In addition to those definitions contained in the Oregon Vehicle Code, ORS chapters 801 to 822, the following words or phrases, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning, shall mean:
ALLEY: A street through the middle of a block primarily intended to provide access to the rear or side of lots or buildings.
BUS STOP: A designated area in the roadway adjacent to the curb to be occupied exclusively by buses for layover in operating schedules or waiting for passengers.
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE: A vehicle which is used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation or profit or which is designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.
CURB: The extreme edge of the roadway.
DISMANTLED VEHICLE: A vehicle from which parts have been removed, except for minor repairs (as oil changes, windshield wiper replacements, tire rotations or the like) made within an eight (8) hour period, or a vehicle which does not have a current and valid license or a motor vehicle which is unable to propel itself.
DWELLING: A building used for occupancy, including eating and sleeping, by a family. It includes an apartment, mobile home, multi-family dwelling and single family dwelling.
FARM TRACTOR: Any self-propelled vehicle designed primarily for use in agricultural operations for drawing or operating plows, mowing machines and other farm equipment or implements of husbandry.
FIXED LOAD VEHICLE: Vehicles with or without motive power that are neither designed nor used primarily for the transportation of persons or property over public highways or streets.
GROSS WEIGHT: The light weight of the vehicle plus the weight of the maximum load which the vehicle may carry; or the weight of a vehicle or combination of vehicles, or wheel, or axle, or tandem axles or group of axles, without load plus the weight of any load thereon.
HIGHWAY, ROAD or STREET: Every public way, thoroughfare and place, including bridges, viaducts or other structures used or intended for the use of the general public for vehicles.
HOLIDAY: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King's Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving Day and the day after, Christmas Day, Sundays, and any other day proclaimed by the City Council to be a holiday.
LIGHT WEIGHT: The weight of a vehicle when fully equipped for moving over the highway.
LOADING ZONE: A space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or material or freight.
MOBILE HOME: (Excluding a modular home, prefabricated home and tent trailer). Trailer or structure that:
A. Is designed to be transported or used upon the highways;
B. Is capable of being used for human habitation or for business, commercial or office purposes;
C. Is not a travel trailer; and
D. Is not a special use trailer.
MOTOR BUS: Every motor vehicle designed or used for carrying passengers and their personal baggage and express for compensation, except taxicabs and vehicles commonly known and used as private passenger vehicles and not operated for compensation except in the transportation of students to or from school.
MOTOR HOME: A motor vehicle that:
A. Is originally designed, reconstructed or permanently altered to provide facilities for human habitation; or
B. Has a camper permanently attached to it.
MOTOR TRUCK: Every motor vehicle designed or used for carrying, conveying or moving over the highways of this State any freight, property, article or thing, and having a combined weight of vehicle and maximum load to be carried thereon of more than eight thousand (8,000) pounds.
MOTOR VEHICLE: Every vehicle which is self-propelled or vehicle designed for self-propulsion.
MOTORCYCLE: Any self-propelled cycle.
OFF-ROAD VEHICLE: Any motor vehicle, except licensed road vehicles, used off public roads for recreational purposes.
PARK or PARKING: The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers.
PASSENGER TRANSPORT VEHICLE: A worker transport bus.
PERSON: Every natural person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation.
PUBLIC HIGHWAY: Every street, alley, road, highway and thoroughfare used by the public and dedicated or appropriated to public use.
PUBLIC WAY: Every way or place of whatever nature open to the use of the public, including but not limited to roads, streets, alleys, lanes, trails, beaches, parks and recreational use areas owned or operated by the City for use by the general public.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE: A vacation trailer or other unit with or without motive power which is designed for human occupancy and to be used temporarily for recreational or emergency purposes and has a floor space of less than two hundred twenty (220) square feet, excluding built-in equipment such as wardrobes, closets, cabinets, kitchen units or fixtures and bath or toilet rooms.
ROAD: The entire right of way of any public or private way that provides ingress to or egress from property by means of vehicles or other means or that provides travel between places by means of vehicles. "Road" includes, but is not limited to:
A. Ways described as streets, highways, thoroughways or alleys;
B. Road related structures that are in the right of way such as tunnels, culverts or similar structures; and
C. Structures that provide for continuity of the right of way such as bridges.
ROADWAY: Portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the shoulder. In the event a highway includes two (2) or more separate roadways the term "highway" shall refer to any such roadway separately but not to all such roadways collectively.
SCHOOL BUS: Every motor vehicle owned by a public or governmental agency and operated for the transportation of children to or from school, or privately owned and operated for compensation for the transportation of children to or from school, or a bus operated for transporting children to and from church or an activity or function authorized by a church, or any vehicle used in the transportation of persons for hire by a nonprofit entity referred to in ORS 767.025(15).
SEMI-TRAILER: Every vehicle without motive power (including pole or pipe dollies) which:
A. Has a combined weight of vehicle and maximum load to be carried thereon or more than eight thousand (8,000) pounds;
B. Is designed for carrying property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle; and
C. Is so constructed that some part of its weight and the weight of its load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle.
SHOULDER: Portion of the highway, whether paved or unpaved, contiguous to the roadway primarily for use by pedestrians, for the accommodation of stopped vehicles, for emergency use and for lateral support of base and surface courses.
SIDEWALK: A. On the side of the highway which has a shoulder, that portion of the highway between the outside lateral line of the shoulder and the adjacent property line capable of being used by a pedestrian; or
B. On the side of a highway which has no shoulder, that portion of the highway between the lateral line of the roadway and the adjacent property line capable of being used by a pedestrian.
SPECIAL USE TRAILER: A trailer described under any of the following:
A. A trailer that is eight feet (8') or less in width and of any length and that is used for commercial or business purposes.
B. A trailer that is used temporarily on a construction site for office purposes only.
STREET: Every public way, thoroughfare and place, including bridges, viaducts and other structures within the City used or intended for the use of the general public for vehicles.
TAXICAB STAND: A designated area in the roadway adjacent to the curb set aside for taxicabs to stand or wait for passengers.
THOROUGHWAY: Every highway, street or roadway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right of access to or from the same except at such points only and in such manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over such highway, street or roadway.
TRAILER: Every vehicle without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.
TRAVEL TRAILER: (Including a tent trailer). A trailer that:
A. Is of a type designed to be used on the highways.
B. Is capable of being used for human habitation.
C. Is not more than eight feet (8') wide and is six feet (6') or more in height from floor to ceiling.
D. Except in the case of a tent trailer, has four (4) permanent walls when it is in the usual travel position.
TRUCK TRACTOR: Any motor vehicle used or designed for use with a semitrailer for carrying, conveying or moving over the highways any freight, property, article or thing, and having a combined weight of vehicle and maximum load to be carried thereon of more than eight thousand (8,000) pounds.
TRUCK TRAILER: Every vehicle without motive power (except a tractor trailer) which:
A. Has a combined weight of vehicle and maximum load to be carried thereon of more than eight thousand (8,000) pounds;
B. Is designed for carrying property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle; and
C. Is so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.
UTILITY TRAILER: Every vehicle designed like a balanced trailer having a length not in excess of fifteen feet (15') and a gross weight not in excess of eight thousand (8,000) pounds.
VEHICLE: Every mechanical device moving by any power over the highways, except devices that:
A. Move exclusively on stationary rail tracks; or
B. Are powered exclusively by human power. (Ord. 576, 8-22-90)