10.72.012 Bicycle use of sidewalks.

    A.  Director of Public Works to Designate Prohibitions. The director may designate and declare certain portions of any sidewalk to be prohibited for bicycle use.

    B.   Director of Public Works to Post Prohibitions. The director is authorized to erect and maintain signs adjacent to sidewalks designating prohibitions on the use of bicycles.

    C.   It is unlawful to ride a bicycle, or to coast in any vehicle upon any public sidewalk except as provided in this section.

    D.  When riding upon a sidewalk, persons riding, using, or propelling bicycles as permitted under this chapter, shall obey the following rules of the road:

    1.   It is unlawful to operate a bicycle on a sidewalk where signage has been posted to prohibit its use on sidewalks.

    2.   No person shall ride, use or propel a bicycle recklessly, or in such a manner as to cause or threaten to cause injury to him or her or herself or others, or to cause or threaten to cause damage to public or private property.

    3.   Bicycles may be ridden on all sidewalks at a speed not to exceed five miles per hour, except where signs are posted prohibiting riding bicycles on sidewalks in the following areas:

    a.   Sidewalks within a business district;

    b.   Sidewalks adjacent to any public school building when school is in session;

    c.   Sidewalks adjacent to any recreation center when in use, or any church during services; and

    d.   Any pedestrian overcrossing or other sidewalk where riding a bicycle is prohibited by posted signs.

    E.   Yielding Right-of-Way. Whenever any person is riding a bicycle upon a sidewalk, such person shall yield the right-of-way to any and all pedestrians. A person riding a bicycle upon entering a roadway or driveway from a sidewalk shall yield to all traffic.

    F.   Entering a Street. Whenever any person is riding a bicycle upon a sidewalk, such person shall enter a roadway at a roadway intersection.

    G.  Any person crossing a street within any portion of a crosswalk across such street, and in possession of a bicycle at the time, shall not ride such bicycle within such crosswalk area, but shall dismount therefrom and guide such bicycle by hand while within such crosswalk area. (Ord. 1067 § 2, 2011)