Traffic Code - Definitions Flashcards
means the portion of a highway that is: (A) adjacent to the roadway; (B) designed or ordinarily used for parking; (C) distinguished from the roadway by different design, construction, or marking; and (D) not intended for normal vehicular travel.
“Shoulder”
”” means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, and conveyances, including vehicles and streetcars, singly or together while using a highway for the purposes of travel.
traffic
(J) a vehicle used for law enforcement purposes that is owned or leased by a federal governmental entity;
Authorized emergency vehicle
(B) a motor vehicle, other than a taxicab, designed and used to transport persons for compensation.
Bus = Party Bus
“____” means a bicycle that:
(A) is designed to be propelled by an electric motor, exclusively or in combination with the application of human power;
(B) cannot attain a speed of more than 20 mph without the application of human power; and (C) does not exceed a weight of 100 pounds.
Electric bicycle
“______” means a motor vehicle, other than a tractor, that is equipped with a rider’s saddle and designed to have when propelled not more than three wheels on the ground.
Motorcycle
means the portion of a highway, other than the berm or shoulder, that is improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel. If a highway includes at least two separate roadways, the term applies to each roadway separately.
“Roadway”
(D) a municipal department or public service corporation emergency vehicle that has been designated or authorized by the governing body of a municipality;
Authorized emergency vehicle
(C) an emergency medical services vehicle: (ii) operating under a contract with an emergency services district that requires the emergency medical services provider to respond to emergency calls with the vehicle;
Authorized emergency vehicle
” means: (A) a vehicle, other than a passenger car or truck, that is designed and adapted for use as a farm implement, machinery, or tool for tilling the soil; (B) a towed vehicle that transports to the field and spreads fertilizer or agricultural chemicals; or (C) a motor vehicle designed and adapted to deliver feed to livestock.
Implement of husbandry
“_____ “ means a bus designed to accommodate more than 15 passengers, including the operator, that is owned, operated, rented, or leased by a school district, county school, open-enrollment charter school, regional education service center, or shared services arrangement and that is used to transport public school students on a school-related activity trip, other than on routes to and from school.
The term does not include a chartered bus, a bus operated by a mass transit authority, a school bus, or a multifunction school activity bus.
School activity bus
Hint: a bunch of active 15-year olds are on going on a school trip
” means, as used in reference to a vehicle, a person who drives or has physical control of a vehicle.
“Operator
” means a freeway lane having an uninterrupted flow of through traffic.
Freeway main lane
”” means a trailer or semitrailer, other than a towable recreational vehicle, that: (A) is transportable on a highway in one or more sections; (B) is less than 45 feet in length, excluding tow bar, while in the traveling mode; (C) is built on a permanent chassis; (D) is designed to be used as a dwelling or for commercial purposes if connected to required utilities; and (E) includes plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems.
House trailer
” means a responsible person who is at least 18 years of age and is designated by a local authority to direct traffic in a school crossing zone for the protection of children going to or leaving a school.
School crossing guard
means a highway or roadway to which: (A) persons, including owners or occupants of abutting real property, have no right of access; and (B) access by persons to enter or exit the highway or roadway is restricted under law except at a place and in the manner determined by the authority that has jurisdiction over the highway or roadway.
“Limited-access or controlled-access highway”
means the public safety director
“Director
” means an individual, firm, partnership, association, or corporation. TC 643.001
Persons and Governmental Authorities.
Person
” means: (A) the portion of a roadway, including an intersection, designated as a pedestrian crossing by surface markings, including lines; or (B) the portion of a roadway at an intersection that is 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 traversable roadway.
“Crosswalk
” means a truck, including a pickup truck, panel delivery truck, or carryall truck, that has a manufacturer’s rated carrying capacity of 2,000 pounds or less.
Light truck
” means the period beginning one-half hour after sunset and ending one-half hour before sunrise.
Nighttime
” means a motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, used to transport persons and designed to accommodate 10 or fewer passengers, including the operator.
Passenger car
” means a nonmotorized vehicle that: (A) is designed: (i) to be towable by a motor vehicle; and (ii) for temporary human habitation for uses including recreational camping or seasonal use; (B) is permanently built on a single chassis; (C) may contain one or more life-support systems; and (D) may be used permanently or temporarily for advertising, selling, displaying, or promoting merchandise or services, but is not used for transporting property for hire or for distribution by a private carrier.
Towable recreational vehicle
means: (A) the person who holds legal title to a motor vehicle; (B) the purchaser or lessee of a motor vehicle subject to an agreement for the conditional sale or lease of the vehicle, if the person has: (i) the right to purchase the vehicle on performing conditions stated in the agreement; and (ii) an immediate right to possess the vehicle; or (C) a mortgagor of a motor vehicle who is entitled to possession of the vehicle.
