Ottawa By-law 2017-301, s. 1(6) — Traffic and Parking By-law

passengers, plus the driver, that has a validly issued taxi license and that is intended to be used or is actually used for hire for the purpose of transporting a person for compensation and includes an accessible taxicab and a standard taxicab, but does not include a limousine or a Private Transportation Company

• (PTC) Vehicle, as defined by the Vehicle-for-Hire By-law; “taxi zone” means a part of a highway designated as an exclusive stopping area for taxicabs at which passengers board or exit taxicabs; “tour bus” means a bus with the name and address of its operator or owner plainly displayed in letters and figures not less than five (5) centimetres in height in a conspicuous place on both sides of the vehicle, but does not include

a public transit motor vehicle or a shuttle bus service; “traffic” includes pedestrians, animals which are ridden, led or herded, vehicles, and other conveyances either singly or together while using a highway for the purposes of travel; “traffic control device” means any sign, signal or other roadway, curb, or sidewalk marking, or any other device erected or placed under the authority of this by-law for the purpose of warning, regulating, guiding or directing traffic; “traffic control signal” means any device operated manually, electrically, mechanically or electronically for the regulation or control of traffic; “traffic, one-way” means movement by vehicles upon a highway in one direction only; “trailer” means a vehicle that is at any time drawn upon a highway by a motor vehicle, except an implement of husbandry, a mobile home, another motor vehicle, or any device or apparatus not designed to transport persons or property, temporarily drawn, propelled or moved upon such highway, and

except a side car attached to a motorcycle, and shall be considered a separate vehicle and not part of the motor vehicle by which it is drawn; “transit only facility” means the entire area between the boundary lines which are owned, leased, or otherwise used including the roads, bridges, transit terminals, and other appurtenances designed and intended for, or primarily used by, the City for its transit service; “truck route” means a truck route established by Section 54 of this by-law; “U-turn” means the turning of a vehicle within the highway so as to proceed in the opposite direction to that in which the vehicle was travelling immediately prior to making the turn; “van” means,

• (a) a vehicle equipped with a ramp, power lift or any other special device to assist a driver with a disability or passenger with a disability in entering and leaving a vehicle; or
• (b) an “accessible urban transit bus” or an “accessible vehicle”, as defined in R.R.O. 1990, Regulation 629 to the Highway Traffic Act; “vehicle” includes a motor vehicle, trailer, traction engine, farm tractor, road- building machine, bicycle and any vehicle drawn, propelled or driven by any kind of power, including muscular power, but does not include a motorized snow vehicle or a street car; “wheelchair” means a chair mounted on wheels or other remedial appliance or device, driven by muscular or any other kind of power that is designed for and used by a person whose mobility is limited by one or more conditions or functional impairments, but does not include a motor vehicle. INTERPRETATION