Legal Documents of Maryville

1. "Buses" and "motor vehicles" means every self propelled device in, upon, or by which any person or property is, or may be, transported or drawn upon a highway, excluding motorized bicycles and every vehicle which is not propelled by electric power.
2. "Loading" and "unloading" means to place or store goods, wares, or merchandise into a trailer or motor vehicle, or to remove such items from said vehicle and shall for purposes of this section refer to the actual time consumed in such operation.
3. "Pole trailers" means every vehicle without motive power designed to be drawn by another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle by means of a reach, or pole, or by being boomed or otherwise secured to the towing vehicle, and ordinarily used for transporting long or irregularly shaped loads such as poles, pipes, or structural members capable, generally, of sustaining themselves as beams between the supporting connection.
4. "Refrigeration" or "refrigerated" means any unit or individual compartment for the purpose of such storage and preservation of frozen foods, commodities, or goods for human consumption or use.
5. "Residential area" means an area predominately in use for residential purposes.
6. "Roads" means streets, highways, avenues, boulevards, parkways, lanes or other ways, or any part of the public transportation system, and shall mean the entire width between boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel and passage.
7. "Semitrailers" means every vehicle without motive power and not a motor vehicle as herein defined, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property 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 another vehicle.
8. "Trailer" means every vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle, and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.
9. "Truck" means every motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.
10. "Truck tractor" means every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.

Exclusions. The provisions of subsection (2) above shall not be deemed to prohibit the lawful parking of any truck, truck tractor, trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer, bus or motor vehicle and related equipment upon any street within the corporate limits for the loading or unloading of goods, wares, materials, supplies or merchandise.

The provisions of subsection (3) above shall not be deemed to prohibit the lawful parking of refrigerated trucks, truck tractors, trailers, semitrailers, pole trailers, bus or motor vehicles with refrigeration capability or capacity upon any street or public way within the corporate limits for the loading or unloading of goods, wares, materials, supplies or merchandise.

The provisions of these subsections shall not be deemed to prohibit the parking of any truck, trailer, truck tractor, bus or motor vehicle within a designated construction or work zone on streets or public ways within the corporate limits. This provision shall be applicable only for the duration of construction within the designated construction or work zone.