For the purpose of this title, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Vehicles of the Fire Department, police vehicles and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the State Department of Commerce and Regulation.
BUSINESS DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to a highway when 50% or more of the frontage thereon for a distance of 300 feet or more is occupied by buildings used for business.
CROSSWALK. The 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; or any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
DEPARTMENT. The City Police Department.
INTERSECTION. The area embraced within the prolongation of the lateral curblines; if none, then the lateral boundary lines of two or more streets or highways which join one another at an angle whether or not one such street or highway crosses the other; but such area in the case of the point where an alley and a street meet shall not be deemed an INTERSECTION.
LANED STREET. A street, the roadway of which is divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
LOADING ZONE. The space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
MOTORCYCLE. Every motor vehicle designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, except any such vehicle as may be included within the term tractor.
MOTOR VEHICLES. Every vehicle which is self-propelled.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNALS. All signals, not inconsistent with this title, placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of directing, warning or regulating traffic.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNS. All signs and markings, other than signals, not inconsistent with this title, placed or erected by a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of guiding, directing, warning or regulating traffic.
OPERATOR. Any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
PARKING. The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon a roadway or street otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading or in obedience to traffic regulations or traffic signs or signals.
PEDESTRIAN. Any person on foot.
POLICE OFFICER. Every officer of the City 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 road or driveway not open to the use of the public for purpose of vehicular traffic.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to a highway not comprising a Business District when the frontage of such highway for a distance of 300 feet or more is mainly occupied by dwellings or by dwellings and buildings in use for business.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian approaching under such circumstances of direction, speed and proximity as to give rise to danger of collision unless one grants precedence to another.
ROADWAY. The portion of a 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, the term ROADWAY shall refer to any such roadway separately but not to all such roadways collectively.
SIDEWALK. The portion of a street between the curblines or the lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians.
STREET OR HIGHWAY. The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public as a matter of right for purposes of vehicular travel.
TRAFFIC. Pedestrians, ridden animals, herded animals and vehicles while using any street for purpose of travel.
VEHICLE. Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks; provided, that for the purposes of this title, a bicycle or a ridden animal shall be deemed to be a VEHICLE.
(Prior Code, § 17-1)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see SDCL § 32-14-1