CROSS REFERENCES
See sectional histories for similar State law
Tow truck defined, CO 405.10
Funeral procession defined, CO 431.24
Drag racing defined, CO 433.07
Studded tire defined, CO 439.14
Junk vehicle defined, CO 451.27
Sign defined, CO 457.04
Blind person defined, CO 471.02
The following words and phrases when used in this Traffic Code, except as otherwise provided, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this chapter.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Agricultural tractor" means every self-propelling vehicle designed or used for drawing other vehicles or wheeled machinery, but having no provision for carrying loads independently of such other vehicles, and used principally for agricultural purposes.
(RC 4511.01(J); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Alley" means a street or highway intended to provide access to the rear or side of lots or buildings in urban districts and not intended for the purpose of through vehicular traffic, and includes any street or highway that is less than thirty feet wide between property lines, or that has been declared an "alley" by Council.
(RC 4511.01(XX); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Automatically operated gate" means any mechanical device placed or erected within a Municipal parking facility for the regulation of parking, so designed that a gate across the exit or entrance of such parking facility automatically raises to allow a single vehicle to be moved through the exit or entrance upon the deposit in such gate of coins or parking tokens, or upon the insertion in such gate of a parking key or parking card, as indicated on the automatically operated gate.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
(a) "Bicycle" means every device, other than a tricycle designed solely for use as a play vehicle by a child, propelled solely by human power, upon which any person may ride having either two tandem wheels or one wheel in the front and two wheels in the rear, any of which is more than fourteen inches in diameter. (RC 4511.01(G))
(b) "Motorized bicycle" means any vehicle having either two tandem wheels or one wheel in the front and two wheels in the rear, that is capable of being pedaled and is equipped with a helper motor of not more than fifty cubic centimeters piston displacement which produces no more than one brake horsepower and is capable of propelling the vehicle at a speed of no greater than twenty miles per hour on a level surface.
(RC 4511.01(H); Ord. No. 1459-78. Passed 11-22-78, eff. 11-30-78)
"Bus" means every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than nine passengers and used for the transportation of persons, other than in a ridesharing arrangement as defined in RC 4511.01(DDD), and every motor vehicle, automobile for hire or funeral car, other than a taxicab motor vehicle used in a ridesharing arrangement, designed and used for the transportation of persons for compensation.
(RC 4511.01(L); Ord. No. 91-96. Passed 3-18-96, eff. 3-26-96)
"Business district" means the territory fronting upon a street or highway, including the street or highway, between successive intersections where fifty percent or more of the frontage between such successive intersections is occupied by buildings in use for business, or where fifty percent or more of the frontage for a distance of 300 feet or more is occupied by buildings in use for business, and the character of such territory is indicated by official traffic control devices.
(RC 4511.01(NN); Ord. No. 91-96. Passed 3-18-96, eff. 3-26-96)
"Center or center line of street" means the exact center of the improved portion of the roadway, or that line designated and marked by traffic control devices for the purpose of dividing traffic moving in opposite directions into right and left sides of the roadway.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Coach" means a public hack so designed and constructed to comfortably seat four or more persons inside thereof, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Assessments and Licenses.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Commercial car" means any motor vehicle having motor power designed and used for carrying merchandise or freight, or used as a commercial tractor.
(RC 4501.01(J); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Commercial motor vehicle" means any motor vehicle designed or used to transport persons or property that meets any of the following qualifications:
(a) Any combination of vehicles with a combined gross vehicle weight rating of twenty-six thousand one pounds or more, provided the gross vehicle weight rating of the vehicle or vehicles being towed is in excess of ten thousand pounds;
(b) Any single vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of twenty-six thousand one pounds or more, or any such vehicle towing a vehicle having a gross vehicle weight rating that is not in excess of ten thousand pounds;
(c) Any single vehicle or combination of vehicles that is not a class A or class B vehicle, but that either is designed to transport sixteen or more passengers including the driver, or is placarded for hazardous materials;
(d) Any school bus with a gross vehicle weight rating of less than twenty-six thousand one pounds that is designed to transport fewer than sixteen passengers including the driver;
(e) Is transporting hazardous materials for which placarding is required by regulations adopted under the "Hazardous Materials Transportation Act," 88 Stat. 2156 (1975), 49 U.S.C.A. 1801, as amended;
(f) Any single vehicle or combination of vehicles that is designed to be operated and to travel on a public street or highway and is considered by the federal highway administration to be a commercial motor vehicle, including, but not limited to, a motorized crane, a vehicle whose function is to pump cement, a rig for drilling wells, and a portable crane.
