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
