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• AN ORDINANCE CHANGING THE STREET DESCRIPTION OF PEDESTRIAN MALL IN SECTION 16-63.5 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottes- ville, Virginia that Section 16-63.5 of the City Code be amended and reordained as follows: Sec. 16-63.5. Operation generally. (a) Every person riding a bicycle upon a street, roadway or other public vehicular area shall be subject to the provisions of this code and the provisions of chapter 4 of title 46.1 of the Code of Virginia applicable to drivers of motor vehicles, unless the context of any such provision clearly indicates otherwise. (b) Every person operating a bicycle upon a street or highway shall ride as near to the right side thereof as practicable, exercising due care when passing a standing vehicle or one proceeding in the same direction. (c) Persons riding bicycles upon streets or highways shall not ride two or more abreast except on paths or parts of highways • or streets set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles. (d) Wherever a useable path for bicycles has been provided adjacent to a roadway, bicycle riders shall use such path and shall not use the roadway. (e) No person operating a bicycle upon a highway or street shall carry any package, bundle or article which prevents the driver from keeping at least one hand upon the handlebars. (f) No person riding upon any bicycle shall attach the same or himself to any other vehicle on the roadway. (g) No person riding a bicycle on a street, highway or other public vehicular area shall permit any person to ride on the handlebars. (h) No person shall ride a bicycle on any sidewalk or other area designated exclusively for pedestrian traffic including, without limitation, the pedestrian mall area on Main Street between East Seventh Street and Water Street Sixth Street,- N. -E. - and the intersection of West Mein Street and Preston Avenue. Approved by Council • October 20, 1986 C erk of Council 1 86-7-34