For the purpose of this title the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
"AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES." Vehicles of the Fire Department, vehicles of the State, County, and Municipal Police Departments, vehicles of the Salvage Corps, and state, county, and municipally-owned ambulances, shall be considered authorized emergency vehicles in the order named herein. Privately-owned ambulances shall be considered authorized emergency vehicles when on emergency calls only.
"INTERSECTION." The area embraced within the prolongation of the lateral curb lines or, 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.
"MOTOR VEHICLE." Every vehicle, as herein defined, which is self-propelled.
"OPERATOR." Any person who is in actual physical control of any vehicle.
"PARKING." The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon a roadway, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading, or in obedience of traffic regulations or traffic signs or signals.
"PEDESTRIAN." Any person afoot.
"PERSON." Any natural individual, firm, trust, partnership, association, or corporation. Whenever the word "PERSON" is used in any section of this traffic code prescribing a penalty or fine as applied to partnerships or associations, the word includes the partners or members thereof, and as applied to corporations includes the officers, agents, or employees thereof who are responsible for any violations of the section.
"POLICE OFFICER." Every officer of the city and any other duly-constituted law officer who may be aiding the police force of the city at any time, including state and county officers.
"RIGHT-OF-WAY." The privilege of the immediate use of the street or highway.
"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 and the adjacent property lines.
"STREET" or "HIGHWAY." Every way set apart for public travel, except foot paths.
"TRUCK." A truck is a vehicle that has more than two rear wheels, or more than one rear axle, or has an empty vehicle weight of more than 5000 pounds.
"VEHICLE." Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(Ord. 79-5, passed 9-17-79)