Every person riding a bicycle on a roadway shall be granted all the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this Title VII, except as to special regulations in this Title VII and except as to those provisions of this Title VII which by their nature can have no application. (ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 11-1502)
Any person operating a bicycle shall obey the instructions of official traffic-control devices applicable to vehicles unless otherwise directed by a police officer. Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no right turn or left turn or U-turn is permitted, no person operating a bicycle shall disobey the direction of any sign, except where the person dismounts from the bicycle to make any turn, in which event the person shall then obey the regulations applicable to pedestrians.
No person riding a bicycle, coaster, roller skates, sled, or any toy vehicle on any street shall cling to or attach himself, herself or his or her vehicle to any vehicle upon a roadway. (ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 11-1504)
No person shall park a bicycle upon a street. Bicycles may only be parked on sidewalks in such a manner as to afford the least obstruction to pedestrian traffic.
[Amended 5-26-1992 by Ord. No. 92-06; 4-12-1993 by Ord. No. 93-10; 6-14-2004 by Ord. No. 04-19; 2-22-2010 by Ord. No. 10-06]
No person shall operate or use a bicycle, skateboard, roller blades, or roller skates on a Village sidewalk or Village street within the business district or within the Village pavilion in Lion's Park. For the purposes of this section, the "business district" is defined as follows: the sidewalk on the east side of Broadway from Walnut Street on the south to Division Street on the north and the paved street area of Broadway from Division Street on the north to Walnut Street on the south.
[Amended 7-27-2016 by Ord. No. 16-16]
A. 
Every bicycle, when used during the period when lighted lamps are required under this Title VII, shall be equipped on the front with a lamp which shall emit a white light visible from a distance of at least 500 feet to the front and with a red reflector on the rear of a type approved by the Department which shall be visible from all distances from 100 feet to 600 feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful lower beams of headlamps on a motor vehicle. A lamp emitting a red light visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear may be used in addition to the red reflector.
B. 
Every bicycle shall be equipped with a brake which will adequately control movement of and stop and hold such bicycle.
C. 
A bicycle shall not be equipped with nor shall any person use upon a bicycle any siren.
D. 
No person shall sell a new bicycle or pedal for use on a bicycle that is not equipped with a reflex reflector conforming to specifications prescribed by the Department, on each pedal, visible from the front and rear of the bicycle during darkness from a distance of 200 feet.
E. 
No person shall sell or offer for sale a new bicycle that is not equipped with side reflectors. Such reflectors shall be visible from each side of the bicycle from a distance of 500 feet and shall be essentially colorless or red to the rear of the center of the bicycle and essentially colorless or amber to the front of the center of the bicycle provided. The requirements of this subsection may be met by reflective materials which shall be at least 3/16 of an inch wide on each side of each tire or rim to indicate as clearly as possible the continuous circular shape and size of the tires or rims of such bicycle and which reflective materials may be of the same color on both the front and rear tire or rim. Such reflectors shall conform to specifications prescribed by the Department.
F. 
No person shall sell or offer for sale a new bicycle that is not equipped with an essentially colorless front-facing reflector.
G. 
The parent of any child and the guardian of any ward shall not authorize or knowingly permit any child or ward to violate any provision of this section.