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-3- <br />Section 7. Safe Riding Regulations: <br />(a) Any person operating a bicycle, adult tricycle or unicycle shall obey <br />the instructions of official traffic-control signals, signs and other control devices <br />applicable to vehicles, unless otherwise directed by a police officer. <br />(b) Persons riding bicycles, tricycles or unicycles upon a street shall ride <br />in single file only and not abreast except on paths or parts of streets set aside for <br />the exclusive use of bicycles, tricycles or unicycles. <br />(c) Wherever a designated usable path for bicycles, tricycles or unicycles <br />has been provided adjacent to a street, bicycle, tricycle or unicycle riders shall <br />use such path and shall not use the street. <br />(d) No person shall ride a bicycle, tricycle or unicycle upon a sidewalk <br />upon or along which signs have been erected by authority of the Director of Safety <br />prohibiting such bicycle, tricycle or unicycle riding. <br />(e) Whenever a person is riding a bicycle, tricycle or unicycle upon a side- <br />walk or street, such a person shall yield the right of way to any pedestrian and <br />shall give an audible signal before attempting to overtake and pass a pedestrian or <br />another bicycle, tricycle or unicycle, this audible signal must be given only by bell <br />or other warning device capable oF, giving an audible signal and shall be given at such <br />a distance and in such a manner as not to startle person or persons being overtaken <br />and passed. <br />(f) Whenever a person is riding a bicycle, tricycle or unicycle upon a side- <br />walk, the person before overtaking and passing a blind person carrying a white cane <br />shall dismount and overtake on foot. <br />(g) When a bicycle, tricycle or unicycle is operated on the street, the <br />operator shall give hand signals before turning, changing lanes, or stopping. Such <br />signals shall conform with Motor Vehicle Laws of Ohio. <br />(h) Every rider of a bicycle, tricycle or unicycle shall exercise due care <br />to avoid colliding with any pedestrian or any vehicle upon any roadway, sidewalk <br />or bicycle, tricycle or unicycle path, or endangering the life, limb or property of <br />any person while in the lawful use of the streets, sidewalks or any other private or <br />public property. <br />Section 8. Riding on Bicycles, Tricycles or Unicycles <br />(a) A person operating a bicycle, tricycle or unicycle shall not ride <br />other than astride a permanent and regular seat attached thereto nor carry any other <br />person upon such bicycle, tricycle or unicycle other than upon a firmly attached and <br />regular seat thereon, nor shall any person ride upon a bicycle, tricycle or unicycle <br />other than upon such a firmly attached and regular seat. <br />(b) No bicycle, tricycle or unicycle shall be used to carry more persons <br />at one time than the number for which it is designed and equipped. <br />(c) No person shall operate a bicycle, tricycle or unicycle at a speed <br />greater than is reasonable and proper under the conditions then existing. <br />(d) The operator of a bicycle, tricycle or unicycle emerging from an alley, <br />driveway or building shall, upon approaching a sidewalk or the sidewalk area extending <br />