“Owner”
means a motor vehicle that was manufactured in compliance with the federal motor vehicle safety standards for school buses in effect on the date of manufacture other than the standards requiring the bus to display alternately flashing red lights and to be equipped with movable stop arms, and that is used to transport preprimary, primary, or secondary students on a school-related activity trip other than on routes to and from school. The term does not include a school bus, a school activity bus, a school-chartered bus, or a bus operated by a mass transit authority.
Multifunction school activity bus”
” means the territory, other than a business district, adjacent to and including a highway, if at least 300 feet of the highway frontage is primarily improved with: (A) residences; or (B) buildings used for business purposes and residences.
Residence district
means a motor vehicle designed and used to draw another vehicle but not constructed to carry a load independently or a part of the weight of the other vehicle or its load.
Road tractor”
” means a divided, controlled-access highway for through traffic.
Freeway
” means the weight of a vehicle and the weight of its load.
Gross vehicle weight
” means the portion of a street that is: (A) between a curb or lateral line of a roadway and the adjacent property line; and (B) intended for pedestrian use.
Sidewalk
” means a vehicle that is not designed or used primarily to transport persons or property and that is only incidentally operated on a highway. The term: (A) includes ditchdigging apparatus, well boring apparatus, and road construction and maintenance machinery, including an asphalt spreader, bituminous mixer, bucket loader, tractor other than a truck tractor, ditcher, levelling grader, finishing machine, motor grader, road roller, scarifier, earth-moving carryall and scraper, power shovel or dragline, or self-propelled crane and earth-moving equipment; and (B) excludes a vehicle that is designed to transport persons or property and that has machinery attached, including a house trailer, dump truck, truck-mounted transit mixer, crane, and shovel.
Special mobile equipment
” means a liquid that has a flash point of not more than 70 degrees Fahrenheit as determined by a tagliabue or equivalent closed-cup test device.
Flammable liquid
has the meaning assigned by Section 311.005, Government Code, and includes a province of Canada.
State”
” means a device that can be used to transport or draw persons or property on a highway. The term does not include: (A) a device exclusively used on stationary rails or tracks; or (B) manufactured housing as that term is defined by Chapter 1201, Occupations Code.
Vehicle”
” means: (A) a fire department or police vehicle;
Authorized emergency vehicle”
”” means an individual, firm, partnership, association, or corporation.
Person
” means a highway or a portion of a highway on which: (A) vehicular traffic is given preferential right-of-way; and (B) vehicular traffic entering from an intersecting highway is required by law to yield right-of-way in compliance with an official traffic-control device.
Through highway
” means a vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer: (A) designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and to transport persons or property; and (B) constructed so that part of the vehicle’s weight and load rests on or is carried by another vehicle.
Semitrailer
” means a self-propelled vehicle or a vehicle that is propelled by electric power from overhead trolley wires. The term does not include an electric bicycle or an electric personal assistive mobility device, as defined by Section 551.201.
Motor vehicle
” means to stand an occupied or unoccupied vehicle, other than temporarily while loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
“Park” or “parking
” means a motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement to draw an implement of husbandry, including a plow or a mowing machine.
“Farm tractor
” means an injury to any part of the human body and that requires treatment.
“Personal injury
(I) a vehicle of a blood bank or tissue bank, accredited or approved under the laws of this state or the United States, when making emergency deliveries of blood, drugs, medicines, or organs;
Authorized emergency vehicle
” means a vehicle used by a peace officer, as defined by Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, for law enforcement purposes that: (A) is owned or leased by a governmental entity; (B) is owned or leased by the police department of a private institution of higher education that commissions peace officers under Section 51.212, Education Code; or (C) is: (i) a private vehicle owned or leased by the peace officer; and (ii) approved for use for law enforcement purposes by the head of the law enforcement agency
Police vehicle
” means a vehicle without motive power: (A) designed to be drawn by another vehicle and secured to the other vehicle by pole, reach, boom, or other security device; and (B) ordinarily used to transport a long or irregularly shaped load, including poles, pipes, or structural members, generally capable of sustaining themselves as beams between the supporting connections.
Pole trailer
”” means a responsible person who is at least 18 years of age and is designated by a local authority to direct traffic in a school crossing zone for the protection of children going to or leaving a school
School crossing guard
means a person who is not a resident of this state.
Nonresident”
(K) a private vehicle of an employee or volunteer of a county emergency management division in a county with a population of more than 46,500 and less than 48,000 that is designated as an authorized emergency vehicle by the commissioners court of that county.
Authorized emergency vehicle
” means a motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained primarily to transport property.
