Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by the laws of this state declaring the rules of the road applicable to vehicles or by the ordinances of the town applicable to the driver of a vehicle except as to special regulations in this subchapter and to those provisions of laws or ordinances which, by their nature, can have no application.
(Prior Code, § 22-80)