For the purpose of this title, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. A highway of less than 24 feet total width used primarily for delivery services, parking access and public utilities.
BUSINESS DISTRICT. The area of the village zoned for retail and commercial activity.
CROSSWALK. That portion of the roadway included within the prolongation of the sidewalk lines at street intersections.
DRIVER. Any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Vehicles of the Police or Fire Department, ambulances, any vehicle conveying a village official or employee in response to an emergency call.
EXPLOSIVES. 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, by friction, by concussion, by percussion or by detonator of any part of the compound or mixture may cause such a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the resulting 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.
FLAMMABLE LIQUID. Any liquid which has a flash point of 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 gravel.
INTERSECTION. The area embraced within the prolongation of the property lines of two or more streets which join at an angle, whether or not the streets cross.
LANED HIGHWAY. A street, the roadway of which is divided into three 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.
METAL TIRE. Every tire, the surface of which is in contact with the roadway, is wholly or partly of metal or other hard, nonresilient materials.
MOBILE HOME. Every vehicle for, or used for, living or sleeping purposes, mounted on wheels or capable of being transported from place to place, either by its own power or by some vehicle to which it is attached.
MOTORCYCLE. Every motor vehicle having a saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.
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.
PARK. To stand a vehicle, whether occupied or not, for a period of time greater than is reasonably necessary for the actual loading or unloading of persons.
PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot.
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 village or by any park district, school district, the State of Illinois or by the United States Government.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT. The area of the village zoned for residential land use.
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 designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic.
SAFETY ZONE. That portion of a roadway reserved for the exclusive use of pedestrians, suitably marked or elevated.
SCHOOL BUS. Every motor vehicle owned by a public or governmental agency and operated for the transportation of children to or from school or privately owned and operated for compensation for the transportation of children to or from school.
SEMITRAILER. Every vehicle without motive power 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 line or roadway and the adjacent property line designed for pedestrian use.
SOLID TIRE. Every tire of rubber or other resilient material which does not depend upon compressed air for the support of the load.
STREET. Every way set aside for public travel except foot paths.
TRAFFIC. Vehicles, streetcars, pedestrians and draft or herded animals using any street for travel.
TRAILER. Every vehicle without motive power 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.
VEHICLE. Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, including bicycles, but not including perambulators or toy vehicles.
YIELD RIGHT-OF-WAY. When required by an official sign, means 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, but when the roadway is clear may proceed into the intersection. (`70 Code, § 13-1) (Ord. 119, passed 10-27-70; Ord. 729, passed 8-12-03)