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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 1-3 Definitions — S to Z.">
  <section prefix="§" num="1-3" heading="Definitions — S to Z.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Safety zone.">“Safety zone” means the area or space:<para num="(1)">officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">which is protected or is so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="School bus.">“School bus” means any vehicle in use as a conveyance for students to or from a public, private, or parochial school, marked and equipped as specified in the Maryland Vehicle Law.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Sidewalk.">“Sidewalk” means any paved footway.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Stand; standing.">“Stand” or “standing” means to occupy or remain in 1 place.</para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Stop; stopping or stand; standing.">
      <para num="(1)">The terms “stop” and “stopping” or “stand” and “standing”, when prohibited as to vehicles, refer to any stopping of a vehicle, whether or not occupied, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic control device.</para>
      <para num="(2)">Public transportation vehicles shall be permitted to load passengers, when said passengers are at the curb and ready for immediate loading.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Street.">“Street” means a highway, as defined in &lt;cite data-doc="City of Balt., Md., Ord. 26-107" data-path="|31|§1-1|(n)"&gt;§ 1-1(n) {“Definitions: Highway”}&lt;/cite&gt; of this subtitle.</para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Taxicab.">The term “taxicab” as used in &lt;cite data-doc="City of Balt., Md., Ord. 26-107" data-path="|31"&gt;this article&lt;/cite&gt; shall embrace any motor vehicle for hire, designed to carry 9 persons or less, including driver, operated upon any public street or highway in this City or, on call or demand, accepting or soliciting passengers, indiscriminately for transportation for hire between such points along public streets or highways in this City, as may be directed by the passenger or passengers so being transported.</para>
    <para num="(h)" heading="Traffic.">“Traffic” means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars, and any other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for purposes of travel.</para>
    <para num="(i)" heading="Traffic control device.">“Traffic control device” means any official device that controls or directs the movement of traffic.</para>
    <para num="(j)" heading="Traffic control signal.">“Traffic control signal” means any traffic control device, whether manually, electrically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to proceed.</para>
    <para num="(k)" heading="Trailer.">“Trailer” means a vehicle that:<para num="(1)">has no motive power;</para>
      <para num="(2)">is designed to carry people or property;</para>
      <para num="(3)">is designed to be towed by a motor vehicle; and</para>
      <para num="(4)">is constructed so that no part of its weight rests on the towing vehicle.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(l)" heading="Transit loading zone.">“Transit loading zone” means a space at a curb or any other place properly designated by official signs or markings, reserved for the use of transit vehicles.</para>
    <para num="(m)" heading="Transit mall.">A “transit mall” is a street so designated by the Director upon which vehicular traffic, other than transit vehicles, is prohibited during certain hours by rule or regulation adopted and promulgated by the Director.</para>
    <para num="(n)" heading="Transit stop.">“Transit stop” means a transit loading zone.</para>
    <para num="(o)" heading="Transit vehicle.">“Transit vehicle” means any mass transportation vehicle.</para>
    <para num="(p)" heading="Truck.">“Truck” means any commercial vehicle.</para>
    <para num="(q)" heading="“U” turn.">
      <para num="(1)">“‘U’ turn” where prohibited means the reversal of the direction of travel by a vehicle without leaving the roadway upon which it is proceeding.</para>
      <para num="(2)">Any person making a “U” turn shall also be presumed to have made a left turn.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(r)" heading="Vehicle.">“Vehicle” means every device in, on, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn on a highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively on stationary rails or tracks.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1966, art. 31, §38(33) - (38)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 31, §28(33) - (48)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 66-815</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 73-428</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 84-107</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 13-092</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-435</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-125</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
