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Item/Subject: Amending Chapter VI of the Ordinances of the City of
Bangor -- Skateboards and Bicycles
Responsible Department: Legal/Police
Commentary:
T e eargor Police Department has requested that this Ordinance be placed on
Me agenda, in response to complaints fron various persona visiting and
operating businesses in the downtown ares. This Ordinance is designed to
address cant re for the safety of cyclists, skateboarders, pedestrians, asd
operators ofothervehicles. This item should bo referred to the Public
Safety Committee at which time I and/ce Chief Stockford will make a
presentation in support of the enactment of this Ordinance.
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88-314
ASSIGNED To COUCILOR SAWER, JULY 11, 1988
CITY OF BANGOR
(TITLE.) f®iDillnnce Amending cnapce ur of the ordinance of the City of
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Bangor -- Skateboards and Bicycles
Be it ordained 6y tke Cita Coanci6 of Me City ofBanpor, as / llomm.
THAT Chapter VI
of the Ordinances
of
the city of Ba ]or
is
hereby amended by
the addition of
a new Article 15,
to
read as follows:
ARTICLE 15
SEATBBO.AApl/3 AND BICYCLES
Sec. 1 Title. This Ordinance shall be know and] may he cited as the "city of
Bangor Ordinance Regulating the Operation of Bicycles and
Skateboards."
Sec. z Definitions. For purfooes of this Ordinance, the following words
shall have the follwirg meaning:
(e) Bicycle. Every device propellel by human power upon xhich
any person may ride, having two tatlem wheels either
of which is more than 16" in diameter.
(b) Central Business zone. That portion of the City of Bangor
designated as the Central Business
(C-4) Zone in Chapter VIII, Article 4 of the Ordinances of the
City of Bangor and in the "Zoning Map of the City of Bangor",
as they my be amended from time to time.
(c) City. ffie City of Bangor.
(d) Operate. To ride upon, drive, propel, or otherwise convey
oneself or others by the use of a bicycle or
skateboar
(e) skateboard. A single platform counted on wheels, which is
designed to be propelled by huuuan fewer.
(f) Vehicle. Bicycles and/or skateboards.
Sec. 3. Skateboard Operation. No person shall operate a skateboard on any
street, sidewalk or other public way in any
portion of the City designated as a Central Business (C-4) Zane.
Sec. 4 Bicycle Operation.
(a) M person shall operate a bicycle on any sidewalk in any
portion of the City.
(b) No person shall operate a bicycle in any City park, as
designated in Chapter VI, Article 12, Section 3, located
in any fortion of the Central Business (C-4) wee.
Sec. 5 Civil Penalties. Violation of this Ordinance nay to punished by
a civil penalty of not less than d enty five
Dollars ($25.00) and not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or
by impoundment of the vehicle Aaich was operated in the concussion
of such violation for a period not W exceed thirty (30) days, or
both.
88-316
ORDINANCE
IN CITY COUNCIL ( TI'TIE,J Amending Chapter VI of the
July 11, 1988
Refer to Public Safety. Ordinances of the City of Bangor
Mtf/6. — Skateboards and Bicycles
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July 25, 1988
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Passed by thefollowingyea and
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no votes. Lowland, voting yea:
Seaachettbert, Stone Fraand Til. Sflvye[.
Saul Stone and Tilley.
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for Abse
Councilor absent: Sullivan.
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