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. All other terms used in this chapter shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the motor vehicle laws of the state or their ordinary and common meanings.
means every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than ten passengers and used for the transportation of persons.
means any motor vehicle designed or used for the transportation of property, not including a passenger bus, passenger automobile, motorcycle or pickup truck.
means the lateral lines of a roadway, whether constructed above grade or not, which are intended for vehicular travel.
means any limited access expressway or highway within the city, and shall include the entrances and exits leading to and from the through traffic lanes of such expressway and highway.
means a space adjacent to a curb, reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
means the area or portion of a divided street, road or highway within the city separating the two roadways of such street, road or highway and shall be held to include the curb, if any, at the outer edge of such area.
means 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.
means living quarters propelled by a motor vehicle equipped or used for sleeping and eating, which may be moved from one location to another over a public street, not including a camper mounted on a pickup truck or a van designed to carry ten or fewer passengers.
means the want of ordinary care and caution as a person of ordinary prudence would use under like circumstances.
means any person in control of a vehicle, including a railroad train or vehicle being towed.
means an auxiliary roadway adjacent to a freeway, expressway or major thoroughfare, which is used by traffic desiring access to abutting property and by traffic seeking ingress to or egress from the adjacent freeway, expressway or major thoroughfare.
(Code 1975, § 16-1)