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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 1-1 Definitions — A to L.">
  <section prefix="§" num="1-1" heading="Definitions — A to L.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In &lt;cite data-path="|31"&gt;this article&lt;/cite&gt;, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Alley.">“Alley” means any roadway open to the general public primarily designed and used for the servicing of contiguous buildings through their rear or side entrances.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Authorized emergency vehicle.">“Authorized emergency vehicle” means any vehicle of the fire department, police department, and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations as are lawfully designated or authorized by the Police Commissioner of Baltimore City.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Bicycle.">“Bicycle” means every device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, having 2 tandem wheels either of which is more than 20 inches in diameter.</para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Bus.">“Bus” means every motor vehicle which is at the same time a mass transportation vehicle.</para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Commercial vehicle.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Commercial vehicle” means:<para num="(i)">each motorized vehicle designed, maintained, and used primarily for the transportation or hauling of property, including but not limited to equipment, merchandise, parcels, earth, trash, refuse, scrap, or motor vehicles;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">each motorized vehicle, except a passenger car as defined in State Transportation Article § 11-144.2 {“Passenger car”}, that has commercial advertising on the exterior of the vehicle or on equipment attached to the vehicle;</para>
        <para num="(iii)">each vehicle of Federal Highway Administration Class 3 or higher;</para>
        <para num="(iv)">each vehicle that is designed to carry more than 15 passengers; and</para>
        <para num="(v)">each trailer, as defined in &lt;cite data-doc="City of Balt., Md., Ord. 26-107" data-path="|31|§1-3|(k)"&gt;§ 1-3(k)&lt;/cite&gt; of this article, or each vehicle that has a trailer attached.</para>
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      <para num="(2)" heading="Exclusion.">“Commercial vehicle” does not include a vehicle to which a trailer has been attached, if the vehicle:<para num="(i)">has been assigned a special disability registration number and special disability registration plate under § 13-616 {“Special disability registration number and plates”} of the State Transportation Article;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">displays a parking placard issued under § 13-616.1 {“Parking placards”} of the State Transportation Article; or</para>
        <para num="(iii)">displays a temporary parking placard issued under § 13-616.2 {“Temporary parking placards”} of the State Transportation Article.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Crosswalk.">“Crosswalk” means:<para num="(1)">that part of a roadway at an intersection included between the prolongations of the lateral curb line and the building line; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings.</para>
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    <para num="(h)" heading="Curb.">“Curb” means the lateral boundary of a roadway, whether marked by curb stone or not.</para>
    <para num="(h-1)" heading="Department.">“Department” means the Baltimore City Department of Transportation.</para>
    <para num="(h-2)" heading="Director.">“Director” means the Director of the Baltimore City Department of Transportation or the Director’s designee.</para>
    <para num="(i)" heading="Driver.">“Driver” means every person in actual physical control of a vehicle.</para>
    <para num="(j)" heading="Driveway.">“Driveway” means a communicating way between a roadway and an off-street facility designed in such manner as to permit a vehicle to leave said roadway at grade and enter entirely into said off-street facility.</para>
    <para num="(k)" heading="Expressway.">“Expressway” means:<para num="(1)">any limited-access through highway or freeway designated as an expressway by the Director of Transportation; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">any highway designated as an expressway by ordinance of the Mayor and City Council in accordance with and for the purposes of that portion of the City Code that deals with the prohibition of advertising matter on or adjacent to an expressway.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(l)" heading="Footway.">“Footway” means that section beyond the vehicular path along a paved or unpaved roadway reserved for and normally used by pedestrians.</para>
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    <para num="(n)" heading="Highway.">“Highway” means 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.</para>
    <para num="(o)" heading="Intersection.">“Intersection” means:<para num="(1)">the area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of 2 highways which join one another at, or approximately at, right angles; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">the area within which vehicles traveling upon different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(p)" heading="Lane.">“Lane” means any section of a roadway which is clearly delineated from the other sections of said roadway by lines, markings, or physical barriers.</para>
    <para num="(q)" heading="Loading.">“Loading” means the expeditious taking on or discharging of merchandise.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1966, art. 31, §38(1) - (17)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 31, §28(1) - (17)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 66-815</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 88-136</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 13-092</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 13-098</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-349</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-435</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
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</baltimore-city-law>
