Borough of Merchantville, NJ
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2022-09-12
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Municipal Code
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Chapter 12 Bicycles
- Municipal Code
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Abandoned Properties
- Ch 3 Affordable Housing
- Ch 4 Alarm Systems
- Ch 5 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 8 Amusement Devices
- Ch 9 Animals
- Ch 12 Bicycles
- § 12-1 Equipment required for nighttime operation.
- § 12-2 (Reserved)
- § 12-3 Audible signal required.
- § 12-4 Fancy riding prohibited.
- § 12-5 Riding on sidewalks prohibited.
- § 12-6 Hitching rides prohibited.
- § 12-7 (Reserved)
- § 12-8 Repealer.
- § 12-9 When effective.
- Ch 13 Boards and Commissions
- Ch 14 Brush, Weeds and Trees
- Ch 15 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 16 Buildings Unfit for Human Habitation
- Ch 18 Claims Procedure
- Ch 18A Crane Operation and Licensing
- Ch 19 Curfew
- Ch 19A Defined Contribution Retirement Program
- Ch 20 Demolition of Buildings
- Ch 20A Donation Clothing Bins
- Ch 21 (Reserved)
- Ch 21A Drug-Free School Zones
- Ch 22 Emergency Water Regulations
- Ch 23 (Reserved)
- Ch 24 Excavations
- Ch 25 Fees
- Ch 27 Filling Stations and Inflammable Liquids
- Ch 28 Fire Insurance Claims
- Ch 29 Fire Prevention
- Ch 30 Fires
- Ch 31 Firemen
- Ch 32 (Reserved)
- Ch 33 Fire Department
- Ch 33A Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 34 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 37 Gems, Precious Metals, Gold and Jewelry
- Ch 37A Green Team
- Ch 38 Hawking and Peddling
- Ch 38A (Reserved)
- Ch 38B Hazardous Substances
- Ch 39 Health Nuisance Code
- Ch 39A (Reserved)
- Ch 40 Launderettes
- Ch 42 Littering
- Ch 43 Loitering
- Ch 46 Noises
- Ch 48 Numbering of Property
- Ch 50 Officers and Employees
- Ch 51 Oil Burning Equipment
- Ch 53 Parks
- Ch 54 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 55 Permit Parking
- Ch 56 (Reserved)
- Ch 56A (Reserved)
- Ch 57 (Reserved)
- Ch 59 Police Department
- Ch 60 Poolrooms
- Ch 60A Public Defender Services
- Ch 60B Property Maintenance
- Ch 61 Public Garages
- Ch 63 Purchasing
- Ch 65 Raffles and Bingo Licensing
- Ch 66 Rental Properties
- Ch 66A Returned Checks
- Ch 67 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 70 Sewers
- Ch 71 Shoplifting
- Ch 71A Stormwater Management
- Ch 73 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 73A Subdivision of Land
- Ch 74 (Reserved)
- Ch 75 Swimming Pools
- Ch 77 Taxation
- Ch 79 Taxicabs
- Ch 80 (Reserved)
- Ch 81 Television Cable Franchise
- Ch 83 Unsafe Buildings
- Ch 83A Use of Tobacco, Cannabis and Marijuana Products in Public Areas
- Ch 84 Towing
- Ch 86 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 87 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 89 Water Commission
- Ch 91 (Reserved)
- Ch 93 Yard Sales
- Ch 94 Zoning
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Merchantville Borough Council 4-26-1937. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 5-27-1997]
Every bicycle when in use at nighttime shall be equipped with
a lamp on the front which shall emit a white light visible from a
distance of at least 500 feet to the front, and with a lamp on the
rear which shall emit a red light visible from a distance of at least
500 feet to rear. In addition to the red lamp, a red reflector may
be mounted on the rear which shall be visible from all distances from
50 feet to 300 feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful upper
beams of head lamps on a motor vehicle.
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Editor's Note: Former § 12-2, Equipment required
for night operation, was repealed 5-27-1997.
[Amended 5-27-1997]
No person shall operate a bicycle unless it is equipped with
a bell or other device capable of giving a signal audible for a distance
of at least 100 feet, except that a bicycle shall not be equipped
with nor shall any person use upon a bicycle any siren or whistle.
The rider of any bicycle shall not allow the same to proceed
in any street by inertia momentum, with his feet removed from the
pedals, nor shall such rider remove both hands from the handlebars
while riding the bicycle nor practice or perform any trick or fancy
riding in any street or highway of the Borough of Merchantville, nor
shall be carry upon his bicycle any other person.
No person shall ride a bicycle on any sidewalk provided that
nothing in this chapter shall be deemed or construed to prevent the
use of velocipedes or similar machines by children on any sidewalk.
[Amended 5-27-1997]
No person riding upon any bicycle, coaster, skates, sled or
toy vehicle shall attach the same or himself to any vehicle upon a
roadway and no operator of any vehicle shall knowingly allow person
riding upon any bicycle, coaster, skates, sled or toy vehicle to attach
the same or himself to the vehicle.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 12-7, Violations and
penalties, was repealed 5-27-1997.
Ordinance No. 21 and all other ordinances or parts of ordinances
inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed to the extent
of such inconsistency only.
This chapter shall become effective upon due passage and publication
according to law.
