Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 28 > Chapter 3 > Article 7 - Driving on Right Side of Roadway, Overtaking and Passing

• Authorized emergency vehicle: means any of the following:

  (a) A fire department vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101

• Bicycle: means a device, including a racing wheelchair, that is propelled by human power and on which a person may ride and that has either:

  (a) Two tandem wheels, either of which is more than sixteen inches in diameter. See Arizona Laws 28-101

• Combination of vehicles: means a truck or truck tractor and semitrailer and any trailer that it tows but does not include a forklift designed for the purpose of loading or unloading the truck, trailer or semitrailer. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Controlled access highway: means a highway, street or roadway to or from which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right of access except at such points only and in the manner determined by the public authority that has jurisdiction over the highway, street or roadway. See Arizona Laws 28-601
• Department: means the department of transportation acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Director: means the director of the department of transportation. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Drive: means to operate or be in actual physical control of a motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Driver: means a person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Golf cart: means a motor vehicle that has not less than three wheels in contact with the ground, that has an unladen weight of less than one thousand eight hundred pounds, that is designed to be and is operated at not more than twenty-five miles per hour and that is designed to carry not more than four persons including the driver. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Gross weight: means the weight of a vehicle without a load plus the weight of any load on the vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-601
• highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way if a part of the way is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Intersection: means the area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or if none, the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two highways that join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling on different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict. See Arizona Laws 28-601
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Local authority: means any county, municipal or other local board or body exercising jurisdiction over highways under the constitution and laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Motor driven cycle: means a motorcycle, including every motor scooter, with a motor that produces not more than five horsepower but does not include an electric bicycle, an electric miniature scooter or an electric standup scooter. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Motorcycle: means a motor vehicle that has a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and that is designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground but excludes a tractor, an electric bicycle, an electric miniature scooter, an electric standup scooter and a moped. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Neighborhood electric vehicle: means a self-propelled electrically powered motor vehicle to which all of the following apply:

  (a) The vehicle is emission free. See Arizona Laws 28-101

• Nighttime: means the period between sunset and sunrise. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Operator: means a person who drives a motor vehicle on a highway, who is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle on a highway or who is exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Private road or driveway: means a way or place that is in private ownership and that is used for vehicular travel by the owner and those persons who have express or implied permission from the owner but not by other persons. See Arizona Laws 28-601
• Railroad: means a carrier of persons or property on cars operated on stationary rails. See Arizona Laws 28-601
• Residence district: means the territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business district if the property on the highway for a distance of three hundred feet or more is in the main improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Roadway: means that portion of a highway that is improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. See Arizona Laws 28-601
• Safety zone: means the area or space that is both:

  (a) Officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians. See Arizona Laws 28-601

• State: means a state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Traffic: means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances either singly or together while using a highway for purposes of travel. See Arizona Laws 28-601
• Trailer: means a vehicle that is with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer or single-axle tow dolly, that is designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and that is constructed so that no part of its weight rests on the towing vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Truck: means a motor vehicle that is designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property. See Arizona Laws 28-601