[1960 Code, Sec. 9.04.010]
The following words and phrases when used in this title shall,
for the purpose hereof, have the meanings respectively ascribed to
them herein.
A narrow street between two property lines, one or both of
which property lines are ordinarily at the rear of properties fronting
on streets having a greater width.
Police vehicles, vehicles of the fire department and ambulances.
A light two wheeled device, having wheels 20 inches or greater
in diameter with tires inflated, propelled by human power.
The territory contiguous to and including a street or an
alley when 50% or more of the frontage thereon for a distance of 300
feet or more is occupied by buildings in use for business.
That portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the
prolongation or connection of the lateral lines of sidewalks at intersections,
and any portion of a roadway distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing
by lines or other markings on the surface.
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle.
Shall be construed to include roadways of concrete, brick,
asphalt, macadam, gravel, bituminous surface and oil.
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 streets which join one another at, or approximately
at, right angles, or in the area within which vehicles traveling upon
different streets joining at any other angle may come in conflict.
The space in the roadway adjacent to the curb reserved for
the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers
or materials.
Every vehicle which is self-propelled. For the purpose of
this title, motor vehicles as a class shall be divided into two divisions,
as follows:
FIRST DIVISIONThose vehicles which are designed and used for the carrying of not more than seven persons.
SECOND DIVISIONThose vehicles which are designed and used for pulling or carrying freight and also those vehicles which are designed and used for the carrying of more than seven persons.
Every motor vehicle having a saddle for the use of the rider
and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with
the ground, but excluding a tractor.
Whenever certain hours are named herein, they shall mean
standard time or daylight saving time, as may be in current use in
the City.
A person who holds the legal title of 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.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of, and while actually engaged in
loading or unloading.
That portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral
lines of a roadway and the adjacent sidewalk lines on the roadway
side, or in the absence of sidewalks, the property lines; also, where
the street is divided into two roadways, that portion of the street
between the curb lines of such roadways nearest the center of the
street.
Any person afoot.
Every natural person, firm, copartnership, association or
corporation.
Every officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or
to make arrests.
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 line marking the boundary between any street, alley or
public place and the lots abutting thereon.
A carrier of persons or property upon cars, other than streetcars,
operated upon stationary rails.
Any sign, signal or device erected in accordance with the
laws governing same and intended to give notice of the presence of
railroad tracks or the approach of a railroad train.
A steam engine, electric or other motor, with or without
cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails.
The territory contiguous to and including a street or alley
not comprising a business district when the property on such highway
for a distance of 300 feet or more is in the main improved with residences
or residences and buildings in use for business.
The privilege of the immediate use of the roadway.
That portion of a street or alley improved, designed or ordinarily
used for vehicular travel.
Every motor vehicle owned by a public or governmental agency
and operated for the transportation of children to or from school
or privately owned and operated for compensation for the transportation
of children to or from school.
Every vehicle without motive power designed for carrying
persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so
constructed that some part of its weight and that of its load rests
upon or is carried by another vehicle.
That portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral
lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines intended for the
use of pedestrians.
Any stopping of a vehicle, whether occupied or not.
Shall be construed to include the highways as defined in
the act of the legislature of the state of Illinois entitled "an act
in relation to state highways."[1]
When required, means complete cessation of movement.
When prohibited, means any stopping of a vehicle except when
necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with
the direction of a police officer or traffic control sign or signal.
The entire width between property lines of every way or place
of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to the use of public,
as a matter of right, for purposes of vehicular traffic.
That portion of the City other than the business and residence
districts.
The space in the roadway adjacent to the curb reserved for
the exclusive use of taxicabs.
Every street or portion thereof at the entrances to which
vehicular traffic from intersecting streets is required by law to
stop before entering or crossing the same and when stop signs are
erected as provided herein.
Every tire the surface of which in contact with the highway
is wholly or partly of metal or other hard nonresilient material.
Every tire in which compressed air is designed to support
the load.
Every tire of rubber or other resilient material which does
not depend upon compressed air for the support of the load.
Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm
implement for drawing plows, mowing machines and other implements
of husbandry.
Every motor vehicle designed and used for drawing other vehicles
and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon either independently
or any part of the weight of a vehicle or load so drawn.
Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing
other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than
a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other
conveyances whether singly or together while using any roadway or
sidewalk for purposes of travel.
All signs, signals, markings and devices, including parking
meters, placed or erected by authority of the City 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.
Every vehicle without motive power designed for carrying
persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so
constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.
The turning of any vehicle to the left within the boundaries
of any street, alley or intersection thereof for the purpose of parking
said vehicle at any curb or for the purpose of proceeding in the opposite
direction to which it was moving before turning.
Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a street, alley or public place,
except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary
rails or tracks.
When required by official sign, means the act of granting
the privilege of the immediate use of the intersecting roadway to
traffic within the intersection and to vehicles approaching from the
right or left, but when the roadway is clear may proceed into the
intersection.
[1]
See 605 ILCS 5/2-101 et seq.
