DI-9 Manual PDF - Utah Department of Public Safety

SHOULDER - That portion of the road contiguous with the roadway for accommodation ofstopped vehicles, for emergency use, and for lateral support of the roadway structure. The linebetween the roadway and the shoulder may be a painted edge line” a change in surface color ormaterial, or a curb.SIDEWALK - That portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral lines of a roadway,and the adjacent property lines, intended for use by pedestrians.SKIDMARKS - Marks left on the road by tires that are not free to rotate usually because brakesare applied strongly enough to lock the wheels.SPUR - A segment of roadway connecting two roadways at the same grade or level. Spurs areused to connect roadways which do not interchange. (See INTERCHANGE and RAMP.)STREET OR HIGHWAY - The entire width between property lines of every way or place ofwhatever nature when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, forpurposes of vehicular traffic.SUSPENSION - The licensee’s privilege to drive a vehicle is temporarily withdrawn.TAR & CHIP - A road paved by applying and compacting successive layers of broken stonesand tar.TRAFFIC - Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars, and other conveyances,either singularly or together while using any highway for purposes of travel.TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL - Any device, whether manually, electrically, ormechanically operated, by which symbolic information is communicated to drivers for thepurposes of traffic control.TRAFFIC LANE - A strip of roadway intended to accommodate the forward movement of asingle lane of vehicles.TRAFFIC WAY - The entire width between property lines, or other boundary lines, of everyway or place, of which any part is open to the public for purposes of vehicular travel as a matterof right or custom.TRAILER - Every vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed forcarrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that nopart of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle. (see POLE TRAILER and SEMITRAILER.)TRUCK - Every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained for the transportation of property.TRUCK TRACTOR - every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing othervehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle andload so drawn.UNDERCARRIAGE - The supporting framework underneath a vehicle.UNDER THE INFLUENCE [INTOXICATING LIQUOR] - Drinking to the extent ofaffecting one’s judgment and discretion or affecting one’s nervous system to the extent that thereis a failure of normal coordination, although not amounting to intoxication.VEHICLE - every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transportedor drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively uponstationary rails or tracks.97