ALLEY. A public travelway of normally less than 24 feet in width used primarily for delivery service.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Vehicles of the fire department (fire patrol), police vehicles, and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments of public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the Chief of Police of this City.
BICYCLE. Every device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, having two tandem wheels, either of which is 20 inches in diameter, and including any devices generally recognized as a BICYCLE though equipped with two front or two rear wheels.
BUSINESS DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a roadway when within any 600 feet 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 300 feet of frontage on one side or 300 feet collectively on both sides of the roadway.
CENTRAL BUSINESS (OR TRAFFIC) DISTRICT. All streets and portions of streets within the Central Business District as defined elsewhere in this Article.
CROSSWALK. That part of the roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs, or in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway. Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
CURB LOADING ZONE. A space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
DRIVER. Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
FREIGHT CURB LOADING ZONE. A space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of freight or passengers.
INTERSECTION. 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 highways which join one another at or approximately at right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict.
MOTOR VEHICLES. Every vehicle which is self-propelled, but not operated upon rails.
MOTORCYCLE. Every motor vehicle having a saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES. All signs, signals, marking, and devices not inconsistent with this Article, placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, marking or guiding traffic.
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 or unloading.
PASSENGER CURB LOADING ZONE. A place adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.
PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot.
PERSON. Every natural person, firm, co-partnership, association, or corporation.
POLICE OFFICER. Every officer of the municipal police department or any 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 implies permission from the owner, but not by other persons.
RAILROAD. A carrier of persons or property upon cars, other than street cars, operated upon stationary rails.
RAILROAD TRAIN. A steam engine, electric or other motor, with or without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails, except street cars.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business district when the property on such highway for a distance of 300 feet or more in the main is improved with dwellings or dwellings and buildings in use for business.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The privilege of the immediate use of the road way.
ROADWAY. That portion of a street or highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel.
SAFETY ZONE. The area of 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, which set apart as a safety zone.
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.
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.
STOP. When required, means complete cessation of movement.
STREET or HIGHWAY. The entire width between the boundary lines of every publicly maintained right-of-way, when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
THROUGH HIGHWAY. Every street or highway or portion thereof at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting streets or highway is required by law to stop before entering or crossing the same and when stop signs are erected as provided in this act.
TRAFFIC. Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, and other conveyances, either singly or together while using any street for purpose of travel.
TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNAL. Any device, whether manually, electrically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to proceed.
TRAFFIC DIVISION. The Traffic Division of the police department of this City.
VEHICLES. Every device in, upon, or by which any person, or property is or may be transported, or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(Prior Code, Art. 18, § 18.1)