For the purpose of this title the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. A public thoroughfare which affords only secondary means of vehicular access to abutting property and is not over 20 feet in width.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Vehicles of the Fire Department, police vehicles, and those ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations that are designated or authorized by the Chief of Police.
BICYCLE. A light vehicle with two or three wheels, operating in tandem, neither of which shall be less than 20 inches in diameter, with solid or pneumatic tires, having a steering apparatus and a saddle seat and propelled by the feet acting on treadles connected with cranks or levers.
BICYCLIST. Every person who rides or is in actual physical control of a bicycle.
BUSINESS DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a highway when, within any 600 feet along that highway, there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, including but not limited to hotels, banks, office buildings, railroad stations, and public buildings which occupy at least 300 feet of frontage on one side or 300 feet collectively on both sides of the highway.
CENTRAL FIRE DISTRICT. All streets and portions of streets within the fire limits of the city.
CHIEF OF POLICE. The Chief of Police of the city, or any member of the Police Department of the city designated by the Chief of Police to act in his or her place in carrying out the provisions of this title.
CLERK-TREASURER. The Clerk-Treasurer of the city or any person designated by the Clerk- Treasurer to act in his or her place in carrying out the provisions of this title.
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE. Every vehicle designed, maintained, or used primarily for the transportation of property for business purposes.
CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAY. Every highway, street, or roadway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting property or lands, and other persons, have no legal right of access to or
from the same, except at certain points and in a manner that may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over the highway, street, or roadway.
CROSSWALK. That part of a roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs, or, in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway. Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
CURB-LOADING ZONE. A space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
DRIVER. Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
FREIGHT CURB-LOADING ZONE. A space adjacent to a curb for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of freight or passengers.
INTERSECTION. The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two highways which join one another at or approximately at right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict. Where a highway includes two roadways 30 feet or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of the divided highway by an intersecting highway shall be regarded as a separate intersection. In the event the intersecting highway also includes two roadways 30 feet or more apart, then every crossing of two roadways of the highways shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
LANED ROADWAY. A roadway which is divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails.
MOTORCYCLE. Every motor vehicle having a saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES. All signs, signals, markings, or devices not inconsistent with this title, placed or erected by the authority of the city for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic.
PASSENGER CURB-LOADING ZONE. A place adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.
PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot.
POLICE OFFICER. Every officer of the Police Department or any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
PRIVATE ROAD or DRIVEWAY. Every way or place in private ownership, used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having express or implied permission from the owner, but not by other persons.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business district, when the property on the highway for a distance of 300 feet or more is, in the main, improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The privilege of the immediate use of the roadway.
ROADWAY. That portion of a street or highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. In the event
a highway includes two or more separate roadways this term shall refer to that roadway separately but not to all the roadways collectively.
SAFETY ZONE. The area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians, and which is protected or is so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone.
SIDEWALK. That portion of a street between the curb lines or the lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians.
STOP. When required, complete cessation of movement.
(1) STOP, STOPPING, OR STANDING. When prohibited, any stopping or standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic-control sign or signal.
(2) PARK. When prohibited, the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading.
STREET or HIGHWAY. The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained, when any part is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
THROUGH HIGHWAY. Every street or highway, or portion thereof, at the entrance to which vehicular traffic from intersecting streets or highways is required by law to yield the right-of-way to vehicles on the street or highway in obedience to either a stop sign or a yield sign, when those signs are erected as provided in this chapter.
TRAFFIC. Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars, and other conveyances, either single or together, while using the street for any purpose of travel.
TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNAL. Any device, whether manually, electrically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and then proceed.
TRAFFIC DIVISION. The Traffic Division of the Police Department, or in the event a Traffic Division is not established, then the Police Department.
VEHICLE. Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(`81 Code, § 70.02)