Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway shall be granted all the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by the laws of this state declaring the rules of the road applicable to vehicles, or by the ordinances of the town applicable to the driver of a vehicle, except as to special regulations in this subchapter and to those provisions of state law or ordinances which, by their nature, can have no application.
(Prior Code, Ch. 18, Art. 7, § 81)