[Ord. No. 2.587 §1, 9-20-2010]
The following words and phrases, when used in the Municipal
Code of the City of Weston, Missouri, mean:
The definition for abandoned property shall be the same as that set out in Section 217.010 of this Code.
The amount of alcohol in a person's blood at the time
of the act alleged as shown by chemical analysis of the person's
blood, breath, saliva or urine.
Any street with a roadway of less than twenty (20) feet in
width.
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.
The City Council of the City of Weston, Missouri.
Additional lighting device on a motor vehicle used primarily
to supplement the headlamps in providing general illumination ahead
of a vehicle.
The total load transmitted to the road by all wheels whose
centers are included between two parallel transverse vertical planes
forty (40) inches apart, extending across the full width of the vehicle.
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 scooters and
similar devices.
A piece of headgear which meets or exceeds the impact standard
for protective bicycle helmets set by the United States Consumer Products
Safety Commission Federal safety standards, those developed by the
American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the Snell Memorial Foundation
or the American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM).
A motor vehicle primarily for the transportation of a driver
and eight (8) or more passengers but not including shuttle buses.
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.
A person who is employed for the principal purpose of operating
a motor vehicle or any person who drives a motor vehicle while in
use as a public or common carrier of persons or property for hire.
A motor vehicle designed or regularly used for carrying freight
and merchandise, or more than eight (8) passengers but not including
vanpools or shuttle buses.
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.
Any substance so classified under Section 102(6) of the Controlled
Substances Act [21 U.S.C. §802(6)], and includes all substances
listed in Schedules I through V of 21 CFR 1308, as they may be revised
from time to time.
Any final conviction; also a forfeiture of bail or collateral
deposited to secure a defendant's appearance in court, which
forfeiture has not been vacated, shall be equivalent to a conviction,
except that when any conviction as a result of which points are assessed
pursuant to Section 302.302, RSMo. is appealed, the term "conviction"
means the original judgment of conviction for the purpose of determining
the assessment of points, and the date of final judgment affirming
the conviction shall be the date determining the beginning of any
license suspension or revocation pursuant to Section 302.304, RSMo.
A trailer designed and used exclusively for transporting
cotton at speeds less than forty (40) miles per hour from field to
field or from field to market and return.
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 person, firm, corporation, association, agent or subagent
engaged in the sale or exchange of new, used or reconstructed motor
vehicles or trailers.
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle.
The movement of a motor vehicle or trailer by any person or
motor carrier other than a dealer over any public highway, under its
own power singly, or in a fixed combination of two (2) or more vehicles,
for the purpose of delivery for sale or for delivery either before
or after sale.
The movement of any vehicle or vehicles, not owned by the transporter,
constituting the commodity being transported, by a person engaged
in the business of furnishing drivers and operators for the purpose
of transporting vehicles in transit from one place to another by the
driveway or towaway methods.
The movement of a motor vehicle by any person who is lawfully
engaged in the business of transporting or delivering vehicles that
are not the person's own and vehicles of a type otherwise required
to be registered, by the driveway or towaway methods, from a point
of manufacture, assembly or distribution or from the owner of the
vehicles to a dealer or sales agent of a manufacturer or to any consignee
designated by the shipper or consignor.
A license, permit, or privilege to drive a motor vehicle
issued under or granted by the laws of this State. The term includes
any temporary license or instruction permit, any non-resident operating
privilege, and the privilege of any person to drive a motor vehicle
whether or not the person holds a valid license.
A self-balancing, two non-tandem wheeled device, designed
to transport only one (1) person, with an electric propulsion system
with an average power of seven hundred fifty (750) watts (one (1)
horsepower), whose maximum speed on a paved level surface, when powered
solely by such a propulsion system while ridden by an operator who
weighs one hundred seventy (170) pounds, is less than twenty (20)
miles per hour. Persons under sixteen (16) years of age shall not
operate an electric personal assistive mobility device, except for
an operator with a mobility-related disability.
A vehicle of any of the following types:
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 Section 310.070 of 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 a 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.
