61-8-608. Bicycles, mopeds, or motorized scooters on sidewalks and bike lanes.
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61-8-608 . Bicycles, mopeds, or motorized scooters on sidewalks and bike lanes.
(1)Subject to the provisions of subsection (3)(b), a person operating a bicycle, moped, or motorized scooter on and along a sidewalk or across a roadway on and along a crosswalk shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian and shall give an audible signal before overtaking and passing any pedestrian.
(2)A person may not ride a bicycle, moped, or motorized scooter on and along a sidewalk or across a roadway on and along a crosswalk where the use of a bicycle, moped, or motorized scooter is prohibited by official traffic control devices.
(a)Except as provided in subsections
(1)and (2), a person operating a vehicle by human power on and along a sidewalk or across a roadway on and along a crosswalk has all the rights and duties applicable to a pedestrian under the same circumstances.
(b)A moped or motorized scooter may be operated on and along a sidewalk or a bicycle path only under human propulsion and may not be operated on or along a sidewalk or bicycle path if the moped or motorized scooter is under power from an independent power source.
(c)A moped or motorized scooter may be operated under human propulsion or an independent power source on a highway, in a designated bicycle lane on a highway, or on the shoulder of a highway.