For the purposes of this title, the terms defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them as follows:
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE: Any of the following vehicles when equipped and identified according to law: a) a vehicle of a fire department; b) a publicly owned police vehicle or a privately owned vehicle used by a police officer for police work under agreement, express or implied, with the local authority to which he is responsible; c) a vehicle of a licensed land emergency ambulance service, whether publicly or privately owned; d) an emergency vehicle of a municipal department or a public service corporation, approved by the commissioner of public safety or the chief of police of a municipality; e) any volunteer rescue squad operating pursuant to laws 1959, chapter 53; f) a vehicle designated as an authorized emergency vehicle upon a finding by the commissioner of public safety that designation of that vehicle is necessary to the preservation of life or property or to the execution of emergency governmental functions.
BICYCLE: Every device propelled solely by human power upon which any person may ride, having two (2) tandem wheels except scooters and similar devices and including any device generally recognized as a "bicycle" though equipped with two (2) front or rear wheels.
BUS: Every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than fifteen (15) passengers, including the driver, and used for the transportation of persons.
BUSINESS DISTRICT: Those areas of the city designated on the city's official zoning map as B districts.
CONTROLLED ACCESS HIGHWAY: Every highway, street, or roadway in respect to which the right of access of the owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons has been acquired and to which the 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 city.
CROSSWALK: A. That portion of a roadway ordinarily included with the prolongation or connection of the lateral lines of sidewalks at intersections.
B. Any portion of a roadway distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
CUSTOM SERVICE VEHICLES: All vehicles used as well drilling machine, wood sawing machine, cement mixer, rock crusher, road grader, ditch digger, or elevating grader, refuse hauling truck, paving roller, portable generators, welders and air compressors mounted on trailers and capable of being towed, motor graders, caterpillars, and similar service equipment.
DRIVER: Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
ELECTRIC ASSISTED BICYCLE: A motor vehicle with two (2) or three (3) wheels that:
A. Has a saddle and fully operable pedals for human propulsion;
B. Meets the requirements of federal motor vehicle safety standards in code of federal regulations, title 49, sections 571.01 et seq.; and
C. Has an electric motor that:
1. Has a power output of not more than one thousand (1,000) watts;
2. Is incapable of propelling the vehicle at a speed of more than twenty (20) miles per hour;
3. Is incapable of further increasing the speed of the device when human power alone is used to propel the vehicle at a speed of more than twenty (20) miles per hour; and
4. Disengages or ceases to function when the vehicle's brakes are applied.
FARM TRACTOR: Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows, mowing machines, and other implements of husbandry.
GROSS VEHICLE WEIGHT: The greater of:
A. The unloaded weight of a vehicle or the unloaded weight of a truck tractor and semitrailer combination, plus the weight of the load; or
B. The value specified by the manufacturer as the maximum gross weight or gross vehicle weight rating.
INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT: Those areas of the city designated on the city's official zoning map as I districts.
LANED HIGHWAY: A highway the roadway of which is divided into two (2) or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
MOTOR VEHICLE: Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires. "Motor vehicle" does not include a vehicle moved solely by human power.
MOTOR VEHICLE PARTS: Any part, accessory, attachment, or piece of equipment commonly used on or in connection with a motor vehicle.
MOTORCYCLE: 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, including motor scooters and bicycles with motor attached, other than those vehicles defined as "motorized bicycles" in this section, but excluding a tractor.
MOTORIZED BICYCLE: A bicycle that is propelled by a motor of a piston displacement capacity of fifty (50) cubic centimeters or less, and a maximum of two (2) brake horsepower, which is capable of a maximum speed of not more than thirty (30) miles per hour on a flat surface with not more than one percent (1%) grade in any direction when the motor is engaged. "Motorized bicycle" includes an "electric assisted bicycle" as defined in this section.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES: 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 regulating, warning, or guiding traffic.
ONE-WAY ROADWAY: A street or roadway designated and sign posted for one-way traffic and on which all vehicles are required to move in one indicated direction.
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, then such conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor shall be deemed the owner for the purpose of this title.
PEDESTRIAN: Any person afoot or in a wheelchair.
POLICE OFFICER: Every officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations 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.
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS: Those areas of the city designated on the city's official zoning map as R districts.
RIGHT OF WAY: The privilege of the immediate use of a street or highway.
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 highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the sidewalk or shoulder. In the event a highway includes two (2) or more separate roadways, the term "roadway", as used herein, 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 set apart as a safety zone.
