[Ord. No. 2015-57 §1, 9-28-2015; Ord. No. 2017-27 § 1, 4-24-2017; Ord. No. 2019-25, 4-22-2019; Ord. No. 2020-4, 1-13-2020]
The following words and phrases when used in this Title mean:
ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE
Any motorized vehicle manufactured and used exclusively for
off-highway use which is fifty (50) inches or less in width, with
an unladen dry weight of six hundred (600) pounds or less, traveling
on three (3) or four (4) or more low-pressure tires, with a seat designed
to be straddled by the operator and handlebars for steering control.
AUTOCYCLE
A three-wheeled motor vehicle which the drivers and passengers
ride in a partially or completely enclosed non-straddle seating area,
that is designed to be controlled with a steering wheel and pedals,
and that has met applicable Department of Transportation National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration requirements or Federal motorcycle
safety standards.
BUSINESS DISTRICT
The territory contiguous to and including a highway when
within any six hundred (600) feet along the highway where 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.
CAMPER
A wheeled vehicle equipped for recreational occupancy, pulled
by a vehicle or driven under its own power.
COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE
A motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles used in
commerce to transport passengers or property:
1.
If the vehicle has a gross combination weight rating or gross
combination weight of twenty-six thousand one (26,001) or more pounds,
whichever is greater, inclusive of a towed unit which has a gross
vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle weight of more than ten thousand
pounds (10,000), whichever is greater;
2.
If the vehicle has a gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle
weight of twenty-six thousand one (26,001) or more pounds, whichever
is greater;
3.
If the vehicle is designed to transport sixteen (16) or more
passengers, including the driver; or
4.
If the vehicle is transporting hazardous materials and is required
to be placarded under the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (46
U.S.C. § 1801 et seq.).
CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAY
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.
CROSSWALK
1.
That part of a roadway at an intersection included within the
connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on the opposite
side of the highway measured from the curbs or, in the absence of
curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway.
2.
Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly
indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the
surface.
CURB LOADING ZONE
A space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use
of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
DRIVER
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle.
EMERGENCY VEHICLE
A vehicle of any of the following types:
1.
A vehicle operated by the State Highway Patrol, the State Water
Patrol, the Missouri Capitol Police, a Conservation Agent or a State
Park Ranger, those vehicles operated by enforcement personnel of the
State Highways and Transportation Commission, 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.
2.
A vehicle operated as an ambulance or operated commercially
for the purpose of transporting emergency medical supplies or organs.
3.
Any vehicle qualifying as an emergency vehicle pursuant to Section
310.070 of this title.
4.
Any wrecker or tow truck or a vehicle owned and operated by
a public utility or public service corporation while performing emergency
services.
5.
Any vehicle transporting equipment designed to extricate human
beings from the wreckage of a motor vehicle.
6.
Any vehicle designated to perform emergency functions for a
civil defense or emergency management agency established pursuant
to the provisions of Chapter 44, RSMo.
7.
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 a mutual-aid call from another criminal
justice agency, or in accompanying an ambulance which is transporting
an offender to a medical facility.
8.
Any vehicle designated to perform hazardous substance emergency
functions established pursuant to the provisions of Sections 260.500
to 260.550, RSMo.
9.
Any vehicle owned by the State Highways and Transportation Commission
and operated by an authorized employee of the Department of Transportation
that is marked as a Department of Transportation emergency response
or motorist assistance vehicle.
FREIGHT CURB LOADING ZONE
A space adjacent to a curb for the exclusive use of vehicles
during the loading or unloading of freight (or passengers).
HIGHWAY
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.
INTERSECTION
1.
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 (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;
2.
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 such intersecting highway also includes two (2) roadways
thirty (30) feet or more apart, then every crossing of two (2) roadways
of such highways shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
LANED ROADWAY
A roadway which is divided into two (2) or more clearly marked
lanes for vehicular traffic.
MINOR TRAFFIC VIOLATION
Any violation of a municipal ordinance:
1.
For which the Missouri Department of Revenue is authorized to
assess no more than four (4) points to a person's driving record
upon conviction; and
2.
