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SALT LAKE CITY ORDINANCE
No. 64 of 2003
(Amending bicycles rules and regulations)
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 12.80.070, SALT LAKE CITY CODE,
RELATING TO BICYCLE RULES AND REGULATIONS -UNLAWFUL ACTS.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah:
SECTION 1. That Section 12.80.070, Salt Lake City Code,pertaining to bicycle rules and
regulations -unlawful acts be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows:
12.80.070 Riding rules and regulations-Unlawful acts.
A. It is unlawful for operators of bicycles:
1. When riding upon a sidewalk to fail to yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and
sound a warning device before overtaking or passing any pedestrian;
2. To ride more than two abreast upon any street;
3. To proceed other than single file upon any sidewalk;
4. To carry extra passengers or carry any packages,bundles or articles which would
require the removal of the hand or hands from the handlebars of the bicycle;
5. To permit the bicycle such operator is riding to be towed by another vehicle or
bicycle;
6. To ride any bicycle upon any sidewalk within the central traffic district, as defined
in Section 12.04.090 of this title, or its successor, and as described in Schedule 1 of this title, set
out in Chapter 12.104, or its successor, and made a part hereof by reference, or on any other area
where prohibited by signs,provided, however, the foregoing shall not apply to police officers in
the scope and course of their employment;
7. To carry more persons at a time than the number for which the bicycle is designed
to carry on seats firmly attached thereto;
8. When riding upon a roadway marked with a bicycle lane to ride upon the sidewalk
or any portion of the roadway outside the marked bicycle lane except when making a left turn;
B. A person operating a bicycle upon a roadway at less than the normal speed of traffic at the
time and place and under the conditions then existing shall ride as near as practicable to the right-
hand edge of the roadway except when:
1. Overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction,
2. Preparing to make a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway,
3. Traveling straight through an intersection that has a right-turn only lane that is in
conflict with the straight through movement,
4. Reasonably necessary to avoid conditions that make it unsafe to continue along the
right-hand edge of the roadway including fixed or moving objects, parked or moving vehicles,
bicycles, pedestrians, animals, surface hazards, or a lane that is too narrow for a bicycle and a
vehicle to travel safely side by side within the lane, or
5. On a roadway, other than a limited-access highway, designed and signposted for one-
way traffic and which has two or more marked traffic lanes, in which case such person may ride
as near to the left side of the left through lane as is safe.
C. A person operating a bicycle upon a roadway shall operate in the designated direction of
traffic.
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon the date of its first
publication.
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Passed by the City Council of Salt Lake City,Utah this 9th day of September ,
2003.
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ATTEST:
CHI EPUT Y RE O ER
Transmitted to Mayor on September 9, 2003
Mayor's Action: K Approved. Vetoed.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
CHIE DEPUTY C RECO ER
SEAL APPROVED AS TO FORM
Salt Lake City Attor ey's Office
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Published: September 22, •
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