James City County, VA Mobility & Curb Rules: Bike Lane Rules (2026)

Sec. 1 of the James City County Code regulates bicycles, roller skates, skateboards, motorized skateboards or scooters, motor-driven cycles and electric power-assisted bicycles on sidewalks, crosswalks and shared-use paths countywide; the code does not separately regulate painted on-street bike lanes. Subsection (a) bans riding or skating on designated sidewalks or crosswalks, including those at any church, school, recreational facility, or business property open to the public, wherever signs conspicuously post that prohibition. Subsection (b) requires anyone riding a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, motorized skateboard or scooter, motor-driven cycle or electric power-assisted bicycle on a sidewalk, shared-use path, or crosswalk to yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and to give an audible signal before overtaking and passing one.

Subsection (c) bars riding across a roadway on a crosswalk or parking a bicycle, e-bike, or motorized scooter in a way that blocks pedestrian or vehicle movement, or wherever official traffic-control devices prohibit it. Subsection (d) gives a rider on a permitted sidewalk, path or crosswalk all the rights and duties of a pedestrian, and subsection (e) lets the county administrator or a designee decide which public sidewalks carry the prohibition. 00 civil fine for any violation of an ordinance adopted under it, regardless of which vehicle type was involved.

The section was adopted by Ord. No. 66A-66 in 2010 and amended by Ord. No. 66A-76 in 2019 to add electric personal delivery devices and assistive mobility devices to its scope.