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( -.."444%,„6„ ar „ 4 41, ORDINANCE 140 / qa Y4,7**f tar 1-4,Ne 4t4i• AN ORDINANCE relating to and regulating traffic, travel, transportation and pedestrians and their incidents upon the streets, alleys and public ways of Everett, a municipal corporation; prescribing the rules of road for vehicular, pedestrian and other traffic upon such streets, alleys and public ways ; prescribing the powers and duties of the officers and other persons in relation thereto; defining offenses, providing penalties, adopting certain portions of the motor vehicle laws of the State of \Jiashin„ton and existing amendments thereto; and repealing ordinance numbers : 2318, 2734, 150, 2348, 2522, and 2612, all relating to Graffic. THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: CHAPTER I Section 1: The words and phrases herein used for the purpose of this ordinance hhall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, except in those instances &here the context clearly indicates a different meaning. (1) ALLEY: A public highway within the ordinary mean- ing of alley not designed for general travel and primarily used as a means of access to the rear of residences and business establish- ments. (2) ARTERIAL HIGHAY: A main traveled thoroughfare upon which vehicles are accorded the right-of-way designated an arterial highway according to law, ona indicated by posts, signs, or other markers directing that vehicles approaching on intersecting highways stop before entering thereon. (3) AUTHORIZED mhimhGEJCY VEHICLE: Any vehicle, as herein defined, of any fire department, police department, Sheriff ' s office, coroner, prosecuting attorney, lAashington state patrol, ambulance service, public or private, or any other vehicle authorized in writing by the state commission on equipment. (4) BICYCLE: mvery vehicle, as herein defined, having a sadale for the use of the rider, operated by human power, and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding a farm tractor. (5) BUS ZONE: A designated portion of the street along the curb reserved far loading and unloading busses providing regular bus service within the aity of hverett. (6) BUSINESS DISTRICT: The territory contiguous to and including the public highway, as herein defined, when fifty percent (50A or more of the frontage thereon on either side thereof for a distance of three hundred (300) feet or more is occupied by buildings in use for business. (7) CENTER LINE: The line, marked or unmarked, parallel to and equidistant from the sides of the roadway of a public highway. -1- )