Source: https://www.ecode360.com/27565942
Timestamp: 2019-03-21 08:05:55
Document Index: 150378874

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 300', '§ 300', '§21', '§10', '§1', '§1', '§350', '§300', '§21', '§11']

City of Clayton, MO General Provisions
Ch 300 Art I Definitions
§ 300.010 Definitions
Ch 300 Art II Closing of Streets
§ 300.020 Closing Streets To Traffic
Cross References — As to aircraft use permit, Art. V of ch. 605; as to parades and assemblies, Art. IV of ch. 605.
Section 300.010 Definitions
Article II Closing of Streets
Section 300.020 Closing Streets To Traffic
Section 300.010 Definitions [1]
[CC 1970 §21-1; CC 1947 §§10-99, 10-109, 11-1; Ord. No. 3881 §1, 4-12-1977; Ord. No. 5860 §1, 1-25-2005]
Any street with a roadway of less than twenty-four (24) feet in width that serves the side or rear of a building or residence.
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 which the drivers and passengers ride in a partially or completely enclosed non-straddle seating area, that is designed to be controlled with a steering wheel and pedals, and that has met applicable Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration requirements or Federal Motorcycle Safety Standards.
[Ord. No. 6562, 11-13-2018]
A vehicle designed, maintained or used primarily for the transportation of property or merchandise.
Any district lawfully designated by ordinance as a congested district.
A 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 portion of a roadway clearly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
Any flat bed or enclosed trailer designed or commonly used for storage or transportation of grounds keeping, landscaping, earthmoving, construction or other mechanical or electronic equipment or vehicles, including storage or transportation of motorcycles, off-road vehicles and recreational vehicles of any sort.
HORSE OR ANIMAL TRUCK OR TRAILER
Any vehicle or trailer designed or commonly used for transportation of horses or other animals.
A street or highway which has been paved with gravel, macadam, concrete, brick or asphalt or improved in any manner by adding material or substance so as to present a surface other than the original earth surface.
The weight of the cargo of a commercial vehicle in addition to that of the chassis and body of the vehicle.
A motor vehicle seating eight (8) or more persons which is offered for or engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire, without regard to the time consumed or distance traveled, on a route not controlled by the passenger and for a charge based on transporting passengers from one designated place to another along a definite route over, along or upon any public street, alley or other public place in the City.
A motor vehicle regularly operated on two (2) wheels.
A motor vehicle regularly operated on three (3) wheels, including a motorcycle, when operated with any conveyance, temporarily or otherwise, requiring the use of a third wheel.
Every vehicle as herein defined which is self-propelled.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE
A sign, signal, marking or device not inconsistent with this Chapter placed or erected by authority of the public body or official having jurisdiction for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL
A signal, 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.
A sign, marking or device, other than a signal, 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.
See "DRIVER" herein.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon a roadway, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading in obedience to traffic regulations or traffic signs or signals.
A tire of rubber or other substance and fabric inflated with air.
An officer of the Police Department or any other officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrest for violation of a traffic regulation.
A road or driveway not open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
A carrier of persons or property upon cars, operated on stationary rails and the prime mover or any car separately.
As used in this Chapter, "recreational equipment" is defined as and shall include the following:
A vehicular, portable structure built on a chassis, designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses, permanently identified "travel trailer" by the manufacturer.
A portable dwelling designed and constructed as an integral part of self-propelled vehicle.
A canvas folding structure, mounted on wheels and designed for travel and vacation use.
Boats and boat trailers shall include boats, floats, wave runners, rafts, personal watercraft and other watercraft of any kind plus the normal equipment to transport the same on the highway.
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 yields to the other.
That portion of a street or highway between the regularly established curb lines or that portion improved and intended to be used for vehicular travel.
A space in any street lawfully designated by ordinance for the safety of persons going to and returning from public, private or parochial schools.
A tire of rubber or other resilient material, other than a pneumatic tire.
A highway maintained by the State as a part of the State highway system.
A way or place open for vehicular travel by the public, regardless of its legal status and regardless of whether it has been legally established by a constituted authority or by user for the statutory period of time as a public highway.
Any motor vehicle engaged in the business of carrying persons for hire on the streets of the City, whether the same is operated from a street stand or from a garage, where no regular or specific route is traveled, but passengers are taken to and from such places as they may designate; whether the charge therefor is made on the basis of distance traveled as indicated by a taximeter or speedometer attached thereto or by any other method of determining distance, such as by zoning system or otherwise or the time consumed in traveling or on any other basis whatever. This definition shall not include motorbuses.
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 the 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.
A motor vehicle designed primarily for agricultural use or used as a traveling power plant or for drawing other vehicles or farm or road building implements and having no provision for carrying loads independently.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances either singly or together while using any street for purposes of travel.
Any vehicle without motive power designed for carrying passengers or property on its own structure for being drawn by any vehicle, except those running exclusively on tracks, including a semi-trailer or vehicle of the trailer type, so designed and used in connection with any vehicle that a considerable part of its own weight rests upon and is carried by the towing vehicle.
A device upon, in or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, except a device moved by human power, a motorized wheelchair or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
Cross References—Definitions under parking meter regulations, §350.130.
State Law Reference—For similar provisions, §300.010, RSMo.
[CC 1970 §21-8; CC 1947 §11-69]
The Director of Public Works is authorized to close any street, alley, public place or highway and withdraw the same from public use temporarily and during such period as public work thereon or other public emergency or expediency shall make such action necessary. No person shall use or attempt to use said street, alley, public place or highway so withdrawn from public use or drive or attempt to drive any vehicle or animal thereon.