§ 1-3. Definitions — S to Z.
(a) Safety zone.
"Safety zone" means the area or space:
(1) officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians; and
(2) which is protected or is so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone.
(b) School bus.
"School bus" means any vehicle in use as a conveyance for students to or from a public, private, or parochial school, marked and equipped as specified in the Maryland Vehicle Law.
(c) Sidewalk.
"Sidewalk" means any paved footway.
(d) Stand; standing.
"Stand" or "standing" means to occupy or remain in 1 place.
(e) Stop; stopping or stand; standing.
(1) The terms "stop" and "stopping" or "stand" and "standing", when prohibited as to vehicles, refer to any stopping of a vehicle, whether or not occupied, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic control device.
(2) Public transportation vehicles shall be permitted to load passengers, when said passengers are at the curb and ready for immediate loading.
(f) Street.
"Street" means a highway, as defined in § 1-1(n) {"Definitions: Highway"} of this subtitle.
(g) Taxicab.
The term "taxicab" as used in this article shall embrace any motor vehicle for hire, designed to carry 9 persons or less, including driver, operated upon any public street or highway in this City or, on call or demand, accepting or soliciting passengers, indiscriminately for transportation for hire between such points along public streets or highways in this City, as may be directed by the passenger or passengers so being transported.
(h) Traffic.
"Traffic" means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars, and any other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for purposes of travel.
(i) Traffic control device.
"Traffic control device" means any official device that controls or directs the movement of traffic.
(j) Traffic control signal.
"Traffic control signal" means any traffic control device, whether manually, electrically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to proceed.
(k) Transit loading zone.
"Transit loading zone" means a space at a curb or any other place properly designated by official signs or markings, reserved for the use of transit vehicles.
(l) Transit mall.
A "transit mall" is a street so designated by the Director upon which vehicular traffic, other than transit vehicles, is prohibited during certain hours by rule or regulation adopted and promulgated by the Director.
(m) Transit stop.
"Transit stop" means a transit loading zone.
(n) Transit vehicle.
"Transit vehicle" means any mass transportation vehicle.
(o) Truck.
"Truck" means any commercial vehicle.
(p) "U" turn.
(1) "'U' turn" where prohibited means the reversal of the direction of travel by a vehicle without leaving the roadway upon which it is proceeding.
(2) Any person making a "U" turn shall also be presumed to have made a left turn.
(q) Vehicle.
"Vehicle" means every device in, on, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn on a highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively on stationary rails or tracks.