For the purpose of this article:
(a) The word “vehicle” shall mean 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) The word “street” shall mean any public street, avenue, road, alley, highway, lane, path, or other public place located in the City of Keyser and established for the use of vehicles.
(c) The word “person” shall mean and include any individual, firm, copartnership, association or corporation.
(d) The word “operator” shall mean and include 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.
(e) The word “park” or “parking” shall mean the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon a street otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of, and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers or loading or unloading merchandise or in obedience to traffic regulations, signs, or signals or an involuntary stopping of the vehicle by reason of causes beyond the control of the operator of the vehicle.
(f) The words “Parking Meter” shall mean and include any mechanical device or meter not inconsistent with this ordinance placed or erected for the regulation of parking by authority installed shall indicate by proper legend the legal parking time established by the City and when operated shall at all time indicate the balance of legal parking time, and at the expiration of such period shall indicate illegal or overtime parking.
(g) The words “Parking Meter Zone” shall mean and include any restricted street upon which parking meters are installed and in operation.
(h) The words “Parking Meter Space” shall mean any space within a parking meter zone, adjacent to a parking meter and which is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise durably marked on the curb or on the surface of the street adjacent to or adjoining the parking meters.
(Ord. 221. Passed 6-4-86.)