The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1899-07-06
Bicycle Riders,
ATTENTION.
CHAPTER cxxx.
AN ACT ooNonRNrNe THE USE OF Bic

AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF BICYCLES.
Section !. Whoever, without the permit pro-
Rnpnc highway, street, square, or park, within
az o s
miles an hour, or rides such machine on q side
wall. or in the streets, squares, or parks Of any
clLy, Town or borough, unless the same is pro-
vtded with suitable alarm bell adapted for use
by the rider, or shall fail to ring such alarm bell
within reasonable distance before overtaktng
and passing any person, or rides snch machine
on sidewalk. shall be punished by q npe not
exc, eSxcHed,ng twenty dollars for each ofense. and
stoned by such unlawful act.
Sec. 3. The term sidewalk" as used in this
by city, town, or borough and any walk which
is reserved by custom for the use of pedestrians,
use. u It shall not include crosswaiks, nor shsli %
it include footpaths on portions of public high
ways outside OF the thickly-settled parts OF
by travel and are not improved by such cities,
towns, or boroughs, or by abuttors. The terms
shall be deemed to include all vehicles propelled
by the person riding the same. by foot or hand
power. The terms ''park" and square" as used
the control of park commissioners. or of park
board, or special park department of town,
borough Or city, having power to make regula;,
not in any way abridge the powers of such COM
missioners, board, or department
Sec. 3. The mayor of city, the selectmen of
q town, or the warden or the committee OF any
borough may, in their discretion upon any spec
S s or when In their they
person or persons or to the public, to ride such
machines, during specified time, or until such
permit Is revoked, upon specified portions of the
public ways of such city. borough, or thickly
populated portion OF any village, at any rate OF
speed exceeding ten miles an hour; and may
annex such other reasonable conditions to such
permits as they shall deem proper. The city
council Of q city, the selectmen OF town, and
the warden and burgesses OF borough may al
50, under such conditions as they may deem
proper, permit the use OF velocipedes or other
similar machines by children on any sidewalk
IN any pubic way, square, or park, In such city,
town or borough. tw ~
Sec. 4. Proceedings for the enforcement of
the penalties imposed by this act shall be insti-
tuted within fifteen days from the time the Of
tense is committed.
See. 8. No city, town or borough shall have
any power to make any ordinance, bylaw, or
regulation respecting the use of bicycles or trt-
cycles, except as provided in section three of
thg tds aet a and except as provided In said Sec
heretofore or hereafter made by city, town, or
borough, in respect to bicycles or tricycles,
Sec 8. so much Of chapter CCLXXXIX OF the
public acts of 1895, entitled an act concerning
coasttng and the use of bicycles, as relates to
bicycles, is hereby repealed.
Approved, April 80, 1897.
CHAPTER CCIII.
AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF BICYCLES ON
HIGHWAYS.
The word "vehicle," wherever it occurs in Sec
ttonS 2689 $780, and 1891 of the general statutes
shall be construed to include bicycles and tricy-
cles, and the word "driver" shall be construed
| to include any person riding or propelling BIZ
cycle or tricycle.; proUtded, that II one OF the
vehicles referred to in said section 28S9 is bi
cycle or tricycle., fair opportunity to pass, and
not necessarily one half the Travelled path, shall
be given.
Approved, June I, 1897.
| AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF BICYCLES.
Section 1. All rubber-tired vehicles while in
use in the public streets and highways, shall
| show, from one hour after sunset until one hour
before sunrise, light or lights so placed as to
be seen from the front. Such light or lights
| shall be of suf1cient Illuminating power to be
visible at distance of two hundred feet.
Sec. g. Any person driving or directing any
/ such vehicle upon public street or highway
| between the hours mentioned in section one,
without light, as prescribed In said section,
| shall be fined not more than five dollars.
/ Sec. y. The court before which the accused is
tried may remit the penalty provided herein
whenever it may appear that the failure to pro-
vide light as required by this act is the result
| of accident.
| CHAPTEB CXCvI.
i Any of1icer having the custody of any person
| arrested for violation of any law relating &c
the use of bicycles may, upon the pledge of the
bicycle used by such person, release such person
from custody. 1t shall be the duty OF the Officer
taking such pledge forthwith 20 give informa
tfon to the proper prosecuting officer of the of
fence for which such person has been arrested.