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301.40 STOPPING OR STANDING.
   (a)   "Stop or stopping" when prohibited means any halting of a vehicle, even momentarily, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic control device.
   (b)   "Stand or standing" means the halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise then temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
301.41 STOP INTERSECTION.
   "Stop intersection" means any intersection at one or more entrances of which stop signs are erected. (ORC 4511.01(BBB))
301.42 STREET OR HIGHWAY; ARTERIAL STREET.
   (a)   "Street" or "highway" are synonymous and mean the entire width between the boundary lines of every way open to the use of the public as a thoroughfare for purposes of vehicular travel. (ORC 4511.01(BB))
   (b)   "Arterial street" means any United States or State numbered route, controlled access highway or other major radial or circumferential street or highway designated by local authorities within their respective jurisdictions as part of a major arterial system of streets or highways. (ORC 4511.01(CCC))
301.43 THROUGH STREET OR HIGHWAY.
   "Through street or highway" means every street or highway as provided in Section 313.02. (ORC 4511.01(HH))
301.44 THRUWAY.
   "Thruway" means a through street or highway whose entire roadway is reserved for through traffic and on which roadway parking is prohibited.
(ORC 4511.01(AAA))
301.45 TRAFFIC.
   "Traffic" means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other devices, either singly or together, while using for purposes of travel any street or highway or private road open to public travel. (ORC 4511.01(TT))
301.46 TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES.
   “Traffic control device” means a flagger, sign, signal, marking, or other device used to regulate, warn or guide traffic, placed on, over, or adjacent to a street, highway, private road open to public travel, pedestrian facility, or shared-use path by authority of a public agency or official having jurisdiction, or, in the case of a private road open to public travel, by authority of the private owner or private official having jurisdiction.
(ORC 4511.01(QQ))
301.47 TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL.
   "Traffic control signal" means any highway traffic signal by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed.
(ORC 4511.01(RR))
301.48 TRAILER.
   "Trailer" means every vehicle designed or used for carrying persons or property wholly on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle, including any such vehicle when formed by or operated as a combination of a semitrailer and a vehicle of the dolly type, such as that commonly known as a trailer dolly, a vehicle used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of storage or supply and the farm when drawn or towed on a street or highway at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour and a vehicle designed and used exclusively to transport a boat between a place of storage and a marina, or in and around a marina, when drawn or towed on a street or highway for a distance of more than ten miles or at a speed of more than twenty-five miles per hour.
(ORC 4511.01(M))
301.49 TRUCK.
   "Truck" means every motor vehicle, except trailers and semitrailers, designed and used to carry property. (ORC 4511.01(K))
301.50 URBAN DISTRICT.
   "Urban district" means the territory contiguous to and including any street or highway which is built up with structures devoted to business, industry or dwelling houses situated at intervals of less than 100 feet for distance of a quarter of a mile or more, and the character of such territory is indicated by official traffic control devices. (ORC 4511.01(PP))
301.51 VEHICLE.
   "Vehicle" means every device, including a motorized bicycle and an electric bicycle, in, upon or by which any person or property may be transported or drawn upon a street or highway, except that “vehicle” does not include any motorized wheelchair, any electric personal assistive mobility device, any low-speed micromobility device, or any device, other than a bicycle, that is moved by human power. (ORC 4511.01(A))
301.52 WHEELCHAIR, MOTORIZED.
   "Motorized wheelchair" means any self-propelled vehicle designed for, and used by, a handicapped person and that is incapable of a speed in excess of eight miles per hour.
(ORC 4511.01(EEE))
301.53 PASSENGER CAR.
   “Passenger car” means any motor vehicle designed and used for carrying passengers and which is licensed as a passenger car.
(Ord. 1972-82. Passed 6-6-72.)
301.54 WASTE COLLECTION VEHICLE.
   “Waste collection vehicle” means a vehicle used in the collection of garbage, refuse, trash or recyclable materials.
(ORC 4511.01(RRR))