The following words and phrases, when used in this Chapter,
have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section:
1.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE – Shall mean vehicles of the Fire
Department, police vehicles, and ambulances.
2.
BICYCLE – Shall mean every device propelled by human power
upon which any person may ride, having two tandem wheels either of
which is more than 20 inches in diameter.
3.
BOULEVARD – Shall mean such streets as shall be designated
by the police as having the right-of-way over intersecting streets.
4.
BUS – Shall mean every motor vehicle designed for carrying
more than 10 passengers and used for the transportation of persons;
and every motor vehicle, other than a taxicab, designed and used for
the transportation of persons for compensation.
5.
BUSINESS DISTRICT – Shall mean the territory contiguous to
and including street or highway when 50% or more of the frontage on
either side of the street or highway for a distance of 300 feet or
more is occupied by buildings designed for and used for business.
6.
CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAY – Shall mean 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 such highway, street,
or roadway.
7.
CROSSWALK – Shall mean:
a.
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.
b.
Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly
indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the
surface.
8.
CURB – Shall mean the boundary of any street or roadway.
9.
CURB LOADING ZONE – Shall mean a space adjacent to a curb reserved
for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading
of passengers or materials.
10.
DRIVER – Shall mean every person who drives or is in actual
physical control of a vehicle.
11.
FIRE LANE – Shall mean any street set aside by the Police Department
to be kept clear of parked vehicles for the convenience of the Fire
Department in answering fire alarms.
12.
FREIGHT CURB LOADING ZONE – Shall mean a space adjacent to
a curb for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading
of freight or passengers.
13.
HIGHWAY, STREET OR ALLEY – Shall mean 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 words "highway", "street", and "alley" are synonymous
herein. All of the roads, streets and highways that form the boundary
line of the city shall be under the jurisdiction of the city for the
purpose of governing and regulating the operation of motor vehicles
and other traffic upon such roads and highways.
14.
INTERSECTION – Shall mean:
a.
The area embraced within the prolonging or connection of the lateral
curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways
of two 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.
b.
Where a highway includes two roadways 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 roadways 30 feet or more
apart, then every crossing of two roadways of such highways shall
be regarded as a separate intersection.
15.
LANED ROADWAY – Shall mean a roadway which is divided into
two or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
16.
MOTOR VEHICLE – Shall mean every vehicle which is self-propelled
and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from
overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails.
17.
MOTORCYCLE – Shall mean every motor vehicle having a seat or
saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more
than three wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.
18.
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD – Shall mean standard time or daylight
saving time as may be in current use in this city.
19.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES – Shall mean all signs, barricades,
signals, markings, and devices 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.
20.
OFFICIAL WARNING AND DIRECTION SIGNS AND SIGNALS – Shall mean
all warning and direction signs and signals not inconsistent with
the terms of this Chapter heretofore or hereafter placed or erected
under the provisions of this Chapter by authority of the police.
21.
OPERATOR – Shall mean any person who is in actual physical
control of any vehicle.
22.
PARK OR PARKING – Shall mean 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.
23.
PASSENGER CURB LOADING ZONE – Shall mean a place adjacent to
a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading
or unloading of passengers.
24.
PEDESTRIAN – Shall mean any person afoot.
25.
PERSON – Shall mean every natural person, firm, copartnership,
association, or corporation.
26.
POLICE DEPARTMENT – Shall mean the Chief of Police and all
policemen.
27.
POLICE OFFICER – Shall mean every officer of the municipal
Police Department or any officer authorized to direct or regulate
traffic or to make arrests for violation of traffic regulations.
28.
PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY – Shall mean 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.
29.
RAILROAD – Shall mean a carrier of persons or property upon
cars, other than streetcars, operated upon stationary rails.
30.
RAILROAD TRAIN – Shall mean a steam engine, electric or other
motor, with or without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails except
streetcars.
31.
RESIDENT DISTRICT – Shall mean the territory contiguous to
and including a highway not comprising a business district when the
property on such highway for a distance of 300 feet or more is in
the main improved with residences or residences and buildings in use
for business.
32.
RIGHT-OF-WAY – Shall mean the privilege of the immediate use
of the roadway.
33.
ROADWAY – Shall mean that portion of a highway improved, designed,
or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the shoulder.
In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the
term "roadway" as used herein refers to any such roadway separately
but not to all such roadways collectively.
34.
SAFETY ZONE OR ISLAND – Shall mean an 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 or island.
35.
SIDEWALK – Shall mean that portion of a street between the
curb lines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property
lines, intended for the use of pedestrians.
36.
STAND OR STANDING – Shall mean the halting of a vehicle, whether
occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and
while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
37.
STOP – Shall mean complete cessation from movement.
38.
STOP OR STOPPING – Shall mean 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.
39.
CITY OWNED STREET – Shall mean every nondedicated street that
is used for vehicular traffic where the roadway itself lies entirely
on property owned or leased by the City of Weatherford.
40.
THROUGH HIGHWAY – Shall mean every highway or portion thereof
on which vehicle 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 Chapter.
41.
TRAFFIC – Shall mean pedestrians, ridden or herded animals,
vehicles and other conveyances either singly or together while using
any highway for purposes of travel.
42.
TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNAL – Shall mean any device, whether manually,
electrically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately
directed to stop and to proceed.
43.
URBAN DISTRICT – Shall mean the territory contiguous to and
including any street which is built up with structures devoted to
business, industry, or dwelling houses situated at intervals of less
than 100 feet for a distance of 1/4 of a mile or more.
44.
VEHICLE – Shall mean every device in, upon, or by which any
person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway,
excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary
rails or tracts.
