A. “Alley” means a public highway not designed for general travel and used primarily as a means of access to the rear of residences and business establishments.

B. “Alley entrance” means that portion of the street which provides access to an alley through a curb cut or a depression in the constructed curb or, when there is no constructed curb, that area in front of such alley as is well defined or is designated by authorized signs or markings. “Alley entrance” shall include an alley exit for one-way alleys.

C. “Bicycle lane” means a portion of the roadway designated by traffic-control devices for preferential or exclusive use by bicycles.

D. “Bus” means every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than fifteen passengers and used for transportation of persons, and every motor vehicle, other than taxicabs, designed and used for the transportation of persons for compensation.

E. “Bus stop” means a fixed portion of the highway parallel and adjacent to the curb and designated by a sign to be reserved exclusively for buses for layover in operating schedules or while waiting for, loading or unloading passengers; provided, that such bus provides regularly scheduled service within the city.

F. “Camper” means a structure designed to be mounted upon a motor vehicle and which provides facilities for human habitation or for temporary outdoor or recreational lodging.

G. “Central business district” means the urban mixed zone in the city as defined by the Everett zoning code, Title 19.

H. “Central business district repark emphasis area” means any portion of the central business district designated as “Parking Area A” in the Everett zoning code, Chapter 34, and that has either ninety-minute or less time-limited parking, or metered parking. Block faces that have unrestricted parking, permit parking or time limits longer than ninety minutes are not included in the repark emphasis area. A “block face” is the street frontage of one city block, from intersection to intersection, on one side of the street.

I. “City” means the city of Everett, a municipal corporation under the laws of the state of Washington. This also refers to city of Everett departments including the Everett municipal court.

J. “City street” or “street” means every public highway or part thereof located within the limits of the city, except alleys.

K. “Commercial vehicle” is any vehicle, the principal use of which is the transportation of commodities, merchandise, produce, freight, animals, or passengers for hire.

L. “Court” means the Everett municipal court.

M. “Crosswalk” means that portion of the roadway between the intersection area and a prolongation or connection of the farthest sidewalk line or, in the event there are no improved sidewalks, then between the intersection area and a line ten feet therefrom, except as modified by a marked crosswalk.

N. “Curb” or “curb line” means the edge of a roadway, whether marked by curbing construction or not.

O. “Department” means the Washington State Department of Licensing.

P. “Employee” means: (1) persons engaged for wages, credit or other consideration, or as a volunteer, at the time and proximate location of the violation; (2) an employer exercising employment responsibilities at the time and proximate location of the violation; or (3) an owner of a business exercising ownership responsibilities at the time and proximate location of the violation.

Q. “Fire exit” means:

R. “Fire lane” means lanes on streets or ways open to the public where, because of the congregating of people or the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles, there exists a hazardous condition in case of fire or other disaster.

S. “Fire zone” means an area of street in the vicinity of churches, schools, hospitals, theaters or other public buildings, and an area along curves, narrow streets, and in alleys to facilitate unimpeded exit from buildings by large numbers of persons and to facilitate adequate maneuvering room for fire apparatus at all times.

T. “Highway” means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.

U. “Intersection” means the area embraced within the prolongation of the lateral curb lines or, if there be no curbs, then the lateral roadway boundary lines of two or more streets which join one another at an angle, whether or not such streets cross one another. The junction of an alley with a street or highway shall not constitute an intersection.

V. “Legal owner” means a person having a security interest in a vehicle perfected in accordance with Chapter 46.12 RCW or the registered owner of a vehicle unencumbered by a security interest or the lessor of a vehicle unencumbered by a security interest.

W. “Loading zone” means a space reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of property or passengers.

X. “Motor home” means motor vehicles originally designed, reconstructed or permanently altered to provide human habitation.

Y. “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.

Z. “Motorcycle” means every motor vehicle having a saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground.

AA. “Operator” or “driver” means every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.

BB. “Ordinance” means the city’s parking regulation ordinance.

CC. “Owner” means a person who has lawful right of possession of a vehicle by reason of obtaining it by purchase, exchange, gift, lease, inheritance or legal action whether or not the vehicle is subject to a security interest, and means registered owner where the reference to owner may be construed as either to registered or legal owner.

DD. “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 of property or passengers.

EE. “Parking enforcement officer” means a limited commission police officer under the commissioning authority of the city police department authorized, along with the city’s police officers, to enforce the provisions of this chapter.

FF. “Parking hearing examiner” means the judge(s) of the Everett municipal court.

GG. “Parking infraction” means that form of traffic infraction concerning the infringement of any parking regulation set forth in this chapter.

HH. “Parking meter” means any mechanical or electronic device placed or erected adjacent to a parking space or adjacent to a block or group of parking spaces, for the purpose of regulating or controlling the period of time of occupancy of such parking meter space by any vehicle.

II. “Parking space” means an area duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle by signage, appropriate markings on the pavement, curb, or both, or where no such markings are provided the area necessary to accommodate a single vehicle.

JJ. “Passenger loading zone” means a place reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles while receiving or discharging passengers.

KK. “Planting strip” means that portion of a highway lying between the constructed curb or the edge of the roadway and the property line exclusive of the sidewalk area.

LL. “Police officer” means a law enforcement officer of the city of Everett.

MM. “Registered owner” means the person whose lawful right of possession of a vehicle has most recently been recorded with the Washington State Department of Licensing.

NN. “Repark” means the moving of a parked vehicle from one parking space where time limits are posted to another parking space where time limits are posted, regardless of the amount of time the vehicle is parked in either space.

OO. “Roadway” means that portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the sidewalk or shoulder, even though such sidewalk or shoulder is used by persons riding bicycles.

PP. “Safety zone” means the area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is marked or indicated by painted marks, signs, buttons, standards, or otherwise, so as to be plainly discernible.

QQ. “Sidewalk” means that property between the curb lines or the lateral lines or a roadway and the adjacent property, set aside and intended for the use of pedestrians or such portion of private property parallel and in proximity to a public highway and dedicated to use by pedestrians.

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

SS. “Stop” or “stopping” means any halting of a vehicle resulting in complete cessation from movement, even momentarily.

TT. “Tow-away zone” means a portion of a street or alley that is signed or marked as a tow-away zone.

UU. “Trailer” includes every vehicle without power designed for being drawn by or used in conjunction with a motor vehicle.

VV. “Truck” means any motor vehicle designed or used for the transportation of commodities, merchandise, produce, freight or animals.

WW. “Truck loading zone” means a designated portion of the street reserved for the exclusive use of truck-licensed commercial vehicles during the loading and unloading of materials.

XX. “Vehicle” means every device capable of being moved upon a highway and in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, including mopeds, excepting devices moved by human or animal power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. For purposes of this chapter, the definition of “vehicle” encompasses, but is not limited to, motor vehicles, trailers, trucks and motorcycles. (Ord. 3617-18 § 74, 2018; Ord. 3219-11 § 1, 2011; Ord. 3125-09 § 1, 2009; Ord. 2826-05 § 1, 2005; Ord. 2795-04 § 1, 2004; Ord. 2691-03 § 1, 2003; Ord. 2180-96 § 2, 1996.)