ORDINANCE 2002- 1
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING BELLE MEADE CODE Section 15-123

BE IT ORDAINED, by the City of Belle Meade as follows: Item1. Subsections 1 and 3 of ~ 15-123 of the Belle Meade Municipal Code entitled "Jogging, Bicycling, etc." are amended to read as follows:

(1) Reflecting clothing and lights. No person shall run, walk, jog, cycle on, or otherwise use or occupy any street or roadway within the City of Belle Meade except when wearing clothing, or a device, capable of reflecting light or, in the case of a cyclist, a battery or generator powered lamp emitting a white light on the front visible from a distance of five hundred feet (500') and a red reflector and red light on the real- visible from all distances from fifty (50') feet to three hundred (300') feet, during the period from one-half(1/2) hour before sunset to one-half (1/2) hour after sunrise and at all other times when vehicles are required to use lighting equipment.

(3) Bicycles. Every person operating a bicycle upon a street or roadway, within the City of Belle Meade, shall ride single file, except when (i) overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction, (ii) preparing for a left turn, or actually turning left, at an intersection or into a private driveway, or (iii) when reasonably necessary to avoid road conditions, fixed or moving objects, or other surface hazards that make it unsafe to continue along the right hand edge of the pavement, as close as practicable to, and, in any event within three (3) feet of, the right side of the roadway, moving with vehicular traffic, exercising due care at all times for his or her own safety and the safety of others." Item 2. This Ordinance shall become effective fifteen (15) days after its passage. Passed on first reading: January 8,2002 Passed on second reading January 23,2002 Mayor Peggy Warner City Recorder Dorothy L. Wheeler