Cross References — Police and fire commission, §§125.090 et seq.; public works and stormwater commission, §§125.240 et seq.; emergency management, ch. 230; stormwater and erosion control, ch. 415; service stations, §615.160 et seq.; municipal court, ch. 135; trees, etc., creating hazard to vehicular traffic, §215.030(13); planning, ch. 400; police, ch. 200; streets, sidewalks and public places, ch. 505; zoning regulations, ch. 405; subdivision regulations, ch. 410.
[Code 1975 §15.01; CC 1989 §13-1; Ord. No. 971
§1, 2-24-1986; Ord. No. 1382 §1, 3-26-1990; Ord. No. 3044
§1, 8-12-2005]
The following words and phrases, when used in this Title, mean:
Any unattended motor vehicle, trailer, all-terrain vehicle,
outboard motor or vessel removed or subject to removal from public
or private property as provided in Sections 304.155 and 304.157, RSMo.,
whether or not operational.
An unintended event that produces injury or damage. The word "injury" includes "fatal injury". A motor
vehicle accident is an accident involving a motor vehicle in transport,
but not including aircraft or watercraft.
Every vehicle propelled solely by human power upon which
any person or persons may ride, having two (2) tandem wheels, except
scooters and similar devices.
A motor vehicle designed primarily for the transportation
of a driver and eight (8) or more passengers, but not including shuttle
buses.
A portion of a roadway adjacent to the curb which has been
marked by appropriate signs or painted markings and which is primarily
reserved for the use of buses while loading and unloading passengers.
The territory contiguous to and including a highway when
within any six hundred (600) feet along the 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) feet of frontage
on one (1) side or three hundred (300) feet collectively on both sides
of the highway.
A continuous or broken line marked upon the surface of a
roadway by paint or otherwise to indicate each portion of the roadway
allocated to traffic proceeding in opposite directions, and, if the
line is not so painted or otherwise marked, it is an imaginary line
in the roadway equally distant from the edges or curbs of the roadway.
A motor vehicle designed or regularly used for carrying freight
and merchandise, or more than eight (8) passengers but not including
vanpools or shuttle buses.
Every highway, street or roadway 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 and in such
manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction
over the highway, street or roadway.
Any final conviction; also a forfeiture of bail or collateral
deposited to secure a defendant's appearance in court, which forfeiture
has not been vacated, shall be equivalent to a conviction, except
that when any conviction as a result of which points are assessed
under Section 302.302, RSMo., is appealed, the term "conviction" means the original judgment of conviction for the purpose of determining
the assessment of points, and the date of final judgment affirming
the conviction shall be the date determining the beginning of any
license suspension or revocation under Section 302.304, RSMo.
That part of a roadway at an intersection included within the
connections of lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of
the highway measured from the curbs, or in the absence of curbs, from
the edges of the traversable roadway;
Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly
indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the
surface.
The lateral boundaries of that portion of the street designated
for the use of vehicles, whether marked with curbstones or not.
A space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use
of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
The period of time from one-half (½) hour before sunrise
to one-half (½) hour after sunset.
Any person, firm, corporation, association, agent or subagent
engaged in the sale or exchange of new, used or reconstructed motor
vehicles or trailers.
Any partially dismantled, non-operating, wrecked or junked
motor vehicle of any type, left or abandoned by its owner or guardian
upon any highway, street, roadway, thoroughfare or private property
within this City, excluding those vehicles within an enclosed area
and not visible from adjoining properties.
The operation of two (2) or more vehicles from a point side
by side at accelerating speeds in a competitive attempt to outdistance
each other, or the operation of one (1) or more vehicles over a common
selected course, from the same point to the same point, for the purpose
of comparing the relative speeds or power of acceleration of such
vehicle or vehicles within a certain distance or time limit.
Any person who drives or is in actual physical control of
a vehicle.
A private roadway providing access for vehicles to a parking
space, dwelling or other structure or building.
A bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals, a saddle or
seat for the rider, and an electric motor of less than seven hundred
fifty (750) watts that meets the requirements of one (1) of the following
three (3) classes:
[Ord. No. 4484, 2-14-2022]
"Class 1 electric bicycle," an electric bicycle equipped with
a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling and
that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed
of twenty (20) miles per hour;
"Class 2 electric bicycle," an electric bicycle equipped with
a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle and that
is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the
speed of twenty (20) miles per hour;
"Class 3 electric bicycle," an electric bicycle equipped with
a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling and
that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed
of twenty-eight (28) miles per hour.
The towing of a motor vehicle or junked motor vehicle that
presents a real or imminent danger or hazard to the safety of others
or a menace to traffic.
