A. AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES BUS BUSINESS DISTRICT CONTROLLED ACCESS ROADWAY CROSSWALK DRIVER EXPLOSIVE FARM TRACTOR FLAMMABLE LIQUID INTERSECTION LANED ROADWAY MOPED MOTORCYCLE MOTOR-DRIVEN CYCLE MOTOR VEHICLE OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES OWNER PARK PEDESTRIAN PEDESTRIAN VEHICLE PHYSICAL DISABILITY POLE TRAILER POLICE OFFICER PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY RAILROAD RAILROAD SIGN OR SIGNAL RAILROAD TRAIN RESIDENCE DISTRICT RIGHT-OF-WAY ROAD TRACTOR ROADWAY SAFETY ZONE SCHOOL BUS SEMITRAILER SIDEWALK STOP STOP, STOPPING OR STANDING STREET OR HIGHWAY THROUGH STREET TRAFFIC TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL TRAILER TRUCK TRUCK TRACTOR URBAN DISTRICT VEHICLE
For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
Vehicles of the fire department, fire patrol and police, ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments and public service corporations, private ambulances, wreckers, funeral cars, medical rescue units and auto extraction rescue units shall be emergency vehicles if authorized by the chief of police in writing when the vehicles are located and operated solely within the City.
Every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than ten passengers and used for the transportation of persons, and every motor vehicle, other than a taxicab, designed and used for the transportation of persons for compensation.
The territory contiguous to and including a street when within any six hundred feet along such street where 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 feet of frontage on one side or three hundred feet collectively on both sides of the street.
Every 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 such 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 street measured from the curbs or, in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway; or any portion of a street at an intersection or elsewhere 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.
Any chemical compound or mechanical mixture that is commonly used or intended for the purpose of producing an explosion and which contains any oxidizing and combustive units or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities or packing that an ignition by fire, by friction, by concussion, by percussion or by detonator of any part of the compound or mixture may cause such a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the resultant gaseous pressures are capable of producing destructive effects on contiguous objects or of destroying life or limb.
Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows, mowing machines and other implements of husbandry.
Any liquid which has a flash point of seventy degrees Fahrenheit or less, as determined by a tagliabue or equivalent closed-cup test device.
The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines or, if none, the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two streets which join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different streets joining at any other angle may come in conflict. Where a street includes two roadways thirty feet or more apart, every crossing of each roadway of such divided street by an intersecting street shall be regarded as a separate intersection. In the event such intersecting street also includes two roadways thirty feet or more apart, every crossing of two roadways of such street shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
A roadway which is divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
A vehicle equipped with two or three wheels, foot pedals to permit muscular propulsion by human power, an automatic transmission and a motor with cylinder capacity not exceeding fifty cubic centimeters producing no more than two brake horsepower, which motor is capable of propelling the vehicle at a maximum speed of no more than thirty miles per hour on a level road surface.
Every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground.
Every motorcycle, including motor scooters but excluding mopeds, with a motor which produces not more than five brake horsepower.
Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails.
All signs, signals, markings and devices not inconsistent with this chapter, placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
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, such conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor.
When prohibited, to stand a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading.
Any person afoot.
Any self propelled conveyance designed, manufactured and intended for the exclusive use of persons with a physical disability, but in no case shall any such vehicle exceed forty inches in width, produce in excess of twelve brake horsepower or be capable of developing a speed in excess of twenty-five miles per hour.
Any bodily impairment which precludes a person from walking or otherwise moving about easily as a pedestrian.
Every vehicle without motive power designed to be drawn by another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle by means of a reach or pole, or by being boomed or otherwise secured to the towing vehicle, and ordinarily used for transporting long or irregularly shaped loads such as poles, pipes or structural members capable, generally, of sustaining themselves as beams between the supporting connections.
Every 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.
Any sign, signal or device erected by authority of a public body or official or by a railroad 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, except streetcars.
The territory contiguous to and including a street not comprising a business district when the property on such street for a distance of three hundred feet or more is in the main improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business.
The right of one 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.
Every motor vehicle designed and used for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon either independently or as any part of the weight of a vehicle or load so drawn.
That portion of a street improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. In the event a street includes two or more separate roadways, the term "roadway" 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.
Every motor vehicle that complies with the color and identification requirements set forth in the most recent edition of "Minimum Standards for School Buses" and is used to transport children to or from school or in connection with school activities, but not including buses operated by common carriers in urban transportation of school children.
Every vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer, 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 curb lines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for the use of pedestrians.
When required, complete cessation from movement.
When prohibited, any stopping or standing 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 boundary lines of every way publicly maintained or if not publicly maintained, dedicated to public use when any part is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. "Street" and "highway" shall be construed to be synonymous in constructing this chapter.
[Amended 1-16-2024 by Ord. No. 23-06]
Every street or portion thereof on which vehicular traffic is given preferential right-of-way, and at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting streets is required by law to yield the right-of-way to vehicles on such through highway in obedience to a stop sign, yield sign or other official traffic control device, when such sign or device is properly erected.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using any street for purposes of travel.
Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed.
Every vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle.
Every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.
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.
The territory contiguous to and including any public street which is built up with structures devoted to business, industry or dwelling houses situated at intervals of less than one hundred feet for a distance of a quarter of a mile or more.
Every device, in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a street, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
B.
Words or phrases used in this chapter and not defined by this section but defined in Wyoming Statutes, 1977, section 31-5-102 shall have the meanings set out in such section.