Mobility & Curb Rules in North Carolina (2026)

Asheville City Code Sec. 19-16 makes it unlawful to conduct an e-scooter share operation anywhere within city limits…

Charlotte requires a permit from the Department of Transportation before anyone can operate a dockless, shared-use…

Operating a shared micromobility program in Durham without a permit is unlawful under City Code § 50-463, and the city…

Gastonia requires any shared scooter or e-bike rental company to hold a one-year city permit before operating. Devices…

Operating a commercial shared micromobility (scooter/bike-share) service in Greensboro's public right-of-way requires a…

Winston-Salem caps shared scooter and dockless bike permits at two per company each year and bans riding stand-up…

Apex caps sidewalk scooter speed at 10 mph, requires yielding to pedestrians, and bans riding scooters on sidewalks…

Raleigh bans motorized scooters, including shared rental scooters, from sidewalks, greenways and multi-use paths…

Apex's traffic code bans stopping, standing, or parking in a marked bike lane on any public street, with a narrow…

Asheville City Code Sec. 19-6 opens every marked bicycle lane on city-controlled streets to bicycles, electric-assisted…

The Town of Cary bans stopping, standing, or parking any vehicle in a street area clearly marked as a bicycle travel…

In the Town of Chapel Hill, Town Council traffic rules protect bike lanes from vehicle intrusion. Chapel Hill Code of…

Charlotte bars drivers from stopping, standing or parking on a designated bicycle path except for narrow, listed…

Concord bars cyclists from sidewalks citywide except in residentially zoned areas or within 300 feet of a school or the…

Durham makes it unlawful for a driver of a motorized vehicle to occupy a marked bike lane for moving or parking under…

When posted signs mark a bicycle lane, Fayetteville makes it unlawful to drive, stop, stand, or park a motor vehicle on…

Gastonia requires cyclists to use an adjacent bike path instead of the roadway whenever one is provided, and limits…

Greensboro reserves signed bicycle-street lanes on streets listed in traffic schedule no. 11 for bicycles and…

High Point, North Carolina reserves any street the city has posted as a bicycle-street lane exclusively for…

Mebane defines a bike lane as any roadway lane marked by signage or paint for bicycles, e-bikes and motorized scooters…

In unincorporated Moore County parks, Sec. 10.5-12 bans riding a bicycle "without reasonable regard for the safety of…

It is unlawful in Raleigh to drive, park, stop or stand a motor vehicle in a marked bike lane, with narrow exceptions…

On the Thermal Belt Rail Trail, Rutherford County's paved multi-use corridor, section 13-37 caps every user's speed at…

Wilmington's bicycle code, City Code § 5-36, requires cyclists on a roadway or bikeway to ride as near the right side…

Winston-Salem cyclists on public roadways must ride as near the right-hand side as practicable and may not ride more…

In the City of Burlington, North Carolina, taxicab drivers and drivers dispatched through a transportation network…

Greenville designates rideshare stops the same way it designates bus stops and taxicab stands: under Sec. 10-2-115…

Charlotte's traffic code caps electric assisted bicycles at a 750-watt motor and 20 mph motor-only speed, and electric…

Greensboro doesn't run a Class 1/2/3 e-bike scheme; it defines an "electric assisted bicycle" as a bike with a motor of…

Mebane adopts the state's electric-assisted bicycle definition and layers on its own rules: e-bikes must meet North…

On the Thermal Belt Rail Trail, section 13-39(d) bars motorized vehicles from the corridor but carves out an exception…

Catawba County park rules define e-bikes as Class 1 electric bicycles that stop assisting the rider at 20 m.p.h., and…

Durham treats electric assisted bicycles and electric scooters as vehicles under City Code § 66-308, meaning riders…

Chapel Hill's Code of Ordinances authorizes automated red light cameras at designated intersections under Article IIA…

Town of Cary's charter authorizes traffic control photographic systems (red light cameras) to civilly enforce red-light…

Fayetteville's traffic control photographic systems, its red-light cameras, impose a $100 civil penalty on the…

Greensboro runs an automated red-light camera program under §16-58, authorized by G.S. §160A-300.1. Cameras at listed…

A 1999 local act lets Greenville adopt an ordinance enforcing red-light violations with traffic control photographic…

Harnett County has no red-light or school-zone speed camera program; its only automated traffic camera targets drivers…

High Point City Code § 10-1-306 authorizes a traffic control photographic system, under which camera images serve as…

North Carolina runs two entirely separate regimes, and which one you are in is decided by five miles per hour. A golf…