That does not involve:
b.
The operation of a commercial vehicle;
c.
Exceeding a speed limit by more than nineteen (19) miles per
hour; or
d.
A violation occurring within a construction zone or a school
zone.
MOTOR VEHICLE
Any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively upon
tracks, except farm tractors and motorized bicycles.
MOTORCYCLE
A motor vehicle operated on two (2) wheels.
MOTORIZED BICYCLE
Any two-wheeled or three-wheeled device having 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.
MOTORTRICYCLE
A motor vehicle upon which the operator straddles or sits
astride that is designed to be controlled by handlebars and is operated
on three (3) wheels, including a motorcycle while operated with any
conveyance, temporary or otherwise, requiring the use of a third wheel.
A motortricycle shall not be included in the definition of all-terrain
vehicle.
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
the City.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES
All signs, signals, markings and devices not inconsistent
with this Title placed or erected by authority of a public body or
official having jurisdiction for the purpose of regulating, warning
or guiding traffic.
PARK or PARKING
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
PASSENGER CURB LOADING ZONE
A place adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use
of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.
PERSON
Every natural person, firm, copartnership, association or
corporation.
POLICE OFFICER
Every officer of the Municipal Police Department or any officer
authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations
of traffic regulations.
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 operated upon
stationary rails.
RAILROAD TRAIN
A steam engine, electric or other motor with or without cars
coupled thereto operated upon rails.
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 three hundred (300) feet or more is in the main improved with residences
or residences and buildings in use for business.
RIGHT-OF-WAY
The right of one (1) vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in
a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian approaching
under such circumstances of direction, speed and proximity as to give
rise to danger of collision unless one (1) grants precedence to the
other.
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.
SAFETY ZONE
The area or space officially set apart within a roadway for
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 use
of pedestrians.
STAND or STANDING
The halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or
discharging passengers.
STOP
When required, complete cessation from movement.
STOP or STOPPING
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.
STREET or HIGHWAY
The entire width between the lines of every way publicly
maintained when any part thereof is open to the uses of the public
for purposes of vehicular travel. "State highway" is a highway maintained
by the State of Missouri as a part of the State highway system.
THROUGH HIGHWAY
Every highway or portion thereof on which vehicular traffic
is given preferential right-of-way, and at the entrances to which
vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is required by law to
yield right-of-way to vehicles on such through highway in obedience
to either a stop sign or a yield sign when such signs are erected
as provided in this Title.
TRACTOR or TRUCK-TRACTOR
A self-propelled motor vehicle designed for drawing other
vehicles, but not for the carriage of any load when operating independently.
When attached to a semi-trailer, it supports a part of the weight
thereof.
TRAFFIC
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles or other
conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for
purposes of travel.
TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL
Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically
operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to
proceed.
TRAILER
Any vehicle without motor 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 own
weight rests upon and is carried by the towing vehicle. The term "trailer"
shall not include cotton trailers as defined in Subdivision (8) of
Section 301.010, RSMo., and shall not include manufactured homes as
defined in Section 700.010, RSMo.
URBANIZED AREA
An area with a population of fifty thousand (50,000) or more
designated by the Bureau of the Census within boundaries to be fixed
by the State Highways and Transportation Commission and local officials
in cooperation with each other and approved by the Secretary of Transportation.
The boundary of an urbanized area shall, at a minimum, encompass the
entire urbanized area as designated by the Bureau of the Census.
UTILTY VEHICLE
Any motorized vehicle manufactured and used exclusively for
off-highway use which is sixty-three (63) inches or less in width,
with an unladen dry weight of one thousand eight hundred fifty (1,850)
pounds or less, traveling on four (4) or six (6) wheels, to be used
primarily for landscaping, lawn care or maintenance purposes.
VEHICLE
Any mechanical device on wheels designed primarily for use
or used on highways, except motorized bicycles, vehicles propelled
or drawn by horses or human power, or vehicles used exclusively on
fixed rails or tracks, cotton trailers, or motorized wheelchairs operated
by handicapped persons.