Whenever in this code the following terms are used, they shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this chapter:
ARTERIAL HIGHWAYS: Those streets and avenues set out and designated by the city commission as arterial highways, wherein any person when driving or operating a vehicle upon any crossover or intersecting street must first bring his vehicle which he is driving to a complete stop immediately before entering upon or crossing upon such street or avenue. Any intersecting street upon which the city commission has caused or hereafter causes the erection of a stop sign shall automatically be designated as an arterial highway.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE: Vehicles of the fire department, police vehicles and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated by the city commission.
BUSINESS DISTRICT: All that portion of Main Street between First Avenue and Sixth Avenue.
CROSSWALK: That portion of roadway ordinarily included within the prolongations of curb and property lines at intersections, or any other portion of a roadway clearly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
INTERSECTION: The area embraced within the prolongation of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of two (2) or more streets or highways which join one another at an angle whether or not one such street or highway crosses the other.
MOTOR VEHICLE: Every vehicle as herein defined which is self- propelled, and bicycles and other similar pedal driven devices.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNS: All signs, markings and devices, other than signals, not inconsistent with this code, placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of guiding, directing, warning, or regulating traffic.
OPERATOR: Any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
PARKING: The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon a roadway otherwise than temporarily, for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading, or in obedience to traffic regulations or traffic signs or signals.
PEDESTRIAN: Any person afoot.
PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY: Every road or driveway not open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
PUBLIC OFFICER: Every officer of the municipal police department or any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violation of traffic regulations.
RIGHT OF WAY: The privilege of the immediate use of street or highway.
ROADWAY: That portion of a street or highway between the regularly established curb lines or that part devoted to vehicular traffic.
SIDEWALK: That portion of the street between the curb lines and the adjacent property lines.
STREET OR HIGHWAY: Every way set apart for public travel, except footpaths.
TRAFFIC: Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using any street for purposes of travel.
VEHICLE: Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, excepting devices moved by human power and used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. (Ord. 684, 10-21-1929; amd. Ord. 1664, 1-3-2000)