[Ord. No. 326-2008 §1, 4-1-2008]
Chapter 300, RSMo., consisting of Sections 300.010 through 300.600, in the form that has been enacted by the Missouri General Assembly as of February 5, 2008, commonly known as the "Model Traffic Ordinance" is hereby adopted as and for the traffic ordinance of this City, except for the following Sections which are expressly deleted: 300.010(3), (6), (8), (10), (24) and (38); 300.320, 300.325, 300.460 and 300.485. Unless and until the City Council has rejected amendments to the Missouri Model Traffic Code enacted by the Missouri General Assembly, those amendments are hereby incorporated by reference upon their effective date.
[Code 1962 §18-2; CC 1979 §16-2; Ord. No. 973 §1, 10-4-1977; Ord. No. 1095, 11-4-1980; Ord. No. 88-30 §1, 6-21-1988]
Except as may otherwise be provided, whenever the following
words and phrases are used in this Title, they shall have the meanings
respectively ascribed to them in this Section:
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 standing of any vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon
a highway, road or street in a manner where the longitudinal axes
of vehicles form an angle with the alignment of the roadway.
Is a vehicle of any of the following types:
A vehicle operated by the State Highway Patrol, those vehicles
operated by enforcement personnel by the division of transportation
of the Department of Economic Development, 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 under 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 under the
provisions of Chapter 44, RSMo.
Every device propelled by human power upon which any person
may ride, having two (2) or more tandem wheels either of which is
twelve (12) or more inches in diameter.
A motor vehicle primarily for the transportation of a driver
and eight 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.
A line marking the center of a roadway on which traffic moves
in both directions, or dividing the roadway between traffic moving
in opposite directions.
All streets and portions of streets within the area described
by City ordinance as such.
The Chief of Police of the City.
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 highway, street or alley intermittently or continuously
overcrowded due to a lack of mobility or means and method of progression
and where traffic cannot execute regular movements with a reasonable
degree of safety.
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 portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the
prolongation or connection of curb and property lines at intersections,
or any pedestrian crossing, indicated 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 space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use
of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
A place where the occupants of motor vehicles are served
while seated in the vehicle, including but not limited to drive-in
theaters, restaurants and filling stations.
Any person who drives or is in actual physical control of
the vehicle, including the rider of a horse or other animal and the
rider of a bicycle.
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).
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.
[Ord. No. 305-2022, 5-17-2022; Ord. No. 338-2022, 9-20-2022]
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, road or street which has been paved with gravel,
macadam, concrete, brick or asphalt, or surfaced in such a manner
that the same presents a hard, durable and smooth traveling 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 motor vehicle, in
addition to that of the chassis and body of the vehicle.
[Ord. No. 41-2015 §1, 10-20-2015]
Any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively upon
tracks, except farm tractors, motorized bicycles, and golf carts.
See also the definition of "GOLF CART" in this Section.
[Ord. No. 305-2022, 5-17-2022; Ord. No. 338-2022, 9-20-2022]
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 (2) wheeled or three (3) 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, and is capable of propelling the device
at a maximum speed of not more than thirty (30) miles per hour on
level ground.
A motor vehicle operated on three (3) wheels including a
motorcycle while operated with any conveyance, temporarily or otherwise,
requiring the use of a third (3rd) wheel.
Zones determined and indicated by signs or markings where
overtaking and passing is deemed unsafe, and under this Title is declared
unlawful.
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.
A street or highway where vehicles are required by regulation
to move in one direction only and standard signs, signals and markings
are so placed as to indicate the direction of such movement.
Any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
A person who holds the legal title of 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 the 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.
An area on public or private property where spaces are provided
gratuitously or for hire for the parking of motor vehicles; provided,
that nothing herein shall be construed to include driveways or other
portions of single-family residential lots used by the occupant and
his/her invitees for parking automobiles, nor to spaces on public
streets where parking is permitted.
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, co-partnership, association or
corporation.
Tires of rubber or other substance and fabric, inflated with
air.
Every Officer of the City Police Department or any Officer
lawfully and duly authorized, deputized, assigned or called upon to
direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic
regulations, including members of the Police Reserve Force of the
City.
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.
Protective headgear that meets reasonable standards and specifications
established by the Director of Revenue of the State of Missouri.
A carrier of persons or property upon cars, other than streetcars,
operated upon stationary rails.
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.
A steam engine, electric or other motor, with or without
cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails, except streetcars.
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 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.
A space or any portion of a highway, road, street or alley
lawfully designated and duly posted for the general safety of persons
proceeding to and from any public, private or parochial school.
A motor vehicle other than a motor bus offered for or engaged
in carrying passengers for hire over a designated route and for a
fixed fare.
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.
Tires of rubber or other resilient material, other than pneumatic
tires.
Maximum speed as prescribed by ordinance within a zone determined
and indicated with numerical signs or markings designating such speeds,
travel in excess of which is unlawful under this Title.
Zones determined from an engineering or traffic study, and
indicated with posted prima facie speed limit numeral signs or markings,
which designate maximum reasonable speeds, travel in excess of which
is unlawful under this Title.
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.
A motor vehicle other than a bus offered for or engaged in
carrying passengers for hire.
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.
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, bicycles, vehicles,
streetcars and other conveyances, either singularly or together, while
using any highway, road or street 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
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.
Every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily
for the transportation of property, having gross weight capacity of
one and one-half (1½) ton or more.
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.
To peddle, sell or display for sale or exhibition any merchandise
or materials which act tends to or may tend to create traffic confusion
or congestion, and in the opinion of the authorities having jurisdiction
creates or constitutes a traffic hazard.
