For the purpose of this subchapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMMERCIAL CAR. Any motor vehicle having motor power designed and used for carrying merchandise or freight or used as a commercial tractor.
COMMERCIAL TRACTOR. Any motor vehicle having motive power designed or used for drawing other motor vehicles, or designed or used for drawing another motor vehicle while carrying a portion of such other motor vehicle or its load, or both.
MOTOR BUS. Every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than seven passengers and used for the transportation of passengers; and every motor vehicle, auto-for-hire or funeral car designed and used for the transportation of persons for compensation.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Any vehicle propelled or drawn by power other than muscular power or power collected from overhead electric trolley wires, except road rollers, traction engines, power shovels, power cranes, and other equipment used in construction work and not designed for or employed in general highway transportation, well drilling machinery, ditch digging machinery, farm machinery, threshing machinery, hay bailing machinery, and agricultural tractors and machinery used in the production of horticultural, agricultural, and vegetable products.
OPERATOR. Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle.
PASSENGER CAR. Any motor vehicle designed and used for carrying not more than seven persons.
SEMI-TRAILER. Every vehicle designed or used for carrying persons or property with another and separate motor vehicle, so that in operation a part of its own weight or that of its load, or both, rests upon and is carried by another vehicle.
TRAILER. Any vehicle without motive power designed or used for carrying property or persons wholly on its own structures and for being drawn by a motor vehicle, and includes any such vehicle when formed by or operated as a combination of a semi-trailer and a vehicle of the dolly type such as that commonly known as a trailer dolly, except a house trailer.
TRUCK. Every motor vehicle, except trailer and semi-trailers, designed and used to carry property, whose gross weight, when added to the load carried or capable of being carried, is in excess of 20,000 pounds.
VEHICLE. Everything on wheels or runners, except vehicles operated exclusively on rails or tracks or from overhead electric trolley wires, baby carriages and toy vehicles, and vehicles belonging to any police department, municipal fire department, volunteer fire department, or salvage company organized under the laws of this state or used by such department or company in the discharge of its functions, or any vehicle belonging to and used in the discharge of the functions of the Village of Lincoln Heights, Ohio.
(1995 Code, § 72.80) (Ord. 76-O-21, passed 6-28-1976; Am. Ord. 96-O-12, passed 6-10-1996; Am. Ord. 2000-O-45, passed 6-19-2000)