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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 1-2 Definitions — M to R.">
  <section prefix="§" num="1-2" heading="Definitions — M to R.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Mass transportation vehicle.">“Mass transportation vehicle” is any vehicle used primarily for the transportation of the general public, with a seating capacity of 10 or more persons.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Motorcycle.">“Motorcycle” means every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than 3 wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Motor vehicle.">“Motor vehicle” means every vehicle that is self-propelled and every vehicle that is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated on rails.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Motor vehicle repair service.">“Motor vehicle repair service” means a person that is engaged in the business of performing major or minor repairs to a motor vehicle, including:<para num="(1)">collision services, including body, frame, or fender repair or straightening;</para>
      <para num="(2)">maintenance, repairs, or adjustment of any engine components;</para>
      <para num="(3)">brake adjustments and repairs;</para>
      <para num="(4)">repair or replacement of cooling, electrical, fuel, or exhaust systems;</para>
      <para num="(5)">wheel alignment, balancing, and servicing;</para>
      <para num="(6)">tire replacement, repair, or rotation;</para>
      <para num="(7)">repair, replacement, or adjustment of mufflers, tail pipes, hoses, belts, bulbs, fuses, windshield wipers, grease retainers, wheel bearings, and shock absorbers;</para>
      <para num="(8)">painting; or</para>
      <para num="(9)">another similar service.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Park, parking.">The terms “park” and “parking”, when prohibited or regulated as to vehicles:<para num="(1)">mean the standing of a vehicle, whether or not occupied; but</para>
      <para num="(2)">do not include the standing of a commercial vehicle while actually engaged in lawful, expeditious loading or unloading.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(f)" />
    <para num="(g)" heading="Pedestrian.">“Pedestrian” means any person afoot.</para>
    <para num="(h)" />
    <para num="(i)" heading="Police officer.">“Police officer” means:<para num="(1)">every officer of the municipal police department; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(j)" heading="Private way.">“Private way” means every way or place:<para num="(1)">in private ownership; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having the owner’s express or implied permission from the owner, but not by other persons.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(k)" heading="Public transportation vehicle.">“Public transportation vehicle” means any vehicle used primarily for the transportation of the general public.</para>
    <para num="(l)" heading="Railroad.">“Railroad” means a carrier of persons or property, other than streetcars, operated upon stationary rails.</para>
    <para num="(m)" heading="Railroad train.">“Railroad train” means a steam engine, electric or other motor, with or without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails, except streetcars.</para>
    <para num="(n)" heading="Residential district.">“Residential district” means the territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business district when the property on such highway for a distance of 300 feet or more is in the main improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business.</para>
    <para num="(o)" heading="Right-of-way.">“Right-of-way” means the privilege of the immediate use of the roadway.</para>
    <para num="(p)" heading="Roadway.">“Roadway” means that portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1966, art. 31, §38(18) - (32)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 31, §28(18) - (32)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 66-815</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 92-122</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 13-092</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 13-098</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-435</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-125</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
