(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 parking lot 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.
(f) “Municipal parking lot” means any property owned by the City of Kent which has been designed and improved expressly for the purpose of parking of motor vehicles by the general public, and which has signs identifying it as a municipal parking lot for general use of the public.
(g) Posting of parking restrictions means the visible posting of signs identifying the limitations on use of parking areas within a municipal parking lot.
(h) “Parking within designated spaces” means parking a motor vehicle within the painted lines used to identify the width and length of a parking area designated for a single parked motor vehicle.
(i) “Designated parking space” means a parking space the use of which is dedicated to a specific business, by virtue of contractual requirements at the time of municipal purchase of the property. Such designated spaces shall be identified by individual signs, and use of these spaces shall be by permitted issued to the property owner, or by specific authorization of the designated business.
(j) “Municipal facility parking” means parking lots dedicated to the specific use of a municipal facility or office, and such parking lot use is limited to official business being conducted at the facility.
(Ord. 2001-121. Passed 12-5-01)