A tractor used for agricultural purposes.
A space adjacent to a curb for the exclusive use of vehicles
during the loading or unloading of freight (or passengers).
The value specified by the manufacturer as the loaded weight
of a combination (articulated) vehicle. In the absence of a value
specified by the manufacturer, GCWR will be determined by adding the
GVWR of the power unit and the total weight of the towed unit and
any load thereon.
The value specified by the manufacturer as the loaded weight
of a single vehicle.
The weight of vehicle and/or vehicle combination without
load, plus the weight of any load thereon.
A major lighting device capable of providing general illumination
ahead of a vehicle.
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.
Every vehicle designed to be moved solely by human power.
A person who has become physically incapable of meeting the
prescribed requirements of an examination for an operator's license,
or who has been adjudged by a probate division of the circuit court
in a capacity hearing of being incapacitated.
A person between the ages of sixteen (16) years and eighteen
(18) years who is qualified to obtain a license pursuant to Sections
302.010 to 302.340, RSMo.
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;
or
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 vehicle which is incapable of operation or use upon the
highways and has no resale value except as a source of parts or scrap,
and shall not be titled or registered.
A roadway, which is divided into two (2) or more clearly
marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
A license issued by a state to a person, which authorizes
a person to operate a motor vehicle.
A motor vehicle:
That is four-wheeled;
Whose speed attainable in 1.6 km (one (1) mile) is more than
thirty-two (32) kilometers per hour (twenty (20) miles per hour) and
not more than forty (40) kilometers per hour (twenty-five (25) miles
per hour) on a paved level surface;
Whose GVWR is less than 1,361 kilograms (three thousand (3,000)
pounds);
LSVs may be electrically-powered.
A motor vehicle that is designed and equipped to transport
a person with a disability and:
Contains a lowered floor or lowered frame, or a raised roof
and/or raised door;
Contains an electronic or mechanical wheelchair, scooter, or
platform lift that enables a person to enter or exit the vehicle while
occupying a wheelchair or scooter; an electronic or mechanical wheelchair
ramp; or a system to secure a wheelchair or scooter to allow for a
person to be safely transported while occupying the wheelchair or
scooter; and
Is installed as an integral part or permanent attachment to
the motor vehicle chassis.
A three- or four-wheel device designed to provide mobility
for individuals with limited endurance for walking or using a manual
wheelchair. These scooters have a tiller for steering and a comfortable
seat, usually with a back and armrests. Furthermore, the mobility
scooters rely on multiple batteries and can weigh up to two hundred
(200) pounds. Braking is provided via disk brakes or by a regenerative
braking system utilizing the scooter's motor. Mobility scooters
are equipped with a power source that is incapable of propelling the
vehicle at a speed of greater than twenty-four (24) miles per hour
on level ground. There are two (2) types of mobility scooters under
the law. Class 2 scooters are slower, reaching speeds of up to four
(4) miles per hour and they are relegated to the sidewalk. Class 3
scooters are faster and typically larger. They can reach speeds of
up to eight (8) miles per hour and can be driven on the road. Class
3 scooters are not allowed on bicycle tracks, motorways or bus and
bicycle lanes.
A motor-driven cycle both with pedals to permit propulsion
by human power and with a motor which produces not to exceed two (2)
brake horsepower and which is not capable of propelling the vehicle
at a speed in excess of thirty (30) miles per hour on level ground.
If an internal combustion engine is used, the displacement shall not
exceed fifty (50) cubic centimeters; and the moped shall have a power
drive system that functions directly or automatically without clutching
or shifting by the operator after the drive system is engaged.
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.
A piece of headgear which meets or exceeds the standards
and specifications set by the Standards Governing Motorcycle Helmet
Construction of the Department of Transportation (DOT) Standard No.
218 as published in the Code of Federal Regulations (49 CFR 571.218).
This standard establishes minimum performance criteria and testing
methods for protective headgear.
Every motorcycle, motor scooter or motorized bicycle having
an engine with less than 150 cubic centimeters displacement or with
five brake horsepower or less.
