Burlington : Règlement no 086-2007, art. 1 — DEFINITIONS For the purposes of this by-law, the following definitions shall apply

DEFINITIONS For the purposes of this by-law, the following definitions shall apply:

• "authorized emergency vehicle" means a fire department vehicle, a police vehicle or an ambulance; "authorized sign" means any traffic control deyice or traffic signal placed or erected on a highway under the authority of this by-law for tJie purpose ofregulating, warning or guiding traffic and includes such signs as described in the Highway Traffic Act; "authorized traffic control device", "authorized traffic signal" and "authorized intersection pedestrian signal" means the same as authorized sign; ''bicycle" includes a tricycle and unicycle but does not include a motor assisted bicycle; "bicycle route" means that part of the highway, designated by an authorized sign, for the exclusive use of muscular powered vehicles including wheelchairs; "blading" means the practice of skating on wheels, refers to roller skating, roller blading, in- line skating and other such methods of muscular power self propulsion; "boulevard" means that part of the highway situated between the curb line and the property line of the lot abutting the highway, but does not include a sidewalk or shoulder; but does include any center median strip or island separating two (2) roadways; "bus stop" means an area marked by one or more signs indicating such area to be for the sole use of transit vehicles taking on or discharging passengers; "Chief of Police" means the Chief of Police for the Halton Regional Police Service or designate; THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF BURLINGTON TR.\.FFIC BY-LAW 86-2007 "coasting" means the permanent or intermittent practice of riding without muscular power, allowing continuation of movement through gravity or momentum; "combined facility" means that portion of a highway between the curb lines and the prope1ty lines of the lot abutting the highway, intended for the use of pedestrians and muscular powered vehicles including wheelchairs; "commercial motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle having permanently attached thereto a truck or delivery body and operating with a valid commercial license plate and includes ambulances, hearses, casket wagons, fire apparatus, buses and tractors used for hauling purposes on the highways; ''corner" means the point of intersection of curb lines; "Council" means the Council of The Corporation of the City of Burlington; "crosswalk'' means:
• a) that part of a highway at an intersection that is 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 roadway, or
• b) any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by signs or by lines or other markings on the surface; "cul-de-sac" means a highway terminating in a tum-around; "curb line" means,
• a) where a curb has been constructed the line of the curb or,
• b) where no curb has been constructed the edge of the roadway; "Director" means the Director of Transit and Traffic of the City of Burlington or designate; ''driver" means a person who drives a vehicle on a highway; "driveway" means improved land, which provides vehicular access to and from a highway to adjacent land; "enforcement officer" means a member of the Halton Regional Police Service or a person authorized to enforce The Highway Traffic Act or The Provincial Offences Act; "farm tractor" means a self-propelled vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing ploughs, mO\ving-machines and other implements of husbandry and not designed or used for carrying a load; THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC BY-LAW 86-2007 "Fire Chief' means the Fire Chief for the City of Burlington Fire Department or designate; "gross weight" means the combined weight of vehicle and load; "heavy vehicle" means any commercial motor vehicle having a registered gross weight in excess of four thousand, five hundred ( 4,500) kilograms, but does not include ambulances, buses, fire apparatus, or vehicles owned by or operated for the Corporation of the City of Burlington, Regional Municipality of Halton, the Ministry of Transportation (Ontario), or any utility vehicle; "highway" means a common and public highway, street, avenue, parkway, lane, alley, driveway, square, place, bridge, viaduct, or trestle, any part of which is intended for or used by the general public for the passage of vehicles and includes the area between the lateral property lines thereof; "intersection" means the area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines or, if none, then of the lateral boundary lines of two or more highways that join one another at an angle, whether or not one highway crosses the other;_. "island rr means a portion of a highway so constructed or designed as to separate or direct vehicJJlar traffic onto specific portions of the highway; "local board" means a municipal service board, transportation commission, public library board, board of health, police services board, planning board, or any other board, commission, committee, body or local authority established or exercising any power under any Act with respect to the affairs or purposes of one or more municipalities, excluding a school board and a conservation authority; "median strip" means the portion of a highway so constructed as to separate traffic traveling in one direction from traffic traveling in the opposite direction by a physical barrier or an unpaved strip of ground; "motor vehicle" means an automobile, motorcycle, motor assisted bicycle, unless otherwise indicated in the Highway Traffic Act, and any other vehicle propelled or driven otherwise than by muscular power, but does not include a street car, or other motor vehicles running only upon rails, or a motorized snow vehicle, traction engine, farm tractor, self-propelled implement of husbandry or road-building machine within the meaning of the Highway Traffic Act; "Municipality" means the Corporation of the City of Burlington; "one way street" means a highway upon which the movement of vehicular traffic is designated by this by-law for movement in one direction only; "pedestrian" means a person on foot, in a wheelchair or, in or on a play vehicle, but shall not include a person on a bicycle; THE CORPORl\TION OF THE CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC BY-LAW 86-2007 "pedestrian crossover" means any portion of a roadway designated by by-law of the Municipality, at an intersection or elsewhere, distinctly marked for pedestrian crossing by signs on the highway and lines or other markings on the surface of the roadway as prescribed by regulations pursuant to the Highway Traffic Act; "Police Officer" means a member of the Halton Regional Police Service or a person authorized by the Chief of Police to regulate or direct traffic; "road service vehicle" means a vehicle operated by or on behalf of a municipality or other authority having jurisdiction and control of a highway while the vehicle is being used for highway maintenance purposes; "roadway" means the part of a highway that is improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic, but does not include the shoulder and where a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term "roadway" means each roadway separately and does not mean all of the road ways collectively; "shoulder" means that part of the highway lying adjacent to the roadway where there is no barrier curb, and which is improved with granular or paved surface which extends from the roadway for a maximum distance of three (3) meters; '.,; "sidewalk" means that portion of a highway between the curb line and the property linr of the lot abutting the highway and which is intended for the use of pedestrians; "stop" or "stopping" means the halting of a vehicle, even momentarily, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police officer, traffic control device or traffic signal; "street" means a highway; "through highway" means a highway or part of a highway designated as such by this by-law, and every highway intersecting with such highway shall be marked by a stop sign or yield right-of-way sign in compliance with this by-law and regulations pursuant to the Highway Traffic Act; "traffic" includes vehicles, pedestrians, animals which are ridden, herded or led, motorized snow vehicles and other conveyances, either singly or together, while on any highway; "traffic control device" means any sign or other device on a highway for the purpose of prohibiting, regulating or directing traffic and includes roadway, curb and sidewalk markings; "traffic signal" or "intersection pedestrian signal" means any device, manually, electrically or mechanically operated for the regulation of traffic; "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 THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC BY-LAW 86-2007 such highway, and except for 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; "u-turn" means to turn a vehicle within a highway so as to proceed in the opposite direction to that which the vehicle was traveling immediately prior to making the tum; "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 driven by muscular or any other kind of power and used for the carriage of a person who is physically challenged;