Whenever in this title the following terms are used, they shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section:
ALLEY: A highway of less than twenty feet (20') total width used primarily for delivery service.
BUSINESS DISTRICT: That closely built up business portion of the village.
CROSSWALK: That portion of the roadway included within the prolongation of the sidewalk lines at street intersections.
DRIVER: Any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
EMERGENCY VEHICLE: Vehicles of the police or fire department; ambulances; any vehicle conveying a village official or employee in response to an emergency official call.
EXPLOSIVES: Any chemical compound or mechanical mixture that is commonly used or intended for the purpose of producing an explosion and which contains any oxidizing and combustive units or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities, or packing that an ignition by fire, by friction, by concussion, by percussion, or by detonator of any of the compound or mixture may cause such a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the resultant gaseous pressures are capable of producing destructible effects on contiguous objects or of destroying life or limb.
FARM TRACTOR: Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows, moving machines and other implements of husbandry.
FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS: Any liquid which has a flashpoint of seventy degrees Fahrenheit (70°F) or less, as determined by Tagliabue or equivalent closed cup test device.
IMPROVED HIGHWAY: A roadway of concrete, brick, asphalt, macadam or gravel.
INTERSECTION: The area embraced within the prolongation of the property lines of two (2) or more streets which join at an angle, whether or not such streets cross.
LANED HIGHWAY: A street, the roadway of which is divided into three (3) or more clearly marked lanes for vehicle traffic.
LOADING ZONE: The space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
METAL TIRE: Every tire, the surface of which in contact with the roadway is wholly or partly of metal or other hard, nonresilient material.
MOTOR VEHICLE: Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead wires, 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 (3) wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.
PARK: To stand a vehicle, whether occupied or not, for a period of time greater than is reasonably necessary for the actual loading or unloading of persons.
PEDESTRIAN: Any person afoot.
PNEUMATIC TIRE: Every tire in which compressed air is designed to support the load.
PROPERTY LINE: The line marking the boundary between any street and the lots or property abutting thereon.
PUBLIC BUILDING: A building used by the village or by any park district, school district, the state or by the United States government.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT: The closely built up residence portion of the village.
ROAD TRACTOR: Every motor vehicle designed and used for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon either independently or any part of the weight of a vehicle or load so drawn.
ROADWAY: That portion of a street designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic.
SAFETY ZONE: That portion of a roadway reserved for the exclusive use of pedestrians, suitably marked or elevated.
SCHOOL BUS: Every motor vehicle owned by a public or governmental agency and operated for the transportation of children to or from school or privately owned and operated for compensation for the transportation of children to or from school.
SEMITRAILERS: Every vehicle without motive power designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that some part of its weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle.
SIDEWALK: That portion of a street between the curb line or roadway and the adjacent property line designated for pedestrian use.
SOLID TIRE: Every tire of rubber or other resilient material which does not depend upon compressed air for the support of the load.
STREET: Every way set aside for public travel except footpaths.
SUBURBAN DISTRICT: That portion of the village other than closely built up business and residence districts.
TRAFFIC: Vehicles, streetcars, pedestrians and draft or herded animals using any street for travel.
TRAILER: Every vehicle without motive power designed for carrying passengers or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.
TRUCK TRACTOR: Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
VEHICLE: Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, including bicycles, but not including perambulators or toy vehicles. (1966 Code §§ 293–327; amd. 2013 Code)