Whenever in this title the following terms are used, they shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section:
ALLEY: A public way, not designed for general travel, within a block primarily intended for service and access to abutting property by vehicles.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES: Vehicles that are designated or authorized as such by the Salt Lake County or the city sheriff, and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of the United States, state and municipal governments as may be operated on the streets of the city.
BICYCLE: Every device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, having two (2) tandem wheels, either of which is over twenty inches (20") in diameter, and including any device generally recognized as a bicycle, though equipped with more than one front or rear wheel.
CROSSWALK: That portion of a roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the street measured from the curbs or, in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway; also, any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
CROSSWALK LINE: A single white line, not less than six inches (6") in width, painted on a street marking the outlying limits of a pedestrian crossing.
DRIVER: Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
INTERSECTION: A. The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, the lateral boundary lines or the roadway of two (2) streets that join one another at, or approximately at, right angels, or the area within which vehicles, traveling upon different streets joining at any other angle, come in conflict.
B. Where a street includes two (2) roadways thirty feet (30') or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such divided street by an intersecting street shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
LIMITED ACCESS STREET, HIGHWAY OR ROADWAY: Every highway, street or roadway, with respect to which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right of access except at such points and in such manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over such highway, street or roadway.
MOTOR DRIVEN CYCLE: Every motorcycle, including every motor scooter, with a motor that produces more than five (5) horsepower, and every bicycle with a motor attached.
MOTOR VEHICLE: Every vehicle that is self-propelled, but not operated upon rails.
MOTORCYCLE: Every motor vehicle, other than a tractor, having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three (3) wheels in contact with the ground.
OWNER: A person who holds the legal title to a vehicle or, in the event a vehicle is subject to 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 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 such conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor shall be deemed the owner for the purpose of this title.
PARK: The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily, for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading.
PEDESTRIAN: Any person afoot.
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 used by other persons.
RAILROAD: A carrier of persons or property upon cars operated upon stationary rails.
RAILROAD SIGN OR SIGNAL: Any sign, signal or device erected by authority of a public body or official or by a railroad and intended to give notice of the presence of railroad tracks or the approach of a railroad train.
RAILROAD TRAIN: A steam engine, electric or other motor, with or without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails.
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.
SAFETY ZONE: That area within the crosswalk for the exclusive use of pedestrians, bounded on two (2) sides by the crosswalk lines and on the other two (2) sides by yellow lines or by physical barriers, or otherwise so protected, marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone.
SIDEWALK AREA: That portion of a street or highway between the curb lines of the lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines.
STOP: Complete cessation from movement.
STOP OR LIMIT LINE: A single white line not less than twelve inches (12") in width behind which vehicles must stop when directed by the sheriff's department or a traffic control device.
STOP, STOPPING OR STANDING WHEN PROHIBITED: Any stopping or standing of a vehicle whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a sheriff's officer or traffic control device.
STREET OR HIGHWAY: The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE: All signs, signals, traffic markings and devices of the state placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purposes of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
TRAFFIC ENGINEER: The traffic engineer of the city or the appointed agent of any entity providing engineering services to the city.
TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER: The transportation engineer of the city or the appointed agent of any entity providing engineering services to the city.
VEHICLE: Every device in, upon or by which a person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. (1999 Code)