As used in this chapter:
(a) “Municipal parking lot” means any property owned by the City of Ravenna which has been designed and improved expressly for the purpose of parking motor vehicles by the general public, and which has signs identifying it as municipal parking for the general use of the public.
(b) “Park” or “parking” means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon any portion of a municipal parking lot, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers, or an involuntary stopping of the vehicle by reason of causes beyond the control of the operator of the vehicle.
(c) “Motor vehicle” means any device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported upon a highway, except a device which is operated upon rails or tracks.
(d) “Operator” means and includes every individual who shall operate a vehicle as the owner thereof, or as the agent, employee or permittee of the owner or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
(e) “Owner” means the record of ownership as shown in the clerk of courts office of the proper county and shall be prima-facie evidence that the owner placed the vehicle in the parking space at the time and place alleged in any complaint against him/her.
(f) “Person” means and includes any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation or other recognized legal entity.
(Ord. 2009-114. Passed 7-6-09.)