Whenever in this Title the following terms are used they shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this Section:
BUSINESS DISTRICT: The 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 or street car.
EMERGENCY VEHICLE: Vehicles of the Police or Fire Department, ambulances or any vehicle conveying a Village official or employee in response to an official emergency call.
EXPLOSIVE: 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 detonation of any part of the compound or mixture may cause such a sudden generation of highly combustible 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 for drawing plows, moving machines and other implements of husbandry.
FLAMMABLE LIQUID: Any liquid which has a flash point of seventy degrees (700) Fahrenheit or less, as determined by a tabliabue, 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 vehicular travel.
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 composed of metal or other hard nonresilient material.
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.
MOTOR VEHICLE: Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electricity obtained from an overhead wire, but not operated upon rails.
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 on foot.
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 of Illinois or the United States government.
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 as any part of the weight of a vehicle or load so drawn.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT: The closely built up residence portion of the Village.
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.
SEMI-TRAILER: 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 and the adjacent property line.
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 travel except foot paths.
SUBURBAN DISTRICT: That portion of the Village other then the closely built up business and residence districts.
TRAFFIC: Vehicles using any street for travel.
TRAILER: Every vehicle without motive power designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing truck.
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.