“Arterial streets” means all major arterial streets and arterial streets as designated on the existing street classification map.

“City” means the city of Maricopa.

“Collector streets” means all streets designated as collector streets and minor collector streets on the existing street classification map.

“Curb loading zone” means space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials designated by the city engineer.

“Dumpster” means a large metal bin for refuse designed to be hoisted onto a specially equipped truck for emptying or hauling away.

“Local streets” means all streets that provide direct access to residential, commercial, industrial, or other abutting land and for local traffic movements, and that connect to collector or arterial streets or both.

“Motor vehicle” or “vehicle” means a wheeled vehicle that is propelled by an internal combustion engine that does not operate on rails and that is capable of carrying a passenger or passengers.

“Nonmotorized vehicle” means any trailer or other device that is not self-propelled and is designed with the intended purpose of being towed behind a vehicle.

“Official traffic control devices” means all signs, signals, parking meters, markings, and devices not inconsistent with this title, placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.

“Operator” means a person who operates or is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle.

“Oversized motor vehicle” means any motor vehicle 84 inches or more in width, excluding side mirrors, and more than 22 feet in length or a gross vehicle weight rating of 8,000 pounds or more.

“Owner” means a person who holds the legal title to a motor vehicle.

“Parade” means any march or procession consisting of people, animals or vehicles, or combination thereof, except funeral processions, upon any public street, sidewalk or alley, which does not comply with normal and usual traffic regulations or controls.

“Private emergency vehicles” means authorized emergency vehicles other than those defined by A.R.S. § 28-101, and including private ambulances, private escort vehicles of funeral and other processions, emergency vehicles of public service corporations, and such others as may be designated by the city council. All traffic laws and ordinances are applicable to such private emergency vehicles when they are not proceeding under an emergency situation.

“Procession” means an orderly file of six or more vehicles with suitable escort, such escort being approved by the chief of the police department.

“Rights-of-way” means all property used as a public thoroughfare and lying between the exterior boundary lines of any area granted to or received by the city by grant, gift, easement, deed, dedications or operations of law for street, alley, walk or utility purposes.

“Sidewalk” means 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.

“Stand” or “standing” means the halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, other than for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.

“Stop or stopping, when prohibited” means 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.

“Stop or stopping, when required” means the complete cessation from movement of a vehicle.

“Street classification map” means the street classification map in the form as last adopted and amended by the city council.

“Tank semi-trailer” means a vehicle designed for transporting flammable liquids and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that some part of its weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by the towing vehicle.

“Tank trailer” means a vehicle without motive power designed for transporting flammable liquids and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.

“Tank truck” means a truck having a tank for the transportation of flammable liquids.

“Temporary storage unit” means a transportable, nonmotorized unit designed and used primarily for temporary storage of building materials (before they are utilized for building purposes), household goods, and other such materials for use on a limited basis on residential property. [Code 2004 § 12-2.]