City Code / Statutes

All other words and phrases used in this chapter, the definition of which is not herein given, shall be given the ordinary and commonly understood and accepted meaning. The following words and phrases used in this chapter shall be given the following interpretation:
   
  (A)          VEHICLE: Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public street, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. Provided that for the purposes of this chapter, a bicycle or a ridden animal shall be deemed a vehicle.
   
  (B)           MOTOR VEHICLE: Every vehicle, as herein defined, which is self-propelled.
   
  (C)          PERSON: Every natural person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation.
   
  (D)          STREET OR HIGHWAY: 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.