SCHOOL BUS: A motor vehicle used to transport pupils to or from a "school" as defined in Minnesota statutes section 120A.22, or to or from school related activities, by the school or a school district, or by someone under an agreement with the school or a school district. A "school bus" does not include a motor vehicle transporting children to or from school for which parents or guardians receive direct compensation from a school district, a motor coach operating under charter carrier authority, a transit bus providing services as defined in Minnesota statutes section 174.22, subdivision 7, or a vehicle otherwise qualifying as a type III vehicle under subsection E of this definition, when the vehicle is properly registered and insured and being driven by an employee or agent of a school district for nonscheduled transportation. A "school bus" may be type A, type B, type C, or type D, or type III as follows:
A. A "type A school bus" is a conversion or body constructed upon a van type or cutaway front section vehicle with a left side driver's door, designed for carrying more than ten (10) persons. This definition includes two (2) classifications: type A-I, with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) over ten thousand (10,000) pounds; and type A-II, with a GVWR of ten thousand (10,000) pounds or less.
B. A "type B school bus" is a conversion or body constructed and installed upon a van or front section vehicle chassis, or stripped chassis, with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than ten thousand (10,000) pounds, designed for carrying more than ten (10) persons. Part of the engine is beneath or behind the windshield and beside the driver's seat. The entrance door is behind the front wheels.
C. A "type C school bus" is a body installed upon a flat back cowl chassis with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than ten thousand (10,000) pounds, designed for carrying more than ten (10) persons. All of the engine is in front of the windshield, and the entrance door is behind the front wheels. A "type C school bus" has a maximum length of forty five feet (45').
D. A "type D school bus" is a body installed upon a chassis, with the engine mounted in the front, midship or rear, with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than ten thousand (10,000) pounds, designed for carrying more than ten (10) persons. The engine may be behind the windshield and beside the driver's seat; it may be at the rear of the bus, behind the rear wheels, or midship between the front and rear axles. The entrance door is ahead of the front wheels. A "type D school bus" has a maximum length of forty five feet (45').
E. "Type III school buses" and "type III head start buses" are restricted to passenger cars, station wagons, vans, and buses having a maximum manufacturer's rated seating capacity of ten (10) or fewer people, including the driver, and a gross vehicle weight rating of ten thousand (10,000) pounds or less. In this subsection, "gross vehicle weight rating" means the value specified by the manufacturer as the loaded weight of a single vehicle. A "type III" school bus and "type III head start bus" must not be outwardly equipped and identified as a type A, B, C, or D school bus or type A, B, C, or D head start bus. A van or bus converted to a seating capacity of ten (10) or fewer and placed in service on or after August 1, 1999, must have been originally manufactured to comply with the passenger safety standards.
SEMITRAILER: A vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a truck tractor that a considerable part of its own weight or that of its load rests upon and is carried by the truck tractor and includes a trailer drawn by a truck tractor semitrailer combination.
SERVICE VEHICLE: A motor vehicle owned and operated by a person, firm or corporation engaged in a business which includes the repairing or servicing of vehicles. The term also includes snow removal and road maintenance equipment not operated by or under contract to the state or governmental subdivision.
SIDEWALK: That portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians.
STAND OR STANDING: The halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
STOP: Complete cessation from movement.
STOPPING: Any halting, even momentarily, 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 HIGHWAY: The entire width between boundary lines of any way or place when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for the purposes of vehicular traffic.
THROUGH STREET: Every street or portion thereof at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting streets is required by law to stop before entering or crossing the same and when stop signs are erected as provided in this title.
TRAFFIC: Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles or other conveyances, either singly or together, while using any street or highway 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: Any vehicle designed for carrying property or passengers on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle but does not include a trailer drawn by a truck tractor semitrailer combination or an auxiliary axle on a motor vehicle which carries a portion of the weight of the motor vehicle to which it is attached.
TRUCK: Every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.
TRUCK TRACTOR: A. A 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; and
B. A motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles used exclusively for transporting motor vehicles or boats and capable of carrying motor vehicles or boats on its own structure.
VEHICLE: Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway (excepting devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks).
WRECKER: A motor vehicle having a gross vehicle weight of eight thousand (8,000) pounds or more, equipped with a crane and winch and further equipped to control the movement of the towed vehicle. (Ord. 219, 11-5-1985; amd. 2003 Code)