[CC 1970 §21-1; CC 1947 §§10-99, 10-109, 11-1; Ord. No. 3881 §1, 4-12-1977; Ord. No. 5860 §1, 1-25-2005]
As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the
respective meanings ascribed to them:
Any street with a roadway of less than twenty-four (24) feet
in width that serves the side or rear of a building or residence.
A vehicle publicly owned and operated as an ambulance or
a vehicle publicly owned and operated by the State Highway Patrol,
Police or Fire Department, Sheriff or Constable or Deputy Sheriff,
traffic officer or any privately owned vehicle operated as an ambulance
when responding to emergency calls.
A three-wheeled motor vehicle which the drivers and passengers
ride in a partially or completely enclosed non-straddle seating area,
that is designed to be controlled with a steering wheel and pedals,
and that has met applicable Department of Transportation National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration requirements or Federal Motorcycle
Safety Standards.
[Ord. No. 6562, 11-13-2018]
A vehicle designed, maintained or used primarily for the
transportation of property or merchandise.
Any district lawfully designated by ordinance as a congested
district.
A 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 the highway, street or roadway.
That portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the
prolongation or connection of curb and property lines at intersections
or any portion of a roadway clearly indicated for pedestrian crossing
by lines or other markings on the surface.
The lateral boundaries of that portion of the street designated
for the use of vehicles, whether marked with curbstones or not.
A portion of the roadway that has been designated by striping
with signing or striping with pavement markings for the preferential
or exclusive use of bicycles.
[Ord. No. 6730, 12-14-2021]
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle.
Is a vehicle of any of the following types:
A vehicle operated by the State Highway Patrol, the State Water
Patrol, the Missouri Capitol Police, or a State Park Ranger, those
vehicles operated by enforcement personnel of the State Highways and
Transportation Commission, Police or Fire Department, Sheriff, Constable
or Deputy Sheriff, Federal Law Enforcement Officer authorized to carry
firearms and to make arrests for violations of the laws of the United
States, Traffic Officer or Coroner or by a privately owned emergency
vehicle company;
A vehicle operated as an ambulance or operated commercially
for the purpose of transporting emergency medical supplies or organs;
Any vehicle qualifying as an emergency vehicle pursuant to Section
307.175, RSMo.;
Any wrecker, or tow truck or a vehicle owned and operated by
a public utility or public service corporation while performing emergency
service;
Any vehicle transporting equipment designed to extricate human
beings from the wreckage of a motor vehicle;
Any vehicle designated to perform emergency functions for a
civil defense or emergency management agency established pursuant
to the provisions of Chapter 44, RSMo.;
Any vehicle operated by an authorized employee of the Department
of Corrections who, as part of the employee's official duties, is
responding to a riot, disturbance, hostage incident, escape or other
critical situation where there is the threat of serious physical injury
or death, responding to mutual aid call from another criminal justice
agency, or in accompanying an ambulance which is transporting an offender
to a medical facility;
Any vehicle designated to perform hazardous substance emergency
functions established pursuant to the provisions of Sections 260.500
to 260.550, RSMo.
Any flat bed or enclosed trailer designed or commonly used
for storage or transportation of grounds keeping, landscaping, earthmoving,
construction or other mechanical or electronic equipment or vehicles,
including storage or transportation of motorcycles, off-road vehicles
and recreational vehicles of any sort.
The entire width between the boundary lines of every way
publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the
public for purposes of vehicular travel.
Any vehicle or trailer designed or commonly used for transportation
of horses or other animals.
A street or highway which has been paved with gravel, macadam,
concrete, brick or asphalt or improved in any manner by adding material
or substance so as to present a surface other than the original earth
surface.
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 (2) 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.
Where a highway includes two (2) roadways thirty (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 (2) roadways
thirty (30) feet or more apart, then every crossing of two (2) roadways
of such highways shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
A roadway which is divided into two (2) or more clearly marked
lanes for vehicular traffic.
The weight of the cargo of a commercial vehicle in addition
to that of the chassis and body of the vehicle.
A motor vehicle seating eight (8) or more persons which is
offered for or engaged in the business of carrying passengers for
hire, without regard to the time consumed or distance traveled, on
a route not controlled by the passenger and for a charge based on
transporting passengers from one designated place to another along
a definite route over, along or upon any public street, alley or other
public place in the City.
A motor vehicle regularly operated on two (2) wheels.
