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Official time standard. Whenever certain hours are named herein they shall mean Eastern standard time or Eastern daylight saving time as may be in current use in this City.
B. ALLEY or ALLEYWAY AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE BICYCLE BUSINESS DISTRICT BUS or JITNEY BUS STOP CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT CITY COMMERCIAL VEHICLE CONTROLLED ACCESS ROADWAY CROSSWALK(1) (2) CURB LOADING ZONE DRIVER FREIGHT CURB LOADING ZONE HOLIDAYS INTERSECTION LANED ROADWAY MOTORCYCLE MOTOR VEHICLE MUNICIPAL PARKING LOTS OFFICIAL CURB MARKING OFFICIAL STREET MARKING OFFICIAL TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES PARK OR PARKING PASSENGER CURB LOADING ZONE PEDESTRIAN PERSON POLICE OFFICER PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY RAILROAD RAILROAD TRAIN RESIDENCE DISTRICT RIGHT-OF-WAY ROADWAY SAFETY ZONE SCHOOL BUS SIDEWALK STAND or STANDING STOP STOP or STOPPING STREET or HIGHWAY TAXI STAND THROUGH HIGHWAY TRAFFIC TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNAL U-TURN VEHICLE WEEKDAY
The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall for the purpose of this chapter have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this article:
A narrow minor street, usually without sidewalks, on which the rears or sides of buildings adjoin.
Vehicles of the Fire Department, Police Department and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the State Registrar of Motor Vehicles.
Every device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, having two tandem wheels either of which is more than 20 inches in diameter.
The territory contiguous to and including a highway when within any 600 feet along such highway there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, including but not limited to hotels, banks, or office buildings, railroad stations and public buildings which occupy at least 300 feet of frontage on one side or 300 feet collectively on both sides of the highway.
Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, tractor-trailer or tractor-trailer combination, used for the transportation of passengers for hire, and operated wholly or in part upon any street or highway in such a manner as to afford a means of transportation similar to that afforded by a street railway company, by indiscriminately receiving or discharging passengers; or running on a regular route or over any portion thereof; or between fixed termini. Every motor vehicle other than a public bus designed for carrying more than 10 passengers and used for the transportation of persons; and every motor vehicle other than a taxicab designed and used for the transportation of persons for compensation is hereby defined as a private bus.
An area in the roadway adjacent to the curb or edge of a roadway set aside for the boarding of or alighting of passengers from buses.
All streets and portions of streets within the area described as follows: All that area bounded by and beginning at the intersection at George Steet and Interstate 95, thence northerly on George Street, then westerly on Church Steet, then northerly on Hill Street, then easterly on Main Street, then northerly on Commerce Street, then easterly on Goff Avenue, then northwesterly on Dexter Street, then northeasterly along the AMTRAK railroad property, then easterly on Barton Steet; then southerly on High Street, then easterly on Blackstone Avenue, crossing the Blackstone River and continuing easterly on Blackstone Avenue, then southwesterly on Broadway to the intersection at School Street, then southerly on School Street to Interstate 95, then westerly along the property line of Interstate 95 to George Steet on the place of beginning.
The City of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Any vehicle registered for commercial purposes and designed and used primarily for the transportation of goods, wares or merchandise.
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 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 or materials.
Any operator or chauffeur who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
A space adjacent to a curb for the exclusive use of commercial vehicles during the loading or unloading of freight.
New Year's Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Victory Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
[Added 12-16-2010 by Ch. No. 2953]
The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then 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 angles may come in conflict. Where a highway includes two roadways 30 feet or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such divided highway by an intersecting highway shall be regarded as a separate intersection. In the event such intersecting highway also includes two roadways 30 feet or more apart, then every crossing of two roadways of such highways shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
A roadway which is divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
Only those motor vehicles having not more than three wheels in contact with the ground and a saddle on which the driver sits astride, and those bicycles having a motor attached thereto and a driving wheel or wheels in contact with the ground.
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.
Any parking lot or parking garage owned, leased or rented by the City as a municipal parking lot.
That portion of the curbing the painting of which controls certain restrictions as designed by the Traffic Engineer and is authorized by the Director of Public Safety.
Any painted or plastic lines, legends, markings or marker of any description painted or placed upon any way which purports to direct or regulate traffic as designed and placed by the Traffic Engineer and which has been authorized by the Director of Public Safety.
All signs, signals, markings and devices not inconsistent with this chapter placed or erected by the Traffic Engineer and authorized by the Director of Public Safety for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic.
The stopping or standing of a vehicle on a roadway, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading, or in obedience to a police officer or traffic signs or signals, or while making emergency repairs, or, if disabled, while arrangements are being made to move such vehicle.
A place adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.
Any person afoot.
Every individual, firm, copartnership, corporation or association.
Every officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violation 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 diesel engine, or other motor, with or without cars coupled thereto, operated upon stationary rails.
The territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business district when the property on which highway for a distance of 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 highway.
That portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways the term "roadway" as used herein 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 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 by a public or governmental agency, and while being operated for the transportation of children to or from school or privately owned, and while being operated for compensation for the transportation of children to or from school.
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.
The halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
When required, a complete cessation from movement.
When prohibited, any halting even momentarily 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 boundary lines of every way when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular traffic.
An area in the roadway adjacent to the curb or edge of a roadway set aside for the exclusive use of taxicabs for the stopping, standing and boarding or alighting of passengers and which is authorized by the Director of Public Safety.
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 is required by law to yield right-of-way to vehicles on such through highway in obedience to either a stop sign or a yield sign, when such signs are erected as provided in this chapter.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for purposes of travel.
Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and go.
The turning of a vehicle whereby the direction of such vehicle is turned in the opposite direction to its original course.
Every object or device propelled or drawn on wheels, rollers, runners or otherwise, except road rollers and such vehicles as run only upon rails or tracks.
Any day of the week except Sunday.