[Adopted by the City Council of the City of Lake Mills 12-15-2009 by Ord. No. 1054 as Title 6, Ch. 4, of the 2009 Code of Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 615.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
BICYCLE
Every device propelled by the feet acting upon pedals and having wheels any two of which are not less than 14 inches in diameter. For purposes of this chapter, a bicycle is a vehicle.
HIGHWAY
All public ways and thoroughfares and bridges on same. It includes the entire width between the boundary lines of every way open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purposes of vehicular travel. For the purposes of this chapter, "highway" also means "street" and "roadway."
RIGHT-OF-WAY
The privilege of the immediate use of the roadway.
YIELD RIGHT-OF-WAY TO PEDESTRIAN
The operator of a vehicle is required to reduce speed or stop if necessary, to avoid endangering, colliding with or interfering in any way with pedestrian travel.
A. 
No person shall operate a bicycle upon any street within the City unless said bicycle shall first have been properly registered and tagged as herein provided.
B. 
Every owner or operator of any bicycle within the City shall file with the Police Department a complete description of such bicycle, and such filing shall constitute a registration of such bicycle for the purposes of this chapter. Such registration shall be serially numbered and be kept on file by the Police Department as a public record.
C. 
Immediately upon the registration of a bicycle, the Lake Mills Police Department employee shall affix to such bicycle an identification tag serially numbered to correspond to the registration of such bicycle. Such tag shall thereafter remain affixed to such bicycle unless removed for replacement with another tag upon reregistration.
D. 
The fee for registering bicycles shall be $5, and the registration shall be effective for the period of time during which ownership remains unchanged.
E. 
Within 10 days after the ownership of a registered bicycle has been transferred, the new owner shall reregister the bicycle and shall pay the registration fee.
A. 
No bicycle shall be permitted on any street or highway of the City between 30 minutes after sunset and 30 minutes before sunrise without a clear, white light visible under normal atmospheric conditions from the front thereof for not less than 500 feet indicating the approach or presence of the bicycle.
B. 
No bicycle shall be permitted on any street or highway of the City between 30 minutes after sunset and 30 minutes before sunrise without a red light or reflex mirror attached to and visible for 500 feet from the rear thereof.
C. 
No person on a bicycle shall install or use a siren.
The riding of bicycles is prohibited on sidewalks adjacent to the following streets: Main Street between Water Street and Madison Street; East Lake Street between Ford Court and Main Street; West Lake Street between Main Street and a point 260 feet west from the west line of Church Street where Church Street intersects West Lake Street.
Except for the prohibition in § 264-4, riding of bicycles is permitted on all City sidewalks, subject to the following provisions:
A. 
Every person operating a bicycle upon a sidewalk shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian and shall exercise due care and give an audible signal when passing a bicycle rider or pedestrian proceeding in the same direction.
B. 
The provisions of § 264-6A through D apply when riding upon a sidewalk.
A. 
A person propelling a bicycle shall not ride other than upon or astride a permanent and regular seat attached thereto.
B. 
Except as provided in Subsection C, no bicycle may be used to carry or transport more persons at one time than the number for which it is designed.
C. 
In addition to the operator, a bicycle otherwise designed to carry only the operator may be used to carry or transport a child seated in an auxiliary child's seat or trailer designed for attachment to a bicycle if the seat or trailer is securely attached to the bicycle according to the directions of the manufacturer of the seat or trailer.
D. 
No person operating a bicycle shall carry any package, bundle or article which prevents the operator from keeping at least one hand upon the handlebars, and no person operating a bicycle shall, for any other reason, do so without keeping at least one hand upon the handlebars.
E. 
No person riding a bicycle shall attach himself or herself or his or her bicycle to any vehicle upon a roadway or street.
F. 
Unless preparing to make a left turn, every person operating a bicycle upon a roadway or street carrying two-way traffic shall ride as near as practicable to the right edge of the unobstructed traveled roadway. Every person operating a bicycle upon a roadway or street shall exercise due care when passing a standing vehicle or one proceeding in the same direction, allowing a minimum of three feet between the bicycle and the vehicle.
G. 
Persons riding bicycles upon a roadway or street shall ride single file.
H. 
Every rider of a bicycle shall, upon entering a roadway or street, yield the right-of-way to vehicles.
I. 
Every person riding a bicycle upon any street in the City shall observe all traffic signs and signals and shall stop at all stop signs.
J. 
No bicycle shall be ridden faster than is reasonable and proper and every bicycle shall be operated with reasonable regard for the safety of the operator and every person upon the streets of the City.
K. 
No person shall operate a bicycle upon any street of the City while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Any parent or guardian of any child who authorizes or knowingly permits such child to violate any provisions of this chapter may be issued a citation and may be subject, upon conviction, to a fine of $20 plus costs for a first offense, and a fine of $50 plus costs for subsequent offenses within one year of the first offense.
A. 
Any person 16 or older violating any provision of this chapter may be subject to a forfeiture of not more than $20 for the first offense, and not more than $50 for second and subsequent offenses within one year, along with the costs of prosecution.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
B. 
Any person between the ages of 12 and 16 years violating any provision of this chapter may be subject to a forfeiture of not more than $10, plus costs, for the first offense, and to a forfeiture of not more than $25, plus costs of prosecution, for second and subsequent offenses within one year.
C. 
Any person under 12 years of age violating any provision of this chapter may be issued a violation warning notice along with the following additional actions:
(1) 
First offense in one year: a warning letter sent to the parent or guardian.
(2) 
Second offense in one year: a warning letter sent to the parent or guardian requiring their signature and return of the warning notice to the Police Department.
(3) 
Third and subsequent offenses in one year may be subject to a citation being issued to the parent or guardian for violation of § 264-7.
D. 
Other remedies. Any person violating any provision of this chapter may be subject to other remedies available by law, whether those remedies are authorized by ordinance, statute, regulation, or order.