The use of bicycles, roller skates and skateboards within the City shall be regulated as follows.
(A) Traffic laws apply. Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway or upon any path set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a motor vehicle, except as to those provisions as, by their nature, can have no application.
(B) Manner and number riding.
(1) A person propelling a bicycle shall not ride other than upon or astride a permanent and regular seat attached thereto.
(2) No bicycle shall be used to carry more persons at one time than the number for which it is designed and equipped, except on a baby seat attached to the bicycle; provided that, the seat is equipped with a harness to hold the child securely in the seat and that protection is provided against the child’s feet hitting the spokes of the wheel or in a seat attached to the bicycle operator.
(C) Hitching rides. No person riding upon any bicycle, coaster, roller skates, skate board, sled or toy vehicle shall attach the same or themselves to any vehicle upon a street or roadway.
(D) Where to ride.
(1) Every person operating a bicycle upon a street or roadway shall ride as near to the right side of the street or roadway as practicable, exercising due care when passing a standing vehicle or one proceeding in the same direction.
(2) Persons riding bicycles upon a street or roadway shall not ride more than two abreast, except on paths or parts of roadways set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles.
(3) Whenever any person is riding a bicycle, on roller skates or a skateboard upon any sidewalk in the City, such person shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian and shall give audible signal before overtaking and passing the pedestrian.
(E) Lighting and brake equipment.
(1) Every bicycle, when in use at nighttime shall be equipped with or its operator shall carry, a light or lamp on the front which shall emit a white light visible from a distance of at least 500 feet to the front and with a red reflector on the rear, of a type approved by the Department of Public Safety which is visible from all directions from 600 feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful lower beams of headlamps on a motor vehicle. A light or lamp emitting a red light visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear may be used in addition to the red reflector.
(2) Every bicycle shall be equipped with a brake which will enable the operator to make the braked wheels skid on dry, level and clean pavement.
(Prior Code, § 704.02) Penalty, see § 72.99