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Codified Ordinances of Montpelier, OH
Codified Ordinances of Montpelier, Ohio
CERTIFICATION
DIRECTORY OF OFFICIALS
ADOPTING ORDINANCE NO.
CONTENTS
EDITOR'S NOTE
COMPARATIVE SECTION TABLE
TABLES OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES OF MONTPELIER
CHARTER
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
TITLE ONE - Administration
CHAPTER 301 Definitions
301.01 MEANING OF WORDS AND PHRASES.
301.02 AGRICULTURAL TRACTOR.
301.03 ALLEY.
301.031 BEACON; HYBRID BEACON.
301.04 BICYCLE; MOTORIZED BICYCLE: MOPED; ELECTRIC BICYCLE.
301.05 BUS.
301.06 BUSINESS DISTRICT.
301.07 COMMERCIAL TRACTOR.
301.08 CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAY.
301.09 CROSSWALK.
301.10 DRIVER OR OPERATOR.
301.11 EMERGENCY VEHICLE.
301.12 EXPLOSIVES.
301.13 EXPRESSWAY.
301.14 FLAMMABLE LIQUID.
301.15 FREEWAY.
301.16 GROSS WEIGHT.
301.161 HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE VEHICLE.
301.162 HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SIGNAL.
301.17 INTERSECTION.
301.18 LANED STREET OR HIGHWAY.
301.183 LOW-SPEED MICROMOBILITY DEVICE.
301.185 MEDIAN.
301.19 MOTORCYCLE.
301.20 MOTOR VEHICLE.
301.201 OPERATE.
301.21 PARK OR PARKING.
301.22 PEDESTRIAN.
301.23 PERSON.
301.24 POLE TRAILER.
301.25 POLICE OFFICER.
301.251 PREDICATE MOTOR VEHICLE OR TRAFFIC OFFENSE.
301.26 PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY.
301.27 PUBLIC SAFETY VEHICLE.
301.28 RAILROAD.
301.29 RAILROAD SIGN OR SIGNAL.
301.30 RAILROAD TRAIN.
301.31 RESIDENCE DISTRICT.
301.32 RIGHT OF WAY.
301.321 ROAD SERVICE VEHICLE.
301.33 ROADWAY.
301.34 SAFETY ZONE.
301.35 SCHOOL BUS.
301.36 SEMITRAILER.
301.361 SHARED-USE PATH.
301.37 SIDEWALK.
301.38 STATE ROUTE.
301.39 STOP (WHEN REQUIRED).
301.40 STOPPING OR STANDING.
301.41 STOP INTERSECTION.
301.42 STREET OR HIGHWAY; ARTERIAL STREET.
301.421 STREET LAWN.
301.43 THROUGH STREET OR HIGHWAY.
301.44 THRUWAY.
301.45 TRAFFIC.
301.46 TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE.
301.47 TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL.
301.48 TRAILER.
301.49 TRUCK.
301.50 URBAN DISTRICT.
301.51 VEHICLE.
301.52 WHEELCHAIR, MOTORIZED.
301.53 WASTE COLLECTION VEHICLE.
CHAPTER 303 Enforcement, Impounding and Penalty
CHAPTER 305 Traffic Control
TITLE THREE - Streets and Traffic Control Devices
TITLE FIVE - Vehicles
TITLE SEVEN - Parking
TITLE NINE - Pedestrians, Bicycles and Motorcycles
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
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   301.33 ROADWAY.
   "Roadway" means that portion of a street or highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, except the berm or shoulder. If a street or highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term "roadway" means any such roadway separately but not all such roadways collectively.
(ORC 4511.01(EE))
 
   301.34 SAFETY ZONE.
   "Safety zone" means the area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and protected or marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times.
(ORC 4511.01(MM))
   301.35 SCHOOL BUS.
   "School bus" means every bus designed for carrying more than nine passengers that is owned by a public, private or governmental agency or institution of learning and operated for the transportation of children to or from a school session or a school function, or owned by a private person and operated for compensation for the transportation of children to or from a school session or a school function; provided "school bus" does not include a bus operated by a municipally owned transportation system, a mass transit company operating exclusively within the territorial limits of the Municipality, or within such limits and the territorial limits of municipal corporations immediately contiguous to the Municipality, nor a common passenger carrier certified by the Public Utilities Commission unless such bus is devoted exclusively to the transportation of children to and from a school session or a school function, and "school bus" does not include a van or bus used by a licensed child day-care center or type A family day-care home to transport children from the child day-care center or type A family day-care home to a school if the van or bus does not have more than fifteen children in the van or bus at any time. "Child day-care center" and "type A family day-care home" have the same meanings as in Ohio R.C. 5104.01.
(ORC 4511.01(F), (FFF))
   301.36 SEMITRAILER.
   "Semitrailer" means every vehicle designed or used for carrying persons or property with another and separate motor vehicle so that in operation a part of its own weight or that of its load, or both, rests upon and is carried by another vehicle.
(ORC 4511.01(N))
   301.361 SHARED-USE PATH.
   “Shared-use path” means a bikeway outside the traveled way and physically separate from motorized vehicular traffic by an open space or barrier and either within the highway right-of-way or within an independent alignment. A shared-use path also may be used by pedestrians, including skaters, joggers, users of manual and motorized wheelchairs, and other authorized motorized and non-motorized users. A shared-use path does not include any trail that is intended to be used primarily for mountain biking, hiking, equestrian use, or other similar uses, or any other single track or natural surface trail that has historically been reserved for nonmotorized use.
(ORC 4511.01(PPP))
   301.37 SIDEWALK.
   "Sidewalk" means 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.
(ORC 4511.01(FF))
   301.38 STATE ROUTE.
   "State route" means every highway that is designated with an official State route number and so marked.
(ORC 4511.01(JJ))
   301.39 STOP (WHEN REQUIRED).
   "Stop" when required means a complete cessation of movement.
   301.40 STOPPING OR STANDING.
   (a)   "Stop or stopping" when prohibited means any halting of a vehicle, even momentarily, 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 device.
   (b)   "Stand or standing" means the halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise then temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
   301.41 STOP INTERSECTION.
   "Stop intersection" means any intersection at one or more entrances of which stop signs are erected.
(ORC 4511.01(BBB))
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