(4506.01(E); Ord. No. 835-03. Passed 6-10-03, eff. 6-12-03)
"Commercial tractor" means every motor vehicle having motive power designed or used for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon, or designed or used for drawing other vehicles while carrying a portion of such other vehicles, or the load thereon, or both.
(RC 4511.01(I); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Commercial unit" means any commercial tractor, truck, trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer or commercial car; or any other combination of these vehicles, when a commercial tractor, truck or commercial car is actually connected to one or more trailers, semitrailers, or pole trailers for the purpose of drawing such vehicles.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Controlled-access highway" means every street or highway 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 street or highway.
(RC 4511.01(CC); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Crosswalk" means:
(a) That part of a roadway at intersections ordinarily included within the real or projected prolongation of property lines and curb lines or, in the absence of curbs, the edges of the traversable roadway;
(b) Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere, distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface;
(c) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b) hereof, there shall not be a crosswalk where local authorities have placed signs indicating no crossing.
(RC 4511.01(LL); Ord. No. 91-96. Passed 3-18-96, eff. 3-26-96)
"Driver" or "operator" means every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle, trackless trolley, or streetcar.
(RC 4511.01(Y); Ord. No. 835-03. Passed 6-10-03, eff. 6-12-03)
“Electric personal assistive mobility device” means a self-balancing two non-tandem wheeled device that is designed to transport only one person, has an electric propulsion system of an average of seven hundred fifty watts, and when ridden on a paved level surface by an operator who weights one hundred seventy pounds has a maximum speed of less than twenty miles per hour.
(Ord. No. 1869-04. Passed 12-13-04, eff. 12-17-04)
"Emergency vehicle" means emergency vehicles of municipal, township or county departments or public utility corporations when identified as such as required by law, the Ohio Director of Public Safety, or local authorities, and motor vehicles when commandeered by a police officer.
(RC 4511.01(D); Ord. No. 91-96. Passed 3-18-96, eff. 3-26-96)
"Expressway" means a divided arterial highway for through traffic with full or partial control of access with an excess of fifty percent of all crossroads separated in grade.
(RC 4511.01(ZZ); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Freeway" means a divided multi-lane highway for through traffic with all crossroads separated in grade and with full control of access.
(RC 4511.01(YY); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Funeral escort vehicle" means any motor vehicle, including a funeral hearse, while used to facilitate the movement of a funeral procession.
(RC 4511.01(WW); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Gross weight" means the weight of a vehicle plus the weight of any load thereon.
(RC 4511.01(V); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Intersection" means:
(a) 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 angle may come in conflict; or two or more municipal parking lot drives which join one another.
(b) Where a highway includes two roadways thirty 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. If an intersecting highway also includes two roadways thirty feet or more apart, then every crossing of two roadways of such highways shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
(c) The junction of an alley with a street or highway, or with another alley, shall not constitute an intersection.
(RC 4511.01(KK); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Laned street" or "highway" means a street or highway, the roadway of which is divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
(RC 4511.01(GG); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Parking meter zone" means any section of a street or highway where parking meters are installed adjacent to the curb.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Motor carrier" means any person engaged exclusively in the operation of motor vehicles for carrying persons for hire from points within the City to points outside the City.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Motorcycle" means every motor vehicle, other than a tractor, having a saddle for the use of the operator and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, including but not limited to, motor vehicles known as "motor-driven cycle," "motor scooter" or "motorcycle" without regard to weight or brake horsepower.
(RC 4511.01(C); Ord. No. 1459-78. Passed 11-22-78, eff. 11-30-78)
"Motor vehicle" means every vehicle propelled or drawn by power other than muscular power or power collected from overhead electric trolley wires, except motorized bicycles, road rollers, traction engines, power shovels, power cranes and other equipment used in construction work and not designed for or employed in general highway transportation, hole-digging machinery, well-drilling machinery, ditch-digging machinery, farm machinery, trailers used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of storage or supply and the farm when drawn or towed on a public street or highway at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour or less, threshing machinery, hay-baling machinery, agricultural tractors and machinery used in the production of horticultural, floricultural, agricultural and vegetable products, and trailers designed and used exclusively to transport a boat between a place of storage and a marina, or in and around a marina, when drawn or towed on a street or highway for a distance of no more than ten miles and at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour or less.
