Coconut Creek, FL Mobility & Curb Rules: Bike Lane Rules (2026)

Section 19-15 of the Coconut Creek Code of Ordinances, in Chapter 19 (Traffic and Motor Vehicles), is the city's bicycle rule. The code contains no separate bike-lane obstruction provision, so the operative language is the riding rules and the bicycle-path requirement. Under subsection (a), a person riding a bicycle on a roadway has all the rights and duties of a motor vehicle driver under state law. Subsection (f) requires every person operating a bicycle on a roadway to ride as near to the right side as practicable and to use due care when passing a standing vehicle or one moving in the same direction. Subsection (g) limits riders to two abreast, except on paths or parts of roadways set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles.

Subsection (h) is the path rule: whenever a usable path for bicycles has been provided adjacent to a roadway, riders must use that path and must not use the roadway. Subsection (b) bars riding on a sidewalk so as to interfere with pedestrian travel, and § 19-11 separately prohibits driving any vehicle other than by human power on a bicycle path or sidewalk except on a permanent or duly authorized temporary driveway. Other equipment rules: a rider must sit on a permanent and regular seat, may not carry more people than the bicycle was designed and equipped for, and may not attach a bicycle, coaster, roller skates, sled or toy vehicle to a motor vehicle on a roadway.

Enforcement starts with a warning. Under subsection (i), public safety officers who observe conduct violating the section issue a warning to each violator. Subsection (p) then makes a city resident who operates a bicycle in a manner considered dangerous to self, others or property, or who violates any provision of the section, guilty of a violation punished as provided by law.

The section also creates a voluntary registration system. An owner files a name, address and bicycle description with the public safety department and pays $2.00. Each registration is serially numbered and kept as a public record, and the department affixes a matching identification tag. A replacement tag after theft or loss costs $25.00. Registrations expire on the thirteenth day of January, and re-registration can be made no later than three days before that date. Removing, defacing or destroying an identification tag is prohibited. The section cites F.S. § 316.2065 as the similar state law.