This chapter, applicable to skateboards, shall apply whenever
a skateboard is operated on any street or upon any highway or upon
any sidewalk or any place where pedestrians walk.
Every person operating a skateboard upon a highway or road,
dedicated or otherwise, shall operate the same in strict observance
of all laws applicable to a vehicle and the use thereof and in compliance
with all rules of the road applicable to the operation of a vehicle
and in compliance with all traffic laws which by their nature can
have an application.
The operator of a skateboard emerging from an alley, driveway
or building shall, upon approaching a sidewalk, yield the right-of-way
to all pedestrians approaching on said sidewalk.
No person shall stand, park or otherwise place in a position
of temporary storage a skateboard upon a highway, street or sidewalk
or against any building abutting a sidewalk in such manner which obstructs
or renders injury to a pedestrian or interferes with vehicular traffic.
Whenever any person shall operate a skateboard upon a sidewalk,
such person shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian and shall
give audible signal before overtaking and passing such pedestrian.
No person shall operate a skateboard at nighttime unless he
or she is wearing reflective clothing, which shall be visible from
a distance of not less than 50 feet and a maximum of 300 feet from
the front, side and rear of the skateboard when directly in front
of the lawful beams of a headlight on a motor vehicle. Reflective
clothing shall be defined, for the purposes of this chapter, as any
shirt, vest or jacket or any other readily visible piece of apparel
equipped with a reflective surface, such as phosphorescent tape or
an equivalent reflective surface.
The parent of a minor child or the guardian of any minor child
shall not authorize or knowingly permit any such child to violate
any of the provisions of this chapter.