(RC 4511.01(B); Ord. No. 835-03. Passed 6-10-03, eff. 6-12-03)
"Municipal parking facility" means any property owned by or under the control of the City of Cleveland designed and used by the public for the parking or storage of vehicles, except streets or highways.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Municipal parking facility drive" means that portion of a Municipal parking facility designated for the purpose of providing ingress and egress to vehicles and used for the movement of vehicular travel within a Municipal parking facility.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Net weight" means the weight of any vehicle or commercial unit exclusive of the weight of any load thereon.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Operate for hire" includes "plying for hire" and "carrying passengers for hire" and means the engaging by any person, firm or corporation, directly or through any agent, lessee, representative, officer or employee in the business of transporting persons, or of providing or furnishing such transportation service, for hire to the public generally or under special or individual contracts, over the streets and highways of the City, and also includes the soliciting of public patronage upon the streets and highways of the City, the demanding, accepting or receiving of any compensation, remuneration, reward, gift, donation, gratuity, tip or other consideration, for transporting any person or persons over the public streets of this City, whether the amount received is equal to, greater or less than the rates prescribed in Section 443.26; the holding out of himself, themselves or itself to the general public as prepared to transport any person or persons without charge or for such fee as the person or persons transported may voluntarily contribute; and the employing of any other scheme, device or method to circumvent or evade the provisions of this Traffic Code.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Park" or "parking" means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Parking key" or "parking card" means any key or card or similar device issued by the Commissioner of Traffic Engineering and Parking designed to be inserted into a parking meter upon a Municipal parking facility or automatically operated gate so that upon such insertion the parking meter or automatically operated gate will be set into operation.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Parking meter" means any mechanical device placed or erected upon a Municipal parking facility or in a metered parking zone which indicates thereon the legal parking time established by the City, and when operated by the deposit of coins, parking tokens or by the insertion of a parking key or parking card, indicates the allowable legal parking time and, at the expiration of such period of time, indicates illegal or overtime parking.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Parking place" means any garage or other building or part thereof, or any premises or parcel of land in or upon which a business of storing more than ten motor vehicles in any twenty-four hour period is conducted for eight months or more in any calendar year, where the owner or person storing such vehicles is charged a fee, but excluding the rental of private garages and the all-night storing of vehicles upon the premises of and in connection with the operation of regularly established gasoline stations.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Parking space" means any space within Municipal parking facility which is designated for the parking of a single vehicle by markings on the surface of the Municipal parking facility.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Parking token" means any special coin or device issued by the Commissioner of Traffic Engineering and Parking, designed to be deposited into a parking meter upon a Municipal parking facility or automatically operated gate so that upon such deposit the parking meter or automatically operated gate will be set into operation.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Pedestrian" means any natural person afoot.
(RC 4511.01(X); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Pedestrian Way" means property dedicated to the City of Cleveland upon which pedestrian, bicycle and City-owned vehicular traffic is permitted, but all other vehicular traffic is prohibited. A pedestrian way may include City-operated gates or other barriers designed to control access during certain hours.
(Ord. No. 195-94. Passed 3-14-94, eff. 3-23-94)
"Person" means every natural person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation.
(RC 4511.01(W); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Pole trailer" means every trailer or semitrailer attached to the towing vehicle by means of a reach, pole or by being boomed or otherwise secured to the towing vehicle, and ordinarily used for transporting long or irregular shaped loads such as poles, pipes or structural members capable, generally, of sustaining themselves as beams between the supporting connections.
(RC 4511.01(O); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Police officer" means every officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic, or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
(RC 4511.01(Z); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Private road" or "driveway" means every way or place in private ownership used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having express or implied permission from the owner, but not by other persons.
(RC 4511.01(DD); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Public hack" or "hack" means any public vehicle whose owner or driver secures or accepts passengers for hire on the public streets, or in public or quasi-public places, except carriages as defined in division (a) of Section 447.01 and vehicles operated by the Cleveland Regional Transit Authority.
