For the purpose of this traffic code, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. The following vehicles:
(1) Fire Department vehicles;
(2) Police Department vehicles;
(3) Ambulances;
(4) Emergency vehicles operated by or for hospitals or health and hospital corporations under I.C. 16-22-8;
(5) Vehicles designated as emergency vehicles by the State Department of Transportation under I.C. 9-21-20-1;
(6) Motor vehicles that, subject to I.C. 9-21-20-2, are approved by the State Emergency Medical Services Commission, that are:
(a) Ambulances that are owned by persons, firms, limited liability companies, or corporations other than hospitals; or
(b) Not ambulances and that provide emergency medical services, including extrication and rescue services as defined in I.C. 16-18-2-110.
(7) Vehicles of the Department of Correction that, subject to I.C. 9-21-20-3, are:
(a) Designated by the Department of Correction as emergency vehicles; and
(b) Responding to an emergency.
(I.C. 9-13-2-6)
DRIVER. A person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
(I.C. 9-13-2-47)
ELECTRIC PERSONAL ASSISTIVE MOBILITY DEVICE. A self-balancing, two nontandem-wheeled device that is designed to transport only one person and that has the following:
(1) An electric propulsion system with average power of 750 watts or one horsepower; and
(2) A maximum speed of less than 20 mph when operated on a paved level surface, when powered solely by the propulsion system referred to in division (1) above, and when operated by an operator weighing 170 pounds.
(I.C. 9-13-2-49.3)
HIGHWAY or STREET. The entire width between the boundary lines of every publicly maintained way when any part of the way is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. The term includes an alley.
(I.C. 9-13-2-73)
INTERSECTION.
(1) The area embraced within:
(a) The prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two highways that join at, or approximately at, right angles; or
(b) The area within which vehicles traveling upon different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict.
(2) Where a highway includes two roadways at least 30 feet apart, every crossing of each roadway of the divided highway by an intersecting highway is regarded as a separate INTERSECTION. If the intersecting highway also includes two roadways at least 30 feet apart, every crossing of two roadways of the intersecting highway is regarded as a separate INTERSECTION.
(I.C. 9-13-2-84)
MOTOR VEHICLE.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this definition, a vehicle that is self-propelled. The term does not include a farm tractor, an implement of agriculture designed to be operated primarily in a farm field or on farm premises, or an electric personal assistive mobility device as those terms are defined in I.C. 9-13-2-56, 9-13-2-77, and this section.
(2) MOTOR VEHICLE also means:
(a) A vehicle that is self-propelled; or
(b) A vehicle that is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails.
(I.C. 9-13-2-105(a) and (b))
MOTORCYCLE.
(1) A motor vehicle with motive power that:
(a) Has a seat or saddle for the use of the rider;
(b) Is designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground; and
(c) Satisfies the operational and equipment specifications described in 49 C.F.R. part 571 and I.C. 9-19.
(2) The term includes an autocycle, but does not include a farm tractor or a motor driven cycle.
(I.C. 9-13-2-108)
OPERATOR. When used in reference to a vehicle, means a person, other than a chauffeur or a public passenger chauffeur, who:
(1) Drives or operates a vehicle upon a highway; or
(2) Is exercising control over or steering a motor vehicle being towed by another vehicle.
(I.C. 9-13-2-118)
OWNER. When used in reference to a motor vehicle:
(1) A person who holds the legal title of a motor vehicle; or
(2) If a motor vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease vested in the conditional vendee or lessee, or in the event that the mortgagor, with the right of purchase upon the performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of possession of a vehicle, is entitled to possession, the conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor.
(I.C. 9-13-2-121(a))
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The privilege of the immediate use of a highway.
(I.C. 9-13-2-155)
ROADWAY.
(1) Except as provided in division (2) below, that part of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel.
(2) As used in I.C. 9-21-12-13, the part of a highway that is improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel. The term does not include the sidewalk, berm, or shoulder, even if the sidewalk, berm, or shoulder is used by persons riding bicycles or other human powered vehicles.
(I.C. 9-13-2-157)
STREET. See HIGHWAY.
THROUGH HIGHWAY. A highway or portion of a highway at the entrance to which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is required by law to yield right-of-way to vehicles on the THROUGH HIGHWAY, in obedience to either a stop sign or a yield sign.
(I.C. 9-13-2-178)
VEHICLE. A device in, upon, or by which a person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway.
(I.C. 9-13-2-196(a))