(A) Bicycles. Nobody shall cause, promote, aid, assist, encourage, allow or engage in the operation of a bicycle on a sidewalk, driveway or parking area in the city that is open to public use, unless the bicycle is in compliance with all of the provisions of 601 KAR 14:020 for the operation thereof on a highway, or the shoulder thereof.
(B) Bicycles and motorized scooters. Nobody shall cause, promote, aid, assist, encourage, allow or engage in the operation of a bicycle or a motorized scooter:
(1) In any area of the city that is open to public use, but isn’t a highway, sidewalk, driveway or parking area; or
(2) On a sidewalk, driveway or parking area that is open to public use unless:
(a) The operator has at least one hand on the handlebar or other control of the direction thereof; or
(b) The operator yields the right-of-way to pedestrians and exercises due care for the safety and convenience thereof and other bicycles and motorized scooters thereon; or
(c) The operator isn’t engaged in any other activity that interferes with the safe operation of the bicycle or motorized scooter, including, without limitation, the use of earphones, carrying large or heavy objects or passengers which the bicycle or motorized scooter wasn’t designed to accommodate.
(3) On a sidewalk while passing a pedestrian, or another bicycle or motorized scooter traveling in the same direction on the sidewalk unless:
(a) The operator first warns the pedestrian or the operator of the bicycle or motorized scooter to be passed of the impending passage; and
(b) The operator exercises due care for the safety of the pedestrian or the operator of the bicycle or motorized scooter to be passed; and
(c) The operator yields the right-of-way to pedestrians, bicycles and motorized scooters approaching from the opposite direction; and
(d) The pedestrian, bicycle or motorized scooter is passed on the sidewalk to the left thereof.
(4) Across a highway outside of a crosswalk at the intersection of a sidewalk with a highway; or
(5) Across a highway at a location other than an intersection thereof with a sidewalk, without the operator first dismounting the bicycle or motorized scooter and walking it across the highway in a direction that is as close to perpendicular to the traffic lanes of the highway as possible.
(C) Motorcycles and mopeds. Nobody shall cause, promote, aid, assist, encourage, allow or engage in the operation of a motorcycle or a moped in any area of the city that is open to public use that isn’t either a driveway, highway or a parking lot.
(Ord. 2004-02-03, passed 3-22-04)