[§46-16.3]  Regulation of commercial bicycletours.  Any law to the contrary notwithstanding, the council of any countymay adopt and provide for the enforcement of ordinances regulating commercialbicycle tours on state and county highways, including but not limited toordinances relating to the number of tours, the number of bicycles within atour, scheduling of tours, physical spacing of tours, rules of the road, healthand safety requirements, equipment maintenance, driver and guidequalifications, driver and guide drug testing, accident procedures andreporting, and financial responsibility requirements.  Each county shall followfederal guidelines for commercial bicycle tours that begin from federal orstate parks and continue on to state highways.

For the purposes of this section:

"Bicycle tour" includes both guidedbicycle tours and unguided bicycle rental operations.

"County highway" has the same meaningas defined in section 264-1.

"State highway" has the same meaningas defined in section 264-1. [L 2007, c 181, §1]