[R.O. 1996 § 300.010; Code 1985,
§§ 76.010, 76.940; CC 1990 § 14-1; Ord. No. 2154 § 1, 5-16-2011]
The following words, terms and phrases,
when used in this Title, shall have the meanings ascribed to them
in this Section, except where the context clearly indicates a different
meaning:
Any motorized vehicle manufactured and used exclusively for
off-highway use, with an unladen dry weight of one thousand five hundred
(1,500) pounds or less, traveling on three (3), four (4) or more non-highway
tires, with either:
Any street with a roadway of less than twenty (20) feet in
width.
Physical presence within five hundred (500) feet of any vehicle
or person involved in the accident.
Every vehicle propelled solely by human power upon which
any person may ride, having two (2) tandem wheels, or two (2) parallel
wheels and one (1) or two (2) forward or rear wheels, all of which
are more than fourteen (14) inches in diameter, except scooters and
similar devices.
The territory contiguous to and including a highway when
within any six hundred (600) feet along the highway 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.
All streets and portions of streets within the area described
by City ordinance as such.
Every vehicle designed, maintained or used primarily for
the transportation of property.
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.
That part of a roadway at an intersection
included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks
on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs, or in the
absence of curbs from the edges of the traversable roadway.
Any portion of a roadway at an intersection
or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines
or other markings on the surface.
A space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use
of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
The following holidays are to be used as designated holidays
within the context of Title III of this Code: New Years Day, Presidents
Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day,
the day after Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day. Should any of these
holidays fall on a weekend, then the designated holiday will be the
Friday before the Saturday holiday or the Monday after the Sunday
holiday.
[Ord. No. 2571, 12-13-2021]
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle.
A vehicle of any of the following types:
A vehicle operated by the State Highway 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, Coroner, Medical Examiner, or Forensic Investigator
of the County Medical Examiner's Office, or by a privately owned emergency
vehicle company;
A vehicle operated as an ambulance or operated commercially
for the purpose of transporting emergency medical supplies or organs;
Any vehicle qualifying as an emergency vehicle pursuant to Section 310.070 of this Title;
Any wrecker or tow truck or a vehicle owned and operated by
a public utility or public service corporation while performing emergency
service;
Any vehicle transporting equipment designed to extricate human
beings from the wreckage of a motor vehicle;
Any vehicle designated to perform emergency functions for a
civil defense or emergency management agency established pursuant
to the provisions of Chapter 44, RSMo.;
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 mutual-aid call from another criminal justice
agency, or in accompanying an ambulance which is transporting an offender
to a medical facility;
Any vehicle designated to perform hazardous substance emergency
functions established pursuant to the provisions of Sections 260.500
to 260.550, RSMo.
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.
Any vehicle owned and operated by the civil support team of
the Missouri National Guard while in response to or during operations
involving chemical, biological, or radioactive materials, or in support
of official requests from the State of Missouri involving unknown
substances or hazardous materials, or as may be requested by the appropriate
State agency acting on behalf of the Governor.
A space adjacent to a curb for the exclusive use of vehicles
during the loading or unloading of freight or passengers.
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.
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;
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. If 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.
A roadway which is divided into two (2) or more clearly marked
lanes for vehicular traffic.
Any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively upon
tracks, except farm tractors and motorized bicycles,
Every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of
the rider and designed to travel on not more than three (3) wheels
in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.
A motor vehicle upon which the operator straddles or sits
astride that is designed to be controlled by handle bars 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,
but excluding an electric bicycle. A motortricycle shall not be included
in the definition of all-terrain vehicle.
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,
but excluding an electric bicycle.
Whenever certain hours are named herein they shall mean standard
time or daylight saving time as may be in current use in the City.
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.
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.
A place adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use
of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.
Any person afoot.
Every natural person, firm, copartnership, association or
corporation.
Every Officer of the City Police Department or any officer
authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations
of traffic regulations.
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 three hundred (300) feet or more is in the main improved with residences
or residences and buildings in use for business.
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.
That portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily
used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. If 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.
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 curb lines, or the lateral
lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for
use of pedestrians.
The halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or
discharging passengers.
A highway maintained by the State as a part of the State
Highway system.
When required, complete cessation from movement. 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.
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.
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.
Any person, firm, association, corporation, partnership or
organization engaged in the operation of one (1) or more tow vehicles
for a fee or as part of an auto salvage, auto repair or junk business.
The act of removing, by tow truck, a motor vehicle from privately-owned
or publicly-owned property within the City of Grain Valley where it
is parked. The mere preparation of a motor vehicle for removal by
a tow truck or the attachment of a motor vehicle to a tow truck, or
both, does not constitute a "tow" or "towing."
Any motor vehicle which is designed or equipped to or which
does in fact provide any towing service, including, but not limited
to, towing, carrying, pushing or car starting, for which a fee is
charged or as part of an auto salvage, auto repair or junk business;
except that vehicle transports or multi-car hauling vehicles shall
not be construed to mean tow vehicles for the purpose of this Chapter;
provided, however, rollback tow vehicles capable of towing two (2)
vehicles are not excluded from the definition of tow vehicles.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars
and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway
for purposes of travel.
Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically
operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to
proceed.
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 physically disabled persons.
