A.Â
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES
BUSINESS DISTRICT
CROSSWALK
DOUBLE-PARKING
DRIVER
INTERSECTION
LOADING AND UNLOADING ZONE
MAYOR
MOTOR VEHICLE
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNAL
PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU
PARK, PARKING or PARKED
PASSENGER ZONE
PEDESTRIAN
PERSON
POLICE COMMISSIONER
POLICE DEPARTMENT
POLICE OFFICER
PRIVATE ROAD or DRIVEWAY
RAILROAD
RAILROAD TRAIN
RESIDENCE DISTRICT
RIGHT-OF-WAY
ROADWAY
SAFETY ZONE
SIDEWALK
STANDING
STOP or STOPPING
STREET, HIGHWAY or ALLEY
TRAFFIC
TRAFFIC DIVISION
TRAFFIC ENGINEER
VEHICLE
Words and phrases used in this chapter shall be defined as follows:
Vehicles of the Fire Department, police vehicles and such
ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public
service corporations as are designated or authorized by the Commissioner
of Motor Vehicles or the Police Commissioner.
The territory contiguous to and including a highway when
50% or more of the frontage thereon for a distance of 300 feet or
more is occupied by buildings in use for business.
That portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the
prolongation or connection of the lateral lines of sidewalks at intersections;
any portion of a roadway distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing
by lines or other markings on the surface.
Whenever any vehicle shall be parked parallel to another
vehicle and on the same side of the street, said vehicle shall be
deemed to be "double-parked."
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle.
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 highways which join one another at or approximately
at right angles or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different
highways going at any other angle may come in conflict.
That section of the street or sidewalk which shall be so
marked pursuant to this chapter.
The Mayor of the City of Yonkers.
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.
Whenever certain hours are named herein, they shall mean
standard time or daylight saving time, as may be in current use in
this 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.
Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically
operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to
proceed.
The Parking Violations Bureau of the City of Yonkers.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
loading or unloading.
That section of the sidewalk or street which shall be marked
with proper signs.
Any person afoot.
Every natural person, firm, partnership, association or corporation.
The Police Commissioner of the City of Yonkers.
The Police Department of the City of Yonkers.
Every officer of the Police Department.
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.
A carrier of persons or property upon cars, other than streetcars,
operated upon stationary rails.
A steam engine, electric or other motor, with or without
cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails, except streetcars.
The territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising
a business district when the property on such highway for a distance
of 300 feet or more is in the main improved with dwellings or dwellings
and buildings in use for business.
The privilege of the immediate use of the roadway.
That portion of a street improved, designated or ordinarily
used for vehicular travel.
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."
That portion of a street between the curblines, or the lateral
lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines intended for the
use of pedestrians.
Any stopping of a vehicle, whether occupied or not.
When required, "stop" or "stopping" means the complete cessation
of movement. When prohibited, "stop" or "stopping" means cessation
of movement of a vehicle except when necessary to avoid conflict with
other traffic or in compliance with the direction 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, as a matter of right, for purposes of vehicular traffic.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars
and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using any
street for purposes of travel.
The Traffic Division of the Police Department of the City
of Yonkers.
The Traffic Engineer of the City of Yonkers.
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.
B.Â
Words and phrases used in this chapter and not defined herein which
are defined in the New York Vehicle and Traffic Law shall be defined
as provided in the New York Vehicle and Traffic Law unless the context
in which the word or phrase is used demonstrates that such meaning
was not intended.
