Words and phrases used in this chapter shall be defined as follows:
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES
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.
BUSINESS DISTRICT
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.
CROSSWALK
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.
DOUBLE-PARKING
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."
DRIVER
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle.
INTERSECTION
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.
MAYOR
The Mayor of the City of Yonkers.
MOTOR VEHICLE
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.
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD
Whenever certain hours are named herein, they shall mean
standard time or daylight saving time, as may be in current use in
this City.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES
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.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNAL
Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically
operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to
proceed.
PARK, PARKING or PARKED
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
loading or unloading.
PASSENGER ZONE
That section of the sidewalk or street which shall be marked
with proper signs.
PERSON
Every natural person, firm, partnership, association or corporation.
PRIVATE ROAD or DRIVEWAY
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.
RAILROAD
A carrier of persons or property upon cars, other than streetcars,
operated upon stationary rails.
RAILROAD TRAIN
A steam engine, electric or other motor, with or without
cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails, except streetcars.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT
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.
RIGHT-OF-WAY
The privilege of the immediate use of the roadway.
ROADWAY
That portion of a street improved, designated or ordinarily
used for vehicular travel.
SAFETY ZONE
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."
SIDEWALK
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.
STANDING
Any stopping of a vehicle, whether occupied or not.
STOP or STOPPING
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.
STREET, HIGHWAY or ALLEY
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.
TRAFFIC
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars
and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using any
street for purposes of travel.
TRAFFIC DIVISION
The Traffic Division of the Police Department of the City
of Yonkers.
VEHICLE
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.