                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

USE OF ROLLER SKATES AND SKATEBOARDS ON SIDEWALKS AND SHARED-USE PATHS;
OPERATION OF BICYCLES AND CERTAIN MOTORIZED AND ELECTRIC ITEMS AND DEVICES ON
SIDEWALKS, CROSSWALKS, AND SHARED-USE PATHS; LOCAL ORDINANCES (§ 46.2-904)

The governing body of any county, city, or town may by ordinance prohibit the
use of roller skates, skateboards, and personal delivery devices, and/or the
riding of bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, motorized
skateboards or scooters, motor-driven cycles, or electric power-assisted
bicycles on designated sidewalks or crosswalks, including those of any church,
school, recreational facility, or any business property open to the public where
such activity is prohibited. Signs indicating such prohibition shall be posted
in general areas where use of roller skates, skateboards, and personal delivery
devices, and/or bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility devices, motorized
skateboards or scooters, motor-driven cycles, or electric power-assisted bicycle
riding is prohibited.
		A person riding a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device,
motorized skateboard or scooter, motor-driven cycle, or electric power-assisted
bicycle on a sidewalk or shared-use path or across a roadway on a crosswalk
shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian and shall give an audible signal
before overtaking and passing any pedestrian. A personal delivery device
operated on a sidewalk or shared-use path or across a roadway on a crosswalk
shall yield the right-of-way to, or otherwise not unreasonably interfere with,
pedestrians.
		No person shall ride a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device,
motorized skateboard or scooter, motor-driven cycle, or electric power-assisted
bicycle or operate a personal delivery device on a sidewalk, or across a roadway
on a crosswalk, where such use of bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility
devices, personal delivery devices, motorized skateboards or scooters,
motor-driven cycles, or electric power-assisted bicycles is prohibited by
official traffic control devices. No person shall park a bicycle, electric
power-assisted bicycle, or motorized skateboard or scooter in a manner that
impedes the normal movement of pedestrian or other traffic or where such parking
is prohibited by official traffic control devices.
		A person riding a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device,
motorized skateboard or scooter, motor-driven cycle, or electric power-assisted
bicycle on a sidewalk or shared-use path or across a roadway on a crosswalk
shall have all the rights and duties of a pedestrian under the same
circumstances. A personal delivery device operated on a sidewalk or shared-use
path or across a roadway on a crosswalk shall have all the rights and duties of
a pedestrian under the same circumstances.
		Except as otherwise expressly provided, the governing body of a county, city,
or town may not enact or enforce any ordinance or resolution related to (i) the
design, manufacture, maintenance, licensing, registration, taxation, assessment
or other charges, certification, or insurance of a personal delivery device or
(ii) the types of property that may be transported by a personal delivery
device.
		A violation of any ordinance adopted pursuant to this section or any provision
of this section shall be punishable by a civil penalty of not more than $50.

HISTORY: 1981, c. 585, § 46.1-229.01; 1984, c. 124; 1989, c. 727; 1999, c. 943;
2001, c. 834; 2002, c. 254; 2003, cc. 29, 46; 2006, cc. 529, 538; 2013, c. 783;
2017, cc. 251, 788; 2019, c. 780; 2020, c. 1269.