The following words and terms when used in this article shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(a) “Operator” means every person who is in actual physical control of a tractor.
(b) “Owner” means the person to whom or which the registration plate for the tractor, trailer or semitrailer has been issued by the Department of Revenue of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or the corresponding department of a state other than Pennsylvania.
(c) “Parking” means the standing of a vehicle, except Police or Fire Department vehicles or ambulances, whether occupied or not, upon a highway other than temporarily for the purpose and while actually engaged in loading and unloading or in obedience to traffic regulations or traffic signs or signals.
(d) “Person” means every natural person or persons, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation.
(e) “Semitrailer” means every vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a motor vehicle that some part of its own weight and that of its own load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle.
(f) “Trailer” means every vehicle, wagon or truck without motive power designed to carry property or passengers wholly on its own structure and to be drawn by a motor vehicle.
(g) “Tractor” means every vehicle which is self-propelled and which is designed or used to draw a trailer or semitrailer.
(h) “Vehicle” means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn, or which may draw devices upon a public highway, excepting devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(Ord. 53-1947 §1; Ord. 54-1947 §1.)