[R.O. 1996 § 300.010; Code 1985, §§ 76.010, 76.940; CC 1990 § 14-1; Ord. No. 2154 § 1, 5-16-2011]
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this Title, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Any motorized vehicle manufactured and used exclusively for off-highway use, with an unladen dry weight of one thousand five hundred (1,500) pounds or less, traveling on three (3), four (4) or more non-highway tires, with either:
Any street with a roadway of less than twenty (20) feet in width.
Physical presence within five hundred (500) feet of any vehicle or person involved in the accident.
Every vehicle propelled solely by human power upon which any person may ride, having two (2) tandem wheels, or two (2) parallel wheels and one (1) or two (2) forward or rear wheels, all of which are more than fourteen (14) inches in diameter, except scooters and similar devices.
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.
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.
The following holidays are to be used as designated holidays within the context of Title III of this Code: New Years Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day. Should any of these holidays fall on a weekend, then the designated holiday will be the Friday before the Saturday holiday or the Monday after the Sunday holiday.
[Ord. No. 2571, 12-13-2021]
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, 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, Coroner, Medical Examiner, or Forensic Investigator of the County Medical Examiner's Office, 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 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 curblines 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. If 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.
Any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively upon tracks, except farm tractors and motorized bicycles,
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.
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, but excluding an electric bicycle. A motortricycle shall not be included in the definition of all-terrain vehicle.
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, but excluding an electric bicycle.
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, copartnership, association or corporation.
Every Officer of the City 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 is 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. If 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 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 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.
A highway maintained by the State 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 sign 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.
Any person, firm, association, corporation, partnership or organization engaged in the operation of one (1) or more tow vehicles for a fee or as part of an auto salvage, auto repair or junk business.
The act of removing, by tow truck, a motor vehicle from privately-owned or publicly-owned property within the City of Grain Valley where it is parked. The mere preparation of a motor vehicle for removal by a tow truck or the attachment of a motor vehicle to a tow truck, or both, does not constitute a "tow" or "towing."
Any motor vehicle which is designed or equipped to or which does in fact provide any towing service, including, but not limited to, towing, carrying, pushing or car starting, for which a fee is charged or as part of an auto salvage, auto repair or junk business; except that vehicle transports or multi-car hauling vehicles shall not be construed to mean tow vehicles for the purpose of this Chapter; provided, however, rollback tow vehicles capable of towing two (2) vehicles are not excluded from the definition of tow vehicles.
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.
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 physically disabled persons.