For the purposes of this title, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
ALLEY: A public way within a block generally giving access to the rear of lots or buildings and not used for general traffic circulation.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE: Emergency vehicles of the city as are designated or authorized by the city; police vehicles; vehicles of the fire department; vehicles of a HAZMAT or technical rescue teams authorized by a county board under section 5-1127 of the counties code 1 ; ambulances; vehicles of the Illinois emergency management agency; mine rescue emergency response vehicles of the department of natural resources; and vehicles of the Illinois department of public health.
BICYCLE: Every device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, having two (2) tandem wheels, except scooters and similar devices.
BUSINESS DISTRICT: The territory within the city contiguous to and including a street or highway when, within any six hundred feet (600') along such highway, 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 three hundred feet (300') of frontage on one side or three hundred feet (300') collectively on both sides of the street or highway.
CROSSWALK: A. That 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, that 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 such extension forming a right angle to the centerline of the highway.
B. Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossings by lines or other markings on the surface.
DRIVER: Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
EXPLOSIVE: 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, friction, concussion, percussion or 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 destructible effects on contiguous objects or of destroying life or limb.
FARM TRACTOR: Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows, mowing machines and other implements of husbandry, every implement of husbandry which is self-propelled, excluding "all-terrain vehicles" and "off highway motorcycles" as defined by state statute.
FLAMMABLE LIQUID: Any liquid which has a flashpoint of seventy degrees Fahrenheit (70°F) or less, as determined by a Tagliabue or equivalent closed cup test device.
IMPROVED HIGHWAY: A roadway of concrete, brick, asphalt, macadam or crushed stone or gravel.
INTERSECTION: A. 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 (2) 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.
B. Where a highway includes two (2) roadways forty feet (40') or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such divided highway by an intersecting highway shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
LANED ROADWAY: A street, the roadway of which is divided into two (2) 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 materials.
MERGING TRAFFIC: A maneuver executed by the drivers of vehicles on converging roadways to permit simultaneous or alternate entry into the junction thereof, wherein the driver of each vehicle involved is required to adjust his vehicular speed and lateral position so as to avoid a collision with any other vehicle.
METAL TIRE: Every tire the surface of which in contact with the roadway is wholly or partially of metal or other hard, nonresilient material.
MOTOR VEHICLE: Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead wires, but not operated upon rails, except for vehicles moved solely by human power, motorized wheelchairs, low speed electric bicycles and low speed gas bicycles.
MOTORCYCLE: Every motor vehicle 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, but excluding a tractor.
PARK OR PARKING: The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, other than when temporarily and actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
PEDESTRIAN: Any person afoot, including a person with a physical, hearing or visual disability.
PNEUMATIC TIRE: Every tire in which compressed air is designed to support the load.
PROPERTY LINE: The line marking the boundary between any street and the lots or property abutting thereon.
PUBLIC BUILDING: A building used by the city, the county, any park district, school district, the state or the United States government.
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.
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.
ROADWAY: That portion of a street or highway, improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. In the event a highway includes two (2) or more separate roadways, the term "roadway" shall refer to any such roadway separately but not to all roadways collectively.
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 adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone.
SCHOOL BUS: A. Every motor vehicle, except as provided in subsection B of this definition, 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 such entity:
1. Any public or private primary or secondary school;
2. Any primary or secondary school operated by a religious institution; or
3. Any public, private or religious nursery school.
B. This definition shall not include the following:
1. A bus operated by a public utility, the city or common carrier authorized to conduct local or interurban transportation of passengers when such bus is not traveling a specific school bus route but is:
a. On a regularly scheduled route for the transportation of other fare paying passengers;
b. Furnishing charter service for the transportation of groups on field trips or other special trips or in connection with other special events; or
c. Being used for shuttle service between attendance centers or other educational facilities.
2. A motor vehicle of the first division.
3. A motor vehicle designed for the transportation of not less than seven (7) nor more than sixteen (16) persons that is operated by or for a public or private primary or secondary school, including any primary or secondary school operated by a religious institution, for the purpose of transporting not more than fifteen (15) students to and from interscholastic athletic or other interscholastic or school sponsored activities.
SEMITRAILER: 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.
SIDEWALK: That portion of a street between the curb lines or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians.
SOLID TIRE: Every tire of rubber or other resilient material which does not depend upon compressed air for the support of the load.
STREET OR HIGHWAY: The entire width between property lines of every way or place of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for the purpose of vehicular traffic.
TRAFFIC: Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances, whether singly or together, while using any highway for the purpose of travel.
TRAILER: Every vehicle without motive power in operation, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying passengers or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.
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.
URBAN DISTRICT: The territory contiguous to and including any street which is built up with structures devoted to business, industry or dwelling houses situated at intervals of less than one hundred feet (100') for a distance of one-fourth (1/4) mile or more.
VEHICLE: Every device, in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway or requiring a certificate of title under 625 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/3-101(d), 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 2 . For the purposes of this title, unless otherwise prescribed, a "device" shall be considered to be a "vehicle" until such time it either comes within the definition of a "junk vehicle", as defined under 625 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/1-134.1, or a junking certificate is issued therefor.
YIELD RIGHT OF WAY: When required by an official sign, shall mean the act of granting the privilege of the immediate use of the intersecting roadway to traffic within the intersection and to vehicles approaching from the right or left; provided, that when the roadway is clear, the vehicle may proceed into the intersection. (1996 Code § 18-1; amd. 2010 Code)
Notes
| 1 | 1. 55 ILCS 5/5-1127. |
| 2 | 1. 625 ILCS 40/1-1 et seq. |