For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. A narrow street that is typically located behind or between buildings.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Any vehicle of the Police or Fire/EMS Departments and such other vehicles used by municipal or other public authorities or by hospitals or public service corporations as the City Manager may designate.
BUS. A motor vehicle designed to carry passengers for hire.
CENTER LINE. The line of the center of a street when not marked; otherwise, the marked line indicating the boundary between portions of a street devoted to traffic in opposite directions.
CROSSWALK.
(1) The portion of a street within an intersection defined by the prolongation of the lateral lines of a sidewalk;
(2) Any portion of a street clearly marked by lines or traffic signs for pedestrian traffic;
(3) The portion of a street between a vehicle loading area and the adjacent curb or sidewalk line.
CURB. A raised ending of stone, concrete or the like, defining the limits of a street.
HIGHWAY. Any public road, street, avenue, alley or boulevard, bridge, viaduct, or trestle and the approaches to them and includes private residential roads and parking lots covered by an agreement under KRS 61.362, off-street parking facilities offered for public use, whether publicly or privately owned, except for-hire parking facilities listed in KRS 189.700.
INTERSECTION. The area embraced within the prolongation of the lateral boundary lines of the 2 or more streets which join one another, whether or not the street crosses the other.
MOBILE HOME. Any vehicle used as a permanent dwelling, connected to utilities and designed with a permanent foundation.
MOTOR HOME. Any vehicle built on a truck or bus chassis and equipped as a self-contained traveling home.
MOTOR TRUCK. Any motor-propelled vehicle designed to carry freight or merchandise, excluding vehicles designed primarily for passenger transportation.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Any self-propelled vehicle, excluding mopeds.
OPERATOR. Any person in control of a motor vehicle upon a street.
PARKING. The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or unoccupied upon a street. The term shall not apply to the temporary stopping of a vehicle for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers or merchandise.
PODS (PORTABLE ON DEMAND STORAGE. A self-contained, portable shipping and storage container for use on site.
PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot.
POLICE OFFICER. Any sworn officer of the Newport Police Department or any other City employee appointed as a citation officer as authorized by KRS 83A.087.
PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY. Every road or driveway not open to the use of the public.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The privilege of the immediate use of the street.
ROADWAY. The portion of a street devoted to vehicular traffic.
SAFETY ZONE. A space officially set apart within a street for the exclusive use of pedestrians and marked or indicated by adequate traffic signs.
SEMI-TRAILER. A vehicle designed to be attached to, and having a front end supported by, a motorized vehicle, intended for the carrying of freight or merchandise, having a load capacity over 1,000 pounds.
SIDEWALK. The portion of a highway between the roadway and the adjacent property lines.
STREET. All public rights-of-way which have been designated and dedicated as being City streets, whether improved or unimproved, including alleys, and lying within its boundaries, used primarily for vehicular traffic and shall be synonymous with the terms highway, roadway or boulevard.
TRAFFIC. Pedestrians; ridden, herded or led animals; vehicles and other conveyances either single or together while using any streets for purposes of travel.
TRAFFIC LIGHT. A traffic signal employing 1 or more colored lights by which traffic is directed to stop or proceed.
TRAFFIC SIGNALS. All signs, not inconsistent with this chapter, placed or erected by authority of this chapter, for the purpose of directing, guiding, warning or regulating traffic.
TRAFFIC SIGNS. All signs, markings and devices, other than signals, not inconsistent with this chapter, placed or erected by authority of this chapter, for the purpose of guiding, directing, warning or regulating traffic.
TRAILER. Any vehicle designed to be drawn by a motorized vehicle, but supported wholly upon its own wheels, intended for carrying of freight or merchandise.
TRAIN OF VEHICLES. A combination of 2 or more vehicles coupled together in tandem.
TRUCK TRACTOR.
(1) Any motor-propelled vehicle designed to draw and to support the front end of a semi-trailer.
(2) The semi-trailer and truck tractor shall be considered as 1 unit.
VEHICLE. All means for the transportation of persons or property over or upon streets, excepting road construction equipment, farm tractors, power shovels, vehicles that travel exclusively upon rails or which are propelled by electric power obtained from overhead wires.
VIOLATE. To do anything declared to be unlawful, or otherwise forbidden, or to fail or neglect or refuse to do anything declared to be a duty or otherwise enjoined to be done.
(1995 Code, § 10.04.010)