This chapter uses the following definitions:
Any narrow street used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street and having no legal or official name other than alley.
Any fire department trucks, police trucks, public or private ambulances, emergency trucks of municipal departments or public service corporations, private trucks operated by volunteer firemen or certified emergency medical services volunteers while answering a fire alarm or responding to a medical emergency, and trucks owned by the state, a political subdivision, or utility company engaged in emergency utility repair or electric, water, or wastewater services.
Every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than ten (10) passengers and used for the commercial transportation of persons.
A folding or collapsible vehicular structure, without its own power, designed as temporary living quarters for travel, camping, recreation, and vacation use which is licensed and registered for highway use.
The City of Petersburg, Texas.
The city council for the City of Petersburg, Texas.
Any motor vehicle designed or used for the transportation of property, not including a passenger bus, passenger automobile, motorcycle, or pickup truck, but including any other type truck, tractor, trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer or any combination thereof which has a gross registered carrying capacity of more than 4,000 pounds.
A residential lot located at the intersection of two streets.
The lateral lines of a roadway, whether constructed above grade or not, which are not intended for vehicular travel.
A roadway or highway divided into two roadways by leaving an intervening space or by a physical barrier, or clearly indicated dividing section between the two roadways.
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
A private, continuous driving surface providing ingress and egress for vehicles from a garage or carport to an adjacent street, alley or other improved public way, or a continuous driving surface which may also serve as an off-street parking area. Such driveway surfaces must consist of an improved area consisting of gravel, asphalt, concrete, or other similar material. Dirt surfaces without improvement are not considered driveways.
The area on a residential lot between the city street and the setback/building line.
A cement, rock, asphalt, stone, paving stone, or other equivalent materials, which is free of liter, debris, weeds, or other objectionable material or objects.
A vehicular structure without its own motive power designed primarily for the transportation of horses or stock which, in combination with the towing vehicle, is currently licensed and registered for highway use.
A surface that consists of materials other than dirt or grass, such as, but not limited to, concrete, asphalt, rock, pavestone, etc. and must be attached to the ground surface.
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 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 which may come in conflict; and
The area where a roadway includes two streets thirty feet or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such divided roadway by an intersecting street shall be regarded as a separate intersection. In the event such intersecting roadway also includes two streets thirty feet or more apart, then every crossing of the two streets of such roadway shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
A space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading and unloading of passengers or materials.
That area or portion of a divided street, road, or highway, within the city separating the two roadways of said street, road, or highway and shall be held to include the curb, if any, at the outer edge of said area.
Living quarters equipped or used for sleeping and eating which may be moved from one location to another over a public street by being pulled behind a motor vehicle.
A vehicular unit built on or as part of a self propelled motor vehicle chassis, primarily designed to provide temporary living quarters for travel, camping, recreation, and vacation use, and is licensed and registered for highway use. Conversion vans are exempted.
Every vehicle which is self-propelled by any form of motive power. The term includes any device, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a street, road, or highway. The term includes, but is not limited to, an automobile, truck, golf cart, motor home, and other devices specified by law as motor vehicles. The term motor vehicle also includes the definition for “vehicle or motor vehicle” set forth below in this chapter.
Any person in control of a vehicle, including a railroad train or vehicle being towed.
A person who owns 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 right of purchase upon performance of the obligations stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of possession 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 owner for the purpose of this chapter.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, for any period of time.
Certain hours during the day at which times standing, parking, or stopping of a vehicle is prohibited along the curb of designated streets as indicated by appropriate signs.
Any person afoot.
Any individual, natural person, firm, trust, partnership, association, or corporation.
The police department of the City of Petersburg.
Every officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic and to cite or make arrests for violations of traffic regulations and other laws affecting such regulations.
Written verification of pick-ups, deliveries, or destinations, which may include a log book, delivery slip, shipping order, bill, or other document which identifies and specifies the date, address, and name of the person requesting or directing the pick-up or delivery and the destination of the pick-up or delivery being within the corporate limits of the city, or another location which only means of access is by streets or roadways where through truck traffic is prohibited.
Vehicular unit that is visible at any time of the year from a public place or public right-of-way.
A rear yard shall be defined as the area extending across the full width of the lot between the rear lot line and the rear building wall. For a corner lot, the rear yard includes that portion of the residential lot which is the deepest area of the lot lying between the building wall and the property line and which is not contained in the front yard.
A motor home, motorized dwelling, boat, jet ski, boat trailer, travel trailer, utility trailer, livestock trailer, pop-up tent trailer, self-contained pickup camper, or equivalent.
Any tract of land that is used for residential purposes and/or the portion of the street and/or right-of-way directly abutting said tract of land.
Any street within the city that contains one or more residential areas.
The portion of the street that is improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel.
An area of a public street or roadway within the city and in the vicinity of a public or private school and upon which children of school age walk or cross at certain times of the day on school days.
Fully concealed from public view.
The stopping of a vehicle, occupied or not, other than for the purpose of receiving or discharging passengers for a period of two (2) minutes or less.
The entire width between the boundary lines of every way that is publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to use of the public for purposes of vehicular traffic. The term includes, but is not limited to, any street designated as such on the official town plat(s) adopted by the city council and filed of record.
The operation of a truck, as the term “truck” is defined by the Texas Transportation Code section 541.201 (including, but not limited to truck tractors, road tractors, semi trailers, pole trailers and special mobile equipment) through the corporate limits of the city having no destination, pick-up, or delivery point within the corporate limits of the city.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, and other conveyances either singly or together while using a street, road, roadway, or highway for purposes of traffic.
All signs, signals, markings and devices erected by and in 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.
A vehicle that is: (1) designed or used to carry a load wholly on its own structure; and (2) is drawn or designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle. The term includes, but is not limited to, horse trailer, stock trailer, equipment trailer, utility trailer, camper trailer, and/or watercraft trailer.
A rigid structure, without its own motive power, designed as a temporary dwelling for travel, camping, recreation, and vacation use, which is licensed and registered for highway use and which, when equipped for the road, has a body width of not more than eight (8) feet.
A portable structure, without its own motive power, designed to be mounted on a power vehicle as a temporary dwelling for travel, camping, recreation and vacation use, and which in combination with the carrying vehicle is licensed and registered for highway use.
A vehicular device as defined in section 502.001(23) of the Texas Transportation Code which is a vehicle that typically has three (3) axles and is designed to pull a semi-trailer or other vehicle.
A vehicular structure without its own motive power designed and/or used for the transportation of all manner of vehicles, livestock, goods and materials or equipment and is currently licensed or registered for highway use.
Every device, in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a street, road, roadway, or highway. The term shall include any and every motorized or nonmotorized device in, upon, or by which a person, persons, or property may be transported, drawn, or moved upon a street, highway, waterway, or airway and shall include, but is not limited to, an automobile, car, pickup, bus, truck, tractor, motor house, farm machinery, motorcycle, scooter, moped, all-terrain vehicle, boat, boat trailer, stock trailer, truck tractor, utility trailer, travel trailer, golf cart, go-cart trailer, fifth-wheel trailer, camper, camper shell, truck camper, wheeled towing frame, semi-tractor, semi-tractor trailer, tractor trailer, 18 wheeler, truck bed mounted on a chassis, mobile home, motor home, and recreational vehicle. This definition does not include nonmotorized bicycles, small engine lawnmowers, and devices of similar scale.
A boat or any device used or capable of being used for navigation on water.
A vehicular structure without its own motive power, specifically designed to transport watercraft for recreation and vacation use and which is currently licensed and registered for highway use.
(Ordinance 316DG adopted 1/13/14)