[R.O. 2007 § 300.010; CC 1979 § 16-3; Ord. No. 496 § 1, 3-22-1979; Ord. No. 3438 § 1, 4-26-2001; Ord. No. 3863 § 2, 7-24-2003; Ord. No. 4263 § 1, 4-28-2005; Ord. No. 4801 § 1, 6-14-2007; Ord. No. 5379 § 2, 4-22-2010; Ord. No. 5680 §§ 1 — 2, 11-17-2011; Ord. No. 5743 § 2, 4-30-2012]
The following words and phrases,
when used in this Title, mean:
Any motorized vehicle manufactured and used exclusively for
off-highway use which is fifty (50) inches or less in width, with
an unladen dry weight of six hundred (600) pounds or less, traveling
on three (3), four (4) or more low pressure tires, with a seat designed
to be straddled by the operator, and handlebars for steering control.
Any street with a roadway of less than twenty (20) feet in
width.
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.
7120, 4-11-2019]
Every vehicle propelled solely by human power upon which
any person may ride, having two (2) tandem wheels, or two (2) parallel
wheels and one (1) or two (2) forward or rear wheels, all of which
are more than fourteen (14) inches in diameter, except electric bicycles,
scooters, and similar devices.
[Ord. No. 7746, 1-12-2023]
The territory contiguous to and including a highway when
within any six hundred (600) feet along the 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 three hundred (300) feet of frontage
on one (1) side or three hundred (300) feet collectively on both sides
of the highway.
All streets and portions of streets within the area described
by City ordinance as such.
Any trailer which is prominently labeled with commercial
advertisement or carries a commercial vehicle or other commercial
equipment or supplies in plain view excluding ladder racks.
Any motor vehicle exceeding twenty-four (24) feet in length,
eight (8) feet in height, and eight (8) feet in width, each measured
from the furthest points of the exterior of the motor vehicle body
and any accessory affixed thereto, but excluding therefrom ladder
racks.
Any area upon or around any roadway which is visibly marked
by the Missouri Department of Transportation, the County of St. Charles,
Missouri, the City or a contractor or subcontractor performing work
for the Missouri Department of Transportation, the County of St. Charles,
Missouri, or the City as an area where construction, maintenance,
incident removal or other work is temporarily occurring. The term
"work zone" or "construction zone" also includes the lanes of roadway
leading up to the area upon which an activity described above is being
performed, beginning at the point where appropriate signs or traffic
control devices are posted or placed. The terms "worker" or "highway
worker" as used in Sections 304.582 and 304.585, RSMo., shall mean
any person that is working in a construction zone or work zone, or
any employee of the Department of Transportation that is performing
duties under the Department's motorist assist program on a State highway
or the right-of-way of a State highway.
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 the 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; or
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.
The Director of the Department of Revenue of the State of
Missouri acting directly or through his authorized officers and agents.
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle.
A bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals, a saddle or
seat for the rider, and an electric motor of less than seven hundred
fifty (750) watts that meets the requirements of one (1) of the following
three (3) classes:
[Ord. No. 7746, 1-12-2023]
Class 1 electric bicycle — an electric bicycle
equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider
is pedaling and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle
reaches the speed of twenty (20) miles per hour.
Class 2 electric bicycle — an electric bicycle
equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle
and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches
the speed of twenty (20) miles per hour.
Class 3 electric bicycle — an electric bicycle
equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider
is pedaling and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle
reaches the speed of twenty-eight (28) miles per hour.
Is a vehicle of any of the following types:
[Ord. No. 6900, 2-8-2018]
A vehicle operated by the State Highway
Patrol, the State Water Patrol, the Missouri Capitol Police, a Conservation
Agent 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 this Title;
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 vehicle owned by the State Highways
and Transportation Commission and operated by an authorized employee
of the Department of Transportation that is marked as a Department
of Transportation emergency response or motorist assistance vehicle;
or
Any vehicle owned and operated by
the civil support team of the Missouri National Guard while in response
to or during operations involving chemical, biological, or radioactive
materials or in support of official requests from the State of Missouri
involving unknown substances, hazardous materials, or as may be requested
by the appropriate State agency acting on behalf of the Governor.
Items used in the maintenance of a home or lawn including,
but not limited to, mowers, chippers, snow blowers or similar types
of items.
Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm
implement for drawing plows, mowing machines and other implements
of husbandry.
A space adjacent to a curb for the exclusive use of vehicles
during the loading or unloading of freight (or passengers).
A motor vehicle that is designed and manufactured for operation
on a golf course for sporting or recreational purposes and that is
not capable of exceeding speeds of twenty (20) miles per hour.
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.
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.
An operator's or driver's license, temporary instruction
permit, chauffeur's or registered operator's license issued under
the laws of the State of Missouri.
Shall have the same meaning as that found in 49 CFR 571.3.
Any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively upon
tracks, except farm tractors and motorized bicycles.
Every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of
the rider and designed to travel on not more than three (3) wheels
in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.
Any two-wheeled or three-wheeled device, except motorized
scooters, having an automatic transmission and a motor with a cylinder
capacity of not more than fifty (50) cubic centimeters, which produces
less than three (3) gross brake horsepower and is capable of propelling
the device at a maximum speed of not more than thirty (30) miles per
hour on level ground.
Includes mini-motorcycles, pocket bikes and any other vehicle
that is capable of transporting a person or persons at a speed in
excess of five (5) miles per hour; that is self-propelled by a motor
or engine and that is not otherwise defined by Missouri Statutes or
the St. Peters City Code as a motor vehicle, motorcycle, bicycle or
motorized bicycle.
