The following words when used in this article shall have the following definitions except where the context clearly indicates otherwise. If any word used in this article is not defined in this section, but is defined in Section 102 of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code, as amended from time to time, 75 Pa C.S.A. § 102, such word shall the same meaning as ascribed to it in Section 102 of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 102, as amended from time to time.
A motor vehicle designed to transport 16 or more passengers, including the driver; or, a motor vehicle, other than a taxicab or limousine, designed to transport not more than 15 passengers, including the driver. The term does not include a vehicle used in a ride-sharing arrangement, as defined in the Act of December 14, 1982 (P.L. 1211, No. 279), entitled, "An act providing for ridesharing arrangements and providing that certain laws shall be inapplicable to ridesharing arrangements," or a school bus.
The GC General Commercial District, the PC Planned Commercial District; the NC Neighborhood Commercial District; the OB Office/Business District, the HM Highway Maintenance District, the TC Town Center District, and the HHCV Hospital Health Care Village District, established under Chapter 275, Zoning, and shown on the Bethlehem Township Official Zoning Map enacted as part of Chapter 275, Zoning.
A truck or truck tractor having a Pennsylvania registered gross vehicle weight rating or a gross combination weight rating of 11,001 pounds or greater as designated by 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 1916, or a truck or truck tractor which is not required to be registered in Pennsylvania but which, if such registration were required, would be registered as having a gross vehicle weight rating or a gross combination weight rating of 11,001 or greater as designated by 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 1916.
Two or more vehicles physically interconnected in tandem.
A motor vehicle designed or adapted for use as a mobile dwelling or office, except a motor vehicle equipped with a truck-camper.
The value specified by the manufacturer as the loaded weight of a combination.
The value specified on the federal weight certification label by the manufacturer as the loaded weight of a single vehicle.
The combined weight of a vehicle or combination of vehicles and its load excluding the driver's weight.
A vehicle which is self-propelled except an electric personal assistive mobility device or a vehicle which is propelled solely by human power or by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails.
A bus; a Class V and greater vehicle; a dual-wheel motor home; a recreational trailer; a truck camper, all as defined in this section, and any other motor vehicle having a width greater than seven feet or a height greater than nine feet or a length greater than 30 feet.
When permitted, means the temporary storing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, off the roadway; and, when prohibited, means the halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers.
A trailer designed or adopted and used exclusively for recreational purposes.
The AG Agricultural District, the CR Conservation and Recreation District, the RR Rural Residential District, the LDR Low-Density Residential District, the MDR Medium-Density Residential District, and the MHDR Medium-High-Density Residential District, established under Chapter 275, Zoning, and shown on the Bethlehem Township Official Zoning Map enacted as part of Chapter 275, Zoning.
A motor vehicle which is designed to and is used for the transportation of preprimary, primary or secondary school students to or from public, private or parochial schools or events related to such schools or school-related activities.
When prohibited, means the halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
When prohibited, means 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 the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel, including without limitation the cartway, berm, and shoulder thereof.
A vehicle designed to be towed by a motor vehicle.
A motor vehicle designed primarily for the transportation of property. The term includes motor vehicles designed with seats that may be readily removed and reinstalled if those vehicles are primarily used for the transportation of property.
A structure designed, used or maintained primarily to be loaded or affixed to a motor vehicle to provide a mobile dwelling, sleeping place, office or commercial space.
A motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices used exclusively upon rails or tracks. The term does not include a self-propelled wheel chair or an electrical mobility device operated by and designed for the exclusive use of a person with a mobility-related disability.