A vehicle of any of the following types:
A vehicle operated by the State Highway Patrol, the State Water
Patrol or a State Park Ranger, those vehicles operated by enforcement
personnel by the Division of Motor Carrier and Railroad Safety of
the Department of Economic Development, Police or Fire Department,
Sheriff, Constable or Deputy Sheriff, Federal Law Enforcement Officer
authorized to carry firearms and to make arrests for violations of
the laws of the United States, Traffic Officer or coroner or by a
privately owned emergency vehicle company;
A vehicle operated as an ambulance or operated commercially
for the purpose of transporting emergency medical supplies or organs;
Any vehicle qualifying as an emergency vehicle pursuant to Section
307.175, RSMo.;
Any wrecker, or tow truck or a vehicle owned and operated by
a public utility or public service corporation while performing emergency
service;
Any vehicle transporting equipment designed to extricate human
beings from the wreckage of a motor vehicle;
Any vehicle designated to perform emergency functions for a
civil defense or emergency management agency established pursuant
to the provisions of Chapter 44, RSMo.;
Any vehicle operated by an authorized employee of the department
of corrections, who as part of the employee's official duties, is
responding to a riot, disturbance, hostage incident, escape or other
critical situation where there is the threat of serious physical injury
or death, responding to mutual aid call from another criminal justice
agency, or in accompanying an ambulance which is transporting an offender
to a medical facility;
Any vehicle designated to perform hazardous substance emergency
functions established pursuant to the provisions of Sections 260.500
to 260.550, RSMo.
A tractor or other equipment used exclusively for agricultural
purposes.
Areas designated as fire lanes by the Town and Country Fire
District.
The weight of a vehicle and/or vehicle combination without
load, plus the weight of any load thereon.
Any thoroughfare for vehicles, including State roads, County
roads and streets, avenues, boulevards, parkways or alleys in the
City.
A highway which has been paved with gravel, macadam, concrete,
brick or asphalt, or surfaced in such a manner that it shall have
a hard, smooth surface.
A person who has become physically incapable of meeting the
prescribed requirements of an examination for an operator's license,
or who has been adjudged by a Probate Division of the Circuit Court
in a capacity hearing of being incapacitated.
Any highway which joins another, whether or not it crosses
the same.
The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the
lateral curb lines, 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 highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict.
Where a highway includes two (2) roadways thirty (30) feet or
more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such divided highway
by an intersecting highway shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
In the event that such intersecting highway also includes two (2)
roadways thirty (30) feet or more apart, then every crossing of two
(2) roadways of such highway shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
The roadway known as Interstate 270 (I-270) and Interstate
64 (I-64).
A final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction of
any State or of the United States, upon a claim for relief for damages,
including damages for care and loss of services, because of bodily
injury to or death of any person, or for damages because of injury
to or destruction of property, including the loss of use thereof,
or upon a claim for relief on any agreement or settlement for such
damages arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of any motor
vehicle.
A roadway which is divided into two (2) or more clearly marked
lanes for vehicular traffic.
A license issued by a State or government to a person which
authorizes a person to operate a motor vehicle in the United States.
Any glass, glass bottles, wire, nails, tacks, hedge, cans,
garbage, refuse, rubbish of any kind, nature or description or any
other waste material or any combination thereof.
Every County, municipal and other local board or body having
authority to enact laws relating to traffic under the Constitution
and the laws of the State.
Every motor vehicle having a seat or 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 farm tractor.
See "Driver".
Any two-wheeled or three-wheeled device having fully operative
pedals capable of propulsion by human power, an automatic transmission
and a motor with a cylinder capacity of not more than fifty (50) cubic
centimeters, which produces less than three (3) gross brake horsepower,
and is capable of propelling the device at a maximum speed of not
more than thirty (30) miles per hour on level ground.
Any wheeled device having handlebars that are attached to
a footboard, is designed to be stood upon by the operator, and is
powered by a motor that is capable of propelling the device with or
without human propulsion.
Any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively upon
tracks, except farm tractors and motorized bicycles.
Every division of the Circuit Court having the original jurisdiction
to try persons for violations of City ordinances.
Includes Cities, towns and villages, whether incorporated
or not.
Any time other than that designated as daytime.
Every person who is not a resident of the City.
Every person who is not a resident of the State.
The privilege conferred upon a non-resident by the laws of
this State pertaining to the operation by him/her of a motor vehicle
or the use of a motor vehicle owned by him/her in this State.
The towing of a motor vehicle or junked motor vehicle that
is parked or abandoned in violation of a City ordinance and does not
present a real or imminent danger or hazard to the safety of others
or a menace to traffic.
Any zone determined and indicated by signs or markings where
overtaking and passing is deemed unsafe, and under this Article is
declared unlawful.
Whenever certain hours are named herein, they shall mean
standard time or daylight saving time as may be in current use in
the City.
All signs, signals, markings, and devices not inconsistent
with this Chapter, placed or erected by authority of a public body
or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning
or guiding traffic.
A street where vehicles are by law required to move only
in one (1) direction.
See "Driver".
Includes any 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 purposes of this law.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purposes of and while actually engaged in
loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
Areas on private or public property providing for parking
automobiles or other vehicles and which are regularly used by the
public incident to commercial or institutional purposes of the owner
or occupant of the property, whether provided for hire or gratuitously.
