No person shall operate a bicycle:
A. Without due regard for the safety and rights of pedestrians and drivers
and occupants of all other vehicles, and so as to endanger the life,
limb or property of any person while in the lawful use of the streets
or sidewalks or any other public or private property.
B. Without exercising reasonable and ordinary control over such bicycle.
C. By trick riding or in a weaving or zigzag course, unless such irregular
course is necessary for safe operation in compliance with the law.
The operator of a bicycle emerging from an alley, driveway or
building shall, upon approaching a sidewalk or the sidewalk area extending
across any alley or driveway, yield the right-of-way to all pedestrians
approaching on such sidewalk area and upon entering the street shall
yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching on said street.
Whenever any person operates a bicycle or motorized bicycle
in violation of any section of this chapter, the bicycle may be seized
by any member of the Suffolk County Police Department or Village of
Lake Grove Code Enforcement Office and impounded by the Village of
Lake Grove. A bicycle or motorized bicycle so impounded shall be surrendered
to the owner, or if the owner is a minor, to the parents or guardians
of such minor upon the payment of any fines or penalties due for violations
of this chapter by the owner or operator of that bicycle. A full explanation
of the reason for the impounding shall be made to the owner, parent
or guardian. A complete record of each such impounding shall be kept
in the office of the Lake Grove Village Office of Code Enforcement.
Any person committing an offense against any provision of this
chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a violation pursuant
to the Penal Law of the State of New York, punishable by a fine not
exceeding $250.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this
chapter shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to
be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the
remainder thereof but shall be confined in its operation to the clause,
sentence, paragraph, section or part thereof directly involved in
said judgment.