For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions 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 Police Chief.
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 in use for business.
CROSSWALK. The portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the prolongation of curb and property lines at intersections or any other portion of a roadway clearly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other marking on the surface.
CURB. The extreme edge of a roadway.
FARM TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows, mowing machines, and other implements of husbandry.
HIGHWAY or STREET. Every way or place of whatever nature opened to use of public, as a matter of right, for purposes of vehicular travel. The term HIGHWAY or STREET shall not be deemed to include a roadway or driveway upon grounds owned by private persons, colleges, universities, or other institutions.
INTERSECTIONS. The area embraced within the prolongation of the lateral curb lines or, if none, then of 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. Any street, the roadway of which is divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for vehicle 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 with the term “tractor” as herein defined.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNALS. All signals, not inconsistent with this chapter, 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 chapter, placed or erected by a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of guiding, directing, warning, or regulating traffic.
OPERATOR or DRIVER. Any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
OWNER. A person who holds the legal title of a vehicle or, in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for conditional sale or lease thereof with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of possession vested in the conditional vendee or lessee, or in the event a mortgagor of vehicle is entitled to possession, then such conditional vendee or lessee or mortgager shall be deemed the OWNER for the purpose of this chapter.
PARKING. The standing of a vehicle, whether attended or unattended, 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 who goes or travels on foot or who travels with the assistance of a wheelchair.
PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY. Every road or driveway not opens to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The privilege of this immediate use of the street or highway.
ROAD TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon either independently or any part of the weight of a vehicle or load so drawn.
ROADWAY. The portion of a street or highway between the regularly established curb lines or that part devoted to vehicular traffic.
SAFETY ZONE. The area or space officially set aside within a street or highway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is so plainly marked or indicated by proper signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a SAFETY ZONE.
SEMITRAILER. Every vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a motor vehicle that some part of its own weight and that of its own load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle.
SIDEWALK. The portion of a highway or street between the curb lines and adjacent property lines.
TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL. Any device using colored lights, or words, or any combination thereof whether manually, electrically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to protect.
TRAILER. Every vehicle without motor power designed for carrying property or passenger wholly on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle.
TRUCK. Any motor vehicle used for carrying goods and/or materials which have a box or cargo box exceeding six feet in width and/or has a total length of over 26 feet, including any permanently attached or removable trailers or cargo boxes.
TRUCK TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
VEHICLE or MOTOR 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 purpose of this chapter, a bicycle or a ridden animal shall be deemed a VEHICLE.
(Ord. 22, passed 7-8-2010)