Section 233.2. Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

Automated red light enforcement system—A vehicle sensor installed to work in conjunction with a traffic-control signal which automatically produces one or more recorded images of a vehicle at the time the vehicle is used or operated in a manner which is a violation under 75 Pa.C.S. § 3112(a)(3) (relating to traffic-control signals).

Department—The Department of Transportation of the Commonwealth.

Director—The Director of the Center for Program Development and Management of the Department.

Grant—An offer of funding assistance from the Department to a sponsor for a project governed by this chapter.

Highway—

(i) 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.

(ii) The term includes a roadway open to the use of the public for vehicular travel on grounds of a college or university or public or private school or public or historic park.

Local government—County, municipal, and other local boards or bodies having authority to enact laws relating to traffic.

Official traffic-control devices—Signs, signals, markings and devices not inconsistent with 75 Pa.C.S. (relating to Vehicle Code) placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic.

Recorded image—An image recorded by an automated red light enforcement system on a photograph, a digital image, or any other image-capture technology.

Sponsor—A local government, metropolitan planning organization, rural planning organization, county planning organization, or Commonwealth agency applying for, or receiving, a transportation enhancement grant under this chapter.

Traffic—Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars, and other conveyances, whether singly or together, using any highway for purposes of travel.

Traffic-control signal—A device, whether manually, electrically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed.

Vehicle—

(i) Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices used exclusively upon rails or tracks.

(ii) The term does not include a self-propelled wheelchair or an electrical mobility device operated by and designed for the exclusive use of a person with a mobility-related disability.