For the purposes of this title, the words and phrases set out in this chapter shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES: Vehicles of the fire department, police vehicles, and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the chief of police of the municipality. Private ambulances, wreckers and funeral cars are emergency vehicles if they are so authorized by the chief of police in writing.
BUS: Every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than ten (10) passengers and used for the transportation of persons, and every motor vehicle, other than a taxicab, designed and used for the transportation of persons for compensation.
BUSINESS DISTRICT: The territory contiguous to, and including, a street when within any six hundred feet (600') along such street where there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, including, but not limited to, hotels, banks, or office buildings, railroad stations and public buildings which occupy at least three hundred feet (300') of frontage on one side or three hundred feet (300') collectively on both sides of the street.
CONTROLLED ACCESS ROADWAY: Every street or roadway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right of access to or from the same except at such points only and in such manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over such street or roadway.
CROSSWALK: That part of a roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the street measured from the curbs or, in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway; any portion of a street at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
DISABLED MOTOR VEHICLE: Every vehicle which is self-propelled and is in such state of condition that it cannot be safely operated, and particularly, cars which have had the motor or tires removed, the rear end dismantled, or any part missing, so as to be incapable of operating under its own power for any reason whatever.
DRIVER: Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
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 resultant gaseous pressures are capable of producing destructive 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 below one hundred degrees Fahrenheit (100°F), and has a vapor pressure not exceeding forty (40) pounds per square inch (absolute) at one hundred degrees Fahrenheit (100°F).
INTERSECTION:
A. The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two (2) streets which join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different streets joining at any other angle may come in conflict.
B. Where a street includes two (2) roadways thirty feet (30') or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such divided street by an intersecting street shall be regarded as a separate intersection. In the event such intersecting street also includes two (2) roadways thirty feet (30') or more apart, then every crossing of two (2) roadways of such street shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
LANED ROADWAY: A roadway which is divided into two (2) or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
MOTOR DRIVEN CYCLE: Every motorcycle, including every motor scooter, with a motor which produces not more than five (5) horsepower and every bicycle with motor attached.
MOTOR VEHICLE: Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails.
MOTORCYCLE: Every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on no more than three (3) wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES: All signs, signals, markings and devices not inconsistent with the provisions of this title placed or erected by the governing body or by an official with proper authority of the governing body for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
OFF-ROAD RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PER WYOMING STATUTE § 31-1-101(K):
A. Type 1 - Any recreational vehicle primarily designed for off-road use which has an unladen weight of one thousand one hundred (1,100) pounds or less;
B. Type 2 - Any unlicensed motorcycle which has an unladen weight of six hundred (600) pounds or less and is designed to be ridden off-road with the operator astride upon a seat or saddle and travels on two (2) tires; and
C. Type 3 - Any multi-wheeled motorized vehicle not required by law to be licensed and is designed for cross-country travel on or over land, sand, snow, ice or other natural terrain and has an unladen weight of more than nine hundred (900) pounds.
OPERATOR: Every person who operates or is in actual physical control of the operation of an off-road vehicle.
OWNER: A person who holds the legal title of a vehicle or, in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of possession vested in the conditional vendee or lessee or in the event a mortgagor of a vehicle is entitled to possession, such conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor.
PARK: The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading.
PEDESTRIAN: Any person afoot.
POLICE OFFICER: Every officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violation of traffic regulations.
PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY: Every way or place in private ownership and used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having express or implied permission from the owner, but not by other persons.
RAILROAD: A carrier of persons or property upon cars, other than streetcars, operated upon stationary rails.
RAILROAD SIGN OR SIGNAL: Any sign, signal or device erected by authority of a public body or official or by a railroad and intended to give notice of the presence of railroad tracks or the approach of a railroad train.
RAILROAD TRAIN: A steam engine, electric or other motor, with or without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails, except streetcars.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT: The territory contiguous to and including a street not comprising a business district when the property on such street for a distance of three hundred feet (300') or more is in the main improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business.
RIGHT OF WAY: The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian approaching under such circumstances of direction, speed and proximity as to give rise to danger of collision unless one grants precedence to the other.
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 improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. In the event a street includes two (2) or more separate roadways, the term "roadway" shall refer to any such roadway separately but not to all such roadways collectively.
SAFETY ZONE: The area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone.
SCHOOL BUS: Every motor vehicle that complies with the color and identification requirements set forth in the most recent edition of "Minimum Standards For School Buses" and is used to transport children to or from school or in connection with school activities, but not including buses operated by common carriers in urban transportation of school children.
SEMITRAILER: Every vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer, 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 curb lines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for use of pedestrians.
STOP: Complete cessation from movement.
STOP, STOPPING OR STANDING: When prohibited, means any stopping or standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic control sign or signal.
STREET: The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
THROUGH STREET: Every street or portion thereof on which vehicular traffic is given preferential right of way, and at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting streets is required by law to yield the right of way to vehicles on such through highway in obedience to a stop sign, yield sign or other official traffic control devices, when such signs or devices are properly erected.
TRAFFIC: Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances either singly or together while using any street for purposes of travel.
TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL: Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed.
TRAILER: Every vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle.
TRUCK: Every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.
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.
URBAN DISTRICT: The territory contiguous to and including any public street which is built up with structures devoted to business, industry or dwelling houses situated at intervals of less than one hundred feet (100') for a distance of a quarter of a mile or more.
VEHICLE: Every device, in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a street, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. (1987 Code §§ 10.04.010 – 10.04.430; amd. Ord. 7-94, 1-19-1995; 2004 Code; Ord. 2021-03, 5-6-2021)