The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
A private or public passage or way and which:
Any of the following vehicles when equipped and identified
according to law:
A vehicle of a Fire District or Fire Agency;
[Amended 2-15-2022 by Ord. No. 768]
A publicly owned police vehicle or a privately owned vehicle
used by a police officer for police work under agreement, express
or implied, with the local authority to which the officer is responsible;
A vehicle of a licensed land emergency ambulance service, whether
publicly or privately owned;
An emergency vehicle of a municipal department or a public service
corporation, approved by the Commissioner of Public Safety or the
Chief of Police of a municipality;
Any volunteer rescue squad operating pursuant to Laws 1959,
Chapter 53;[1]
A vehicle designated as an authorized emergency vehicle upon
a finding by the commissioner of public safety that designation of
that vehicle is necessary to the preservation of life or property
or to the execution of emergency governmental functions.
Every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than 15 passengers
including the driver and used for the transportation of persons.
Equipment not normally associated with residential uses or
purposes, including but not limited to cement mixers, snowplows, wood
chippers, stump grinders, earth-moving equipment or heavy-duty compressors.
A motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles used to transport
passengers or property if the motor vehicle:
Has a gross vehicle weight of more than 26,000 pounds;
Has a towed unit with a gross vehicle weight of more than 10,000
pounds and the combination of vehicles has a combined gross vehicle
weight of more than 26,000 pounds;
Is a bus;
Is of any size and is used in the transportation of hazardous
materials that are required to be placarded under 49 CFR Parts 100
through 185; or
Is outwardly equipped and identified as a school bus.
A "commercial motor vehicle" does not include a farm truck or
an authorized emergency vehicle.
Those vehicles that have been issued a license decal less
than "H" or otherwise weigh less than 15,000 pounds' GVWR and are
used for a business.
The edge of a street, adjacent to a roadway.
The improved or unimproved place on private property that
a vehicle would have to travel over in a direct path in order to enter
a garage or carport, or to enter an exterior or interior side yard
immediately adjacent to a garage or carport, from a designated entry/exit
point on a public right-of-way.
Crushed limestone or other aggregate containing fine materials
often referred to as "Class 5 Gravel," "Class 2 Buff Limestone," "Class
2 Red Limestone," or other typical road base materials.
The greater of:
A constructed hard surface that either prevents or retards
the entry of water into the soil and causes water to run off the surface
in greater quantities and at an increased rate of flow than prior
to development. Examples include concrete; asphalt; bituminous; and
driveway paver systems with a minimum thickness of 60 mm, 2Â 3/8
inches and with gaps not to exceed 1/4 of an inch.
[Amended 9-5-2023 by Ord.
No. 794]
Areas consisting of pavers or patio block less than 60 mm
(2Â 3/8 inches) thick, and with gaps exceeding 1/4 of an inch
(not to exceed one inch) or large (minimum 1.5 inches) crushed rock,
gravel, or Class 5 to a depth of not less than six inches.
[Amended 2-16-2021 by Ord. No. 753]
The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of
the lateral curblines or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines
of roadways or two roadways which join one another at or approximately
at right angles or the area within which vehicles traveling up a different
roadway joining at another angle may come in conflict.
Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which
is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires.
"Motor vehicle" does not include an electric personal assistive mobility
device or a vehicle moved solely by human power.
A one-ton pickup truck with a 15,000 pounds or less gross
vehicle weight rating and for which the owner has made a declaration
that the vehicle will be operated exclusively for personal use. The
declaration must be based on one or more of the following:
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 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 chapter.
Extension of the existing driveway or area abutting the existing
garage or accessory structure.
Every officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or
to make arrests for violations of traffic rules. A person who is licensed
as a peace officer, and who serves as police officer.
An individual, firm, corporation, association, limited liability
company, partnership, limited liability partnership, and other business
organizations.
Any motor vehicle (as defined under the provisions of Minnesota
law), other than a recreational vehicle or authorized emergency vehicle,
which is currently licensed, weighs under 15,000 pounds' GVWR and
is in road-legal condition.
Portable outdoor storage containers commonly used for moving
and storage of personal property.
The house and attached garage.
Any property except streets, roads, or bridges owned by any
subdivision of government, including, but not limited to, the property
of school districts however organized, towns, cities, municipalities,
counties, and any board or commission of any thereof, and public corporations
created by the laws of this state.
Class of vehicles that are not for commercial use, but intended
for recreational use, which can be towed, hauled, or driven and are
primarily designed as a temporary living accommodation for camping
or for travel or recreational use, including but not limited to travel
trailers (including those which telescope or fold down), chassis-mounted
campers, tent trailers, slide-in campers, converted buses or converted
vans, motor homes and boats, whether or not self-propelled. The term
"recreational vehicle" also includes snowmobiles, personal watercraft,
and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) of any description.
Real estate, whether public or private, located within the
R-1, R-1A, R-2, R-3A, R-3B or R-4 Zoning District or those residential
uses located within the PUD, CBT, B-1, B-2, or B-3 Zoning District
as designated under the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance of the
City of Isanti.
The entire right-of-way of an alley, City street or a county,
county state-aid, or trunk highway, including the traveled portions,
boulevard, banks, ditches, shoulders, and medians.
Currently licensed and in an operable condition such that
the vehicle can be legally operated on any public street, county road
or highway.
That portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily
used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the sidewalk 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.
A vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction
with a truck-tractor that a considerable part of its own weight or
that of its load rests upon and is carried by the truck-tractor and
includes a trailer drawn by a truck-tractor semitrailer combination.
Portion of a street between the curblines, or the lateral
lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines intended for the
use of pedestrians.
The entire width between the boundary lines of any way or
place when any part thereof is open to the use of the public as a
matter of right for the purposes of vehicular traffic.
Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically
operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted
to proceed.
Any vehicle designed for carrying property or passengers
on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle but does
not include a trailer drawn by a truck-tractor semitrailer combination
or an auxiliary axle on a motor vehicle which carries a portion of
the weight of the motor vehicle to which it is attached. All trailers
shall be measured from end to end.
A motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other
vehicles and not constructed to carry a load other than a part of
the weight of the vehicle and load drawn; and
A motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other
vehicles used exclusively for transporting motor vehicles or boats
and capable of carrying motor vehicles or boats on its own structure.
Any nonimpervious surface or nonimproved surface, such as
bare ground or lawn area (grass).
Any item mentioned and subject to this chapter.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, excepting devices
used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
"Front yard," "side yard" and "rear yard" shall be defined
as provided within City of Isanti Ordinance No. 445, Zoning.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Minn. Stat. § 383C.425.