(Ord. No. 2459-A-91. Passed 12-14-92, eff. 12-18-92)
"Public safety vehicle" means any of the following:
(a) Ambulances, including private ambulance companies under contract to a municipal corporation, township, or county, and private ambulances and nontransport vehicles bearing license plates issued under Section 4503.49 of the Revised Code;
(b) Motor vehicles used by public law enforcement officers or other persons sworn to enforce the criminal and traffic laws of the State or the Municipality;
(c) Any motor vehicle when properly identified as required by the Ohio Director of Public Safety, when used in response to fire emergency calls or to provide emergency medical service to ill or injured persons, and when operated by a duly qualified person who is a member of a volunteer rescue service or a volunteer fire department, and who is on duty pursuant to the rules or directives of that service. The Ohio Fire Marshal shall be designated by the Ohio Director of Public Safety as the certifying agency for all public safety vehicles described in this division (c);
(d) Vehicles used by fire departments, including motor vehicles when used by volunteer firemen responding to emergency calls in the fire department service when identified as required by the Ohio Director of Public Safety.
Any vehicle used to transport or provide emergency medical service to an ill or injured person, when certified as a public safety vehicle, shall be considered a public safety vehicle when transporting an ill or injured person to a hospital regardless of whether such vehicle has already passed a hospital.
(e) Vehicles used by the commercial motor vehicle safety enforcement unit for the enforcement of orders and rules of the public utilities commission as specified in Section 5503.34 of the Revised Code.
(RC 4511.01(E); Ord. No. 835-03. Passed 6-10-03, eff. 6-12-03)
"Railroad" means a carrier of persons or property operating upon rails placed principally on a private right of way.
(RC 4511.01(P); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Railroad sign or signal" means any sign, signal or device erected by authority of a public body or official or by a railroad and intended to give notice of the presence of railroad tracks or the approach of a railroad train.
(RC 4511.01(SS); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Railroad train" means a steam engine, or an electric or other motor, with or without cars coupled thereto, operated by a railroad.
(RC 4511.01(Q); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Receiving station" means any garage or parking lot which is guarded by an attendant at all times, to which vehicles may be removed under regulations set forth in this Traffic Code, when not called for by the owner before the hour of closing such parking lot or before the hour at which such parking lot becomes unattended.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Residence district" means the territory, not comprising a business district, fronting on a street or highway, including the street or highway, where, for a distance of 300 feet or more, the frontage is improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business.
(RC 4511.01(OO); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Right-of-way" means either of the following, as the context requires:
(a) The right of a vehicle, streetcar, trackless trolley, or pedestrian to proceed uninterruptedly in a lawful manner in the direction in which it or he is moving in preference to another vehicle, streetcar, trackless trolley, or pedestrian approaching from a different direction into its or his path;
(b) A general term denoting land, property, or the interest therein, usually in the configuration of a strip, acquired for or devoted to transportation purposes. When used in this context, right-of-way includes the roadway, shoulders or berm, ditch, and slopes extending to the right-of-way limits under the control of the state or local authority.
(RC 4511.01(UU); Ord. No. 91-96. Passed 3-18-96, eff. 3-26-96)
"Roadway" means that portion of a street or highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, except the berm or shoulder. If a street or highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term "roadway" means any such roadway separately but not all such roadways collectively.
(RC 4511.01(EE); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
Rollerskates means a device, propelled solely by human power, worn on the user's feet like shoes, consisting of a shoe or boot with wheels attached on the bottom of the shoe or boot allowing the user to be propelled over land by alternate action of the legs, this includes devices commonly known as "rollerblades."
(Ord. No. 1084-95. Passed 5-13-96, eff. 5-25-96 without the signature of the Mayor)
"Safety zone" means the area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and protected or marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times.
(RC 4511.01(MM); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"School bus" means every bus designed for carrying more than nine passengers which is owned by a public, private or governmental agency or institution of learning and operated for the transportation of children to or from a school session or a school function, or owned by a private person and operated for compensation for the transportation of children to or from a school session or a school function; provided "school bus" does not include a bus operated by a municipally owned transportation system, a mass transit company operating exclusively within the territorial limits of the City, or within such limits and the territorial limits of municipal corporations immediately contiguous to the City, nor a common passenger carrier certified by the Public Utilities Commission unless such bus is devoted exclusively to the transportation of children to and from a school session or a school function, and "school bus" does not include a van or bus used by a licensed child day-care center or type A family day-care home to transport children from the child day-care center or type A family day-care home to a school if the van or bus does not have more than fifteen children in the van or bus at any time.
