For the purpose of this title, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. Any public way not more than 12 feet wide affording a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting properties.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Vehicles of the Fire Department (Fire Patrol), police vehicles, and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments 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 more than 20 inches in diameter, and including any device generally recognized as a BICYCLE though equipped with two front or two rear wheels.
BUSINESS DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a highway or roadway when 50% more of the frontage thereon for a distance of 300 feet or more is occupied by buildings used for business.
BUS STOP. The part of any roadway officially set apart and reserved exclusively for the loading and unloading of passengers by buses or passenger vehicles.
CROSSWALK.
(1) The part of a roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the street measured from the curbs or, in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway.
(2) Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
DRIVER. Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
INTERSECTION.
(1) 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 the different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict.
(2) When a highway includes two roadways 30 feet or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such divided highway by an intersecting highway shall be regarded as a separate INTERSECTION. In the event such intersecting highway also includes two roadways 30 feet or more apart, then every crossing of two roadways of such highways shall be regarded as a separate INTERSECTION.
LANED ROADWAY. A roadway which is divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
LIMITED-ACCESS HIGHWAY. Every street, highway, or roadway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting property or lands and other persons have no legal right of access to or from the same except at such points and in such manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over such highway, street, or roadway.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Every vehicle that is self-propelled.
MOTORCYCLE. Every motor vehicle having a seat and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding tractors.
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD. Whenever certain hours are named herein, they shall mean standard time as may be in current use in the city.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES. All signs, signals, markings, and devices not inconsistent with this title placed or erected by authority of the state or county, or the legislative body of the city, for the purpose of regulating, warning, 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 passengers.
PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot.
PERSON. Every natural person, firm, partnership, association, company, 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 implied permission from the owner, but not by other persons.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a highway or roadway when the property on such highway or roadway for a distance of 300 feet or more is in the main improved with dwellings or dwellings and buildings in use for residence.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The privilege of the immediate use of the roadway. When the context requires, RIGHT-OF-WAY shall also mean the entire width between the boundary lines of every public way, whether open to vehicular traffic or not.
ROADWAY. The portion of a street or highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel including any drainage ditches. In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term ROADWAY, as used herein shall refer to any such ROADWAY separately but not to all such roadways collectively.
SIDEWALK. The portion of a street between the curb line, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians, including any strip of ground between curb and paved sidewalk.
STOP, STOPPING, or STANDING.
(1) When required, means complete cessation of movement.
(2) 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.
STREET or HIGHWAY. The entire width between the boundary lines of every way when any part thereof is open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purpose of vehicular traffic.
THROUGH HIGHWAY. Every street or highway or portion thereof at the entrance to which vehicular traffic from intersecting streets or highways is required by law to stop before entering or crossing the same and when stop signs are erected as provided in this title.
TRAFFIC. Pedestrians, ridden 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.
VEHICLE. 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.
(2010 Code, § 70.01)