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(a)
Required; attachment to handle bar. In addition to the regulations of section 7-2, every person propelling any bicycle or other vehicle in any public highway or in any public park, square, street, lane or alley in the town shall cause a signal bell to be attached thereto, and to be used for the purpose of giving warning of its approach. Such signal bell shall be capable of being heard when at rest a distance of not less than 250 feet, and shall be so attached to the handle bar that it can be positively and directly operated by the fingers of one hand of the rider without removing such hand from the handle bar.
(b)
Duty to sound. Such signal bell as required in subsection (a) of this section shall always be sounded with several rapid strokes whenever the rider is approaching any person or any other vehicle, and shall be used in all cases where there is any danger of collision.
(Code 1972, §§ 5-3, 5-4)