Any two-wheeled or three-wheeled device 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, or an electric motor and is capable of propelling
the device at a maximum speed of not more than thirty (30) miles per
hour on level ground.
A two-wheeled or three-wheeled device that has handlebars,
a floorboard designed to be stood or seated upon when riding, and
is powered by a gas or electric motor.
Includes any self-propelled vehicle which is incapable of
a speed in excess of eight (8) miles per hour and which is designed
for, and used by, a handicapped person.
Any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively upon
tracks, except farm tractors and motorized bicycles.
Any vehicle other than a recreational motor vehicle, motorcycle,
motortricycle, or any commercial motor vehicle licensed for over twelve
thousand (12,000) pounds:
The distance from the center of the lamp to the surface on
which the vehicle stands.
That character of traffic violation where at the time of
violation the motor vehicle involved is in motion, except that the
term does not include the driving of a motor vehicle without a valid
motor vehicle registration license, or violations of Sections 304.170
to 304.240, RSMo, inclusive, relating to sizes and weights of vehicles.
Headlamps or similar devices arranged so as to permit the
driver of the vehicle to use one (1) of two (2) or more distributions
of light on the road.
A resident of a state or country other than the State of
Missouri.
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.
Any person who operates or drives a motor vehicle.
A temporary prohibition against the operation of a commercial
motor vehicle by a particular driver, or the operation of a particular
commercial motor vehicle, or the operation of a particular motor carrier.
A declaration by the Federal Highway Administration, or any
authorized enforcement officer of a Federal, state, Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, Canadian, Mexican or any local jurisdiction, that a driver,
or a commercial motor vehicle, or a motor carrier operation, is out
of service.
Any person, firm, corporation or association who holds the
legal title to a vehicle or in the event a vehicle is the subject
of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof with the
right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the
agreement and with an immediate right of possession vested in the
conditional vendee or lessee, or in the event a mortgagor of a vehicle
is entitled to possession, then such conditional vendee or lessee
or mortgagor shall be deemed the owner for the purpose of this Title.
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.
Every motor vehicle designed for carrying ten (10) persons
or less and used for the transportation of persons; except that the
term "passenger car" shall not include motorcycles, motorized bicycles,
motortricycles and trucks with a licensed gross weight of twelve thousand
(12,000) pounds or more.
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 person licensed to practice medicine pursuant to Chapter
334, RSMo.
A statement personally signed by a duly authorized person,
which certifies that a person is disabled as defined in this section.
A physician's statement shall:
Be on a form prescribed by the Director of Revenue;
Set forth the specific diagnosis and medical condition which
renders the person physically disabled or temporarily disabled as
defined in this Section;
Include the physician's or other authorized health care
practitioner's license number; and
Be personally signed by the issuing physician or other authorized
health care practitioner.
A miniature motorcycle, with a wheelbase in the range of
one thousand (1,000) mm and an engine displacement, engine displacing
as little as forty (40) cc.
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.
Proof of ability to respond in damages for liability, on
account of accidents occurring subsequent to the effective date of
said proof, arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of a
motor vehicle, in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00)
because of bodily injury to or death of one (1) person in any one
(1) accident, and, subject to said limit for one (1) person, in the
amount of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) because of bodily injury
to or death of two (2) or more persons in any one (1) accident, and
in the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) because of injury
to or destruction of property of others in any one (1) accident.
A carrier of persons or property upon cars operated upon
stationary rails.
A steam engine, electric or other motor, with or without
cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails.
Is any motorized vehicle manufactured and used exclusively
for off-highway use which is sixty (60) 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 more non-highway tires, with
a non-straddle seat, and steering wheel, which may have access to
ATV trails. Recreational off-highway vehicles do not meet the definition
of a motor vehicle or ATV, and will not be required to be titled and
registered.
An approved device designed and used to give an indication
by reflected light.
Shall be the location at which a person has been physically
present, and that the person regards as home. A residence address
is a person's true, fixed, principal, and permanent home, to
which a person intends to return and remain, even though currently
residing elsewhere.