An area adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use
of vehicles during the actual loading or unloading of passengers.
Any person afoot.
Every officer of the City Police Department, or any officer
authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations
of traffic regulations in the City.
Every way or place in private ownership and used for vehicular
travel by the owner and those having expressed or implied permission
from the owner, but not by other persons.
Proof of ability to respond in damages for liability, on
account of accidents occurring subsequent to the effective date of
said proof, arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of a
motor vehicle, in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00)
because of bodily injury to or death of one (1) person in any one
(1) accident, and, subject to said limit for one (1) person, in the
amount of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) because of bodily injury
to or death of two (2) or more persons in any one (1) accident, and
in the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) because of injury
to or destruction of property of others in any one (1) accident.
A licensed place of business where motor vehicles are housed,
stored, repaired, reconstructed or repainted for persons other than
the owners or operators of such place of business.
An obligation requiring the accused to appear at all appropriate
times and places or forfeit any bail and subject himself/herself to
penalty for failure to appear.
Recreational motor vehicles and non-vehicular campers, trailers,
pickup shells, boats, boat trailers, horse trailers, or any similar
equipment designed, constructed, or modified for recreational or travel
use.
Any motor vehicle designed, constructed or substantially
modified so that it may be used and is used for the purposes of temporary
housing quarters, including therein sleeping and eating facilities
which are either permanently attached to the motor vehicle or attached
to a unit which is securely attached to the motor vehicle. Nothing
herein shall prevent any motor vehicle being registered as a commercial
motor vehicle if the motor vehicle could otherwise be so registered.
Registration certificate or certificates and registration
plates issued under the laws of the State pertaining to the registration
of motor vehicles.
The release of a defendant without bail, bail bond or sureties
upon his/her promise to appear at all appropriate times and places,
and which subjects him/her to penalty for failure to appear.
The territory continuous to and including a highway not comprising
a business district when the property on such highway for a distance
of three hundred (300) feet or more is in the main improved with residences
or residences and buildings in use for business.
The entire width of land between the boundary lines of a
street or highway, including any roadway.
That portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily
used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. In the
event a highway includes two (2) or more separate roadways, the term "roadway" as used herein shall refer to any such roadway
separately, but not to all such roadways collectively.
The area or 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.
Any motor vehicle used solely to transport students to or
from school or to transport students to or from any place for educational
purposes.
All of the street along the property line of the school,
plus a three hundred (300) foot extension thereof in both directions.
That portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral
lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for
use of pedestrians.
Every self-propelled vehicle not designed or used primarily
for the transportation of persons or property and incidentally operated
or moved over the highways, including farm equipment, implements of
husbandry, road construction or maintenance machinery, ditch-digging
apparatus, stone crushers, air compressors, power shovels, cranes,
graders, rollers, well-drillers and wood sawing equipment used for
hire, asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, ditchers,
leveling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers,
scarifiers, earth-moving carryalls, scrapers, drag lines, rock-drilling
and earth-moving equipment. This enumeration shall be deemed partial
and shall not operate to exclude other such vehicles which are within
the general terms of this Section.
The halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or
discharging passengers.
Any State, territory or possession of the United States,
the District of Columbia, or any province of the Dominion of Canada.
When required, complete cessation of movement.
When prohibited, any halting, even momentarily, of a vehicle,
whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with
other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a Police Officer
or traffic control sign or signal.
The entire width between property lines of every way or place
of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to the use of the
public for purposes of vehicular traffic.
A group of two (2) or more axles, arranged one (1) behind
another, the distance between the extremes of which is more than forty
(40) inches and not more than ninety-six (96) inches apart.
Every highway, road or street, or portion thereof on which
vehicular traffic is given preferential right-of-way, and at the entrances
to which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways, roads or streets
is required by law to yield the right-of-way to vehicles on such highways,
roads or streets, in obedience to either a stop sign or a yield sign,
when such signs are erected as provided in this Chapter.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars
and other conveyances, either singly or together while using any highway
for the purpose of travel.
All signs, signals, markings and devices placed or erected
by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction for
the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically
operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to
proceed.
Any vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property
or passengers on its own structure and for being drawn by a self-propelled
vehicle, except those running exclusively on tracks, including a semi-trailer
or vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction
with a self-propelled vehicle that a considerable part of its weight
rests upon and is carried by the towing vehicle.
A motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained for the transportation
of property.
Any vehicle whose operator is not in a position to take immediate
physical control of the vehicle or is not in adequate mental or physical
condition to drive the vehicle if necessary.
A turn by which a vehicle initially travels in one (1) direction,
makes a movement resembling the letter "U", and upon completion of
such movement, travels in the opposite direction to the direction
of travel in which the vehicle was traveling prior to the start of
the turning movement.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is, or may be, transported or drawn upon a highway, excepting motorized
bicycles and devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon
stationary rails or tracks except motorized wheelchairs operated by
handicapped persons.
