[CC 1990 App. C ยงย 300.010]
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 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.
The territory contiguous to and including a highway when
within any six hundred (600) feet along the highway there are buildings
in use for businesses 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.
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 or Fire District,
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;
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 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 together 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 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.
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 fully operative
pedals capable of propulsion by human power, an automatic transmission
and a motor with a cylinder capacity of not more than fifty (50) cubic
centimeters, which produces less than two (2) gross brake horsepower
and is capable of propelling the device at the maximum speed of not
more than thirty (30) miles per hour on level ground.
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.
Any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively upon
tracks, except farm tractors and motorized bicycles.
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, 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.
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 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. 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.
[Ord. No. 3109, 6-17-2020]
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 the 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 of Missouri 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 signs 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.
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.
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.
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.
