A.
No person shall ride upon any portion of any vehicle
not designed or intended for the use of passengers when the vehicle
is in motion. This provision shall not apply to any person whose employment
requires him to ride upon portions of a vehicle not normally intended
for passengers. Such persons may include but are not restricted to
trash collectors, firemen and newspaper deliverymen.
B.
The driver of a vehicle shall not back the same unless
such movement can be made with safety and without interfering with
other traffic.
C.
No person shall drive any vehicle upon a sidewalks,
except to cross a sidewalk at a permanent or duly authorized temporary
driveway.
D.
No driver shall enter an intersection or a marked
crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the
intersection or crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle he or she is
operating without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians,
notwithstanding any traffic control signal indication to proceed.
E.
No person on roller skates or riding in or by means
of any coaster, toy vehicle or similar device shall go upon any roadway
except while crossing a street; and when so crossing, such person
shall be granted all of the rights and be subject to all of the duties
applicable to pedestrians.
F.
It shall be unlawful for any person to remove, deface,
mutilate or alter in any way any official traffic control device,
sign, signal or marking erected under the authority of this chapter.
G.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, maintain
or display upon or in view of any public street any unauthorized sign,
signal, marking or device which purports to be or is an imitation
of or resembles an official device, sign or marking or which attempts
to direct the movement of traffic or which hides from view or interferes
with the effectiveness of any official traffic control device.
H.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to
ride, drive or haul any horse, cow or other like animal upon or over
any of the sidewalks in the City.
I.
Except on streets which may be designated by the Mayor
and roped off or protected by signs, it shall be unlawful for any
person to coast, slide or ride with or on any sled or sleigh or to
cause or permit any vehicle, by whatever name called, other than motor
vehicles, wagons, carts, bicycles or other similar vehicles, to roll
on or run by gravitation along, over or upon any sidewalk, street,
alley or highway within the City.
A.
The Mayor is authorized to designate, by appropriate
devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks
at intersections and at such other places where in his opinion there
is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway. The Mayor
is also authorized to establish pedestrian safety zones of such kind
and character and at such places as he may deem necessary for the
protection of pedestrians.
B.
Except where otherwise indicated by a crosswalk or
other official traffic control devices, a pedestrian shall cross a
roadway at right angles to the curb or by the shortest route to the
opposite curb.
C.
Pedestrian traffic shall have the right-of-way over
vehicular traffic at all intersections at which a stop sign or a yield
sign has been erected and whenever crossing a roadway within a crosswalk.
D.
Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point not
protected by stop signs, yield signs or pedestrian crosswalks shall
yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
E.
Whenever a vehicle is stopped at a crosswalk, an intersection
or at any other place for the purpose of permitting a pedestrian to
cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from
the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle.
F.
No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose
of soliciting a ride.
G.
No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose
of soliciting employment, business or contributions from the occupant
of any vehicle.
A.
Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway shall
be granted all of the rights and be subject to all of the duties applicable
to the driver of a vehicle by this chapter, except as to special regulations
in this section and except as to those provisions of this chapter
which, by their nature, can have no application.
B.
Any person operating a bicycle shall obey the instructions
of official traffic control devices applicable to vehicles, unless
otherwise directed by a police officer, unless such person dismounts
from the bicycle, in which event such person shall then obey the regulations
applicable to pedestrians.
C.
No person fifteen (15) or more years of age shall
ride a bicycle upon any public sidewalk.
D.
Whenever any person is riding a bicycle upon a sidewalk,
such person shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian on the
sidewalk.
E.
A person propelling a bicycle shall not ride other
than on or astride a permanent and regular seat attached thereto.
No bicycle shall be used to carry more persons at one (1) time than
the number for which it is designed or equipped.
F.
No person riding a bicycle shall attach it or himself
or herself to any vehicle upon a roadway.
G.
Every person operating a bicycle upon a roadway shall
ride as near to the right side of the roadway as practical.
H.
Every bicycle in use upon a public street at any time
between the hours from sunset to sunrise shall be equipped with a
lamp on the front which emits a white light visible from a distance
of at least five hundred (500) feet to the front and a red reflector
or lamp on the rear which shall be visible from a distance of at least
five hundred (500) feet to the rear when in line with the normal lower
beams of headlamps on a motor vehicle.
I.
Every bicycle in use upon a public street shall be
equipped with a brake which will enable the operator to make the braked
wheels skid on dry, level, clean pavement.
J.
Every bicycle in use upon a public street shall be
equipped with a horn, bell or other similar warning device capable
of giving a signal audible for a distance of at least one hundred
(100) feet.
