[Ord. No. 252 §1, Ord. No. 848 §1; Ord. No. 1077 §§1-2, 1-18-1994]
The following words and phrases, when used in this Chapter,
shall have the meanings set out herein:
Any motor vehicle or trailer of any type, or part or parts
thereof, situated on property or upon any street or highway and which
does not have displayed thereon a permanent license plate or set of
plates issued for that vehicle indicating current registration by
a State or country or for which no arrangements have been made for
its storage with the owner or occupant of the premises on which it
is located or the owner of which has indicated by his words or actions
his intent to leave the same and no longer claim ownership thereof.
Any street with a roadway of less than twenty (20) feet in
width.
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 in which the drivers and passengers
ride in a partially or completely enclosed non-straddle seating area,
that is designed and controlled with a steering wheel and pedals,
and that has met applicable Department of Transportation and National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration requirements or Federal motorcycle
standards.
[Ord. No. 2464, 11-6-2018]
The total load transmitted to the road by all wheels whose
centers are included between two (2) 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, except scooters
and similar devices.
A business that repairs physical damage on motor vehicles
that are not owned by the shop or its officers or employees by mending,
straightening, replacing body parts, or painting.
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, 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 motor vehicle designed or regularly used for carrying freight
and merchandise, or more than eight (8) passengers but not including
vanpools or shuttle buses.
A self-propelled passenger vehicle having a compact classification
with respect to its dimensions by recognized governmental agencies;
however, such shall not include trucks or utility vehicles.
[Ord. No. 2296 §1, 4-1-2014]
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.
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.
Any partially dismantled, non-operating, wrecked or junked
motor vehicle or trailer of any type.
The director of the Department of Revenue.
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.
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle.
A tractor used exclusively 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 weight of vehicle and/or vehicle combination without
load, plus the weight of any load thereon.
Any vehicle, the body of which has become dented as the result
of the impact of hail.
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.
A highway which has been paved with gravel, macadam, concrete,
brick or asphalt, or surfaces in such a manner that it shall have
a hard, smooth surface.
Any highway which joins another, whether or not it crosses
the same.
A motor vehicle assembled by a person other than a generally
recognized manufacturer of motor vehicles by the use of a glider kit.
A "kit" may include the cab, drive train and other components.
Any not-for-hire commercial motor vehicle the operation of
which is confined to:
An area that extends not more than a radius of one hundred (100)
miles from its home base of operations when transporting its owner's
machinery, equipment, or auxiliary supplies to or from projects involving
soil and water conservation, or to and from equipment dealers maintenance
facilities or maintenance facilities for maintenance purposes; or
An area that extends not more than a radius of twenty-five (25)
miles from its owner's machinery, equipment, or auxiliary supplies
to or from projects not involving soil and water conservation.
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Nothing in this definition shall be construed to prevent any
motor vehicle from being registered as a commercial motor vehicle
or local commercial motor vehicle.
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A commercial motor vehicle whose operations are confined
solely to a municipality and that area extending not more than twenty-five
(25) miles therefrom, or a commercial motor vehicle whose property-carrying
operations are confined solely to the transportation of property owned
by such person or under his control by virtue of landlord and tenant
lease; provided that any such property transported to any such farm
is for use in the operation of such farm.
A bus whose operations are confined wholly within a municipal
corporation, or wholly within a municipal corporation, or wholly within
a municipal corporation and a commercial zone adjacent thereto, forming
a part of a public transportation system within such municipal corporation
and such municipal corporation and adjacent commercial zone.
A vehicle used exclusively to transport harvested forest
products to and from forested sites which is registered under this
chapter to operate as a motor vehicle on the public highways of this
state for the transportation of harvested forest products.
The rear clip, cowl, frame, body, cab, front-end assembly,
and front clip, as those terms are defined by the director of revenue
under rules and regulations or by illustrations.
