[Ch. 19 §19.100]
The following words and phrases when used in this Title mean:
Any street with a roadway of less than twenty (20) feet in
width.
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 or Marshal or Deputy Sheriff, traffic
officer or any other Peace Officer of another City or any other governmental
unit, or any privately owned vehicle operated as an ambulance, vehicle
of volunteer or employed firemen or vehicle of Policemen, when said
privately owned vehicle is being operated in response to an emergency
call.
The individual designated by the Board of Aldermen as the
administrative head of the Police Department.
Every vehicle designated, 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.
Means:
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, or
Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly
indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the
surface.
Physically driving or operating a motor vehicle. The term "drive" and "operate" shall be synonymous and their use
interchangeable.
Every person who drives, operates or is in actual physical
control of a vehicle.
Every vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement.
When used in this Title shall refer to the feminine as well
as the male gender.
The entire width between the boundary lines of every way
publicly maintained or open to the use of the public for purposes
of vehicular travel.
Means:
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.
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 the 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.
Every motor vehicle having a seat or a 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 public officer engaged in the performance of his/her official
duties.
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.
Any street or alley on which all vehicular traffic is restricted
to movement in one (1) direction only.
Physically driving or operating a motor vehicle. The term "operate" shall be synonymous with the term "drive".
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, partnership, association, corporation
or entity of whatever nature or legal description.
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.
The roadway and that property adjacent thereto and parallel
therewith which is publicly owned.
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 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 with 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.
A vehicle designed and intended for the purpose of transporting
and carrying children to and from school.
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
open to the uses of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
A highway maintained by the State of Missouri as a part of
the State highway system.
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.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars
and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway
for purposes of travel.
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.
Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically
operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to
proceed.
The Traffic Division of the Police Department of the City,
or in the event a Traffic Division is not established, then said term
whenever used herein shall be deemed to refer to the Police Department
of the City.
The Superintendent of Streets.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, excepting devices
moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or
tracks.
