The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
A public road other than a street or highway being a division within a block running parallel with and/or connecting with one or more streets.
Every device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, having two tandem wheels.
Every vehicle licensed or lawfully used for the transportation of property.
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, materials or freight.
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curblines, or, if none, the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two 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 roadways 30 feet or more apart, 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 roadways 30 feet or more apart, every crossing of two roadways of such highways shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
Every vehicle which is self-propelled.
Every vehicle having a saddle or seat 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.
Central Standard Time whenever certain hours are named in this chapter.
All signs, signals, markings, and devices not inconsistent with this chapter placed or erected by authority of the city traffic engineer for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic.
when prohibited, means the stopping or standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading.
A place adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.
Any person afoot.
Every officer of the 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, operated upon stationary rails.
A steam engine, electric or other motor with or without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails.
The privilege of the immediate use of the roadway.
That portion of a street or highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel exclusive of the curb or shoulder. If a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term “roadway” refers 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 curblines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians.
when required, means complete cessation of movement.
when prohibited, means 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 when any part thereof is open to the use 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 or streets is required by law to yield the right-of-way to vehicles on such through highway in obedience to either a stop sign or yield sign, when such signs are erected as provided in this chapter.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, motorbuses, 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 to proceed.
Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(1966 Code, sec. 29-2; 2001 Code, sec. 102-1)