A motor vehicle regularly operated on three (3) wheels, including
a motorcycle, when operated with any conveyance, temporarily or otherwise,
requiring the use of a third wheel.
Every vehicle as herein defined which is self-propelled.
Whenever certain hours are named herein, they shall mean
standard time or daylight-saving time as may be in current use in
the City.
A sign, signal, marking or device not inconsistent with this
Chapter placed or erected by authority of the public body or official
having jurisdiction for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding
traffic.
A signal, not inconsistent with this Chapter, placed or erected
by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction for
the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
A sign, marking or device, other than a signal, not inconsistent
with this Chapter, placed or erected by authority of a public body
or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning
or guiding traffic.
A street where vehicles are by law required to move in one
(1) direction only.
See "DRIVER" herein.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon
a roadway, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while
actually engaged in loading or unloading in obedience to traffic regulations
or traffic signs or signals.
Any person afoot.
A tire of rubber or other substance and fabric inflated with
air.
An officer of the Police Department or any other officer
authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrest for violation
of a traffic regulation.
A road or driveway not open to the use of the public for
purposes of vehicular travel.
A carrier of persons or property upon cars, operated on stationary
rails and the prime mover or any car separately.
As used in this Chapter, "recreational equipment" is defined as and shall include the following:
TRAVEL TRAILERA vehicular, portable structure built on a chassis, designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses, permanently identified "travel trailer" by the manufacturer.
PICKUP CAMPERA structure designed primarily to be mounted on a pickup or truck chassis and with sufficient equipment to render it suitable for use as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses.
MOTORIZED HOMEA portable dwelling designed and constructed as an integral part of self-propelled vehicle.
FOLDING TENT TRAILERA canvas folding structure, mounted on wheels and designed for travel and vacation use.
Boats and boat trailers shall include boats, floats, wave runners,
rafts, personal watercraft and other watercraft of any kind plus the
normal equipment to transport the same on the highway.
Vehicles licensed by a State authority as recreational vehicles.
The right of one (1) vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in
a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian approaching
under such circumstances of direction, speed and proximity as to give
rise to danger of collision unless one yields to the other.
That portion of a street or highway between the regularly
established curb lines or that portion improved and intended to be
used for vehicular travel.
The area or space officially set apart within a roadway for
the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is so marked
or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times
while set apart as a safety zone.
A space in any street lawfully designated by ordinance for
the safety of persons going to and returning from public, private
or parochial schools.
A tire of rubber or other resilient material, other than
a pneumatic tire.
The halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or
discharging passengers.
A highway maintained by the State as a part of the State
highway system.
When required, 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.
A way or place open for vehicular travel by the public, regardless
of its legal status and regardless of whether it has been legally
established by a constituted authority or by user for the statutory
period of time as a public highway.
Any motor vehicle engaged in the business of carrying persons
for hire on the streets of the City, whether the same is operated
from a street stand or from a garage, where no regular or specific
route is traveled, but passengers are taken to and from such places
as they may designate; whether the charge therefor is made on the
basis of distance traveled as indicated by a taximeter or speedometer
attached thereto or by any other method of determining distance, such
as by zoning system or otherwise or the time consumed in traveling
or on any other basis whatever. This definition shall not include
motorbuses.
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 the
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.
A motor vehicle designed primarily for agricultural use or
used as a traveling power plant or for drawing other vehicles or farm
or road building implements and having no provision for carrying loads
independently.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other
conveyances either singly or together while using any street for purposes
of travel.
Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically
operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to
proceed.
Any vehicle without motive power designed for carrying passengers
or property on its own structure for being drawn by any vehicle, except
those running exclusively on tracks, including a semi-trailer or vehicle
of the trailer type, so designed and used in connection with any vehicle
that a considerable part of its own weight rests upon and is carried
by the towing vehicle.
A device upon, in or by which any person or property is or
may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, except a device
moved by human power, a motorized wheelchair or used exclusively upon
stationary rails or tracks.
[CC 1970 §21-8; CC 1947 §11-69]
The Director of Public Works is authorized to close any street,
alley, public place or highway and withdraw the same from public use
temporarily and during such period as public work thereon or other
public emergency or expediency shall make such action necessary. No
person shall use or attempt to use said street, alley, public place
or highway so withdrawn from public use or drive or attempt to drive
any vehicle or animal thereon.
