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ORDINANCE NO. 4830 BY ~v~. Vickery
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<br /> AN ORDINANCE providing for the regulation of traffic; the use of streets and
<br />~idewalks; creating and defining parking meter zones; providing for the designation
<br />of individual parking spaces; defining and providing for the installation, operation
<br />and maintenance of parking meters; prescribing parking time limits; requiring deposit
<br />of coins for the use of parking meters and parking meter zones, and providing for the
<br />collection end disposition of such coins; defining offenses, prescribing penalties and
<br />providing for the enforcement thereof; and repealing Ordinances 4060, 4074, 1!)!~!0, 4~54,
<br />4471, ~474, 4500, 4565, 4629, 4637, 4643, 4695, 4697, 4756, 4774, 4775, and all other
<br />ordinances or parts of erdinances inconsistent herewith.
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<br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF IAKEWOOD, STATE OF 8HIO:
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<br /> Section lo This ordinance shall be known and cited as the Traffic Ordinance°
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<br /> Section 2. The folloWing words and phrases when used in this ordinance, unless
<br />otherwise provided, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this
<br />section.
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<br /> Agricultural Tractor, Every self-propelled vehicle designed or used for drawing
<br />other vehicles or wheeled machinery but having no provision for carrying loads inde-
<br />pendently of such other vehicles, and used principally for agricultural purposeso
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<br /> Bicycle. A two-wheel vehicle, propelled by human power, having a tandem arrange-
<br />ment of wheels equipped with tires either of which is over twenty inches in diameter.
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<br /> Bus. Every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than nine passengers and
<br />used for the transportation of persons; and every motor vehicle, auto-for-hire or fun-
<br />eral car, other than a taxicab, designed and used for the transportation of persons
<br />for compensation.
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<br /> Business District, The territory fronting upon a street, including the street,
<br />between successive intersections where 50 per cent or more of the frontage between
<br />such successive intersections is occupied by buildings in use for business, or where
<br />50 per cent or more of the frontage for a distance of 300 feet or more is occupied
<br />by buildings in use for business and the said character of such territory is indi-
<br />cated by official traffic control devices.
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<br /> Commercial Tractor, Every motor vehicle having motive power designed or used for
<br />draWing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon, or designed
<br />or used for drawing other vehicles while carrying a portion of.such other vehicle or
<br />vehicles, or the load thereon, or botho
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<br /> Crosswalk. (a) That part of a roadway at an intersection included within the
<br />connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway
<br />measured from the curbs, or in the absence of curbs from the edges of the traversable
<br />roadway.
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<br /> (b) Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere, distinctly indi-
<br />cated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
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<br /> Director. The Director of Public Safety of Lakewood, Ohio°
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<br /> Driver or Operator. Every person who drives or is in actual physical control
<br />of a vehicle, trackless trolley or street car.
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<br /> Emergency Vehicleo Fire department, police and state highway patrol vehicles,
<br />vehicles of salvage corporations organized under Sections 9873 to 9879, both inclusive,
<br />of the General Code, and emergency vehicles of municipal or countydepartments or pub-
<br />lic utility corporations~ when identified as such as required by law or the Director,
<br />and motor vehicles when commandeered by a police officer, ambulances, and motor ve-
<br />hicles when used by firemen responding to emergency calls in the Fire Department
<br />service. '
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<br /> Explosives, The term ,.explosive" or "explosives" whenever used in this ordin-
<br />ance shall be held to mean and include any chemical compound or mechanical mixture
<br />that is intended for the purpose of producing an explosion, that contains ar~ oxidiz-
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