§ 74-1. Definitions.
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Bicycle means every device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride and designed to travel on two tandem wheels.
Boulevard means a street divided by a grass plot or a parkway with a traffic roadway on either side thereof.
Bus means every motor propelled vehicle designed for carrying more than ten persons other than a taxicab constructed and designed for transporting persons for commercial purposes.
Emergency vehicle means a vehicle of the police department, fire department, an ambulance, or any emergency vehicle of the public service departments of the city, parish or state.
Intersection means:
(1)
The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curblines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two highways which join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict.
(2)
Where a highway includes two highways 30 feet or more apart, then every crossing of each highway of such divided highway by an intersecting highway shall be regarded as a separate intersection. If such intersecting highway also includes two highways 30 feet or more apart, then every crossing of two highways of such highways shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
(3)
The junction of an alley with a street or highway shall not constitute an intersection.
Motor-driven cycle means every motorcycle, including every motor scooter, with a motor of not to exceed five horsepower.
Motor vehicle means every vehicle which is self-propelled, and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails, but excluding a motorized bicycle.
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.
Right-of-way means the privilege of the immediate use of the highway.
Street means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way or place of whatever nature publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for the purpose of vehicular travel, including bridges, causeways, tunnels and ferries. The word "street" is synonymous with the word "highway."
Taxicab means a passenger-carrying motor vehicle, other than a bus, used for transporting passengers for hire.
Traffic stop means a stop in obedience to traffic regulations, traffic signs, signals, signal lights or instructions of officers.
Trailer means every single vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property or passengers wholly on its own structure, drawn by a motor vehicle which carries no part of the weight and load of the trailer on its own wheels and having two or more load carrying axles.
Truck means every motor propelled single vehicle for the conveyance of property or things for hauling purposes and having one front steering axle and one rear or load carrying axle.
Vehicle means every device by which persons or things may be transported upon a public highway or bridge, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. A bicycle or a ridden animal shall be a vehicle, and a trailer or semitrailer shall be a separate vehicle.
(Code 1958, §§ 4A-1, 16-1)