Any two (2), three (3) or four (4) wheeled device having
handlebars that are attached to a footboard, which is designed to
be either stood upon by the operator or equipped with a seat and is
powered by a motor that is capable of propelling the device with or
without human propulsion.
A motor vehicle upon which the operator straddles or sits
astride that is designed to be controlled by handle bars and is operated
on three (3) wheels, including a motorcycle while operated with any
conveyance, temporary or otherwise, requiring the use of a third wheel.
A motortricycle shall not be included in the definition of all-terrain
vehicle.
[Ord. No.
7120, 4-11-2019]
Any motor vehicle dealer who has been franchised to deal
in a certain make of motor vehicle by the manufacturer or distributor
of that make and motor vehicle and who may, in line with conducting
his/her business as a franchise dealer, sell, barter or exchange used
motor vehicles.
Any vehicle designed for or capable of cross-country travel
on or immediately over land, water, ice, snow, marsh, swampland, or
other natural terrain without benefit of a road or trail including,
without limitation, the following:
Jeeps;
All-terrain vehicles;
Dune buggies;
Multi-wheel drive or low-pressure
tire vehicles;
Vehicle using an endless belt, or
tread or treads, or a combination of tread and low-pressure tires;
Motorcycles, trail bikes, minibikes
and related vehicles;
Any other means of transportation
deriving power from any source other than muscle or wind; and
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Registered motorboats;
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Aircraft;
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Any military, fire or law enforcement
vehicle;
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Farm-type tractors and other self-propelled
equipment for harvesting and transporting farm or forest products;
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Any vehicle being used for farm purposes,
earth moving, or construction while being used for such purposes on
the work site;
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Self-propelled lawnmowers, or lawn
or garden tractors, or golf carts, while being used exclusively for
their designed purpose; and
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Any vehicle being used for the purpose
of transporting a handicapped person
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Whenever certain hours are named herein they shall mean standard
time or daylight-saving time as may be in current use in the City.
All signs, signals, markings and devices not inconsistent
with this Title placed or erected by authority of a public body or
official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning
or guiding traffic.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
A place adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use
of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.
Any person afoot.
Every natural person, firm, copartnership, association or
corporation.
A detached structure designed primarily to be mounted on
a pickup truck and with sufficient equipment to render it suitable
for use as a temporary dwelling for travel and recreational purposes.
Every officer of the Municipal Police Department or any officer
authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations
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, other than streetcars,
operated upon stationary rails.
A steam engine, electric or other motor, with or without
cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails, except streetcars.
All types of boats, jet skis and other such watercraft designed
to be used in or on water, plus the trailers used to transport such
equipment on any street.
A vehicle, whether self propelled or a trailer, which is
constructed with sufficient equipment to render it suitable for use
as a temporary dwelling for travel or recreation.
The territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising
a business district when the property on such highway for a distance
of three hundred (300) feet or more is in the main improved with residences
or residences and buildings in use for business.
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 grants precedence to the other.
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 (2) 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 is so marked
or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times
while set apart as a safety zone.
That portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral
lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for
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, 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 the lines of every way publicly
maintained when any part thereof is open to the uses of the public
for purposes of vehicular travel. "State Highway", a highway maintained
by the State of Missouri as a part of the State Highway system.
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 Title.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars
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 to
proceed.
The Traffic Division of the Police Department of the City,
or in the event a Traffic Division is not established, then said term
whenever used herein shall be deemed to refer to the Police Department
of the City.
Any vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property or passengers on its own structure and for being drawn by a self-propelled vehicle, except those running exclusively on tracks, including a semitrailer, as defined by Section 301.010, RSMo., or vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a self-propelled vehicle that a considerable part of its own weight rests upon and is carried by the towing vehicle. The term trailer shall not include cotton trailers as defined by Section 301.010, RSMo., manufactured homes as defined by Section 410.270 of the City Code or mobile home or house trailer as defined by Section 405.100 of the City Code.
[Ord. No. 6900, 2-8-2018]
Any motorized vehicle manufactured and used exclusively for
off-highway use which is sixty-three (63) inches or less in width,
with an unladen dry weight of one thousand eight hundred fifty (1,850)
pounds or less, traveling on four (4) or six (6) wheels, to be used
primarily for landscaping, lawn care, or maintenance purposes.
Any mechanical device on wheels designed primarily for use
or used on highways, except motorized bicycles, motorized scooters,
motorized play vehicles, vehicles propelled or drawn by horses or
human power, or vehicles used exclusively on fixed rails or tracks,
cotton trailers or motorized wheelchairs operated by handicapped persons.
[R.O. 2007 § 300.020; Ord. No. 84 Art. II § 1, 1-3-1972]
Every person operating or driving
a vehicle upon the highways, streets and alleys of this City shall
observe and comply with the rules and regulations as established by
this Title.
A.
For the purposes of this Section, "special
enforcement area" is defined as follows: Any private roadway or street,
where the speed limit has been established at twenty-five (25) miles
per hour or less or as a School Speed Zone.
B.
Conviction of a moving violation in a "special
enforcement area", as defined in this Section is punishable by a fine
of up to five hundred dollars ($500.00). In order to determine the
appropriate fine, any person found guilty of a moving motor vehicle
violation in a "special enforcement area" within the City limits of
the City of St. Peters shall be fined at a rate not less than double
the standard fine for such moving motor vehicle violation as provided
in the schedule established by the City.
