For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(A) ARTERIAL ROAD. A roadway providing service which is relatively continuous and of relatively high traffic volume, long trip length, and high operating speed. In addition, every United States or State of Florida numbered highway is an arterial road.
(B) COLLECTOR ROAD. A roadway providing service which is of relatively moderate traffic volume, moderate trip length, and moderate operating speed. COLLECTOR ROADS collect and distribute traffic between local roads or arterial roads.
(C) LOCAL STREET or ROAD. A street that is designated to carry residential traffic between collector or other streets or highways and abutting properties.
(D) THROUGH TRAFFIC. Traffic beginning at a point outside the city limits of the city and having no point of destination or origin within the city limits. THROUGH TRAFFIC shall not include commercial vehicles in the process of making a delivery to or pick-up from a specific business or residence within the city.
(E) COMMERCIAL VEHICLE. Every vehicle which is described as a truck, truck-tractor, pole-trailer, trailer or semi-trailer as described below.
(F) TRUCK. Any motor vehicle (as defined by Florida State Statute), having a gross vehicle weight of 10,000 pounds or more.
(G) TRUCK-TRACTOR. A motor vehicle which has four or more wheels and is designed and equipped with a fifth wheel for the primary purpose of drawing a semi-trailer that is attached or coupled thereto by means of such fifth wheel and which has no provision for carrying loads independently. This definition is adopted from Fla. Stat. § 320.01(10). Any subsequent amendments or changes to the definition of truck-tractor found in Fla. Stat. § 321.10 are hereby incorporated herein.
(H) SEMI-TRAILER. Every vehicle without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying property and being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that some part of its weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle.
(I) TRAILER. Every vehicle without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.
(J) POLE-TRAILER. Every vehicle without motive power designed to be drawn by another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle by means of a reach, or pole, or by being boomed or otherwise secured to the towing vehicle, and ordinarily used for transporting long or irregularly shaped loads such as poles, pipes or structural members and capable, generally, of sustaining themselves as beams between the supporting connections.
(K) DESTINATION POINT. The location on a given street where any portion of a commercial vehicle's cargo is to be loaded or unloaded, or the service is to be provided (as in construction, public utility or tree removal vehicles, for instance).
(Ord. 903-04, passed 10-25-04)