For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE.
Any vehicle, with a gross vehicle weight in excess of 10,000 pounds or carrying capacity exceeding one ton and used for the delivery of passengers, tools, materials, or livestock. A recreational vehicle is not considered a commercial vehicle.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE.
Personal vehicles such as boats and boat trailers, watercraft and watercraft trailers, travel trailers, pickup campers or coaches (designed to be mounted on automotive vehicles), motorized dwellings, tent trailers and the like, and all-terrain vehicles.
TRAILER.
A device without power designed for carrying persons, animals, or property on its own structure and to be drawn by a vehicle with motive power. The term shall include, but not be limited to, semitrailer, utility trailer, travel trailer, and boat trailer.
TRUCK.
A commercial vehicle.
TRUCK ROUTES.
Those routes which are designated in this subchapter for the use of truck traffic.
TRUCK TRAFFIC.
The operation of any commercial vehicle including but not limited to a truck, truck tractor, or combination of any truck, truck tractor, trailer, or semitrailer that are considered commercial vehicles. Recreational vehicles are not considered to be truck traffic.
VEHICLE.
Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon water, a street or road including devices moved by an engine, a motor, a motor vehicle or by human or animal power. Vehicle includes a trailer. Devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks are not considered vehicles.
(Ord. 14-0318A, passed 3-18-2014)