CHAPTER 73: RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
Section
Bicycles and Motorized Scooters
   73.01   Application of traffic regulations
   73.02   Obedience to traffic-control devices
   73.03   Riding on bicycles or motorized scooters
   73.04   Use of right side of roadway
   73.05   Riding abreast
   73.06   Speed
   73.07   Riding on sidewalks
   73.08   Lights and reflectors
Golf Carts, Utility Vehicles and All-Terrain Vehicles
   73.20   Definitions
   73.21   Limitations of activities
   73.22   Rules and regulations
   73.23   Prohibited acts
 
   73.99   Penalty
BICYCLES AND MOTORIZED SCOOTERS
§ 73.01 APPLICATION OF TRAFFIC REGULATIONS.
   (A)   Regulations applicable generally.
      (1)   It is unlawful for any person to do any act or fail to perform any act required by the provisions of this subchapter.
      (2)   The parent of any child or the guardian of any ward shall not authorize or knowingly permit any such child or ward to violate any of the provisions of this subchapter.
      (3)   The provisions of this subchapter are applicable to bicycles and motorized scooters operated upon any street or highway or upon any path set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles and motorized scooters.
   (B)   Traffic laws and regulations apply. Every person riding a bicycle or motorized scooter upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by the laws of the state declaring rules of the road applicable to vehicles, or by the traffic ordinances of the town applicable to the driver of a vehicle, except as to special regulations in this subchapter and except as to those provisions of law and ordinances which by their nature can have no application.
(Prior Code, § 6-6-1) Penalty, see § 73.99
§ 73.02 OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES.
   (A)   Compliance with traffic-control signals. Any person operating a bicycle or motorized scooter shall obey the instructions of official traffic-control signals, signs and other control devices applicable to vehicles, unless otherwise directed by a police officer. Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no right or left or U-turn is permitted, no person operating a bicycle or motorized scooter shall disobey the direction of any such sign, except where such person dismounts from the bicycle or motorized scooter to make any such turn, in which event such person shall then obey the regulations applicable to pedestrians.
   (B)   Walking of bicycles. Any person may walk bicycles and shall then be subject to all laws applicable to pedestrians.
(Prior Code, § 6-6-2) Penalty, see § 73.99
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