§ 86-1. Definitions.

The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall for the purposes of this chapter, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Alley and alleyway mean a thoroughfare through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings.

Bus stand means a fixed area in the roadway parallel and adjacent to the curb to be occupied exclusively by buses for layover in operating schedules or waiting for passengers.

Center line means a continuous or broken yellow line marked upon the surface of a roadway, by paint or otherwise, to indicate each portion of the roadway allocated to traffic proceeding in the two opposite directions. If the line is not so painted or otherwise marked, it is an imaginary line in the roadway equally distant from the edges or curbs of the roadway.

Commercial vehicle means every vehicle designated, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of perishable and nonperishable goods, passengers, or any other contents.

Controlled access highway means a street or highway especially designed for through traffic and over, from, or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right or easement, or only a limited right or easement, of access, light, air or view by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such limited access facility or for any other reason. Such highways or streets may be parkways from which trucks, buses, and other commercial vehicles are excluded; or they may be freeways open to use by all customary forms of street and highway traffic.

Double parking, double standing or double stopping means the parking, standing or stopping of a vehicle upon the roadway side of another vehicle parking, standing or stopping, but not legally within or adjacent to an open parking space.

Holidays. Where used in this chapter or on official signs erected by authorized official agencies, the term "holidays" shall, in addition to Sundays, mean those entire days declared by ordinance of the city to be holidays, to wit: New Year's Day, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day following Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and any other such day designated by city officials as a legal holiday and for which normal business activities are suspended or curtailed. Whenever a holiday falls upon a Saturday or Sunday, respectively, the Friday immediately preceding the Saturday or the Monday next following the Sunday shall also be deemed a holiday.

Jitney shall be defined as provided in section 22-221.

Loading zone means a space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers, materials, or personal property.

Nonmotorized vehicle means any rickshaw, animal-drawn vehicle, bicycle or other opened or closed vehicle with two or more wheels, commonly referred to as a rickshaw, pedicab or pedestrian cab, operated by one or more individuals for the purpose of, or capable of, transporting passengers in seats or a platform made as a part of the vehicle. This definition shall include human and animal-propelled vehicles, but shall not include bicycles designed for two persons, tricycles designed for one person or wheelchairs or other vehicles designed and used for the transportation of the handicapped.

Parking meter means a mechanical timing device used for the purpose of regulating parking and which is actuated by the insertion of a coin or insertion of a coin and the operation of a lever or cranking device.

Residential street means those local and collector public rights-of-way that are within zoning districts designated as "residential" pursuant to the official zoning map for West Palm Beach.

Speed limits means the maximum or minimum miles per hour a vehicle may lawfully travel.

Taxi and taxicab shall be as defined in section 22-221.

Taxi stand and taxicab stand mean a fixed area in the roadway parallel and adjacent to the curb set aside for taxicabs to stand or wait for passengers.

Traffic calming means the combination of mainly physical measures that reduce the negative effects of motor vehicles use, alter driver behavior and improve conditions for non-motorized street users.

Traffic calming measure means a measure employed to reduce vehicles speed, but not restrict access to a street, which measures may include but are not limited to: speed humps, street narrowing, humps with two-sided narrowing, humps with one-sided narrowing, medians, median with hump, speed cushions, traffic circles, raised intersections, or raised crosswalks/speed tables.

Traffic control signal means any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed.

Traffic division means the traffic division of the police department of this city.

U-turn means the act of turning a vehicle so that the vehicle travels in the opposite direction to that in which it was originally traveling.

Yield right-of-way means that the immediate use of the street shall be relinquished to traffic which has entered the intersection or which is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard.

(Code 1979, § 19-1; Ord. No. 3805-04, § 1, 12-6-2004)

State law reference

Definitions under uniform traffic-control law, F.S. § 316.003.

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.