/PARKING. A stopped vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily stopped for the purpose of, and while actually engaged in, loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
SEMI-TRAILER. Any commercially-licensed vehicle of the trailer type equipped with a kingpin assembly, designed and used in conjunction with a fifth wheel connecting device on a motor vehicle and constructed so that some part of its weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle.
TOWN. The Town of Hermosa, Custer County, South Dakota.
TOWN BOARD. The Board of Trustees of the Town of Hermosa.
TRAILER. A commercially licensed vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property or passengers on its own structure and, for the purposes of this chapter, for being drawn by a truck and more than 28 feet in length.
TRUCK. Includes a truck tractor and trailer(s) and/or semi-trailer(s) with a gross vehicle weight of more than 26,000 pounds.
TRUCK TRACTOR. A motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing semi-trailers or similar vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
VEHICLE. A 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; including bicycles and ridden animals.
(Ord. 9.07, passed 4-6-2010)