Any person, firm, corporation or association engaged in the
business of manufacturing or assembling motor vehicles for sale.
A business located in Missouri or any other state that comes
onto a salvage site and crushes motor vehicles and parts for transportation
to a shredder or scrap metal operator for recycling.
A vehicle manufactured prior to August, 1957, which received
a new, rebuilt or used engine, and which used the number stamped on
the original engine as the vehicle identification number.
Any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively upon
tracks, except farm tractors and all-terrain vehicles.
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 having fully operative
pedals capable of propulsion by human power, an automatic transmission
and a motor with a cylinder capacity of not more than fifty (50) cubic
centimeters, which produces less than two (2) 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, shall be considered
a motor vehicle for purposes of any homeowners' or renters' insurance
policy.
A motor vehicle operated on three (3) wheels, including a
motorcycle while operated with any conveyance, temporary or otherwise,
requiring the use of a third (3rd) wheel.
Any city, town or village whether incorporated or not.
A resident of the state or country other than the State of
Missouri.
Any person who operates or drives a motor vehicle.
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 law.
A place of business, where motor vehicles are housed, stored,
repaired, reconstructed or repainted for persons other than the owners
or operators of such place of business.
A business that repairs or rebuilds motor vehicles owned
by the rebuilder, but does not include certificated common or contract
carriers or persons or property.
A motor vehicle which has received damage and is repaired,
assembled, or reconstructed by means of three (3) or more new or used
major component parts, as defined in this section, including but not
limited to such major component parts that have been derived from
other motor vehicles, or makes of motor vehicles.
Any motor vehicle designed, constructed or substantially
modified so that it may be used and is used for the purpose of temporary
housing quarters, including therein sleeping and eating facilities
which are either permanently attached to the motor vehicle or attached
to a unit which is securely attached to the motor vehicle. Nothing
herein shall prevent any motor vehicle being registered as a commercial
motor vehicle if the motor vehicle could otherwise be so registered.
A business that dismantles used motor vehicles for the sale
of the parts thereof, and buys and sells used motor vehicle parts
and accessories.
Any motor vehicle used solely to transport students to or
from school or to transport students to or from any place for educational
purposes.
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.
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, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers,
scarifiers, earth-moving carryalls, scrapers, drag lines, 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.
A motor vehicle which shall not have been originally constructed
under a distinctive name, make, model or type by a manufacturer of
motor vehicles.
A group of two (2) or more axles, arranged one (1) behind
the another, the distance between the extremes of which is more than
forty (40) inches and not more than ninety-six (96) inches apart.
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 this section 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.
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 semi-trailer, it supports a part of the weight
thereof.
A business that buys and sells used motor vehicle parts or
accessories, but not including a business that sells only new, remanufactured
or rebuilt parts. Business does not include isolated sales at a swap
meet of less than three (3) days.
Any van or other motor vehicle used or maintained by any
person, group, firm, corporation, association, city, county or state
agency, or any member thereof, for the transportation of not less
than eight (8) nor more than forty-eight (48) employees, per motor
vehicle, to and from their place of employment; however, a vanpool
shall not be included in the definition of the term "bus" or "commercial
motor vehicle" as defined above in this section, nor shall a vanpool
driver be deemed a "chauffeur" as that term is defined by section
302.010, RSMo., nor shall use of a vanpool vehicle for ride-sharing
arrangements, recreational, personal, or maintenance uses constitute
an unlicensed use of the motor vehicle, unless used for monetary profit
other than for use in a ride-sharing arrangement.
Any mechanical device on wheels, designed primarily for use
on highways, except motorized bicycles and vehicles propelled or drawn
by human power, or vehicles used exclusively on fixed rails or tracks
or cotton trailers.
[Ord. No. 350, §3]
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to
park upon any street, highway, roadway or thoroughfare within the
city any vehicle for the primary purpose of display advertising.
[Repealed by Ord. No. 1096 §1, 4-19-1994]
