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Feb. 8, 1983 BIKEWAYS -39- • uniform. The commissioner may authorize variations from (iii) When reasonably necessary to avoid conditions, the manual and specifications for the purpose of investi- including fixed or moving objects, vehicle, pedestrains, gation and research into the use and development of traffic animals, surface hazards, or narrow width lanes, that make control devices. When such authorized variation pertains it unsafe to continue along the right-hand curb or edge. to the regulation of traffic, notice of the intended regu- latory purpose shall be published in a qualified newspaper (b) Persons riding bicycles upon a roadway shall not of general circulation in the area where the research is ride more than two abreast and shall not impede the normal being conducted. and reasonable movement of traffic and, on a laned road- way,shall ride within a single lane. No other authority shall place or maintain any traffic-controlled device upon any highway under the (c) A person operating a bicycle upon a sidewalk, or jurisdiction of the commissioner except by the latter's across a roadway on a crosswalk, shall yield the right of 1 permission. way to any pedestrian and shall give an audible signal when necessary before overtaking and passing any pedes- Subd. 3.Placement and maintenance by local authori- trian. No person shall ride a bicycle upon a sidewalk within ities. Local authorities in their respective jurisdictions shall a business district unless permitted by Iocal authorities. place and maintain such traffic-control devices upon high- Local authorities may prohibit the operation of bicycles ways under their jurisdiction as they may deem necessary on any sidewalk or crosswalk under their jurisdiction. to indicate and to carry out the provisions of this chapter or local traffic ordinances, or to regulate, warn, or guide A person Iawfully operating a bicycle on a sidewalk, traffic. All such traffic-control devices hereafter erected or across a roadway or a crosswalk, shall have all the rights shall conform to the state manual and specifications. and duties applicable to a pedestrian under the same cir- cumstances. 169.222 OPERATION OF BICYCLES. Subdivision 1. Traffic laws apply. Every person operating a bicycle shall Subd. 5. Carrying articles. No person operating a bicycle have all of the rights and duties applicable to the driver of shall carry any package, .bundle, or article which prevents any other vehicle by this chapter, except in respect to the driver from keeping at least one hand upon the handle 0 those provisions in this chapter relating expressly to bars or from properly operating the brakes of the bicycle. bicycles and in respect to those provisions of this chapter which by their nature cannot reasonably be applied to Subd. 6. Bicycle equipment. (a) No person shall operate bicycles. a bicycle at nighttime unless the bicycle or its operator is equipped with a lamp which shall emit a white light visible Subd. 2. Manner and number riding. No bicycle shall from a distance of at least 500 feet to the front and with a be used to carry more persons at one time than the number red reflector of a type approved by the department of for which it is designed and equipped, except(a)on a baby public safety which is visible from all distances from 100 seat attached to the bicycle, provided that the baby seat to 600 feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful is equipped with a harness to hold the child securely in the lower beams of head lamps on a motor vehicle. No person seat and that protection is provided against the child's may operate a bicycle at any time when there is not suffi- feet hitting the spokes of the wheel or (b) in a seat at- clearly light to render persons and vehicles on the highway tacked to the bicycle operator. clearly discernible at a distance of 500 feet ahead unelss the bicycle and its operator is equipped with reflective Subd. 3. Clinging to vehicles. No person riding upon surfaces that shall be visible during the hours of darkness any bicycle, coaster, roller skates, toboggan, sled, skate from 600 feet when viewed in front of lawful lower beams • board, or toy vehicle shall attach the same or himself to of head Iamps on a motor vehicle. any street car or vehicle upon a roadway. The reflective surfaces shall include reflective materials Subd. 4. Riding on roadways. (a)Every person operating on each side of each pedal to indicate their presence from a bicycle upon a roadway shall ride as close as practicable the front or the rear and with a minimum of 20 square to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway except inches of reflective material on each side of the bicycle under any of the following situations: or its operator. Any bicycle equipped with side reflectors as required by regulations for new bicycles prescribed by (i) When overtaking and passing another vehicle pro- the United States consumer product safety commission ceeding in the same direction, shall be considered to meet the requirements for side re- flectorization contained in this subdivision. • (ii) When preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway.