(A) Application of
rules regulations to bicycles. The provisions of
these rules regulations
this chapter that are applicable to bicycles
shall apply whenever a bicycle is operated upon a
street or roadway or upon a
path set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles, subject to the exceptions
stated in this
rule regulation.
(1) Every person riding a bicycle upon a
street or roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to
all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle governed by
these rules regulations,
this chapter except for special rules
and regulations and except for those
provisions of
these rules regulations
this chapter which by their nature can have no
application.
(2) Any person
operating a bicycle shall obey the instructions of official traffic control
signals, signs and other control devices applicable to vehicles or pedestrians,
unless otherwise directed by a
law enforcement officer, traffic control
officer,
hospital and campus security officer,
or
public safety
or transportation and parking
personnel or student traffic officer.
(3) Whenever authorized signs are erected
indicating that no right, left or "U" turn is permitted, no person operating a
bicycle shall disobey the directions of any such sign, except where such person
dismounts from the bicycle to make any such turn, in which event such person
shall then obey the rules regulations
applicable to pedestrians.
(B) Registration
:
; application
form.
(1) A person riding or
propelling a bicycle upon university property, grounds, streets or roadways, or
parking such bicycle upon university property, should register such bicycle
with transportation and parking services upon
application for registration as provided in this rule
the department of public safety.
(2) Application of bicycle
registration and a decal or sticker shall be made upon a form provided by the
department and shall be made to its director or designee.
(C) Issuance of
registration.
(1) Transportation and parking
services, upon receiving a proper application therefor, is hereby authorized to
issue a bicycle decal or sticker.
(2) The department shall not issue a
decal or sticker for any bicycle when there are reasonable grounds to believe
that the applicant is not the owner of or entitled to the possession of such
bicycle.
(3) The department shall keep a
record of the number of each decal or sticker, the date it is issued, the name
and address of the person to whom it is issued, and the number of the frame of
the bicycle for which it is issued.
(D) Attachment and removal of decals
or stickers.
(1) Transportation and parking
services, upon receiving a bicycle registration, shall issue a decal or sticker
bearing the registration number assigned to the bicycle and the name of the
university.
(2) The registrant shall cause such
decal or sticker to be firmly attached to the frame of the bicycle for which it
is issued, per instructions printed on the back of the decal or sticker, in
such position as to be plainly visible.
(3) No person shall remove a decal
or sticker from a bicycle except if the decal or sticker expires, upon transfer
of ownership or if the bicycle is dismantled and no longer operated upon a
university street or roadway.
(E) Sale or transfer of registered
bicycles. Upon the sale or other transfer of a registered bicycle, the
registrant shall remove the decal or sticker and shall surrender the same to
transportation and parking services.
(F) Records of bicycle registration.
Transportation and parking services shall maintain bicycle registration records
for a period of five years.
(G) Riding on
bicycles.
(1) A person propelling a bicycle
shall not ride other than astride a permanent and regular seat attached
thereto.
(2) No bicycle shall be used to
carry more persons at one time than the number for which it is designed and
equipped.
(H)
(C) Riding on streets,
roadways, bicycle paths and grounds.
(1)
Every person operating a bicycle upon a street or roadway shall ride as near to
the right side of the street or roadway as practical, exercising due care when
passing a standing vehicle or one proceeding in the same direction.
(2) Every person operating a bicycle upon
university streets, roadways, bicycle paths or grounds shall at all times
operate such bicycle with due regard to his or her own safety and the safety of
other persons legally upon such streets, roadways, bicycle paths or
grounds.
(3) Every person operating
a bicycle upon university streets, roadways, bicycle paths or grounds shall
yield the right of way to pedestrians on crosswalks and sidewalks.
(4) Every person operating a bicycle upon a
bicycle pathway shall yield the right of way at designated yield signs or
markings.
(5) Every person
operating a bicycle upon university property or grounds shall be restricted to
bicycle paths in those areas of the campus where such paths exist.
(6) Wherever a usable path for bicycles has
been provided adjacent to a
street or roadway, bicycle riders shall use such
path and shall not use the
street or roadway.
(I) Speed. No person shall operate a
bicycle at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions
then existing.
(J) Emerging from alley or driveway.
The operator of a bicycle emerging from an alley or driveway shall, upon
approaching a sidewalk or a sidewalk area extending across such alley or
driveway, yield the right of way to all pedestrians approaching on such
sidewalk or sidewalk area, and upon entering the street or roadway shall yield
the right of way to all vehicles approaching on such street or
roadway.
