For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CITY. The City of Port Isabel.
CONTRACTOR. Any person or group of persons entering into an agreement with the city.
DETOUR. An alternate route in which vehicular traffic is directed around a street which is closed.
EMERGENCY. An unforeseen combination of circumstances or the resulting state, that calls for immediate action.
MANUAL. The "Manual on Uniform Barricading Standards."
PERMIT. A written letter of approval from the responsible person or his or her appointed representative.
PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY. Any public street, highway, roadway, alley, or sidewalk.
RESPONSIBLE PERSON. The responsible person of the designated department of the City of Port Isabel, Texas or any appointed representative.
SHALL, SHOULD AND MAY. The word SHALL is a mandatory condition, the word SHOULD is an advisory condition to insure safe operation conditions, and the word MAY is a permissive condition.
STREETS AND ALLEYS. The term STREET shall mean a traveled way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, place or however otherwise designated.
(1) ALLEYS. Minor traveled ways which are used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
(2) COLLECTOR STREETS. Those which carry traffic from minor streets to the major system of arterial streets and highways including the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within such a development.
(3) MAJOR THOROUGHFARES OR ARTERIAL STREETS. Principal traffic arteries more or less continuous across the city which are intended to connect remote parts of the city and which are used primarily for fast or heavy volume traffic and shall include but not be limited to each street designated as a major street on the major street plan.
(4) MINOR STREETS. Those which are used primarily for access to abutting residential properties which are intended to serve traffic within a limited residential district.
(Ord. 111A, passed - -)