§ 73.22. RIGHT-OF-WAY.

(A) The operator of a bicycle emerging from an alley, private road, driveway or building shall, upon approaching a sidewalk or the sidewalk area extending across any alley, yield the right-of-way to all pedestrians on the sidewalk and to all vehicles approaching on the street.

(B) Any person operating a bicycle upon a sidewalk shall do so at that person’s own risk and shall yield the right-of-way to any and all pedestrians thereon.

(C) When any person operating a bicycle on a sidewalk is involved in a collision with a pedestrian, the operator shall be presumed to have been negligent.

(D) The presumption provided in division (C) of this section shall not apply to Police Officers operating bicycles on the sidewalks or streets of the City in the course and scope of their employment although the Officers may be held negligent for actions which were in fact negligent.

(‘63 Code, § 10-13-9) (Ord. 98-27, passed 7-20-98) Penalty, see § 10.99