Truck
”” means a motor vehicle designed and used primarily to draw another vehicle but not constructed to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the other vehicle and its load.
Truck tractor
means an injury to any part of the human body and that requires treatment.
“Personal injury”
” means a roadway that is divided into at least two clearly marked lanes for vehicular travel.
“Laned roadway
(F) a vehicle that has been designated by the department under Section 546.0065;
Authorized emergency vehicle
” means a sign, signal, marking, or device that is: (A) consistent with this subtitle; (B) placed or erected by a public body or officer having jurisdiction; and (C) used to regulate, warn, or guide traffic
Official traffic-control device
means the width between the boundary lines of a publicly maintained way any part of which is open to the public for vehicular travel.
“Highway or street”
” means a street that: (A) is not used primarily for through traffic; and (B) provides access to rear entrances of buildings or lots along a street.
Alley
means the territory adjacent to and including a highway, if the territory: (A) is not in a municipality; and (B) is improved with structures that are used for business, industry, or dwelling houses and located at intervals of less than 100 feet for a distance of at least one-quarter mile on either side of the highway.
Urban district
” means an area that: (1) contains at least one municipality with a population of at least 100,000; and (2) includes the adjacent municipalities and unincorporated urban districts.
“metropolitan area
” means a manual, electric, or mechanical device that alternately directs traffic to stop and to proceed.
Traffic-control signal
” means a privately owned way or place used for vehicular travel and used only by the owner and persons who have the owner’s express or implied permission.
Private road or driveway
The dimensions of an intersection include only the common area: (1) within the connection of the lateral curb lines or, in the absence of curb lines, the ____________of the roadways of intersecting highways that join at approximate right angles; or (2) at the place where vehicles could ______ if traveling on roadways of intersecting highways that join at any angle other than an approximate right angle. (c) Each junction of each roadway of a highway that includes two roadways at least______ apart with the roadway of an intersecting highway, including each roadway of an intersecting highway that includes two roadways at least 30 feet apart, is a separate intersection.
1)lateral boundary lines 2)collide C) 30 feet
(A) a motor vehicle used to transport persons and designed to accommodate more than 10 passengers, including the operator; or
Bus”
”” means an individual, association, corporation, or other legal entity that controls, operates, or directs the operation of one or more vehicles that transport persons or cargo over a road or highway in this state.
Motor carrier
” means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association, or other private entity
Person
means an interconnecting roadway of a traffic interchange, or a connecting roadway between highways at different levels or between parallel highways, that allows a vehicle to enter or exit a roadway.
“Ramp”
E) a county-owned or county-leased emergency management vehicle that has been designated or authorized by the commissioners court;
Authorized emergency vehicle
(H) an industrial emergency response vehicle, including an industrial ambulance, when responding to an emergency, but only if the vehicle is operated in compliance with criteria in effect September 1, 1989, and established by the predecessor of the Texas Industrial Emergency Services Board of the State Firemen’s and Fire Marshals’ Association of Texas;
Authorized emergency vehicle
(C) an emergency medical services vehicle: (i) authorized under an emergency medical services provider license issued by the Department of State Health Services under Chapter 773, Health and Safety Code; and
Authorized emergency vehicle
” means the Department of Public Safety acting directly or through its authorized officers and agents.
“Department
” means an officer authorized to direct traffic or arrest persons who violate traffic regulations.
Police officer
”” means a motor-driven cycle that cannot attain a speed in one mile of more than 30 miles per hour and the engine of which: (A) cannot produce more than two-brake horsepower; and (B) if an internal combustion engine, has a piston displacement of 50 cubic centimeters or less and connects to a power drive system that does not require the operator to shift gears.
Moped
means the area in a roadway officially designated for exclusive pedestrian use and that is protected or so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times while so designated.
Safety zone”
” means the right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian that is approaching from a direction, at a speed, and within a proximity that could cause a collision unless one grants precedence to the other.
“Right-of-way
” means a paved shoulder.
Improved shoulder
means a motor vehicle that was manufactured in compliance with the federal motor vehicle safety standards for school buses in effect on the date of manufacture and that is used to transport pre-primary, primary, or secondary students on a route to or from school or on a school-related activity trip other than on routes to and from school. The term does not include a school-chartered bus or a bus operated by a mass transit authority.
School bus”
” means the territory adjacent to and including a highway if buildings used for business or industrial purposes, including a building used as a hotel, bank, office building, public building, or railroad station: (A) are located within a 600-foot segment along the highway; and (B) within that segment the buildings occupy at least 300 feet of frontage: (i) on one side of the highway; or (ii) collectively on both sides of the highway
Business district
” means: (A) when required, to completely cease movement; and (B) when prohibited, to halt, including momentarily halting, an occupied or unoccupied vehicle, unless necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or to comply with the directions of a police officer or a traffic-control sign or signal.
