§ 340.107. Motorized Bicycles.

A. 

Motorized Bicycles—Speed Limited—Equipment Required. It shall be unlawful for any person to use or operate upon any street, boulevard, parkway or in any public park in the City a motorized bicycle except under the following conditions:

1. 

The speed thereof shall never exceed twenty (20) miles per hour.

2. 

Every motorized bicycle shall be equipped with a brake or brakes which will enable its driver to stop the motorized bicycle within twenty-five (25) feet from a speed of ten (10) miles per hour on dry, level, clean pavement.

3. 

Every motorized bicycle when in use on a street or highway during the period from one-half (½) hour after sunset to one-half (½) hour before sunrise shall be equipped with the following:

a. 

A front-facing lamp on the front or carried by the rider which shall emit a white light visible at night under normal atmospheric conditions on a straight, level, unlighted roadway at five hundred (500) feet;

b. 

A rear-facing red reflector, at least two (2) square inches in reflective surface area, or a rear-facing red lamp, on the rear which shall be visible at night under normal atmospheric conditions on a straight, level, unlighted roadway when viewed by a vehicle driver under the lower beams of vehicle headlights at six hundred (600) feet;

c. 

Reflective material and/or lights on any part of the bicyclist's pedals, crank arms, shoes or lower leg, visible from the front and the rear at night under normal atmospheric conditions on a straight, level, unlighted roadway when viewed by a vehicle driver under the lawful lower beams of vehicle headlights at two hundred (200) feet; and

d. 

Reflective material and/or lights visible on each side of the bicycle or bicyclist and visible at night under normal atmospheric conditions on a straight, level, unlighted roadway when viewed by a vehicle driver under the lawful lower beams of vehicle headlights at three hundred (300) feet. The provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to motorized bicycles which comply with National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration regulations relating to reflectors on motorized bicycles.

4. 

No person shall operate a motorized bicycle on any street or highway in this City unless it is equipped in accordance with the minimum requirements for construction and equipment of MOPEDS, Regulation VESC-17, approved July, 1977, as promulgated by the Vehicle Equipment Safety Commission, this State being a party thereto as provided in Section 307.250, RSMo., and the regulation is hereby approved as provided in Section 307.260, RSMo., and the regulation shall be published in the Code of State Regulations.

5. 

He/she shall have first procured a State driver's license to operate the same.

B. 

Restrictions Upon Rental Of Motorized Bicycles. No person shall rent or let a motorized bicycle to any person unless the same is equipped as provided by this Section and unless the person renting the same has in his/her possession a valid State driver's license.

C. 

Where Motorized Bicycle May Be Operated. It shall be unlawful to operate motorized bicycles within any public park of the City, except upon regular driveways or parkways set apart for vehicular traffic.

D. 

Traffic Laws Apply To Persons Riding Motorized Bicycles. Every person riding a motorized bicycle upon a street shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle, except as to special regulations in this Section and except as to those provisions of laws and ordinances which by their nature can have no application.

Ord. No. 21 Art. XXV §§1—4, 3-11-1963