As used in this chapter, the following words, except where the context clearly indicates otherwise, mean:
ABANDONED VEHICLE. A vehicle that appears to be inoperable and has any characteristics that include but are not limited to expired license plate, missing rear vehicle license plate, flat tire(s), broken windshield, extensive body damage or rust, wrecked or partially dismantled and has been left on any public way for a period in excess of 72 hours without authorization by statute or local ordinance.
ALLEY. Any public right-of-way for the secondary access of a property not intended for general traffic use.
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE. Any vehicle the principal use of which is the transportation of commodities, merchandise, produce, freight, animals, or passengers for hire or a vehicle marked and directly used in association with a licensed business or a truck or tractor/trailer that is 10,000 pounds or more gross weight, and/or 20 feet or more in length, and/or eight feet or more in width.
ELECTRIC VEHICLE. A vehicle which is powered by an electric motor drawing current from rechargeable storage batteries, fuel cells, or other portable sources of electrical current, and which may include a nonelectrical source of power designed to charge batteries and components thereof. ELECTRIC VEHICLE may include a battery electric vehicle, a plug-in hybrid vehicle, a neighborhood electric vehicle, and a medium-speed electric vehicle.
INOPERABLE VEHICLE. A vehicle which has been left out of an enclosed structure on private property for more than 30 days; has a broken or missing window, windshield, wheels or tires; lacks an engine or has an inoperable engine; or lacks a transmission or has an inoperable transmission.
LEGAL OWNER. The person or entity with a financial interest in the vehicle and whose name is on the title of the vehicle; the person who is entitled to the possession and use of the vehicle under a security agreement including a lease agreement.
PLANTING STRIPS. That portion of the roadway lying between the constructed curb, or edge of the roadway, and the property line exclusive of the sidewalk area.
PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY. The area on, below, or above a public roadway, highway, street, bridge, bicycle lane, or public sidewalk in which the municipality has an interest, including other dedicated rights-of-way for travel purposes and utility easements.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE (RV). A motorized vehicle designed primarily for recreational camping, travel, or seasonal use which has its own motive power or is mounted on or towed by another vehicle, including but not limited to motor home, bus, van, truck camper, travel trailer, camping trailer, tent trailer, camper mounted on a vehicle, fifth wheel, and boat on trailer.
REGISTERED OWNER. The person in whose name title to a vehicle is issued, and who is entitled to possession and use of the vehicle.
SAFETY ZONE. The area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is marked or indicated by painted marks, signs, buttons standards or otherwise, so as to be plainly discernible.
SHOULDER. That area of the roadway between the traveled portion of the roadway and the planting strip or other area commonly for use by pedestrians,
for the accommodation of stopped vehicles and for emergency use.
STANDING. Halting of a vehicle whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
STORING. The keeping of a vehicle on the public right-of-way in excess of 72 consecutive hours.
STREET. The portion of a public right-of-way owned, improved, and maintained by a public entity for vehicular traffic exclusive of the shoulder; also described as a road, roadway or highway.
VEHICLE. Any device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway including but not limited to any car, truck, motorcycle, motor home, trailer including utility trailer, towed object, or other motorized automobile.
(Ord. 296, passed 12-3-2020)