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Codified Ordinances of Wheeling, WV
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA
CERTIFICATION
ROSTER OF OFFICIALS
COMPARATIVE SECTION TABLE
CHARTER
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION AND TAXATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - HEALTH AND SANITATION CODE
PART THIRTEEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
PART SEVENTEEN - BUILDING AND HOUSING CODE
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301.39 STOP, STOPPING OR STANDING.
   "Stop", "stopping," or "standing," when prohibited, means any stopping or standing of a vehicle, 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 sign or signal.
(WVaC 17C-1-53)
301.40 STREET OR HIGHWAY; ALLEY.
   (a)   "Street" or "highway" means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
(WVaC 17C-1-35)
   (b)   "Alley" means a street or highway intended to provide access to the rear or side of lots or buildings in urban districts and not intended for the purpose of through vehicular traffic.
301.41 THROUGH STREET OR THROUGH HIGHWAY.
   "Through street" or "through highway" means every street or highway or portion thereof at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting streets or highways is required by law to stop before entering or crossing the same and when stop signs are erected as provided in this Traffic Code.
(WVaC 17C-1-40)
301.42 TRAFFIC.
   "Traffic" means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars and other conveyances either singly or together while using any street or highway for purposes of travel.
(WVaC 17C-1-50)
301.43 TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES.
   "Traffic control device" means any sign, signal, marking and device not inconsistent with this Traffic Code placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic. (WVaC 17C-1-47)
301.44 TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL.
   "Traffic control signal" means any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to proceed.
(WVaC 17C-1-48)
301.45 TRAILER.
   "Trailer" means every vehicle with or 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. (WVaC 17C-1-15)
301.46 TRUCK.
   "Truck" means every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.
(WVaC 17C-1-12)
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