(K) Carrying articles. 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 as set forth in
section 4511.53 of the Revised Code.
(L)
(D)
Parking. No person shall park a bicycle other than in a bicycle rack or
designated bicycle parking area.
(M)
(E)
Riding on sidewalks
Signage.
(1) No person shall ride a bicycle
upon a sidewalk unless such sidewalk or parts thereof are properly marked and
designated as bike paths.
(2) Transportation and parking
services The university is hereby authorized to erect signs on any
sidewalk, street or roadway prohibiting the riding of bicycles thereon by any
person and when such signs are in place no person shall disobey the
same.
(N) Lights, signal devices, brakes
on bicycles.
(1) Every bicycle when in use at
nighttime shall emit a white light visible from a distance of at least five
hundred feet to the front and with a red reflector on the rear of a type
approved by the Ohio director of public safety that shall be visible from all
distances from one hundred feet to six hundred feet to the rear when directly
in front of lawful lower beams of headlamps on a motor vehicle and a lamp
emitting a red light visible from a distance of five hundred feet to the rear
shall be used in addition to the red reflector.
(2) No person shall operate a
bicycle unless it is equipped with a bell or other device capable of giving a
signal audible for a distance of at least one hundred feet, except that a
bicycle shall not be equipped with nor shall any person use upon a bicycle any
siren or whistle.
(3) Every bicycle shall be equipped
with an adequate brake when used on a street or highway as set forth in section
4511.56 of the Revised Code.
(O)
(F) Use of
coasterss
kateboards, roller skates, roller blades,
skateboards
coasters, or similar devices. Persons using
skateboards, roller skates, roller blades, coasters, or any similar device on
university premises are limited to riding upon sidewalks and crosswalks and
must yield the
right of way to pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorists. The use
of skateboards, roller skates, roller blades, coasters, or any similar device
is prohibited in all other areas, including without limitation, upon roadways
or bicycle paths; inside any university building; in any
parking lot, garage,
or construction area; or upon site furniture, architectural elements, walls,
steps, ramps, or site improvements.
(P) Attaching bicycles, motorcycles
to other vehicles. No person riding upon any motorcycle, bicycle, coaster,
roller skates, roller blades, skateboards, sled, or toy vehicle shall attach
the same or himself or herself to any vehicle upon a roadway. No operator shall
knowingly permit any person riding upon any motorcycle, bicycle, coaster,
roller skates, roller blades, skateboards, sled or toy vehicle to attach the
same or himself or herself to any vehicle while it is moving upon a roadway.
This paragraph does not apply to the towing of a disabled vehicle as set forth
in section 4511.54 of the Revised Code.
(Q)
(G)
Notices of
violation. The
operator of a bicycle in violation of any of the
provisions of
these rulesregulations
this chapter may be issued a
notice of violation
by
transportation and parking services or a
law enforcement officer or a
hospital and campus security officer of the
university.
(R)
(H) Impounding of bicycles, skateboards, roller
skates, roller blades, coasters or similar devices. Any bicycle, skateboard,
roller skate, roller blade, coaster, or similar device used in
violation of any
of the provisions of
these rulesregulations
this chapter may be impounded by and held in the custody of
transportation and the
university or the parking
services
operator
until there is final disposition of all
issued notices of
violation. Any impounded bicycle, skateboard, roller skate,
roller blade, coaster, or similar device held in custody by the
department
university or parking operator for longer than ninety
consecutive days may be disposed of through an approved university process.
A bicycle, skateboard, roller skate, roller blade,
coaster, or similar device that the university or the parking operator has
determined has been abandoned may be impounded by the university or the parking
operator after it has been tagged for removal.
(S) Operation of motorized bicycles.
No person shall operate a motorized bicycle upon a street or roadway or any
public or private property used by the public for purposes of vehicular traffic
or parking, unless both of the following conditions are met:
(1) The person is fourteen years of
age or older and holds either a valid operator's license issued under Chapter
4507 of the Revised Code or a valid motorized bicycle license issued after the
person has passed the test provided by the Ohio director of public
safety.
(2) The motorized bicycle is
equipped in accordance with the rules adopted and promulgated by the Ohio
director of public safety pursuant to section 4511.52.1 of the Revised
Code.
Replaces: 3335-21-18
