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(a) No person shall operate a motorized bicycle upon any street or highway or any public or private property used by the public for purposes of vehicular travel or parking, unless all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The person is fourteen or fifteen years of age and holds a valid probationary motorized bicycle license issued after the person has passed the test provided for in Ohio R.C. 4511.521, or the person is sixteen years of age or older and holds either a valid commercial driver’s license issued under Ohio R.C. Chapter 4506, or a driver’s license issued under Ohio R.C. Chapter 4507, or a valid motorized bicycle license issued after the person has passed the test provided for in Ohio R.C. 4511.521, except that if a person is sixteen years of age, has a valid probationary motorized bicycle license and desires a motorized bicycle license, the person is not required to comply with the testing requirements provided for in Ohio R.C. 4511.521;
(2) The motorized bicycle is equipped in accordance with rules adopted by the Ohio Director of Public Safety and is in proper working order;
(3) The person, if under eighteen years of age, is wearing a protective helmet on the person’s head with the chin strap properly fastened, and the motorized bicycle is equipped with a rear-view mirror; and
(4) The person operates the motorized bicycle when practicable within three feet of the right edge of the roadway obeying all traffic rules applicable to vehicles.
(b) No person operating a motorized bicycle shall carry another person upon the motorized bicycle.
(c) The protective helmet and rearview mirror required by subsection (a)(3) of this section shall, on and after January 1, 1985, conform with rules adopted by the Ohio Director of Public Safety.
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (ORC 4511.521)
(a) No person shall operate a bicycle upon a sidewalk within a business district or upon a sidewalk where signs are erected prohibiting such operation.
(b) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(a) No person shall ride or propel a bicycle on any street or public way in the Municipality or upon any part thereof unless such bicycle has been provided with the proper license and license tag as required in this chapter.
(b) Application for an original license and license tag shall be made to the Chief of Police upon a form to be provided by him.
(Ord. 10-68. Passed 6-17-68.)
(c) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
The application set out in Section 373.12 shall be accompanied by a fee of two dollars ($2.00), to become the property of the Municipality at the time of the issuance of the license and tag.
(Ord. 50-01. Passed 5-21-01.)
A member of the Police Department shall inspect each bicycle presented to her or him for licensing, and shall have the authority to refuse to approve the application for a license and license tag for any bicycle found by him or her to be in an unsafe mechanical condition. An appeal from the decision of the Chief of Police to the Mayor may be had by an applicant who is dissatisfied with the decision of a member of the Police Department, within ten days from and after such decision.
(Ord. 50-01. Passed 5-21-01.)
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