For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES. Vehicles of the Fire Department, police vehicles, and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the Chief of Police.
BUSINESS DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to a highway when 50% or more of the frontage thereon for a distance when 300 feet or more is occupied by buildings in use for business.
CROSSWALK. The portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the prolongation of curb and property lines at intersections, or any other portion of a roadway clearly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
CURB. The extreme edge of a roadway.
DEPARTMENT. The Police Department of the city.
DIAGONAL PARKING. A vehicle shall be drawn up to the curb, gutter, or sidewalk on the right-hand side of the street at an angle of 45 degrees with the curb line thereof, such vehicle to be parked within six inches of the curb, gutter, or sidewalk on and along said street upon which such vehicle is parked, and no vehicle shall be parked nearer than one foot to any other.
FARM TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows, mowing machines, and other implements of husbandry.
HIGHWAY or STREET. Every way or place of whatever nature opened to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for purposes of vehicular travel. The terms HIGHWAY or STREET shall not be deemed to include a roadway or driveway upon grounds owned by private persons, colleges, universities, or other institutions.
INTERSECTION. The area embraced within the prolongation of the lateral curb lines or, if none, then of 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; but such area, in the case of the point where an alley and a street meet, shall not be deemed an INTERSECTION.
LANED STREET. A street, the roadway of which is divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
LOADING ZONE. The space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Every MOTOR VEHICLE, as defined in this section, which is self-propelled.
MOTORCYCLE. Every motor vehicle designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, except any such vehicle as may be included within the term TRACTOR, as in this section defined.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNALS. All signals, not inconsistent with this title, placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of directing, warning, or regulating traffic.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNS. All signs and markings, other than signals, not inconsistent with this title, placed or erected by a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of guiding, directing, warning, or regulating traffic.
OPERATOR or DRIVER. Any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
OWNER. A person who holds the legal title of a vehicle, or in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of possession vested in the conditional vendee or lessee, or in the event a mortgagor of a vehicle is entitled to possession, then such conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor shall be deemed the OWNER for the purpose of this title.
PARALLEL PARKING. All motor vehicles or other vehicles shall be drawn up parallel to the curb, gutter, or sidewalk on the right-hand side of the street, the hub of both wheels on the right-hand side of the vehicle to be within one foot of the curb, gutter, or sidewalk on and along the street upon which such vehicles are parked, and no vehicle shall be parked nearer than three feet of the front or rear of any other vehicle.
PARKING. The standing of a vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon a roadway or street otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of, and while actually engaged in, loading or unloading, or in obedience to traffic regulations or traffic signs or signals.
PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot.
PERSON. Every natural person, firm, co-partnership, association, or corporation.
PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY. Every road or driveway not open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to a highway not comprising a business district when the frontage on such highway for a distance of 300 feet or more is mainly occupied by dwellings, or by dwellings or buildings in use for residence.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The privilege of the immediate use of the street or highway.
ROAD TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used for drawing other vehicles, and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon either independently or any part of the weight of a vehicle or load so drawn.
ROADWAY. The portion of a street or highway between the regularly-established curb lines, or the part devoted to vehicular traffic.
SAFETY ZONE. The area or space officially set aside within a street or highway for the exclusive use of pedestrians, and which is so plainly marked or indicated by proper signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a SAFETY ZONE.
SEMI-TRAILER. Every vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a motor vehicle that some type of its own weight and that of its own load rests upon, or is carried by, another vehicle.
SIDEWALK. The portion of a highway or street between the curb lines and adjacent property lines.
TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNAL. Any device using colored lights or words, or any combination thereof, whether manually, electrically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and proceed.
TRAILER. Every vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property or passengers wholly on its own structure, and for being drawn by a motor vehicle.
TRUCK TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
VEHICLE. Every device in, upon, or any which any person or property is, or may be, transported or drawn upon a public highway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks; provided, that for the purposes of this title, a bicycle or a ridden animal shall be deemed a VEHICLE.
(Prior Code, § 70.01)