(a) "Motor vehicle" means any device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported upon a highway, except a device which is operated upon rails or tracks.
(b) "Operator" means and includes every individual who shall operate a vehicle as the owner thereof, or as the agent, employee or permittee of the owner or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
(c) "Owner" means the record of ownership as shown in the clerk of courts office of the proper county and shall be prima-facie evidence that the owner placed the vehicle in the parking space at the time and place alleged in the complaint against him/her.
(d) "Park" or "parking" means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon a public street other than temporarily for the purpose of, and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passenger(s), loading or unloading merchandise, obedience to traffic regulations, signs or signals or an involuntary stopping of the motor vehicle by reason of causes beyond the control of the operator of the vehicle.
(e) "Person" means and includes any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation or other recognized legal entity. (Ord. 1978-176. Passed 11-15-78.)