Virginia Administrative Code › Title 24 - TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR VEHICLES › Agency 30 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 640 - PARKING ON PRIMARY AND SECONDARY HIGHWAYS › Section 24VAC30-640-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms when used in this chapter shall
				  have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Bicycle lane" means that portion of a roadway designated by
				  signs or pavement markings for the preferential use of bicycles, electric
				  power-assisted bicycles, motorized skateboards or scooters, and mopeds.
"Business district" means the territory contiguous to a
				  highway where 75% or more of the property contiguous to a highway, on either
				  side of the highway, for a distance of 300 feet or more along the highway, is
				  occupied by land and buildings actually in use for business purposes.
"Clear zone" means the total border area of a roadway,
				  including, if any, parking lanes or planting strips, that is sufficiently wide
				  for an errant vehicle to avoid a serious accident. Details on the clear zone
				  are in VDOT's Road Design Manual (see
				  24VAC30-151-760).
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Highways, the
				  individual who serves as the chief executive officer of the Virginia Department
				  of Transportation or his designee.
"Department" or "VDOT" means the Virginia Department of
				  Transportation.
"Highway" means the entire width between the boundary lines
				  of every way or place open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular
				  travel in the Commonwealth, including the streets and alleys, and, for
				  law-enforcement purposes, (i) the entire width between the boundary lines of
				  all private roads or private streets that have been specifically designated
				  "highways" by an ordinance adopted by the governing body of the county, city,
				  or town in which such private roads or streets are located and (ii) the entire
				  width between the boundary lines of every way or place used for purposes of
				  vehicular travel on any property owned, leased, or controlled by the United
				  States government and located in the Commonwealth.
"Parking" means halting a vehicle, whether occupied or not,
				  other than "stopping" or "standing," for an appreciable period of time.
"Primary highway" means any highway in or component of the
				  primary state highway system as defined in § 33.2-100 of the Code of
				  Virginia.
"Residence district" means the territory contiguous to a
				  highway, not comprising a business district, where 75% or more of the property
				  abutting such highway, on either side of the highway, for a distance of 300
				  feet or more along the highway consists of (i) land improved for dwelling
				  purposes or is occupied by dwellings, (ii) land or buildings in use for
				  business purposes, or (iii) territory zoned residential or territory in
				  residential subdivisions created under Chapter 22 (§ 15.2-2200 et seq.) of
				  Title 15.2 of the Code of Virginia.
"Secondary highway" means any highway in or component of the
				  secondary state highway system as defined in § 33.2-100 of the Code of
				  Virginia.
"Shared-use path" means a bikeway that is physically
				  separated from motorized vehicular traffic by an open space or barrier and is
				  located either within the highway right-of-way or within a separate
				  right-of-way. Shared-use paths may also be used by pedestrians, skaters, users
				  of wheel chairs or wheel chair conveyances, joggers, and other nonmotorized
				  users and personal delivery devices.
"Shoulder" means that part of a highway between the portion
				  regularly traveled by vehicular traffic and the lateral curbline or
				  ditch.
"Standing" means the halting of a vehicle, while still
				  occupying the vehicle, for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
				  receiving or discharging passengers.
"Stopping" means the momentary halting 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 official
				  traffic-control device.
"Travel lane" means that portion of a roadway designed or
				  designated to accommodate the forward movement of a single line of
				  vehicles.
"Vehicle" means every device in, on, or by which any person
				  or property is or may be transported or drawn on a highway, except personal
				  delivery devices and devices moved by human power or used exclusively on
				  stationary rails or tracks.
Statutory Authority: § 46.2-1223 of the Code of
					 Virginia.