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

B. “Freight curb loading zone” means a space adjacent to a curb for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of freight.

C. Official Time Standard. Whenever certain hours are named in this chapter, they mean standard time or daylight savings time as may be in current use in this city.

D. “Park” or “parking” means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.

E. “Passenger curb loading zone” means a place adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.

F. “Police officer” means every officer of the municipal police department of the city or any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of the traffic regulations of the city.

G. “Right-of-way” means the right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian approaching under such circumstances of direction, speed and proximity as to give rise to danger of collision unless one grants precedence to the other.

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

I. “Stop,” when required, means complete cessation of movement.

J. “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. (Ord. 5212 § 1 (Exh. E), 1999; 1957 code § 9.04.020.)