(a) No person shall operate a motorized bicycle:
(1) Without both hands upon the handle grips except when necessary to give required hand and arm signals.
(2) At a speed exceeding twenty miles per hour.
(3) Without exercising reasonable and ordinary control over such motorized bicycle.
(4) In a weaving or zigzag course unless such irregular course is necessary for the safe operation in compliance with law.
(5) The operator of a motorized bicycle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard for the speed of such vehicle, and the traffic upon and the condition of the street.
(6) No person shall park a motorized bicycle upon a sidewalk in such a manner so as to unduly interfere with pedestrian traffic, or upon a roadway so as to unduly interfere with vehicular traffic.
(7) No person shall operate a motorized bicycle upon a sidewalk.
(8) The motorized bicycle license or operator’s license issued under Ohio R.C. Chapter 4507 shall be in the immediate possession of the operator of the motorized bicycle while operating such vehicle. The operator of a motorized bicycle shall display his license or furnish satisfactory proof that he has such license, upon demand of a police officer and to interested parties in any collision in which such licensee may be involved. When a demand is properly made and the operator has a license on or about his person, he shall not refuse to display such license. Failure to furnish satisfactory evidence that such person is licensed when such person does not have his license on or about his person shall be prima-facie evidence of his not having obtained such license.
(9) In case of accident to or collision with persons or property upon any of the public streets or highways, due to the driving or operation thereof of any motorized bicycle, the person so driving or operating such motorized bicycle, having knowledge of such accident or collision shall immediately stop his motorized bicycle at the scene of the accident or collision until he has given his name and address, if he is not the owner, the name and address of the owner of such motorized bicycle together with the registered number of such motorized bicycle to any person injured in such accident or collision or to the operator, occupant, owner or attendant of any motor vehicle damaged in such accident or collision or to any police officer at such accident or collision. In the event the injured person is unable to comprehend and record the information required to be given by this section, the other driver involved in such accident or collision shall forthwith notify the nearest police authority concerning the location of the accident or collision, and his name and his address and the registered number of the motorized bicycle he was operating, and then remain at the scene of the accident or collision until a police officer arrives, unless removed from the scene by an emergency vehicle operated by a political subdivision or an ambulance.
(10) In case of accident or collision resulting in the injury or damage to persons or property upon any public or private property other than public streets or highways due to the driving or operation thereon of any motorized bicycle, the person so driving shall stop, and upon request of a police officer, or interested person, shall give his name and address, and if he is not the owner, the name and address of the owner of such motorized bicycle, together with the registered number of such motorized bicycle, and, if available exhibit his operator’s or motorized bicycle operator’s license. If the owner or person in charge of such damaged property is not furnished such information, the driver of the motorized bicycle involved in the accident or collision shall, within twenty-four hours of such accident or collision, forward to the Police Department the same information required to be given to the owner or person in control of such damaged property and give the date, time and location of the accident or collision. If such accident or collision is with an unoccupied or unattended motor vehicle, the operator so colliding with such motor vehicle shall securely attach the information required to be given in this section, in writing, to a conspicuous place in or on such unoccupied or unattended motor vehicle.
(11) No person shall operate a motorized bicycle so as to willfully elude or flee a police officer after receiving a visible or audible signal from a police officer to bring his motorized bicycle to a stop.
(Ord. 83-36. Passed 11-7-83.)
(b) Whoever violates subsections (a)(9), (10) and (11) is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Whoever violates any other provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.