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.
A driving privilege issued by the Director of Revenue following
a suspension of driving privileges for the limited purpose of driving
in connection with the driver's business, occupation, employment,
formal program of secondary, postsecondary or higher education, or
for an alcohol education or treatment program or certified ignition
interlock provider.
The termination by formal action of the Department of a person's
license. A revoked license is not subject to renewal or restoration
except that an application for a new license may be presented and
acted upon by the Department after the expiration of the revocation
period.
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 street or highway improved, designed or
ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the sidewalk, berm
or shoulder, even though such sidewalk, berm or shoulder is used by
persons riding bicycles or other human-powered vehicles. 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.
Any motor vehicle used solely to transport students to or
from school or to transport students to or from any place for educational
purposes. The term "school bus" shall not include a bus operated by
a public utility, municipal corporation or common carrier authorized
to conduct local or interstate transportation of passengers when such
bus is not traveling a specific school bus route but is:
An operator who operates a school bus as defined in this
Section in the transportation of any schoolchildren and who receives
compensation for such service. The term "school bus operator" shall
not include any person who transports schoolchildren as an incident
to employment with a school or school district, such as a teacher,
coach, administrator, secretary, school nurse, or janitor unless such
person is under contract with or employed by a school or school district
as a school bus operator.
Is a device that typically has one (1) front and one (1)
rear wheel with a low footboard between, is steered by a handlebar,
and is propelled either by pushing one (1) foot against the ground
while resting the other foot on the footboard or by a motor. A scooter
may have more than two (2) wheels.
Driving a commercial motor vehicle in such a manner that
the driver receives a conviction for the following offenses or driving
a non-commercial motor vehicle when the driver receives a conviction
for the following offenses and the conviction results in the suspension
or revocation of the driver's license or non-commercial motor
vehicle driving privilege:
Excessive speeding, as defined by the Secretary by regulation;
Careless, reckless or imprudent driving which includes, but
shall not be limited to, any violation of Section 304.016, RSMo.,
any violation of Section 304.010, RSMo, or any other violation of
Federal or State law, or any County or municipal ordinance while driving
a commercial motor vehicle in a willful or wanton disregard for the
safety of persons or property, or improper or erratic traffic lane
changes, or following the vehicle ahead too closely, but shall not
include careless and imprudent driving by excessive speed;
A violation of any Federal or State law or County or municipal
ordinance regulating the operation of motor vehicles arising out of
an accident or collision which resulted in death to any person, other
than a parking violation;
Driving a commercial motor vehicle without obtaining a commercial
driver's license in violation of any Federal or State or County
or municipal ordinance;
Driving a commercial motor vehicle without a commercial driver's
license in the driver's possession in violation of any Federal
or State or County or municipal ordinance. Any individual who provides
proof to the court, which has jurisdiction over the issued citation,
that the individual held a valid commercial driver's license
on the date that the citation was issued shall not be guilty of this
offense;
Driving a commercial motor vehicle without the proper commercial
driver's license class or endorsement for the specific vehicle
group being operated or for the passengers or type of cargo being
transported in violation of any federal or state law or county or
municipal ordinance; or
Any other violation of a Federal or State law or County or municipal
ordinance regulating the operation of motor vehicles, other than a
parking violation, as prescribed by the secretary by regulation.
A motor vehicle used or maintained by any person, firm, or
corporation as an incidental service to transport patrons or customers
of the regular business of such person, firm, or corporation to and
from the place of business of the person, firm, or corporation providing
the service at no fee or charge. Shuttle buses shall not be registered
as buses or as commercial motor vehicles.
That portion of a street between the curblines, or the lateral
lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines intended for use
of pedestrians.
Bicycles, unicycles, tricycles, roller blades or in-line
skates, skateboards, scooters, roller skates or any toy vehicle.
Headlamps or similar devices arranged so as to permit the
driver of the vehicle to use but one distribution of light on the
road.
