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For the purpose of this title, the following definitions and the other definitions in Neb. RS 60-606 through 60-676 shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. A highway intended to provide access to the rear or side of lots or buildings and not intended for the purpose of through vehicular traffic.
(Neb. RS 60-607)
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Such Fire Department vehicles, police vehicles, rescue vehicles, and ambulances as are publicly owned, such other publicly or privately owned vehicles as are designated by the Director of Motor Vehicles, and such publicly owned military vehicles of the National Guard as are designated by the Adjutant General pursuant to Neb. RS 55-133.
(Neb. RS 60-610)
BUSINESS DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a highway when within any 600 feet along such highway there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, including, but not limited to, hotels, banks, office buildings, railroad stations, or public buildings which occupy at least 300 feet of frontage on one side or 300 feet collectively on both sides of a highway.
(Neb. RS 60-613)
HIGHWAY. The entire width between the boundary limits of any street, road, avenue, boulevard, or way which is publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
(Neb. RS 60-624)
MANUAL. The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices adopted by the Department of Transportation pursuant to Neb. RS 60-6,118.
(Neb. RS 60-631)
MOTOR VEHICLE. Every self-propelled land vehicle, not operated upon rails, except bicycles, mopeds, self-propelled chairs used by persons who are disabled, and electric personal assistive mobility devices.
(Neb. RS 60-638)
PEACE OFFICER. The Police Chief or other chief law enforcement official, any city police officer, or any other person authorized to enforce city ordinances. With respect to directing traffic only, PEACE OFFICER shall also include any person authorized to direct or regulate traffic.
(Neb. RS 60-646)
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business district when the property on such highway for a distance of 300 feet or more is in the main improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business.
(Neb. RS 60-654)
ROADWAY. The portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. If a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term ROADWAY shall refer to any such roadway separately but not to all such roadways collectively.
(Neb. RS 60-656)
SCHOOL CROSSING ZONE. The area of a roadway designated to the public by the State Department of Transportation or City Council as a school crossing zone through the use of a sign or traffic control device as specified by the City Council in conformity with the Manual but does not include any area of a freeway. A SCHOOL CROSSING ZONE starts at the location of the first sign or traffic control device identifying the SCHOOL CROSSING ZONE and continues until a sign or traffic control device indicates that the SCHOOL CROSSING ZONE has ended.
(Neb. RS 60-658.01)
SHOULDER. The part of the highway contiguous to the roadway and designed for the accommodation of stopped vehicles, for emergency use, and for lateral support of the base and surface courses of the roadway.
(Neb. RS 60-661)
TRAFFIC. Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, and vehicles and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for purposes of travel.
(Neb. RS 60-669)
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE. Any sign, signal, marking, or other device not inconsistent with the State Rules of the Road placed or erected by authority of the City Council or any official having jurisdiction for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic.
(Neb. RS 60-670)
TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL. Any signal, whether manually, electrically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed.
(Neb. RS 60-671)
TRAFFIC INFRACTION. The violation of any provision of the State Rules of the Road or of any law, ordinance, order, rule, or regulation regulating traffic which is not otherwise declared to be a misdemeanor or a felony or, in this title, an offense.
(Neb. RS 60-672)
VEHICLE. Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway except devices moved solely by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(Neb. RS 60-676)
(A) The City Council may, in its jurisdiction, enact regulations permitting, prohibiting, and controlling the use of motor vehicles, minibikes, motorcycles, off-road recreation vehicles of any and all types, electric bicycles, other powered vehicles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, and vehicles which are not self-propelled. Any person who operates any of such vehicles without the permission of the City Council or its designated representative or in a place, time, or manner which has been prohibited by the City Council shall be guilty of an offense.
(B) The City Council may further authorize the supervising official of any area under its ownership or control to permit, control, or prohibit operation of any motor vehicle, minibike, motorcycle, off-road recreational vehicle of any or all types, electric bicycles, other powered vehicle, electric personal assistive mobility device, or vehicle which is not self-propelled on all or any portion of any area under its ownership or control at any time by posting or, in case of an emergency, by personal notice. Any person operating any such vehicle where prohibited, where not permitted, or in a manner so as to endanger the peace and safety of the public or as to harm or destroy the natural features or manmade features of any such area shall be guilty of an offense.
(Neb. RS 60-678) Penalty, see § 10.99
The City Council may, by resolution, designate certain streets in the city that trucks shall travel upon, and it shall be unlawful for persons operating such trucks to travel on other streets than those designated for trucks; unless to pick up or deliver goods, wares, or merchandise, and in that event, the operator of such truck shall return to such truck routes as soon as possible in traveling through or about the city. The City Council shall cause notices to be posted, or shall erect signs indicating the streets so designated as truck routes.
(Prior Code, § 5-102) Penalty, see § 10.99
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 39-6,189
Vehicles turning to the right into an intersecting street shall approach such intersection in the lane of traffic nearest to the right-hand side of the highway, and must turn the corner as near the right hand curb as possible to keep between the curb to the right and the center of the intersection of the two streets. The driver of a vehicle intending to turn to the left shall approach such center line of the highway, and in turning, shall pass as near as possible to the center of the intersection, passing as closely as practicable to the right thereof before turning such vehicle to the left. For the purposes of this section, the CENTER OF THE INTERSECTION shall mean the meeting point of the medial lines of the highways intersecting one another.
(Prior Code, § 5-107)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 60-6,159
Upon all highways of sufficient width, one-way streets excepted, the driver of a vehicle shall drive the same on the right half of the roadway. In passing or meeting other vehicles, drivers shall give each other at least one-half of the main traveled portion of the roadway.
(Prior Code, § 5-108)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 60-6,131
The City Council may, by resolution, establish and maintain, by appropriate devices, markers, or lines upon the street, crosswalks, at intersections where there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the street, and at such other places as they may deem necessary.
(Prior Code, § 5-109)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 60-680
(A) The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any traffic control device applicable thereto placed in accordance with the State Rules of the Road or this title, unless otherwise directed by a peace officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in the Rules and this title.
(B) No provision of the Rules or this title for which traffic control devices are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation an official device is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by a reasonably observant person. Whenever any provision of the Rules or this title does not state that traffic control devices are required, such provision shall be effective even though no devices are erected or in place.
(C) Whenever traffic control devices are placed in position approximately conforming to the requirements of the Rules or this title, such devices shall be presumed to have been so placed by the official act or direction of lawful authority unless the contrary is established by competent evidence.
(D) Any traffic control device placed pursuant to the Rules or this title and purporting to conform with the lawful requirements pertaining to such devices shall be presumed to comply with the requirements of the Rules or this title unless the contrary is established by competent evidence.
(Neb. RS 60-6,119) Penalty, see § 10.99
Statutory reference:
Nebraska Rules of the Road, see Neb. RS 60-601 et seq.
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