The following words and phrases, when used in this article shall, for the purpose of this article, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section:
A public thoroughfare, which ordinarily affords only a second means of access to abutting property.
Vehicles of the fire department (fire patrol), police vehicles and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the chief of police.
Every device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, having two (2) tandem wheels either of which is over twenty (20) inches in diameter.
Every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than ten (10) passengers and used for the transportation of persons; and every other motor vehicle other than taxicab designed and used for the transportation of persons.
The territory contiguous to and including a roadway when, within any six hundred (600) feet along such roadway, there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, which occupy three hundred (300) feet of frontage on one side or three hundred (300) feet collectively on both sides of the roadway.
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 such 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 street measured from the curbs, or in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway. The word "crosswalk" also means 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.
Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as farm implement for drawing plows, mowing machines and other implements of husbandry.
A space adjacent to a curb for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of freight.
The area embraced within the prolongation of connection of the lateral club lines, or if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two (2) 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 (2) roadways thirty (30) feet or more apart, then 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 (2) roadways thirty (30) feet or more apart, then every crossing two (2) roadways of such streets shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
A roadway which is divided into two (2) or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
Every highway, street or roadway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting property or 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 highway, street or roadway.
Every motor vehicle having a 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.
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.
Whenever certain hours are named herein they shall mean standard time or daylight-saving time as may be in current use in this city.
All signs, signals, markings and devices not inconsistent with this article 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 to 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 article.
When prohibited, the standing of a vehicle whether occupied or not, other than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading.
A place adjacent to a curb for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.
Any person afoot.
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.
Any sign, signal or device erected 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 or highway not comprising a business district when the property on such street or 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 privilege of the immediate use of the roadway.
That portion of a street or highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel. In the event a highway includes two (2) 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 owned either by a public or governmental agency or privately and operated for compensation for the transportation to and from school.
Streets or roads adjacent to any portion of any school grounds and shall extend in every direction along said streets for a radius of six hundred (600) feet from the nearest portion of the school premises.
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.
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 roadway or portion thereof on which vehicular traffic is given preferential right-of-way, and at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting roadways is required by law to yield right-of-way to vehicles on such through roadway in obedience to either a stop sign or a yield sign, when such signs are erected as provided in this article.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars 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 vehicle with or 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.
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.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a street or highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(1965 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 20, Article I, Section 20-1)