[Adopted at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The following words and phrases when used in this article shall
for the purposes of this article have the meanings respectively ascribed
to them herein, as follows:
ALLEY
Any highway, thoroughfare, or land commonly without sidewalks
and used by the public, whether actually dedicated to and accepted
by the proper authorities or otherwise.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE
Vehicles of the Fire Department and Police Department and
such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or
public services corporations as are designated or authorized by the
Chief of Police of the Town of Lonaconing.
BUILDING LINE
The inner edge of a sidewalk or pedestrian walkway as measured
from the street upon which a vehicle is stopped to the nearest corner
of an intersecting street.
CROSSWALK
That portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the
prolongation or connection of the lateral lines of sidewalks at intersections,
or that portion of a roadway distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing
by lines or other markings on the surface.
CURB
That portion of the sidewalk usually raised from the roadway
and dividing the roadway from the sidewalk.
DRIVER
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle.
HORSE
Any draft animal or beast of burden.
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 joining at any other angle may come in conflict.
MOTOR VEHICLE
Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which
is propelled by electric power from overhead trolley wires but not
operated upon rails.
OWNER
Any person in whose name a vehicle is titled or who professes
publicly to be the owner thereof.
PARK
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
loading or unloading.
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 parking 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, other than street
cars, operated upon stationary rails.
ROADWAY
That portion of a street improved, designed, or ordinarily
used for vehicular travel.
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 prohibited means any stopping of a vehicle except when
necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with
the direction of a police officer or of a traffic control sign or
signal.
STREET or HIGHWAY
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.
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.
Locations within the Town limits not mentioned in this article
or set out in any written regulations of the Police Department but
where the parking of vehicles is prohibited or limited by properly
marked signs, posters, signals, or other devices, by the Police Department,
shall be construed as coming under the general regulatory powers of
this article and shall be subject to a penalty not to exceed $100.