{"id":1017,"date":"2018-05-01T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/05\/01\/lege-trend-model-e-bike-legislation-no-local-preemption-what-you-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2018-05-01T00:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T00:12:00","slug":"lege-trend-model-e-bike-legislation-no-local-preemption-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-model-e-bike-legislation-no-local-preemption-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege TREND. Model e-bike legislation. No local preemption. What you need to know:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>9 states<\/strong>\u00a0have passed model e-bike legislation, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.azleg.gov\/BillStatus\/BillOverview\/70030\">AZ HB 2266 (AZ | 2018)\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO<\/li>\n<li>CA<\/li>\n<li>AR (that&#8217;s Arkansas)<\/li>\n<li>IL<\/li>\n<li>MI<\/li>\n<li>TN<\/li>\n<li>UT (Utah, not any of the universities with these initials)<\/li>\n<li>WA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The model legislation does this:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>defines e-bikes as\u00a0motorized electric bicycles with a watt definition<\/li>\n<li>establishes Class 1, 2, or 3 e-bikes\n<ul>\n<li>Class 3 e-bikes would be restricted to on-road usage<\/li>\n<li>Class 1 and 2 e-bikes may be ridden on bike paths<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>grants e-bikes\u00a0the same rights of the road as traditional bicyclists<\/li>\n<li>requires e-bikes to display a sticker with their class<\/li>\n<li>Local jurisdictions can prohibit operation on bicycle paths<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bicycleretailer.com\/industry-news\/2018\/04\/19\/arizona-legislature-passes-e-bike-bill#.WukCdi-ZM8Y\">Bicycle Retailer |\u00a0Arizona Legislature passes e-bike bill<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>9 states<\/strong>\u00a0have passed model e-bike legislation, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.azleg.gov\/BillStatus\/BillOverview\/70030\">AZ HB 2266 (AZ | 2018)\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO<\/li>\n<li>CA<\/li>\n<li>AR (that&#8217;s Arkansas)<\/li>\n<li>IL<\/li>\n<li>MI<\/li>\n<li>TN<\/li>\n<li>UT (Utah, not any of the universities with these initials)<\/li>\n<li>WA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The model legislation does this:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>defines e-bikes as\u00a0motorized electric bicycles with a watt definition<\/li>\n<li>establishes Class 1, 2, or 3 e-bikes\n<ul>\n<li>Class 3 e-bikes would be restricted to on-road usage<\/li>\n<li>Class 1 and 2 e-bikes may be ridden on bike paths<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>grants e-bikes\u00a0the same rights of the road as traditional\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,29,10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-issue","category-bicycle","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}