A. The definitions in 47 O.S. §§ 1-101-1-186 shall be applicable to this chapter.
B. The following words, terms, and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this subsection, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
1. Alley means any narrow highway ordinarily located in the interior portion of platted blocks and ordinarily used for service or delivery purposes at the rear of stores, dwellings, or buildings.
2. Ambulance means a motor vehicle constructed, reconstructed, or arranged for the purpose of transporting ill, sick, or injured persons.
3. Center lane means any clearly marked center lane. If the center lane is not marked and no cars are parked on the roadway, then the center lane is equally distanced between the curbs or travelled portion of the roadway. In the event a vehicle or vehicles are parked on one (1) side of the roadway only, then the center lane is equally distanced from the side of the parked vehicle or vehicles toward the street and curb on the opposite roadway. If vehicles are parked on each side of the roadway, then the center lane is equally distanced from the edges of the parked vehicles.
4. Commercial vehicle means every vehicle designed, maintained, or used primarily for the transportation of property.
5. Controlled access highway means every highway, street, or roadway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right of access to or from the same except at such points only and in such manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over such highway, street, or roadway.
6. Department means the State department of public safety, acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents.
7. Double park means parking or stopping a vehicle on the roadway side of another vehicle already parked adjacent to the edge or curbing of the roadway.
8. Emergency means an unforeseeable occurrence of temporary duration causing or resulting in an abnormal increase in traffic volume, cessation or stoppage of traffic movement, or creation of conditions hazardous to normal traffic movement, including fire, storm, accident, riot, or spontaneous assembly of large numbers of pedestrians in such a manner as to impede the flow of traffic.
9. Emergency vehicle means vehicles of the Fire Department, police vehicles, and ambulances.
10. Limit lines means boundaries of parking areas, loading zones, and non- traffic areas and lines indicating the proper place for stopping where stops are required.
11. Limited access highway. See Controlled access highway.
12. Loading zone means a space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or material. A freight curb loading zone is a loading zone for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of freight; a passenger curb loading zone is a loading zone for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.
13. Official time shall mean whenever certain hours are named in this chapter they shall mean Central Standard Time or daylight savings time, as may be in current use in the City.
14. Public parking lot means a parking lot or right-of-way dedicated to public use or owned by the State or a political subdivision thereof.
15. School zone means all streets or portions of streets immediately adjacent to a school or school ground where the same is adjacent and for a distance of three hundred (300) feet in each direction.
16. U-turn means a turn by which a vehicle reverses its course of travel on the same street.
(Code 1991, § 15-103)
Cross reference- Definitions generally, § 1-2.
State Law reference- Highway Safety Code, definitions, 47 O.S. § 1-101 et seq.