As used in this Title, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings indicated in this Section: (1973 Code §11.08.010)
ALLEY: | Any street less than thirty feet (30') in width and which primarily furnishes access to the rear entrances of abutting property. |
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE: | A vehicle of any Fire Department, Sheriff's patrol and such ambulance and emergency vehicles of municipal departments, county or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the State. |
BICYCLE: | Every device having two (2) tandem wheels, which device is propelled by human power and upon which any person may ride. |
BOULEVARD: | A through street or highway. |
CIVIL INFRACTION: | A non-criminal violation of any provision of this code that is not punishable as a misdemeanor. Unless a different penalty is expressly provided by this code or a different penalty is provided for a particular offense in the Nevada Revised Statutes, the monetary penalty for a civil infraction is a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) per offense. |
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE: | A vehicle of a type used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation or profit or designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property. |
CROSSWALK: | A. That portion of a street ordinarily included within the prolongation or connection of the boundary lines of sidewalks at intersections where the intersecting streets meet at approximately right angles except the prolongation of any such lines from any alley across the street, or B. Any portion of a street distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface. |
DRIVER: | A person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. |
GARAGE: | A building or other place wherein the business of storing or safekeeping vehicles which belong to drivers or members of the public, is conducted for compensation. |
HIGHWAY: | For a definition of "highway", see definition of "street" herein. |
INTERSECTION: | The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of two (2) or more highways which join one another at an angle, whether or not one highway crosses the other. |
LOADING ZONE: | That space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials, so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times. |
MOTOR VEHICLE: | Every vehicle which is self-propelled but not operated on rails. |
MOTORCYCLE: | Every motor vehicle equipped with a seat or saddle for the use of the driver and designed to travel on not more than three (3) wheels in contact with the ground, including a power cycle but excluding a tractor. |
MUFFLER: | A device consisting of a series of chambers or baffle plates or other mechanical design, for the purpose of receiving exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine and is effective in reducing noise, but does not include such a device equipped with an apparatus which permits the exhaust gas to be discharged directly into the air without passing through such device. |
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNS AND SIGNALS: | All signs, signals, markings and devices not inconsistent with this Title placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction for the purpose of guiding, directing, warning or regulating traffic. |
OPERATOR: | Every individual who operates a vehicle as the owner thereof or who has control of a vehicle. |
OWNER: | A person who holds the legal title to a vehicle or, in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof with right or agreement and with an immediate right of possession vested in the conditional vendee or lessee or in the event a mortgager of a vehicle is entitled to possession, then such conditional vendee or lessee or mortgager shall be deemed the owner for the purpose of this Title. |
PARK or PARKING: | 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 in obedience to traffic regulations, signs or signals or an involuntary stopping of the vehicle by reason of cause beyond the control of the operator of the vehicle. |
PARKING METER: | Any mechanical device or meter not inconsistent with this Title, placed or erected for the regulation of parking by authority of this Title. Each parking meter installed shall indicate by proper legend the legal parking time established by the County and, when operated, shall at all times indicate the balance of legal parking time and at the expiration of such period, shall indicate illegal or overtime parking. |
PARKING METER DISTRICT: | Any restricted street upon which parking meters are installed and in operation. |
PARKING METER SPACE: | Any space within a parking meter district, 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 meter. |
PEDESTRIAN: | A person who goes or travels on foot. |
PNEUMATIC TIRE: | A tire inflated or capable of inflation with compressed air. |
PRIVATE ROAD or DRIVEWAY: | A road or driveway not open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. |
REPAIR SHOP: | A place where vehicles are repaired, rebuilt, reconditioned, repainted or in any way maintained for the public at a charge. |
RIGHT OF WAY: | The privilege of the immediate use of the highway. |
ROADWAY: | That portion of a street or highway between the regularly established curb lines or that part improved and intended to be used for vehicular travel. |
SEMI-TRAILER: | A vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a motor vehicle that some part of its own weight and that of its own load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle. |
SIDEWALK: | That portion of a street between the curb lines and the adjacent property lines. |
STREET or HIGHWAY: | A way or place of whatever nature open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purpose of vehicular travel and shall be deemed to include a roadway or driveway upon grounds owned by public or semi-public institutions. |
THROUGH STREET or THROUGH HIGHWAY: | A street or highway or portion thereof at the entrance to which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways or streets is required by law to stop before entering or crossing the same. |
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 to proceed. |
TRAILER: | A vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property or passengers wholly on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle. |
VEHICLE: | A device 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. (1973 Code §§ 11.08.010 - 11.08.260; 11.08.280 - 11.08.380; 1991 Code; Ord. 633, 1-3-2023) |