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TITLE III.  TRAFFIC CODE

 

CHAPTER 300:  GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

 

SECTION 300.010:     MODEL TRAFFIC CODE─ADOPTION AND EXCEPTIONS

 

Chapter 300, RSMo., consisting of Sections 300.010 through 300.600, as amended, commonly known as the "Model Traffic Ordinance" is hereby adopted as and for the traffic ordinance of this City with the exception of the following Sections:  300.010(40), 300.015, 300.020, 300.035, 300.070, 300.105.1(2) and 300.550.  All references to Traffic Division in the Model Traffic Ordinance are changed to read Police Department. All references to street cars have been deleted.

 

 

SECTION 300.020:     DEFINITIONS

 

The following words and phrases when used in this Title mean:

 

ALLEY OR ALLEYWAY:  Any street with a roadway of less than twenty (20) feet in width.

 

ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE:  Any motorized vehicle manufactured and used exclusively for off-highway use which is fifty (50) inches or less in width, with an unladen dry weight of six hundred (600) pounds or less, traveling on three (3), four (4) or more low pressure tires, with a seat designed to be straddled by the operator, and handlebars for steering control.

 

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, Constable or Deputy Sheriff, Traffic Officer, or any privately owned vehicle operated as an ambulance when responding to emergency calls.

 

BUSINESS DISTRICT:  The territory contiguous to and including a high­way when within any six hundred (600) 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 (300) feet of frontage on one (1) side or three hundred (300) feet collectively on both sides of the highway.

 

CENTRAL BUSINESS (OR TRAFFIC) DISTRICT:  All streets and portions of streets within the area described by City ordinance as such.

 

COMMERCIAL VEHICLE:  Every vehicle designed, maintained, or used primarily for the transportation of property.

 

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.

§ 300.020                                                       La Plata City Code                                            § 300.020

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CROSSWALK:

 

1.     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.

 

2.     Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.