(RC 4511.01(F); Ord. No. 91-96. Passed 3-18-96, eff. 3-26-96)
"Semitrailer" means every vehicle designed or used for carrying persons or property with another and separate motor vehicle so that in operation a part of its own weight or that of its load, or both, rests upon and is carried by another vehicle.
(RC 4511.01(N); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Sidewalk" means 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.
(RC 4511.01(FF); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Sight-seeing car" means a motor vehicle other than a bus and other than a public hack, engaged or employed in the business of carrying passengers for hire, or used in the conveyance for hire, of tourists and sight-seers, over the public streets, exclusively for the purpose of a sight-seeing trip in the visiting and viewing of places of interest.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Skateboard" means a device, propelled solely by human power, upon which a person may ride, consisting of a short, narrow board having a set of four wheels mounted under it.
(Ord. No. 2723-89. Passed 6-18-90, eff. 6-27-90)
"Standing" means any stopping of a vehicle, whether occupied or not.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"State route" means every highway which is designated with an official State route number and so marked.
(RC 4511.01(JJ); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Stop" when required means a complete cessation of movement.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Stop or stopping" when prohibited means any cessation of movement except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police officer or of traffic control devices.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Stop intersection" means any intersection at one or more entrances of which stop signs are erected.
(RC 4511.01(BBB); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
(a) "Street" or "highway" are synonymous and mean the entire width between the boundary lines of every way open to the use of the public as a thoroughfare for purposes of vehicular travel. (RC 4511.01(BB))
(b) "Arterial street" means any United States or State numbered route, controlled-access highway or other major radial or circumferential street or highway designated by local authorities within their respective jurisdictions as part of a major arterial system of streets or highways.
(RC 4511.01(CCC); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Taxicab" means a coach driven by mechanical power on which a taximeter is affixed.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Taximeter" means a mechanical instrument or device by which the charge for hire of a public hack is mechanically calculated, either for distance traveled, for waiting time or both, and upon which such charges are indicated by means of figures.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Through street or highway" means every street or highway as provided in Section 413.02.
(RC 4511.01(HH); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Thruway" means a through street or highway whose entire roadway is reserved for through traffic and on which roadway parking is prohibited.
(RC 4511.01(AAA); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Traffic" means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars, trackless trolleys, and other devices, either singly or together, while using any street or highway for purposes of travel.
(RC 4511.01(TT); Ord. No. 835-03. Passed 6-10-03, eff. 6-12-03)
"Traffic control devices" means all flaggers, signs, signals, markings and devices placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic, including signs denoting names of streets and highways.
(RC 4511.01(QQ); Ord. No. 91-96. Passed 3-18-96, eff. 3-26-96)
"Traffic control signal" means any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop, proceed, change direction or not to change direction.
(RC 4511.01(RR); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Trailer" means every vehicle designed or used for carrying persons or property wholly on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle, including any such vehicle when formed by or operated as a combination of a semitrailer and a vehicle of the dolly type, such as that commonly known as a trailer dolly, and a vehicle used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of storage or supply and the farm, when drawn or towed on a public street or highway at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour, and a vehicle designed and used exclusively to transport a boat between a place of storage and a marina, or in and around a marina, when drawn or towed on a street or highway for a distance of more than ten miles or at a speed of more than twenty-five miles per hour.
(RC 4511.01(M); Ord. No. 91-96. Passed 3-18-96, eff. 3-26-96)
"Truck" means every motor vehicle, except trailers and semitrailers, designed and used to carry property.
(RC 4511.01(K); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Truck zone" means that portion of the roadway so designated for the loading and unloading of materials and marked by signs.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Urban district" means the territory contiguous to and including any street or highway which is built up with structures devoted to business, industry or dwelling houses situated at intervals of less than 100 feet for a distance of a quarter of a mile or more, and the character of such territory is indicated by official traffic control devices.
(RC 4511.01(PP); Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
"Vehicle" means every device, including a motorized bicycle, in, upon or by which any person or property may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except that "vehicle" does not include any motorized wheelchair, electric personal assistive mobility devices, any device that is moved by power collected from overhead electric trolley wires or that is used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks, or any device, other than a bicycle, that is moved by human power.
(RC 4511.01(A); Ord. No. 835-03. Passed 6-10-03, eff. 6-12-03)