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), 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.
BUS
A motor vehicle primarily for the transportation of a driver
and eight (8) or more passengers but not including shuttle buses.
[CC 1985 § 29-1; Ord. No. 6338 § 1, 6-20-1988; Ord. No. 7027 § 4, 3-3-1997; Ord. No. 7076 § 1, 10-20-1997; Ord. No. 7339 § 1, 7-16-2001]
BUSINESS DISTRICT
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.
COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE
A motor vehicle designed or regularly used for carrying freight
and merchandise or more than eight (8) passengers but not including
vanpools or shuttle buses.
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.
CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECK
A search of criminal records, including criminal history
record information as defined in Section 43.500, RSMo., maintained
by the Missouri State Highway Patrol in the Missouri criminal records
repository or by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of its
criminal history records, including but not limited to, any record
of conviction, plea of guilty or nolo contendre, or finding of guilty
in any State for any offense related to alcohol, controlled substances,
or drugs.
CROSSWALK
1.
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.
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
The lateral boundaries of that portion of a street designated
for the use of vehicles, whether marked with curbstones or not.
[CC 1985 § 29-1; Ord. No. 6338 § 1, 6-20-1988; Ord. No. 7027 § 4, 3-3-1997; Ord. No. 7076 § 1, 10-20-1997; Ord. No. 7339 § 1, 7-16-2001]
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 service;
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 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.
10.
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.
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 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;
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.
JUNK VEHICLE
A vehicle which is incapable of operation or use upon the
highways and has no resale value except as a source of parts or scrap,
and shall not be titled or registered, and a vehicle which is derelict,
junk, scrapped, disassembled or harmful to the public health as defined
under the terms of the most current International Property Maintenance
Code enacted by the City, but not including a vehicle which is completely
enclosed within a locked building or locked fenced area and not visible
from adjacent public or private property, and not including any vehicle
upon the property of a business licensed as salvage, swap, junk dealer,
towing or storage facility so long as the business is operated in
compliance with its business license and the property is in compliance
with applicable zoning ordinances.
[CC 1985 § 29-1; Ord. No. 6338 § 1, 6-20-1988; Ord. No. 7027 § 4, 3-3-1997; Ord. No. 7076 § 1, 10-20-1997; Ord. No. 7339 § 1, 7-16-2001]
LANED ROADWAY
A roadway which is divided into two (2) or more clearly marked
lanes for vehicular traffic.
LIVE LOAD
The weight of the cargo of a commercial vehicle, in addition
to that of the chassis and body of the vehicle.
[CC 1985 § 29-1; Ord. No. 6338 § 1, 6-20-1988; Ord. No. 7027 § 4, 3-3-1997; Ord. No. 7076 § 1, 10-20-1997; Ord. No. 7339 § 1, 7-16-2001]
MOTOR BUS
A motor vehicle designed or regularly used for carrying more
than eight (8) passengers.
[CC 1985 § 29-1; Ord. No. 6338 § 1, 6-20-1988; Ord. No. 7027 § 4, 3-3-1997; Ord. No. 7076 § 1, 10-20-1997; Ord. No. 7339 § 1, 7-16-2001]
MOTORCYCLE
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.
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 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.
A motortricycle shall not be included in the definition of all-terrain
vehicle.
MOTOR VEHICLE
Any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively upon
tracks, except farm tractors and motorized bicycles.
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.
ONE-WAY STREET
Street where vehicles are required to move in one (1) direction
only.
[CC 1985 § 29-1; Ord. No. 6338 § 1, 6-20-1988; Ord. No. 7027 § 4, 3-3-1997; Ord. No. 7076 § 1, 10-20-1997; Ord. No. 7339 § 1, 7-16-2001]
OPERATOR
Any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
[CC 1985 § 29-1; Ord. No. 6338 § 1, 6-20-1988; Ord. No. 7027 § 4, 3-3-1997; Ord. No. 7076 § 1, 10-20-1997; Ord. No. 7339 § 1, 7-16-2001]
OWNER
Any person, firm, corporation or association, who holds the
legal title to a vehicle or in the event a vehicle is the subject
of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof with the
right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the
agreement and with an immediate right of possession vested in the
conditional vendee or lessee, or in the event a mortgagor of a vehicle
is entitled to possession, then such conditional vendee or lessee
or mortgagor shall be deemed the owner for the purpose of this Title.
[CC 1985 § 29-1; Ord. No. 6338 § 1, 6-20-1988; Ord. No. 7027 § 4, 3-3-1997; Ord. No. 7076 § 1, 10-20-1997; Ord. No. 7339 § 1, 7-16-2001]
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.
PNEUMATIC TIRES
Tires of rubber or other substance and fabric, inflated with
air.
[CC 1985 § 29-1; Ord. No. 6338 § 1, 6-20-1988; Ord. No. 7027 § 4, 3-3-1997; Ord. No. 7076 § 1, 10-20-1997; Ord. No. 7339 § 1, 7-16-2001]
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.
