(A) For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ABANDONED VEHICLES. Vehicles left unoccupied, unclaimed, damaged, or dismantled condition on the street right of way or alleys of the city or on any other public or private property within the city.
BUS STOP. A space on the edge of a roadway designated by sign for use by buses loading or unloading passengers.
DISCARDED VEHICLES. Any vehicle which does not have lawfully affixed thereto an unexpired license plate and is in one or more of the following conditions: inoperative, wrecked, dismantled, partially dismantled, abandoned, junked. DISCARDED VEHICLES may be deemed to include major parts thereof, including but not limited to, bodies, engines, transmissions and rear ends.
HOLIDAY. New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and any other day proclaimed by the Council to be a holiday.
LOADING ZONE. A space on the edge of a roadway designated by sign for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers or materials during specified hours of specified days.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Every vehicle that is self propelled, including tractors, fork lift trucks, motorcycles, road building equipment, street cleaning equipment and any other vehicle capable of moving under its own power, notwithstanding that the vehicle may be exempt from licensing under the motor vehicle laws of Oregon.
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.
PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot or confined to a wheelchair.
PERSON. A natural person, firm, partnership, association or corporation.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The area between the edge of the traffic lane and the boundary of the adjacent private property.
STAND or STANDING. The halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily, for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
STOP. Complete cessation from movement.
STREET and OTHER PROPERTY OPEN TO PUBLIC TRAVEL.
(a) OTHER PROPERTY OPEN TO PUBLIC TRAVEL. Property, whether publicly or privately owned and whether publicly or privately maintained, upon which the public operates motor vehicles either by express or implied invitation, other than streets as defined above, and excepting public school property, county property or property under the jurisdiction of the State Board of Higher Education. Property open to public travel shall include but not be limited to parking lots, service station lots, shopping center and supermarket parking lots and other access ways and parking areas open to general vehicular traffic, whether or not periodically closed to public use.
(b) STREET. As defined in the ordinance and the O.R.S. Chapters incorporated by reference herein, includes alleys, sidewalks, right-of-way, parking areas and access ways owned or maintained by the city.
TAXICAB STAND. A space on the edge of a roadway designated by sign for use by taxicabs.
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE. A device to direct vehicular or pedestrian traffic and parking, including but not limited to a sign, signaling mechanism, barricade, button or street or curb marking installed by the city or other authority.
TRAFFIC LANE. That area of the roadway used for the movement of a single line of traffic.
TRAILER. A towed devise.
TRUCK TRACTOR. A motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and constructed so as not to carry any load other than a part of the weigh of the vehicle or load, or both, as drawn, as defined in O.R.S. 801.575.
TRUCK TRAILER. Any trailer designed and used primarily for carrying loads other than passengers whether designed as a balance trailer, pole trailer, semi-trailer or self-supporting trailer as defined in O.R.S. 801.580.
VEHICLE. Means any device, including animal drawn, in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported upon any road, street, highway or parking lot.
(B) As used in this chapter, the singular includes the plural, and the masculine includes the feminine.
(Ord. 378, passed 3-11-1985; Ord. 523, passed 9-13-2010)