5-1-1: DEFINITIONS:
Terms used in this title shall have the meanings set forth in section 169.01 of the Minnesota statutes unless otherwise provided:
AVENUE: Those streets or roadways within the city limits which contain the word "Avenue" in their name as posted. "Avenue" shall also be considered to mean those streets or roadways within the city limits which contain the word "Lane", "Circle" or "Boulevard" within their name as posted.
CONGESTED ZONE: That portion of Center Avenue between the highway bridge across the Red River to and including 14th Street; Main Avenue from the highway bridge crossing the Red River to and including 14th Street North, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Fourteenth Streets between First Avenue North and Main Avenue shall comprise the congested zone.
DIRECTION: Unless otherwise excepted under the definition of "street" herein, shall be considered to run in a generally north- south direction and avenues will be considered to run in a generally east-west direction.
DOUBLE PARKING: The parking of a vehicle upon any highway, street or avenue alongside another vehicle parked between it and the curb.
DRIVER: A person in actual physical control of a vehicle while it is being driven, or who is directly charged with the control, as the driver, when it is not being driven.
PARKING: The voluntary standing of a vehicle upon any highway, street or avenue whether accompanied or unaccompanied by an operator; but, where the driver of a vehicle seeks to load or unload passengers, goods or merchandise in or from the vehicle, then parking shall mean the standing of the vehicle upon the highway, street or avenue only for the period of time which is reasonably necessary to load or unload passengers or goods close at hand ready to be loaded or unloaded as the case may be.
STREET OR HIGHWAY: Shall be considered 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 purposes of vehicular traffic, as defined by chapter 169 of the Minnesota statutes, as such chapter may be from time to time amended, supplemented or replaced. Streets in the city may be designated "Streets", "Drives", "Courts", "Avenues", "Lanes", "Circles", "Boulevards" or "Ways".
VEHICLE: Every vehicle, motor vehicle, motorcycle, motorized bicycle, bicycle, snowmobile, trailer or semitrailer as the same are defined in chapter 169 of the Minnesota statutes, as such chapter may be from time to time amended, supplemented or replaced, or as known in the highway traffic regulations, as adopted by the council, as such regulations may be from time to time amended, supplemented or replaced. (Ord. 174; amd. Ord. 232; 1967 Code §61.01; Ord. 485, 4-17-1972; Ord. 512, 9-4-1973)