RECREATIONAL OFF-HIGHWAY VEHICLE
Any motorized vehicle manufactured and used exclusively for
off-highway use which is more than fifty (50) inches but no more than
sixty-seven (67) inches in width, with an unladen dry weight of two
thousand (2,000) pounds or less, traveling on four (4) or more non-highway
tires and which may have access to ATV trails.
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 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
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.
SALVAGE VEHICLE
A motor vehicle, semitrailer or house trailer which, by reason
of condition or circumstance, has been declared salvage, either by
its owner, or by a person, firm, corporation, or other legal entity
exercising the right of security interest in it, or by an insurance
company as a result of settlement of a claim for loss due to damage
or theft; or a vehicle, ownership of which is evidenced by a salvage
title or abandoned property titled as provided in this Title.
[CC 1985 § 29-1; Ord. No. 6338 § 1, 6-20-1988; Ord. No. 7027 § 4, 3-3-1997; Ord. No. 7076 § 1, 10-20-1997; Ord. No. 7339 § 1, 7-16-2001]
SCHOOL ZONE
A space in any street lawfully designated by ordinance for
the safety of persons going to and returning from public, private
or parochial schools.
[CC 1985 § 29-1; Ord. No. 6338 § 1, 6-20-1988; Ord. No. 7027 § 4, 3-3-1997; Ord. No. 7076 § 1, 10-20-1997; Ord. No. 7339 § 1, 7-16-2001]
SERVICE CAR
A motor vehicle other than a motor bus, offered for or engaged
in carrying passengers for hire over a designated route for a fixed
fare and over the route of which the passenger has no control.
[CC 1985 § 29-1; Ord. No. 6338 § 1, 6-20-1988; Ord. No. 7027 § 4, 3-3-1997; Ord. No. 7076 § 1, 10-20-1997; Ord. No. 7339 § 1, 7-16-2001]
SIDEWALK
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.
SOLID TIRES
Tires of rubber or other resilient material, other than pneumatic
tires.
[CC 1985 § 29-1; Ord. No. 6338 § 1, 6-20-1988; Ord. No. 7027 § 4, 3-3-1997; Ord. No. 7076 § 1, 10-20-1997; Ord. No. 7339 § 1, 7-16-2001]
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.
STATE HIGHWAY
A highway maintained by this State as a part of the State
highway system.
[CC 1985 § 29-1; Ord. No. 6338 § 1, 6-20-1988; Ord. No. 7027 § 4, 3-3-1997; Ord. No. 7076 § 1, 10-20-1997; Ord. No. 7339 § 1, 7-16-2001]
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" shall mean a highway
maintained by the State of Missouri as a part of the State highway
system.
TAXICAB
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.
[CC 1985 § 29-1; Ord. No. 6338 § 1, 6-20-1988; Ord. No. 7027 § 4, 3-3-1997; Ord. No. 7076 § 1, 10-20-1997; Ord. No. 7339 § 1, 7-16-2001]
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.
TOWING COMPANY
Any person or entity which tows, removes or stores abandoned
property.
[CC 1985 § 29-1; Ord. No. 6338 § 1, 6-20-1988; Ord. No. 7027 § 4, 3-3-1997; Ord. No. 7076 § 1, 10-20-1997; Ord. No. 7339 § 1, 7-16-2001]
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 semitrailer, it supports a part of the weight thereof.
TRAFFIC
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and 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 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 semitrailer
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 Subsection (8) of
Section 301.010, RSMo., and shall not include manufactured homes as
defined in Section 700.010, RSMo.
TRUCK
Any vehicle, machine, tractor, trailer or semitrailer, or
any combination thereof, propelled or drawn by mechanical power and
designed or used in the transportation of property upon the highways.
[CC 1985 § 29-1; Ord. No. 6338 § 1, 6-20-1988; Ord. No. 7027 § 4, 3-3-1997; Ord. No. 7076 § 1, 10-20-1997; Ord. No. 7339 § 1, 7-16-2001]
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 designed by the Bureau of the Census.
UTILITY VEHICLE
Any motorized vehicle manufactured and used exclusively for
off-highway use which is more than fifty (50) inches but no more than
sixty-seven (67) inches in width, with an unladen dry weight of two
thousand (2,000) 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.
WRECKER or TOW TRUCK
Any emergency commercial vehicle equipped, designed and used
to assist or render aid and transport or tow disabled or wrecked vehicles
from a highway, road, street or highway rights-of-way to a point of
storage or repair, including towing a replacement vehicle to replace
a disabled or wrecked vehicle.
[CC 1985 § 29-1; Ord. No. 6338 § 1, 6-20-1988; Ord. No. 7027 § 4, 3-3-1997; Ord. No. 7076 § 1, 10-20-1997; Ord. No. 7339 § 1, 7-16-2001]
[CC 1985 § 29-228; Ord. No. 7027, §§ 1, 2, 3-3-1997]
If any vehicle is found upon any street in violation of any
provision of this Title regulating the stopping, standing or parking
of vehicles and the identity of the operator cannot be determined,
the owner or person in whose name such vehicle is registered shall
be held prima facie responsible for such violation.