34-10 Amend Title One, Administration of the Traffic Code

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(ORC 4511.01(00)) 301.315 RIDESHARING ARRANGEMENT. "Ridesharing arrangement" means the transportation of persons in a motor vehicle where such transportation is incidental to another purpose of a volunteer driver and includes ridesharing arrangements known as carpools, vanpools, and buspools.. 301.32 RIGHT OF WAY. "Right of way" means either of the following, as the context requires: (a) The right of a vehicle or pedestrian to proceed uninterruptedly in a lawful manner in the direction in which it or the individual is moving in preference to another vehicle orpedestrian approaching from a different direction into its or the individual s path; (b) A general term denoting land, property or the interest therein, usually in the configuration of a strip, acquired for or devoted to transportation purposes. When used in this context, right of way includes the roadway, shoulders or berm, ditch, and slopes extending to the right-of-way limits under the control of the State or local authority. (ORC 4511.01(UU)) 301.321 ROAD SERVICE VEHICLE. "Road service vehicle" means wreckers, utility repair vehicles, and state, county, and municipal service vehicles equippped with visual signals by means of flashing, rotating, or oscillating lights. (ORC 4511.01(JJJ)) 301.33 ROADWAY. "Roadway" means that portion of a street or highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, except the berm or shoulder. If a street or highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term "roadway" means any such roadway separately but not all such roadways collectively. (ORC 4511.01(EE)) 301.34 SAFETY ZONE. "Safety zone" means the area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and protected or marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times. (ORC 4511.01(MM)) 301.35 SCHOOL BUS. "School bus" means every bus designed for carrying more than nine .passengers that is owned by a public, private or governmental agency or institution of learning and operated for the transportation of children to or from a school session or a school function, or owned by a private person and operated for compensation for the transportation of children to or from a school session or a school function; provided school bus does not include a bus operated by a municipally owned transportation system, a mass transit company operating exclusively within the territorial limits of the Municipality, or within such limits and the territorial limits of municipal corporations immediately contiguous to the Municipality, nor a common passenger carrier certified by the Public Utilities Commission unless such bus is devoted exclusively to the transportation of children to and from a school session or a school function and "school bus" does not include a van or bus used by a licensed child day-care center or type A family day-care home to transport children from the child day-care center or type A family day-care home to a school if the van or bus does not have more than fifteen children in the van or bus at any time. "Child day-care center" and "type A family day- care home" have the same mearnngs as in Ohio R.C. 5104.01. (ORC 4511.01(F), (FFF)) 17