Stop” or “stopping
(B) a public or private ambulance operated by a person who has been issued a license by the Department of State Health Services;
Authorized emergency vehicle
” means, as used in reference to a vehicle, a person who has a property interest in or title to a vehicle. The term:
Owner
” means a sign, signal, or device erected by a railroad, public body, or public officer to notify traffic of railroad tracks or an approaching railroad train.
Railroad sign or signal
” means to halt an occupied or unoccupied vehicle, other than temporarily while receiving or discharging passengers
Stand” or “standing
” means a crosswalk designated on a street by a local authority to facilitate safe crossing of the street by children going to or leaving a public or private elementary or secondary school.
School crosswalk
” means a vehicle, other than a pole trailer, with or without motive power: (A) designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and to transport persons or property; and (B) constructed so that no part of the vehicle’s weight and load rests on the motor vehicle.
Trailer
means a device that a person may ride and that is propelled by human power and has two tandem wheels at least one of which is more than 14 inches in diameter.
Bicycle”
”” means a motorcycle equipped with a motor that has an engine piston displacement of 250 cubic centimeters or less. The term does not include an electric bicycle.
Motor-driven cycle
” means a chemical compound or mechanical mixture that: (A) is commonly intended for use or used to produce an explosion; and (B) contains ingredients, which may include oxidizing or combustive units, in packing, proportions, or quantities that, if ignited by fire, friction, concussion, percussion, or detonator, could suddenly generate highly heated gases that could damage surrounding objects or destroy life or limb.
Explosive
” means: (A) a county, municipality, or other local entity authorized to enact traffic laws under the laws of this state; or (B) a school district created under the laws of this state only when it is designating school crossing guards for schools operated by the district.
Local authority
” means the common area at the junction of two highways, other than the junction of an alley and a highway.
“intersection
” means an individual, organization, or entity but does not include this state or an agency of this state.
MOTOR VEHICLE RECORDS DISCLOSURE ACT.
Person’’
means, as used in reference to a vehicle, a person who has a property interest in or title to a vehicle. The term: (A) includes a person entitled to use and possess a vehicle subject to a security interest; and (B) excludes a lien holder and a lessee whose lease is not intended as security.
Owner
means the period beginning one-half hour before sunrise and ending one-half hour after sunset.
Daytime”
” means a person on foot.
Pedestrian
means a reduced-speed zone designated on a street by a local authority to facilitate safe crossing of the street by children going to or leaving a public or private elementary or secondary school during the time the reduced speed limit applies.
School crossing zone”
(G) a private vehicle of a volunteer firefighter or a certified emergency medical services employee or volunteer when responding to a fire alarm or medical emergency;
Authorized emergency vehicle
AEV
Authorized Emergency Vehicle
- Fire, Police, EMS
- municipal, public service corp, emergency mgt. (designated in disasters)
- POV of volunteer firefighter, certf’d med emergency when responding
- industrial emergency response (fire, ambulance) when responding
- blood / tissue bank vehicle when responding / delivering
- fed. vehicles for LE purposes
- POV of volunteer of employee of a county emergency mgt division in a county with a population 46,500 - 48,000
BUS RELATED HINTS
Bus: $Ten Plus is a Bus
School Bus: fed. safety, to/from school + school trips
School Activity Bus: 15+, owned/operated by school, school trips
Multifunctional Schoold Activity Bus: fed. safety, school trips only
CYCLES
BICYCLE: 1 seat, 2 wheels, 14” diameter
E-BICYCLE: motor+human power; 20 mph, 100 lbs
MOPED: 30 mph, 2-brake horsepower, 50 cm3 engine, no gear shifting
MOTORCYCLE: saddle, 3 wheels
MOTOR-DRIVEN CYCLE: 250 cm3
TRUCKS
LIGHT TRUCK: 2,000 lb
TRUCK: transport property
TRACTORS
FARM TRACTOR: draws, farm / husbandry implement
ROAD TRACTOR: draw another, doesn’t carry weight independently
TRUCK TRACTOR: draw another, carries partial weight of another
CLARIFY VISUAL DIFFERENCE
TRAILERS
HOUSE TRAILER: transportable on highway, >40’ long, permanent chassis, utilities
POLE TRAILER: - motive power, to be drawn, irregularly shaped load, beams
SEMI-TRAILER: +/- motive power; transport persons/property; to be drawn; partially rests on another (2 wheels)
TRAILER: +/- motive power, to be drawn, transport persons/property; no part rests on another (4 wheels)