A light vehicle mounted on runners, or a round-shaped disk
or any such device to be used for carrying people or loads over ice
and snow.
Any precipitation that deposits any accumulation on the streets,
including snow, sleet, hail, ice and freezing rain.
[Ord. No. 2.590 §1, 6-13-2011]
A snow removal condition involving any street designated
by this Title as a snow route.
[Ord. No. 2.590 §1, 6-13-2011]
Any accumulation of snow requiring removal from the street(s).
[Ord. No. 2.590 §1, 6-13-2011]
Any street(s) in the City so designated and marked as such
as required by this Title.
[Ord. No. 2.590 §1, 6-13-2011]
Every self-propelled vehicle not designed or used primarily
for the transportation of persons or property and incidentally operated
or moved over the highways, including farm equipment, implements of
husbandry, road construction or maintenance machinery, ditch-digging
apparatus, stone crushers, air compressors, power shovels, cranes,
graders, rollers, well drillers and wood-sawing equipment used for
hire, asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, ditchers,
leveling graders, finished machines, motor graders, road rollers,
scarifiers, earth-moving carryalls, scrapers, drag lines, concrete
pump trucks, rock-drilling and earth-moving equipment. This enumeration
shall be deemed partial and shall not operate to exclude other such
vehicles which are within the general terms of this Section.
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.
The temporary withdrawal by formal action of the Department
of a person's license. The suspension shall be for a period specifically
designated by the Department pursuant to the provisions of Sections
302.500 to 302.540, RSMo.
A disabled person whose disability or incapacity is expected
to last no more than one hundred eighty (180) days.
A placard to be issued to persons who are temporarily disabled,
certification of which shall be indicated on the physician's
statement.
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.
Any vehicle that has wheels and is not designed, approved,
or intended for use on public roadways or highways or off-road use.
A self-propelled motor vehicle designed for drawing other
vehicles, but not for the carriage of any load when operating independently.
When attached to a semitrailer, it supports a part of the weight thereof.
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 to
proceed.
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 semi-trailer
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 in Subdivision (8) of
Section 301.010, RSMo., and shall not include manufactured homes as
defined in Section 700.010, RSMo.
A motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained for the transportation
of property.
An area with a population of fifty thousand (50,000) or more
designated by the Bureau of the Census within boundaries to be fixed
by the State Highways and Transportation Commission and local officials
in cooperation with each other and approved by the Secretary of Transportation.
The boundary of an urbanized area shall, at a minimum, encompass the
entire urbanized area as designed by the Bureau of the Census.
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. Utility
vehicles do not meet the definition of a motor vehicle or ATV, and
will not be required to be titled and registered. Examples of off-road
utility vehicles include, but are not limited to, minicab, mule, gator,
max/buffalo, or mini-truck, etc.
Any mechanical device on wheels designed primarily for use
or used on highways, except motorized bicycles, 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.
At any time from a one-half (½) hour after sunset
to a one-half (½) hour before sunrise and at any other time
when there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible persons
and vehicles on the highway at a distance of five hundred (500) feet
ahead. Lighted lamps shall also be required any time the weather conditions
require usage of the motor vehicle's windshield wipers to operate
the vehicle in a careful and prudent manner as defined in Section
304.012, RSMo. The provisions of this Section shall be interpreted
to require lighted lamps during periods of fog even if usage of the
windshield wipers is not necessary to operate the vehicle in a careful
and prudent manner.
A placard to be issued to persons who are physically disabled
as defined in Section 301.142, RSMo, certification of which shall
be indicated on the physician's statement.
Any emergency commercial vehicle equipped, designed and used
to assist or render aid and transport or tow disabled or wrecked vehicles
from a highway, road, street or highway rights-of-way to a point of
storage or repair, including towing a replacement vehicle to replace
a disabled or wrecked vehicle.
The act of transporting, towing or recovering with a wrecker,
tow truck, rollback or car carrier any vehicle not owned by the operator
of the wrecker, tow truck, rollback or car carrier for which the operator
directly or indirectly receives compensation or other personal gain.
