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05-038 Wheeled Vehicle Policy

I. SCOPE

II. POLICY STATEMENT

III. POLICY

SUNY Canton recognizes that the following forms of transportation (Including but not limited to: bicycles, skateboards, electric skateboards, E-bikes, scooters, E-scooters, roller blades, hoverboard/hoverboard type vehicles) and other low impact forms of wheeled transportation are legitimate methods of both exercise and transportation. However, some people choose to utilize these items in other than a conventional manner, thereby creating a physical danger to themselves and others as well as a hazard to property. To continue to provide for the open use of college property for these modes of transportation, the following guidelines are adopted.

• No wheeled vehicles used for personal transportation are to be within any campus building, except youth strollers and those that assist disabled persons in navigating campus.
• Bicycles, E-bicycles, scooters, and E-scooters, when not in use, must be securely locked to approved bicycle racks. Items secured to trees, poles, stairways, railings, handrails, and guard rails or block wheelchair ramps, pedestrian egress, creates a safety hazard or appears to have been abandoned, may be impounded by University Police.
• Skateboarders, rollerbladers, and hoverboarders using sidewalks will do so safely and will yield the right of way to pedestrians. They will travel at a safe speed and may not do any of the following activities: jumping, riding over steps and/or curbs, riding on walls and railings.
• Skateboarders and rollerbladers, using campus roadways will travel at a safe speed, in the right lane of traffic only, as close to the righthand curb as is feasible.
• Motorized vehicles (Including but not limited to: E-scooters, E-bicycles or (bicycle with electric assist), mopeds, motorcycles) should not be operated on sidewalks or parked in any manner to block or impede pedestrian egress, emergency exits, or handicap access feature to any campus building. Motorized vehicle will travel at a safe speed and yield to pedestrians.
• Owners must be present during all charging of hoverboards, E skateboards, E-bicycles, E-scooters and follow the operations manual for proper charging, storage, repair and maintenance.

IV. DEFINITIONS

V. OTHER RELATED INFORMATION

From New York State Department of Motor Vehicles:

Electric scooters and bicycles and other unregistered vehicles

Operating an electric scooter or bicycle with electric assist

Effective April 2020 - the law allows people to operate bicycles with electric assist (e-bikes) on some streets and highways in New York State.

Effective August 2, 2020 - the law allows people to operate electric scooters (e-scooters) and bicycles with electric assist (e-bikes) on some streets and highways in New York State.

Electric scooter - a type of device with handlebars, a floorboard or a seat, and an electric motor that can be powered by the electric motor and/or human power.

Bicycle with electric assist - multiple classes of bicycle with an electric motor and operable pedals. A bicycle with electric assist doesn’t qualify for a registration as a motorcycle, limited use motorcycle, moped or ATV and doesn’t have the same equipment.

You can operate an electric scooter or bicycle with electric assist on some streets and highways in New York State:

• You can operate these devices on highways with a posted speed limit of 30 MPH or less.
• Municipalities can further regulate the time, place and manner of operation of these devices.
• You cannot operate these devices on a sidewalk except as authorized by local law or ordinance.

Note: An electric scooter or bicycle with electric assist cannot be registered but still may be operated on some streets and highways in New York State.

1. Electric scooter. Every device weighing less than one hundred pounds that
   1. has handlebars, a floorboard or a seat that can be stood or sat upon by the operator, and an electric motor,
   2. can be powered by the electric motor and/or human power, and
   3. has a maximum speed of no more than twenty miles per hour on a paved level surface when powered solely by the electric motor.
      Note: It is illegal to operate an electric scooter (as defined in §114-e of NYS VTL) in excess of fifteen miles per hour.

2. Bicycle with electric assist. A bicycle which is no more than thirty-six inches wide and has an electric motor of less than seven hundred fifty watts, equipped with operable pedals, meeting the equipment and manufacturing requirements for bicycles adopted by the Consumer Product Safety Commission under 16 C.F.R. Part 1512.1 et seq. and meeting the requirements of one of the following three classes:
   1. "Class one bicycle with electric assist." A bicycle with electric assist having an electric motor that provides assistance only when the person operating such bicycle is pedaling, and that ceases to provide assistance when such bicycle reaches a speed of twenty miles per hour.
   2. "Class two bicycle with electric assist." A bicycle with electric assist having an electric motor that may be used exclusively to propel such bicycle, and that is not capable of providing assistance when such bicycle reaches a speed of twenty miles per hour.
   3. "Class three bicycle with electric assist." Solely within a city having a population of one million or more, a bicycle with electric assist having an electric motor that may be used exclusively to propel such bicycle, and that is not capable of providing assistance when such bicycle reaches a speed of twenty-five miles per hour.

VI. PROCEDURES

VII. FORMS

VIII. AUTHORITY

IX. HISTORY

X. APPENDICES

XII. FREQUENCY OF REVIEW AND UPDATE

Policies will have a normal review period of every five (5) years unless required otherwise.

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