Utah Code 41-6a-1111. Bicycle racing — When approved — Prohibitions — Exceptions — Authorized exemptions from traffic laws

(1)	Bicycle racing on highways is prohibited under Section 41-6a-606, except as authorized in this section.

Bicycle: includes an electric assisted bicycle. See Utah Code 41-6a-102
Highway: means the entire width between property lines of every way or place of any nature when any part of it is open to the use of the public as a matter of right for vehicular travel. See Utah Code 41-6a-102
Highway authority: means the same as that term is defined in Section 72-1-102. See Utah Code 41-6a-102
Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
Traffic: means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for the purpose of travel. See Utah Code 41-6a-102

(2)

(a)	Bicycle racing on a highway is permitted when a racing event is approved by a highway authority on a highway under its jurisdiction.

(b)

Approval of bicycle highway racing events may be granted only under conditions:

(i)	which assure reasonable safety for all race participants, spectators, and other highway users; and

(ii)	which prevent unreasonable interference with traffic flow which would seriously inconvenience other highway users.

(3)

Participants in an approved bicycle highway racing event may be exempted from compliance with any traffic laws otherwise applicable:

(a)	by agreement with the approving highway authority; and

(b)	if traffic control is adequate to assure the safety of all highway users.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 2, 2005 General Session