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:
ALLEY or ALLEYWAY
A narrow minor street, usually without sidewalks, on which
the rears or sides of buildings adjoin.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE
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.
BICYCLE
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.
BUSINESS DISTRICT
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.
BUS or JITNEY
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.
BUS STOP
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.
CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT
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.
CITY
The City of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE
Any vehicle registered for commercial purposes and designed
and used primarily for the transportation of goods, wares or merchandise.
CONTROLLED ACCESS ROADWAY
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.
CROSSWALK
(1)
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.
(2)
Any portion of a roadway at an intersection
or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines
or other markings on the surface.
CURB LOADING ZONE
A space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use
of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
DRIVER
Any operator or chauffeur who drives or is in actual physical
control of a vehicle.
FREIGHT CURB LOADING ZONE
A space adjacent to a curb for the exclusive use of commercial
vehicles during the loading or unloading of freight.
HOLIDAYS
New Year's Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Victory Day, Labor
Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
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INTERSECTION
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.
LANED ROADWAY
A roadway which is divided into two or more clearly marked
lanes for vehicular traffic.
MOTORCYCLE
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.
MOTOR VEHICLE
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.
MUNICIPAL PARKING LOTS
Any parking lot or parking garage owned, leased or rented
by the City as a municipal parking lot.
OFFICIAL CURB MARKING
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.
OFFICIAL STREET MARKING
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.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES
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.
PARK OR PARKING
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.
PASSENGER CURB LOADING ZONE
A place adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use
of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.
PERSON
Every individual, firm, copartnership, corporation or association.
POLICE OFFICER
Every officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or
to make arrests for violation of traffic regulations.
PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY
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.
RAILROAD
A carrier of persons or property upon cars operated upon
stationary rails.
RAILROAD TRAIN
A diesel engine, or other motor, with or without cars coupled
thereto, operated upon stationary rails.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT
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.
RIGHT-OF-WAY
The privilege of the immediate use of the highway.
ROADWAY
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.
SAFETY ZONE
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.
SCHOOL BUS
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.
SIDEWALK
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.
STAND or STANDING
The halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or
discharging passengers.
STOP
When required, a complete cessation from movement.
STOP or STOPPING
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.
STREET or HIGHWAY
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.
TAXI STAND
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.
THROUGH HIGHWAY
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.
TRAFFIC
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other
conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for
purposes of travel.
TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNAL
Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically
operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and go.
U-TURN
The turning of a vehicle whereby the direction of such vehicle
is turned in the opposite direction to its original course.
VEHICLE
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.
WEEKDAY
Any day of the week except Sunday.