9-5-1: DEFINITIONS:
For the purposes of this Chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE: Shall include motor trucks, tractors, trailers and motor buses, whether or not actually used for commercial purposes, and all motor vehicles used for public hire.
MOTOR BUSES: Shall include all vehicles used or designed for use for carriage of more than seven (7) persons.
MOTOR TRUCKS: Shall include all motor vehicles, including tractor trucks, used or designed to be used to carry goods.
MOTOR VEHICLE: Shall mean every self-propelled device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a street, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively on stationary rails or tracks.
PERSON: Shall mean any individual, entity, firm, proprietorship, partnership, association, corporation or organization of any kind.
PLEASURE VEHICLES: Shall include all motor vehicles used or designed to be used to carry not more than seven (7) passengers, and all recreational vehicles, excepting motor bicycles, tricycles and commercial vehicles.
SITUS OR BASE: Shall mean, when applied to a person, the place where that person or business is principally located and, when applied to a motor vehicle, the place where that motor vehicle is principally garaged, or from whence it is principally dispatched, or where its movements usually originate.
TRAILER: Includes every vehicle without motive power designed to carry passengers or property and to be drawn by a motor vehicle.
VEHICLE: Includes every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be drawn upon a street except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. (Ord. 2198, 8-18-1997)