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474.07 SAFE RIDING REGULATIONS FOR BICYCLES.
   (a)   Whenever a designated usable path for bicycles has been provided adjacent to a street, bicycle riders shall use such path and shall not use the street.
   (b)   Whenever a person is riding a bicycle upon a sidewalk or street, such person shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian and shall give an audible signal before attempting to overtake and pass a pedestrian or another bicycle. This audible signal must be given only by bell or other warning device capable of giving an audible signal and shall be given at such a distance and in such a manner as not to startle the person being overtaken and passed.
   (c)   No person shall ride a bicycle across or through any intersection involving a through street. Such intersections are to be crossed by walking the bicycle across or through the intersection.
   (d)   Whenever a person is riding a bicycle upon a sidewalk, the person, before overtaking and passing a blind person carrying a white or metallic cane, shall dismount and overtake or pass on foot.
   (e)   When a bicycle is operated on the street, the operator shall give hand signals before turning, changing lanes or stopping. Such signals shall conform with Ohio R.C. 4511.40, or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance.
   (f)   Every rider of a bicycle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian or any vehicle upon any roadway, sidewalk or bicycle path, or endangering the life, limb or property of any person while in the lawful use of the streets, sidewalks or any other private or public property.
   (g)   No person shall operate a bicycle at a speed greater than is reasonable and proper under the conditions then existing.
   (h)   The operator of a bicycle emerging from or turning into an alley, driveway or building shall, upon approaching a sidewalk or the sidewalk area extending across any alley, driveway or building, yield the right-of-way to all pedestrians approaching on such sidewalk area. Upon entering the street, such operator shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching on such street.
   (i)   No person shall engage in trick riding or operate a bicycle without both hands upon the handle grips except when necessary to give the hand signals required herein.
474.08 PARKING; LOCKS.
   (a)   No person shall park a bicycle upon a sidewalk in such a manner as to interfere with pedestrian traffic or damage the property of another.
   (b)   No person shall park a bicycle upon a roadway in such a manner as to interfere with vehicular traffic.
   (c)   No bicycle shall remain unlocked when parked upon any public way or place.
474.09 PARENT'S RESPONSIBILITY.
   No parent of any child or guardian of any ward shall authorize or knowingly permit any such child or ward to violate any of the provisions of this chapter.
474.10 LICENSE REQUIRED.
   No person shall ride or use a bicycle upon any public street in the City unless the bicycle is licensed and registered as provided in this chapter.
474.11 REGISTRATION WITH CHIEF OF POLICE.
   No owner of a bicycle shall fail to list and register with the Chief of Police his name and address, the name of the manufacturer of the bicycle, its number, style and general description.
474.12 BICYCLE LICENSES AND REGISTRATION CARDS.
   The Chief of Police shall provide permanent license tags together with registration cards, which tags and cards shall have numbers stamped thereon in numerical order beginning with number one. Such tags shall be suitable for attachment upon the frame of bicycles, and it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to issue to each owner one which shall be attached by such owner to the frame of the bicycle, and to issue a corresponding registration card to the owner, upon the payment of the license fee as provided in this chapter. Such tags shall remain attached to the bicycle for which it was issued until the bicycle has been demolished or so long as the owner of the bicycle is a resident of the City.
474.13 FEE FPR REGISTRATION AND TAG.
   The license fee for the registration and tag shall be fifty cents ($0.50) for each bicycle and shall be paid to the Chief of Police at the time of registration. A license fee of fifty cents ($0.50) shall likewise be paid for each license issued pursuant to Sections 474.16 and 474.17.
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