Chapter 300, RSMo., consisting of Sections 300.010 through 300.600, as herein amended and amended from time to time by the State legislature, commonly known as the "Model Traffic Ordinance" is hereby adopted as and for the traffic ordinance of this City with the exception of the following Sections: 300.010(40), 300.015, 300.020, 300.035, 300.055, 300.070, 300.105.1(2), 300.295, 300.310, 300.320, 300.360 and 350.455. All references to Traffic Division in the Model Traffic Ordinance are changed to read Police Department. All references to streetcars and railroads have been deleted.
[Ord. No. 6-143 §1, 11-30-2009; Ord. No. 6-147 §1, 10-22-2012]
The following words and phrases, when used in this Title, mean:
Any street with a roadway of less than twenty (20) feet in
width.
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), four (4) or more low pressure tires, with a seat designed
to be straddled by the operator and handlebars for steering control.
A vehicle publicly owned and operated as an ambulance, or
a vehicle publicly owned and operated by the State Highway Patrol,
Police or Fire Department, Sheriff, Constable or Deputy Sheriff, traffic
officer or any privately owned vehicle operated as an ambulance when
responding to emergency calls.
A motor vehicle primarily for the transportation of a driver
and eight (8) or more passengers but not including shuttle buses.
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 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.
The lateral boundaries of that portion of a street designated
for the use of vehicles, whether marked with curbstones or not.
A space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use
of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle.
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.
A street or highway which has been paved with gravel, macadam,
concrete, brick or asphalt or surfaced in such a manner that it shall
have a hard, smooth surface.
The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the
lateral curb lines 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;
or
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.
A roadway which is divided into two (2) or more clearly marked
lanes for vehicular traffic.
A motor vehicle, less than twelve thousand (12,000) pounds
licensed gross weight, designed, used, or maintained for the transportation
of property.
[Ord. No. 6-151 §1, 5-8-2014]
Travel upon a restricted street which is required solely:
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.
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.
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.
A street where vehicles are required to move in one (1) direction
only.
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.
Every motor vehicle, except motorcycles, motorized bicycles,
or motor tricycles, designed for the purpose of carrying ten (10)
or fewer passengers, and used for the transport of persons.
[Ord. No. 6-151 §1, 5-8-2014]
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, co-partnership, association or
corporation.
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.
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.
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.
Those streets identified in Schedule XI of this Title.
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 grants precedence to the other.
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.
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.
Any motor vehicle used solely to transport students to or
from school or to transport students to or from any place for educational
purposes.
[Ord. No. 6-151 §1, 5-8-2014]
Any school traffic safety zone clearly identifiable by use
of a sign and/or flashing lights. A sign may indicate the times during
which the school zone speed limit applies and flashing lights indicate
that the school zone speed limit is in effect.
[Ord. No. 6-159, 3-8-2018]
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.
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. "State highway", a highway maintained by the State of Missouri as a part of the State
highway system.
Any motor vehicle performing a bona fide for hire taxicab
service having a capacity of not more than five (5) passengers, exclusive
of the driver, and not operated on a regular route or between fixed
termini.
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 motor vehicle designed primarily for agricultural use
or used as a traveling power plant or for drawing other vehicles or
farm or road-building implements and having no provision for carrying
loads independently.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles 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 vehicle without motive 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.
Any vehicle, machine, tractor, trailer or semi-trailer, or
any combination thereof, with a gross weight exceeding twenty-six
thousand (26,000) pounds, propelled or drawn by mechanical power and
designed or used in the transportation of property upon the highways.
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.
[CC 1984 §28-60]
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The
City Traffic Engineer is authorized, with the approval of the Mayor,
to close any street, highway or public place and withdraw the same
from public use temporarily and during such a period as public work
thereon or other public emergency or expedience shall make such action
necessary. At each end of the portion withdrawn from public use, the
City Traffic Engineer shall place a placard or sign having the following
words printed thereon in letters three (3) inches high: "Street Closed.
This street is closed to public use".
