Whenever in this title the following words and phrases are used, they shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section:
ABANDONED VEHICLE: Any vehicle which is left at any place for such time and under such circumstances as to cause such vehicle reasonably to appear to have been abandoned.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES: Emergency vehicles of Municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by proper local authorities, police vehicles, vehicles of the Fire Department and ambulances.
BICYCLE: Every device propelled by human power upon which a human may ride, having two (2) tandem wheels of which one is more than sixteen inches (16") in diameter.
BUSINESS DISTRICT: The territory contiguous to and including a roadway when within any six hundred feet (600') along such roadway 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 such roadway.
CROSSING GUARD: An adult civilian officially authorized to supervise and expedite the crossing of schoolchildren or other pedestrians at hazardous or congested traffic points.
CROSSWALKS: That portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the prolongation or connection of sidewalk lines at intersections, or any other portion of a roadway clearly indicated for pedestrian crossing by markings.
DRIVER: Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
DRIVEWAY: A strip of land improved for the purpose of providing access from private property to the main traveled portion of a public way.
FUNERAL PROCESSION: A procession consisting of motor vehicles which are designed and used for the carrying of not more than seven (7) passengers, a funeral hearse and floral cars, or combination thereof with any of the following added: foot units and equestrian units, proceeding to a place of burial.
HOLIDAYS: When used in this title or on official signs erected by authority of this title, shall mean New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
INOPERABLE MOTOR VEHICLE: Any motor vehicle which cannot be operated on the public streets or highways of the state of Illinois due to one or more of the following conditions:
A. The vehicle is incapable of being driven under its own motor power.
B. The vehicle condition fails to comply with the safety requirements of chapter 12 of the Illinois vehicle code 1 .
C. The vehicle registration is not in compliance with 625 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/3-701 and 5/3-702, as amended.
INTERSECTION: A. The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two (2) highways which join one another at, or approximately at right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different roadways joining at any other angle may come in conflict.
B. Where a roadway includes two (2) roadways forty feet (40') or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway if such is divided by an intersecting roadway shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
MERGING TRAFFIC: A maneuver executed by the drivers of vehicles on converging roadways to permit simultaneous or alternative entry into the junction thereof, wherein the driver of each vehicle involved is required to adjust his vehicular speed and lateral position so as to avoid collision with any other vehicle.
MOTOR VEHICLE: Every motor vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails, except for vehicles moved solely by human power and motorized wheelchairs. For the purpose of this title, motor vehicles are divided into two (2) divisions:
A. First Division: Those motor vehicles which are designed for the carrying of not more than twelve (12) persons.
B. Second Division: Those vehicles which are designed for carrying more than twelve (12) persons, those motor vehicles designed or used for living quarters, those motor vehicles which are designed for pulling or carrying freight, cargo or implements of husbandry, and those motor vehicles of the first division remodeled for use and used as motor vehicles of the second division.
MOTORCYCLES: Every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three (3) wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD: Whenever certain hours are named, they shall mean standard time or daylight saving time as may be in current use in the city.
OPERATOR: Every person who operates or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
PARK: When prohibited means the standing of a vehicle whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading and unloading.
PEDESTRIAN: Any person afoot.
PLAY STREET: Street or part of street devoted to recreational purposes for children.
POLICE 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.
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.
PROPERTY: Any real property within the city which is not a street or roadway.
PROPERTY LINE: The boundary line between any public way and the private property abutting thereto.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS: A building used by any government agency.
PUBLIC PASSENGER VEHICLE: A motor vehicle, as defined in the motor vehicle law of the state of Illinois 2 , which is used for the transportation of passengers for hire, excepting those devoted exclusively for funeral use or in operation of a metropolitan transit authority or public utility under the laws of the state of Illinois.
PUBLIC WAY: Any sidewalk, roadway, alley or other public thoroughfare open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for purpose of travel, excepting bridle paths.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE: Every camping trailer, motor home, mini- motor home, travel trailer, truck camper or van camper used primarily for recreational purposes and not used commercially nor owned by a commercial business.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT: The territory contiguous to and including a roadway not comprising a business district when the property on such roadway 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 public way between the regularly established curb lines or that part improved and intended to be used for vehicular travel.
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 of the school division operated by or for a public or governmental agency or by or for a private or religious organization that is used to transport children to or from school or in connection with any school activity, but not including buses operated by common carriers in urban transportation of schoolchildren.
SEMITRAILER: Every vehicle without motive power 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 public way between the curb lines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for the use of pedestrians.
STOP: When required means 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 OR ROADWAY: 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.
TAXICAB STAND: A designated area in the trafficway alongside and parallel to the curb set aside for taxicabs to stand or wait for passengers.
THROUGH ROADWAY: Every roadway or portion thereof on which vehicular traffic is given preferential right of way, and at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting roadways is required by law to yield the right of way to vehicles on such through roadway in obedience to either a stop sign or a yield sign, when signs are erected as provided in this title.
TRAFFIC: Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances either singly or together while using any public way for purposes of travel.
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES: All signs, signals, markings and devices placed or erected under due authority for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
TRAILER: Every vehicle without motive power designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.
TRUCK: Every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.
TRUCK LOADING ZONE: A designated space adjacent to a curb for the use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of freight.
URBAN DISTRICT: The territory contiguous to, and including, any 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 one-fourth (1/4) mile or more.
VEHICLE: A machine propelled by power other than human power designed to travel along the ground by use of wheels, treads, runners or slides and transport persons or property or pull machinery and shall include, without limitation, automobile, truck, trailer, motorcycle, tractor, buggy and wagon.
YIELD RIGHT OF WAY: When required by an official sign means the act of granting the privilege of the immediate use of the intersecting roadway to traffic within the intersection and to vehicles approaching from the right or left, but when the roadway is clear may proceed into the intersection. (Ord. 119, 1-20-1969; amd. Ord. 253, 4-28-1980; Ord. 653, 11-25-2002)
Whenever any words and phrases used in this title are not defined in this section, but are defined in the state vehicle laws, such definitions shall be deemed to apply to such words and phrases used herein.
Whenever any words and phrases used in this title are not defined in this section and are not defined in the state vehicle laws, such words shall be given their usual customary meaning. (Ord. 119, 1-20-1969)
Notes
| 1 | 1. 25 ILCS. |
| 2 | 1. 625 ILCS 5/1-101 et seq. |