For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
MOTOR VEHICLE. All agencies for the transportation of persons or property over or upon the public highways of this city and all vehicles passing over or upon the highways, excepting road rollers, road graders, farm tractors, vehicles on which power shovels are mounted, such other construction equipment customarily impractical for the transportation of persons or property upon the highways and such vehicles as travel exclusively upon rails.
(Prior Code, § 70.35)