Rancho Santa Margarita Municipal Code Ch. 12.03 Bicycles, Play Vehicles, and Pedestrians

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State Law reference— Bicycles, Vehicle Code § 21200 et seq.

(a) Direction of travel. Persons riding or operating a bicycle on a bicycle trail or path may proceed in either direction except on those trails or paths designated for one-way traffic by appropriate markings or signs defined by the direction of adjacent vehicular traffic.

(b) Walking bicycles.: Bicycles may be walked subject to all provisions of law applicable to pedestrians.

(OCC § 6-4-500; Ord. No. 3768, § 2, 11-7-1989; Ord. No. 98-15, § 64, 12-8-1998)

(a) Riding on sidewalks. Bicycles may be ridden on all sidewalks at a speed not to exceed five miles per hour except upon sidewalks within a business district, upon sidewalks adjacent to any public school building when school is in session, recreation center when in use, or church during services, or over any pedestrian overcrossing or other sidewalk where prohibited by posted signs.

(b) City Engineer to designate prohibitions. The City Engineer may designate and declare certain portions of sidewalk to be prohibited to bicycle use.

(c) City Engineer to post prohibitions. The City Engineer is authorized to erect and maintain signs adjacent to sidewalks designating limits of bicycle prohibitions.

(d) Yielding right-of-way. Whenever any person is riding a bicycle upon a sidewalk, such person shall yield right-of-way to any and all pedestrians. A person riding a bicycle upon entering a roadway or driveway from a sidewalk shall yield to all traffic.

(OCC § 6-4-501; Ord. No. 3768, § 2, 11-7-1989)

State Law reference— Authority to regulate operation of bicycles on sidewalks, Vehicle Code § 21100(h).

(a) No person shall ride a skateboard, roller skates, or other conveyance propelled by human power, other than a bicycle, or cause or permit same to roll or coast on the roadway of any highway in the City.

(b) The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply to cul-de-sacs where the length of the cul-de-sac is 500 feet or less.

(OCC § 6-4-502; Ord. No. 3768, § 2, 11-7-1989)

The City Engineer is hereby authorized to place and maintain signs or markings to prohibit or to restrict pedestrian crossings at certain legs of intersection.

(OCC § 6-4-503; Ord. No. 3768, § 2, 11-7-1989)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 09-02, §§ 3, 4, adopted February 25, 2009, repealed section 12.03.050 in its entirety, which pertained to prohibited pedestrian crossing, and derived from Ord. No. 02-04, §§ 2—6, adopted June 6, 2002. Sections 3 and 4 of the 2009 ordinance read as follows: Section 3. The City Council has determined that prohibiting pedestrian crossings of certain streets can best be attained by establishing No Pedestrian Crossing Zones on segments of the specified streets, except at the intersections. Pursuant to California Vehicle Code Section 32, the City Council elected to adopt such prohibitions by Resolution rather than by Ordinance. As a result, the existing Ordinance 02-04, and Rancho Santa Margarita Municipal Code Section 12.03.050, shall be repealed and replaced with a Resolution establishing No Pedestrian Crossing Zones adopted concurrently herewith. Section 4. Upon the effective date of this Ordinance, Ordinance 02-04, and Rancho Santa Margarita Municipal Code Section 12.03.050 are hereby repealed. Nothing herein shall limit or have the effect of limiting the effectiveness of the Resolution establishing No Pedestrian Crossing Zones adopted concurrently herewith.