Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 300

Model Traffic Ordinance

←300.600

Section 300.010.1

300.015→

August 28, 2015

Definitions.

300.010. The following words and phrases when used in this ordinance mean:



(1) "Alley" or "alleyway", any street with a roadway of less than twenty

feet in width;



(2) "All-terrain vehicle", any motorized vehicle manufactured and used

exclusively for off-highway use which is fifty inches or less in width, with

an unladen dry weight of six hundred pounds or less, traveling on three, four

or more low pressure tires, with a seat designed to be straddled by the

operator, and handlebars for steering control;



(3) "Authorized emergency vehicle", a vehicle publicly owned and operated

as an ambulance, or a vehicle publicly owned and operated by the state

highway patrol, police or fire department, sheriff or constable or deputy

sheriff, traffic officer or any privately owned vehicle operated as an

ambulance when responding to emergency calls;



(4) "Business district", the territory contiguous to and including a

highway when within any six hundred feet along the highway there are

buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, including but not

limited to hotels, banks, or office buildings, railroad stations and public

buildings which occupy at least three hundred feet of frontage on one side or

three hundred feet collectively on both sides of the highway;



(5) "Central business (or traffic) district", all streets and portions of

streets within the area described by city ordinance as such;



(6) "Commercial vehicle", every vehicle designed, maintained, or used

primarily for the transportation of property;



(7) "Controlled access highway", every highway, street or roadway in

respect to which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have

no legal right of access to or from the same except at such points only and

in such manner as may be determined by the public authority having

jurisdiction over the highway, street or roadway;



(8) "Crosswalk",



(a) That part of a roadway at an intersection included within the

connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the

highway measured from the curbs, or in the absence of curbs from the edges of

the traversable roadway;



(b) Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly

indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface;



(9) "Curb loading zone", a space adjacent to a curb reserved for the

exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or

materials;



(10) "Driver", every person who drives or is in actual physical control

of a vehicle;



(11) "Freight curb loading zone", a space adjacent to a curb for the

exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of freight (or

passengers);



(12) "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;



(13) "Intersection",



(a) 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 two highways which join one another at, or approximately at,

right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different

highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict;



(b) Where a highway includes two roadways thirty feet or more apart, then

every crossing of each roadway of such divided highway by an intersecting

highway shall be regarded as a separate intersection. In the event such

intersecting highway also includes two roadways thirty feet or more apart,

then every crossing of two roadways of such highways shall be regarded as a

separate intersection;



(14) "Laned roadway", a roadway which is divided into two or more clearly

marked lanes for vehicular traffic;



(15) "Motor vehicle", any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively

upon tracks, except farm tractors and motorized bicycles;



(16) "Motorcycle", every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the

use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in

contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor;



(17) "Motorized bicycle", any two-wheeled or three-wheeled device having

an automatic transmission and a motor with a cylinder capacity of not more

than fifty cubic centimeters, which produces less than three gross brake

horsepower, and is capable of propelling the device at a maximum speed of not

more than thirty miles per hour on level ground;



(18) "Official time standard", whenever certain hours are named herein

they shall mean standard time or daylight-saving time as may be in current

use in the city;



(19) "Official traffic control devices", all signs, signals, markings and

devices not inconsistent with this ordinance placed or erected by authority

of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of

regulating, warning or guiding traffic;



(20) "Park" or "parking", the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or

not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged

in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers;



(21) "Passenger curb loading zone", a place adjacent to a curb reserved

for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of

passengers;



(22) "Pedestrian", any person afoot;



(23) "Person", every natural person, firm, copartnership, association or

corporation;



(24) "Police officer", every officer of the municipal police department

or any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests

for violations of traffic regulations;



(25) "Private road" or "driveway", every way or place in private

ownership and used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having express

or implied permission from the owner, but not by other persons;



(26) "Railroad", a carrier of persons or property upon cars, other than

streetcars, operated upon stationary rails;



(27) "Railroad train", a steam engine, electric or other motor, with or

without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails, except streetcars;



(28) "Residence district", the territory contiguous to and including a

highway not comprising a business district when the property on such highway

for a distance of three hundred feet or more is in the main improved with

residences or residences and buildings in use for business;



(29) "Right-of-way", the right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in

a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian approaching

under such circumstances of direction, speed and proximity as to give rise to

danger of collision unless one grants precedence to the other;



(30) "Roadway", that portion of a highway improved, designed or

ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. In

the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways the term "roadway"

as used herein shall refer to any such roadway separately but not to all such

roadways collectively;



(31) "Safety zone", the area or space officially set apart within a

roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and 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;



(32) "Sidewalk", that portion of a street between the curb lines, or the

lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for use

of pedestrians;



(33) "Stand" or "standing", the halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or

not, otherwise than for the purpose of and while actually engaged in

receiving or discharging passengers;



(34) "Stop", when required, complete cessation from movement;



(35) "Stop" or "stopping", when prohibited, any halting even momentarily

of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid

conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police

officer or traffic control sign or signal;



(36) "Street" or "highway", the entire width between the lines of every

way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the uses of the

public for purposes of vehicular travel. "State highway", a highway

maintained by the state of Missouri as a part of the state highway system;



(37) "Through highway", every highway or portion thereof on which

vehicular traffic is given preferential rights-of-way, and at the entrances

to which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is required by law to

yield rights-of-way to vehicles on such through highway in obedience to

either a stop sign or a yield sign, when such signs are erected as provided

in this ordinance;



(38) "Traffic", pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles,

streetcars and other conveyances either singly or together while using any

highway for purposes of travel;



(39) "Traffic control signal", any device, whether manually, electrically

or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop

and to proceed;



(40) "Traffic division", the traffic division of the police department of

the city, or in the event a traffic division is not established, then said

term whenever used herein shall be deemed to refer to the police department

of the city;



(41) "Vehicle", any mechanical device on wheels, designed primarily for

use, or used, on highways, except motorized bicycles, vehicles propelled or

drawn by horses or human power, or vehicles used exclusively on fixed rails

or tracks, cotton trailers or motorized wheelchairs operated by handicapped

persons.



(L. 1965 p. 445 § 1, A.L. 1980 H.B. 995 & 1051, A.L.

1988 H.B. 990)



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