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The state has granted municipalities express authority to regulate or prohibit the operation of motorized gas-powered bicycles or tricycles. It is the purpose and intent of this article to provide for the regulation of motorized gas-powered bicycle or tricycle ("motorized bicycle or tricycle") to protect the safety of pedestrians, bicyclists, motor vehicle drivers and operators of motorized bicycles or tricycles. The mayor and council find it is in the public interest to regulate the operation of motorized bicycles or tricycles by prohibiting their use on sidewalks, multi-use paths, shared use paths and pedestrian paths, and by imposing age restrictions and safety requirements for the riders of motorized bicycles or tricycles.
(Ord. No. 10321, § 1, 9-19-06; Ord. No. 11582, § 2, 9-5-18)
As used in this article "motorized bicycle or tricycle" means a gas-powered bicycle or tricycle that is equipped with a helper motor that has a maximum piston displacement of forty-eight (48) cubic centimeters or less, that may also be self-propelled and that is operated at speeds of less than twenty (20) miles per hour.
(Ord. No. 10321, § 1, 9-19-06; Ord. No. 11582, § 2, 9-5-18)
In the City of Tucson, a person riding a motorized bicycle or tricycle is granted all of the rights and is subject to all the duties applicable to a bicycle rider under state and local law, except as otherwise provided herein.
Motorized bicycles or tricycles that are operated at speeds in excess of nineteen (19) miles per hour are regulated by state law and must comply with state law requirements.
(Ord. No. 10321, § 1, 9-19-06; Ord. No. 11582, § 2, 9-5-18)
(a) It shall be unlawful for a person under sixteen (16) years of age to operate a motorized bicycle or tricycle.
(b) It shall be unlawful to operate a motorized bicycle or tricycle on any public sidewalk, multi-use path, and shared-use path or on any designated pedestrian path in any public park.
(c) It shall be unlawful to use a motorized bicycle or tricycle to carry more persons at one time than the number for which it is designed and equipped.
(d) It shall be unlawful to ride a motorized bicycle or tricycle through any underpass or at any other location where signs are posted prohibiting bicycling.
(Ord. No. 10321, § 1, 9-19-06)
No person under eighteen (18) years of age shall operate a motorized bicycle or tricycle or be a passenger on motorized bicycle or tricycle, ride in a restraining seat attached to a motorized bicycle or tricycle, or ride in a trailer towed by a motorized bicycle or tricycle unless the person is wearing a properly fitted and fastened bicycle helmet which meets the current standards of the American National Standards Institute for protective headgear.
(Ord. No. 10321, § 1, 9-19-06)
A motorized bicycle or tricycle that is used at nighttime shall have a lamp on the front that emits a white light visible from a distance of at least five hundred (500) feet to the front and a red reflector in the rear of a type that is visible from all distances from fifty (50) feet to three hundred (300) feet to the rear where the reflector is directly in front of the upper beams of head lamps on a motor vehicle. A motorized bicycle or tricycle may have a lamp that emits a red light visible from a distance of five hundred (500) feet to the rear in addition to the red reflector.
(Ord. No. 10321, § 1, 9-19-06)
(a) The parent, guardian, or legal custodian of any minor shall not authorize or knowingly permit such minor to violate any of the provisions of this article.
(b) If a fine is imposed upon a minor who is found to be in violation of this section, the parents or legal guardian having custody or control of the minor shall be jointly and severally liable with the minor for payment of the fine, whether or not the parents or guardian knew of, or anticipated, a violation of this section.
(Ord. No. 10321, § 1, 9-19-06)
(a) Violation of this article shall constitute a civil traffic violation punishable by a mandatory minimum fine of one hundred dollars ($100.00).
(b) All complaints for violations of this article shall be issued and adjudicated in accordance with the Arizona Rules of Procedure in Civil Traffic Violation Cases and applicable state and local law.
(Ord. No. 10321, § 1, 9-19-06)
ARTICLE III.
ELECTRIC BICYCLES
ELECTRIC BICYCLES
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