"Bus" means a vehicle designed, used, or maintained for carrying more than ten (10) persons, including the driver, that is used to transport persons for compensation or profit.
"Driver" means any person who drives, operates, or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
"Dwelling unit" means a group of rooms or a single room within a dwelling, with kitchen facilities, and occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by a family or other group of persons living together, or by a person living alone. All rooms within a dwelling unit must have their principal entrance from inside the dwelling unit.
"Emergency" means a sudden, urgent, usually unforeseen, occurrence.
"Gross vehicle weight rating" means the weight specified by the manufacturer as the loaded weight of a single vehicle.
"Heavy-duty vehicle" means any on-road motor vehicle with a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating greater than fourteen thousand (14,000) pounds.
"Idling" or "to idle" means the engine is running while the vehicle is stationary or the piece of off-road equipment is not performing work.
"Off-highway vehicle" means a two-stroke or four-stroke air-cooled, liquid-cooled, gasoline, diesel, or alternate fuel powered engine that is designed for powering off-road recreational vehicles, including, but not limited to, off-road motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, and golf carts.
"Official traffic control device" means any sign, signal, marking or device, consistent with Section 21400 of the Vehicle Code, placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic, but does not include islands, curbs, traffic barriers, speed humps, speed bumps, or other roadway design features.
"Official traffic control signal" means any device, whether manually, electrically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and proceed and that is erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction.
"Off-road equipment" means any nonstationary device powered by an internal combustion engine and used primarily off the highways to propel, move, or draw persons or property, including any device propelled, moved, or drawn exclusively by human power, including, but not limited to, marine vessels, construction equipment, utility engines, and lawn and garden equipment, but excluding off-road motorcycles and off-highway vehicles.
"Off-road motorcycle" means any two- or three-wheeled vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine and weighing less than one thousand four hundred and ninety-nine (1,499) pounds. An off-road motorcycle is primarily designed for use off highways for recreational riding on dirt trails, but is not limited to this purpose.
"Operator" means any person who is in actual physical control of off-road equipment or vehicle equipped with a transport refrigeration unit.
"School" means any public or private school used for the purposes of education and instruction of more than twelve (12) school pupils at or below the twelfth (12th) grade level, but does not include any private school in which education and instruction is conducted primarily in private homes. The term "school" includes any building or structure, playground, athletic field, or other area of school property, but excludes unimproved school property.
"Transport refrigeration unit" or "TRU" means a refrigeration system powered by an engine designed to control the environment of temperature sensitive cargo.
"Vehicle" means any on-road, self-propelled vehicle that is required to be registered and have a license plate by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
"Vehicle/equipment/TRU owner" means the registered owner, owner, lessee, licensee, or bailee of any heavy-duty vehicle, piece of off-road equipment, or TRU who operates or directs the operation of the vehicle, equipment, or TRU on either a for-hire or not-for-hire basis. (Ord. 2004-051 § 1)