Electric Personal Assistive Mobility Device: Riding on Sidewalks, Roadways and Bicycle

Paths.

(a)Electric Personal Assistive Mobility Devices (EPAMD) shall be allowed to operate on and use safety zones, bicycle paths, and sidewalks. An Operator of an Electric Personal Assistive Mobility Device (EPAMD) shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with, and shall yield the right-of-way to, persons traveling on foot and those utilizing mobility aids.

(b)Only if safety zones, bicycle paths, and sidewalks are not available, or if available sidewalks are not Americans with Disabilities Act

(ADA)compliant, shall EPAMDs be allowed to use Guam’s roadways where the posted speed limit is twenty-five

(25)miles per hour or less.

(c)Persons operating an EPAMD on a roadway shall ride as near to the right side of the roadway as practicable, exercising due care when passing a standing vehicle or one

(1)proceeding in the same direction. They shall ride in single file; provided that upon paths or parts of roadways set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles, bicycles equipped with motors, or Electric Personal Assistive Mobility Devices, riding two

(2)abreast shall be permitted, unless otherwise prohibited by rule or regulation adopted by the Director of Public Works.

(d)An operator of an EPAMD shall be no less than sixteen

(16)years of age with one

(1)exception: Operators may be twelve to fifteen

(15)years old if accompanied and supervised by an adult who is at least eighteen

(18)years old. Operators under sixteen

(16)years of age are required to wear a Consumer Products Safety Commission-approved bicycle helmet.

(e)EPAMD tour operators shall limit tour customers to a maximum speed of eight

(8)mph while operating within Tumon Bay, as defined in paragraph C, § 3701, Title 16, Guam Code Annotated.

(f)An EPAMD operator shall give an audible signal before overtaking and passing any pedestrian.

(g)An EPAMD shall be equipped with reflectors and a headlamp when operating between one-half (½) hour after sunset and one-half (½) hour before sunrise.

(h)Any person violating any part of this § 3307.1 is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00).