(a) Every person riding a bicycle, as defined in section
14-286, an electric bicycle or an electric foot scooter upon the traveled portion of a highway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of any vehicle subject to the requirements of the general statutes relating to motor vehicles, except (1) as to those provisions which by their nature can have no application, (2) each town, city or borough and the Office of the State Traffic Administration within its jurisdiction as provided in section
14-298 shall have authority to regulate bicycles, electric bicycles and electric foot scooters as provided in sections
14-289 and
14-298, and (3) as provided by section
14-286c. No parent of any child and no guardian of any ward shall authorize or knowingly permit any such child or ward to violate any provision of the general statutes or ordinances enacted under section
14-289 relating to bicycles, electric bicycles or electric foot scooters.
(b) Every person operating a bicycle solely by hand or foot power upon and along any sidewalk or across any roadway upon and along any crosswalk shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to pedestrians walking in such areas as provided by the general statutes, except as provided otherwise by any ordinance of any city, town or borough or any regulation of the Office of the State Traffic Administration, issued or adopted pursuant to the provisions of section 14-289.
(February, 1965, P.A. 448, S. 37; P.A. 77-375, S. 2; P.A. 78-331, S. 11, 58; P.A. 12-132, S. 25; P.A. 18-165, S. 11; P.A. 19-162, S. 10.)
History: P.A. 77-375 deleted references to tricycles, included reference to regulations imposed by state traffic commission and added Subsec. (b) re rights of cyclists operating bicycle solely by hand or foot power; P.A. 78-331 made technical changes; P.A. 12-132 replaced “State Traffic Commission” with “Office of the State Traffic Administration”, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 18-165 amended Subsec. (a) to add references to electric bicycles and make a technical change; P.A. 19-162 amended Subsec. (a) to add references to electric foot scooters, insert Subdiv. designators (1) to (3) and make technical changes.
Notes of Decisions
Giannoni v. Comm'r of Transp., 141 A.3d 784 (Conn. 2016).
· cites it 2× “" See also General Statutes § 14-286a (b) ("[e]very person operating a bicycle solely by hand or foot power upon and along any sidewalk .”
State v. Hackett, 804 A.2d 225 (Conn. App. Ct. 2002).
· cites it 2× “…§ 14-272a (public highway); General Statutes § 14-279 (highway, private road, parking area, school property); General Statutes § 14-284 (highway); General Statutes § 14-285 (highway); General Statutes § 14-286a (highway); General Statutes § 14-286b (roadway); General…”
Ipacs v. Cranford, 783 A.2d 1044 (Conn. App. Ct. 2001).
· cites it 3× “Specifically, the *446 defendants claim that the court should have instructed the jury, pursuant to General Statutes § 14-286a (a), that “[e]very person riding a bicycle .”
Cornfield Point Ass'n v. Town of Old Saybrook, 882 A.2d 117 (Conn. App. Ct. 2005).
“214 (deed’s requirement that street was to be used “for the purpose of a road and for no other purpose” did not preclude city from restricting use of street to pedestrian travel and noting that “road” does not connote thoroughfare that necessarily remains open to vehicular…”
Giannoni v. Comm'r of Transp. (Conn. 2016).
· cites it 2× “’’ See also General Statutes § 14-286a (b) (‘‘[e]very person operating a bicycle solely by hand or foot power upon and along any sidewalk .”
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