{"id":238673,"date":"2026-07-08T19:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238673\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T19:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:44:07","slug":"norwalk-city-council-passes-first-reading-of-ordinance-that-could-fine-parents-when-kids-violate-e-bike-laws-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238673\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwalk City Council passes first reading of ordinance that could fine parents when kids violate e-bike laws | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORWALK, Iowa (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/norwalk-city-council-electric-bikes-scooters-fines\/71865514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KCCI<\/a>) &#8212; Parents in Norwalk could soon get fined if their kids don&#8217;t follow rules for electric scooters and bikes.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwalk City Council passed the first reading of its ordinance at last week&#8217;s meeting. Under the proposal, anyone riding these devices would need to yield to pedestrians, front and rear lights would be required to ride at night and e-bikes and scooters would not be allowed on streets with a speed limit above 25 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Riders would have to be at least 12 years old to use the devices in public.<\/p>\n<p>If passed, parents could be cited for not supervising riders under the age of 14.<\/p>\n<p>Violations could come with a $50 fine for a first offense and $75 fine for additional offenses.<\/p>\n<p>The fine would go up to $100 for a first offense involving injury and $150 for each additional offense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/norwalk-city-council-electric-bikes-scooters-fines\/71865514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here for updates on this story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORWALK, Iowa (KCCI) &#8212; Parents in Norwalk could soon get fined if their kids don&#8217;t follow rules for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[21646,139,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-238673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-iowa","tag-news","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}