"Bus bench"
means any seat located on public property along any public way for the accommodation of passersby or persons awaiting transportation.
(Ord. 89-20, 8/8/1989)
"Driveway"
means that portion of the road right-of-way between the property line and curb, or between the property line and the pavement if no curb exists, where vehicles enter or leave the highway onto adjacent property.
(Ord. 89-20, 8/8/1989)
"Encroachment"
means and includes any obstruction, tower, pole, pole line, pipe, fence, wire, cable, conduit, stand or building, or any structure or object of any kind or character not particularly mentioned in this Division 1, which is placed in, along, under, over or across the highway. This section does not apply to the temporary use of the highway for ordinary maintenance of any existing authorized or permitted encroachment; nor to the suspension or stringing on existing pole lines of additional cables, wires, transmission lines, conduits or service connections solely for telephone or electric power purposes.
(Ord. 89-20, 8/8/1989)
"Hazardous substance"
means one having the potential for an immediate disaster, such as, but not limited to, gasoline, fuel oil, butane, propane, chemicals, or chlorine, and natural gas transported at pressures greater than 60 psi.
(Ord. 89-20, 8/8/1989)
"Height"
means that dimension measured from the level surface upon which the vehicle stands to the highest protrusion in a vertical line.
(Ord. 89-20, 8/8/1989)
"Highway"
means any public highway, public street, public way or public place in the City, either owned by the City or dedicated to the public. The term includes all or any part of the entire width of right-of-way, and above and below the same, whether or not such entire area is actually used for highway purposes.
(Ord. 89-20, 8/8/1989)
"News rack"
means any self-service or coin-operated box, container, storage unit or other dispenser installed, used or maintained for the display and sale of newspapers or news periodicals.
(Ord. 89-20, 8/8/1989)
"Overhead structure"
means any structure other than franchise utility poles and their facilities extending over the dedicated portion of a highway, including canopies but excluding such projections from buildings as are enumerated in the "Building Code," for the City.
(Ord. 89-20, 8/8/1989)
"Pavement"
means the surfaced portion of the highway which is composed of various size aggregates mixed with Portland cement or asphaltic compounds or both.
(Ord. 89-20, 8/8/1989)
"Width"
means that dimension measured at right angles to the anterior-posterior axis of the conveyance upon which the load or portion thereof is, or is to be, loaded or moved, or to the median line of the highway over which the same is being or is to be moved.
(Ord. 89-20, 8/8/1989)