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The following definitions are applicable in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires:

“Block” means the area comprised of properties along each side of a street between two intersections.

“Fire lane” means the area within any public or private property reserved for fire vehicles and other firefighting apparatus and emergency equipment to use, travel upon and/or park.

“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 property or passengers.

“Parking zone” means any continuous section on the same street or either side of the street having the same parking time restriction.

“Right-of-way” or “street” means any highway, avenue, lane, road, drive, place, boulevard, alley, right-of-way, way, sidewalk, planting or parking strip, shoulder and every way or place in the city of Gig Harbor open as a matter of right to public vehicular travel or parking or other similar public use.

“Vehicle” means every device capable of being moved upon a public roadway and in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public roadway, whether licensed or unlicensed, including a boat trailer with or without a boat situated thereon and a marine vehicle trailered or nontrailered. (Ord. 1237 § 1, 2012; Ord. 1216 § 1, 2011).