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FROM : CITY OF ZIMMERMAN PHONE NO. : 6128564787 Oct. 05 2000 12:00PM P2 • CHAPTER 5. HEALTH AND WELFARE 5.01. SNOWMOBILES. (amended and added by Ord. # 232) 5.011. Purpose. The purpose of this section is to provide reasonable regulations for the use of snowmobiles on public and private property in the City of Zimmerman. This section is not intended to allow what the Minnesota State Statutes expressly prohibit nor to prohibit what the State Statutes allow. It is intended to prevent a public nuisance. 5.012. Incorporation of State Statute. Any person operating a snowmobile within the City of Zimmerman, unless. provided otherwise herein, shall be subject to the provisions of the Minnesota Statues, §84.81 through 84.929, inclusive, as amended, and the regulations of the Commissioner of Natural Resources ("Commissioner"), adopted pursuant hereto. 5.013. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the definitions listed below shall be construed as follows: City shall mean the City of Zimmerman, Sherburne County, Minnesota. Council shall mean the City Council of the City of Zimmerman. Dead man Throttle or Safety Throttle shall mean a device which when pressure is removed from the engine accelerator or throttle, causes the motor to be disengaged from the driving mechanism. • Operate shall mean to ride in or on. and control the operation of a snowmobile. Operator shall mean every person who operates, or is in actual physical control of a snowmobile. Person shall mean an individual, partnership, corporation, the State and its agencies and subdivisions, and any body of persons, whether, incorporated or not. Public Property shall mean property that may be used for all of the public subject to reasonable regulation by a governmental body. Such property includes City parks, City parking lots and public school parking lots and grounds. Roadway shall mean that portion of a street or highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel. Semi-Public Property shall mean private property generally for use by the public but not owned or maintained by a governmental body. Such property includes without limitation: church property, shopping center property and other property generally used by patrons of a commercial or private business establishment. Snowmobile shall mean a self-propelled vehicle designed for travel on snow or ice steered by skis or runners. • Street or Highway shall mean the entire width between boundary lines of any way or place when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for the purposes of vehicular traffic.