§ 11-3003 — DEFINITIONS

Sec. 11-3003. - DEFINITIONS.

As used in this chapter, except where the context clearly requires otherwise, the words and expressions defined in this section shall be held to have the meanings herein given to them: (1) Bicycle: A non-motorized vehicle with two (2) or three (3) wheels tandem, a steering handle, one (1) or two (2) saddle seats, and pedals by which the vehicle is propelled, and also bicycles with helper motors rated less than one (1) brake horsepower which produces an ordinary pedaling speed up to a maximum of twenty (20) miles per hour. (2) Bicycle Facilities: All thoroughfares that provide for bicycle travel including facilities existing within street and highway rights-of-way and facilities along separate and independent corridors. a. Shared streets: All existing public or private street rights-of-way where bicycles share the roadway with motor vehicles unless otherwise prohibited by law. Shared streets may utilize signs placed on vertical posts or markings stenciled on the pavement. b. Bicycle lane/bike lane: Those bicycle facilities on existing street rights-of-way where a portion of the roadway is set aside for exclusive bicycle use and designated by (1) signs placed on vertical posts or markings stenciled on the pavement and (2) by a painted line marking the bicycle lane on the pavement. c. Multi-use path/greenway: Those bicycle facilities on existing street rights-of-way or on a completely separated right-of-way or easement or upon mid across parks, schools or other publicly owned lands where a path is designated for the shared use of bicycles and pedestrians. The parking of any through traffic by motor vehicles is prohibited. Cross-flows by motor vehicles and pedestrians when necessary to gain access to and from a public street or alley and/or a private driveway or other entranceway are permitted. (3) Micromobility device: Any motorized transportation device made available for private use by reservation through an online application, website, or software for point-to-point trips and which is not capable of traveling at a speed greater than 20 miles per hour on level ground. This term includes motorized scooters and bicycles. (4) Motor vehicle: Every self-propelled device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, with the exception of bicycles. (5) Motorized scooter: A device with no more than three 12-inch or smaller diameter wheels that has handlebars, is designed to be stood upon by the user while riding, and is powered by an electric motor that is capable of propelling the device with or without human propulsion at a speed no greater than 20 miles per hour on a paved level surface. A motorized scooter is a type of motor vehicle. (6) Street and highway: The entire width between property lines of every way or place of whatever nature, when any part thereof is open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purposes of motor vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians unless otherwise prohibited by law.

(Ord. No. 2013-239, §3, 11-5-13; Ord. No. 2018-895, §1, 11-20-18; Ord. No. 2020-123, §§1—3, 8-18-20)