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Except as hereinafter provided in this Article, 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 State Vehicle Code or by the City Code, except as to special regulations in this Article and those provisions of law and ordinance which, by their nature, can have no application. (Ord. 977, 6-13-90)
A. Riding on Sidewalks: No person shall use or operate any bicycle or wheeled toy upon any sidewalk in a business district or adjacent to any place of public assembly.
B. Wheeled Toys on Streets: No person shall use, operate, park or leave any wheeled toy upon the traveled way of any public street or alley.
C. Riding Bicycle in Crosswalks: No person shall ride or operate a bicycle in or into any marked pedestrian crosswalk unless such person dismounts from the bicycle and proceeds on foot wheeling the bicycle, except for the purpose of riding across said crosswalk. (Ord. 977, 6-13-90)
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| 2 | 2. See also Sections 13.01.03 and 13.01.04 of this Code. |
Any person operating a bicycle 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 turn or U-turn is permitted, no person operating a bicycle shall disobey the direction of any such sign, except where such person dismounts from the bicycle to make such turn, in which event, such person shall then obey the regulations applicable to pedestrians. (Ord. 977, 6-13-90)
No person shall ride or operate any bicycle or wheeled toy along, on or across any street located within the C-1 Commercial Zones of this City, delineated on the official Zoning Map 1 , when such streets or parts thereof have been posted or marked by street paintings indicating the prohibition against such bicycle riding. (Ord. 977, 6-13-90)
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| 1 | 1. See Section 23.01.04 of this Code. |
No person shall park or leave any bicycle or wheeled toy upon any street or alley, nor upon any sidewalk in any business district or adjacent to any place of public assembly in such manner as to obstruct or hinder the free passage of pedestrians or other vehicles or devices permitted to use the same. Any bicycle or wheeled toy found in violation of this Section may be impounded by the Police Department and returned to the owner under such reasonable conditions as may be established by the Police Chief. (Ord. 977, 6-13-90)
Devices designed, intended and used solely for the transportation of infants, invalids or incapacitated persons or devices designed, intended and used for the transportation of merchandise to or from the place of purchase and other wheeled devices when being used for either of said purposes shall be exempted from the regulations imposed by this Article.
The regulations specified in this Article shall not apply to a place of public assembly when it is not open or in use, nor shall they apply if the person in charge of such place of public assembly expressly waives the same. (Ord. 977, 6-13-90)