Whenever the following terms are used in this Title, they shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this Section:
ALLEY: A public way within a block, generally giving access to the rear of lots or buildings and not used for general traffic circulation. (1976 Code §19-1)
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE: Emergency vehicles of Municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by proper local authorities; police vehicles; vehicles of the fire protection districts and ambulances.
BICYCLE: Every device having two (2) tandem wheels propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, except scooters and similar devices. (1976 Code §19-1; 1991 Code)
BUSINESS DISTRICT: That territory within the Village contiguous to and including a highway when within any six hundred feet (600') along such highway there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, including, but not limited to, hotels, banks or office buildings, railroad stations and public buildings which occupy at least three hundred (300') of frontage collectively on one side or both sides of the highway.
CONTROLLED ACCESS HIGHWAY: Every street or highway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right of access to or from the same except at such points only as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over such street or highway.
CROSSWALK:
A. That portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the prolongation or connection of the lateral lines of sidewalk at street intersections.
B. Any portion of a roadway distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other marking on the surface.
DRIVER: Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
EXPLOSIVES: Any chemical compound or mechanical mixture that is commonly used or intended for the purpose of producing an explosion and which contains any oxidizing of the combustive units or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities or packing, that an ignition by fire, by friction, by concussion, by percussion or by detonator of any part of the compound or mixture may cause such a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the resultant gaseous pressures are capable of producing destructible effects on contiguous objects or of destroying life or limb.
FARM TRACTOR: Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing wagons, plows, mowing machines and other implements of husbandry, and every implement of husbandry which is self-propelled. (1976 Code §19-1)
FIRE LANE: A particular area, portion of a street, parking lot, driveway, street or highway that has been designated as a fire lane and indicated by signs erected giving notice thereof, to be reserved for exclusive use of emergency vehicles of the fire protection districts and/or the Police Department in responding to calls. (1976 Code §19-1; 1991 Code)
FLAMMABLE LIQUID: Any liquid which has a flash point of seventy degrees (70o) Fahrenheit or less as determined by a tagliabue or equivalent closed-cup test device.
IMPROVED HIGHWAY: Any roadway of concrete, brick, asphalt, macadam and crushed stone or gravel.
INTERSECTION:
A. The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curblines or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two (2) highways which join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different roadways joining at any other angle may come in conflict.
B. Where a highway includes two (2) roadways forty feet (40') or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such divided highway by an intersecting highway shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
LANED ROADWAY: A roadway which is divided into two (2) or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
LOADING ZONE: The space reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles while loading or unloading passengers or materials.
LOCAL AUTHORITIES: The Mayor and Board of Trustees of the Village or any officer, board or department of the Village having authority to adopt and enforce regulations relating to traffic under the Constitution and laws of the State.
METAL TIRE: Every tire, the surface of which in contact with the highway or roadway is wholly or partly of metal or other hard, nonresilient material.
MOTOR VEHICLE: Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires but not operated upon rails. For the purpose of this Title, motor vehicles are divided into two (2) divisions:
A. First Division: Those vehicles which are designed and used for the carrying of not more than ten (10) persons.
B. Second Division: Those motor vehicles which are designed for carrying more than ten (10) persons; those designed or used for living quarters and those motor vehicles which are designed for pulling or carrying freight or cargo, and those motor vehicles of the first division remodeled for use and used as motor vehicles of the second division.
MOTORCYCLE: Every motor vehicle having a saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three (3) wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.
OWNER: A person who holds the legal title of a vehicle, or in the event a motor 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 such motor vehicle is entitled to possession, then such conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor shall be deemed the owner for the purpose of this Title.
PARKWAY: That portion of the dedicated right of way lying between the property line and the roadway.
PEDESTRIAN: Any person afoot.
PERSON: Every natural person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation.
PNEUMATIC TIRE: Every tire in which compressed air is designed to support the load.
POLICE OFFICER: Every officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
PREFERENTIAL STREET: Every street or portion thereof upon which vehicular traffic is by law given the right of way over vehicular traffic upon intersecting streets and when yield signs are erected as provided in the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways, State of Illinois. 1
PRIVATE ROAD or DRIVEWAY: Every way or place in private ownership and used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having express or implied permission from the owner, but not by other persons.
PROPERTY LINE or RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE: The line marking the boundary between any street or highway and the property abutting thereon. (1976 Code §19-1)
PUBLIC BUILDING: A building used by the Village or by any park district, school district, library district, fire protection district, township, the County of DuPage or Will, the State of Illinois or by the United States government. (1976 Code §19-1; 1991 Code)
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT: That territory within the Village contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business district when the property on such highway for a distance of three hundred feet (300') or more is in the main improved for residences or residences and buildings in use for business.
RIGHT OF WAY: The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian approaching under such circumstances of direction, speed and proximity as to give rise to danger of collision unless one grants preference to the other.
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: That portion of a street or highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
SAFETY ZONE: The area of space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone.
SCHOOL BUS: Every motor vehicle owned or operated by or for a public or governmental agency or by or for a private or religious organization for the transportation of pupils in connection with any school activity. This definition does not include a bus operated by a public utility or a Municipal organization authorized to conduct local or interurban transportation of passengers.
SCHOOL ZONE: The portions of streets and highways within the Village adjacent to school buildings and grounds and to which special speed restrictions apply and are so marked by proper signs giving notice thereof.
SIDEWALK: That portion of a street between the curbline or the lateral line of a roadway and the adjacent property line intended for use of pedestrians.
SOLID TIRE: Every tire of rubber or other resilient material which does not depend upon compressed air for the support of the load.
STAND OR STANDING: The halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
STOP INTERSECTIONS: Every intersection of streets at which all vehicular traffic is required by law to stop before entering or crossing the same and when stop signs are erected as provided in the uniform act regulating traffic on highways, state of Illinois.
STOP STREET: Every street or portion thereof upon which vehicular traffic is required by law to stop before entering or crossing an intersecting street or crosswalk and when stop signs are erected as provided in the uniform act regulating traffic on highways, state of Illinois.
STREET OR HIGHWAY: The entire width between the property lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
THROUGH STREET: Every street or portion thereof at the entrance to which vehicular traffic upon intersecting streets is required by law to stop before entering or crossing the same and when stop signs are erected as provided in the uniform act regulating traffic on highways, state of Illinois. (1976 Code §19-1)
TRAFFIC: Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using any street for the purposes of travel. (1976 Code §19-1; amd. 1991 Code)
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES: All signs, signals, markings and devices conforming with the "Manual Of Uniform Traffic Control Devices For Streets And Highways", placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL: Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to proceed.
TRAILER: Every vehicle without motive power in operation, 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.
U-TURN: To operate a vehicle by turning so as to proceed in the opposite direction on the same street.
URBAN DISTRICT: The territory contiguous to and including any street which is built up with structures devoted to business, industry or dwelling houses situated at intervals of less than one hundred feet (100') for a distance of one-fourth (1/4) of a mile or more.
VEHICLE: Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
YIELD RIGHT OF WAY: When required by an official sign means the act of granting the privilege of the immediate use of the intersecting roadway to traffic within the intersection and to vehicles approaching from the right or left, but when the roadway is clear the vehicle having so yielded the right of way may proceed into the intersection. (1976 Code §19-1)
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