39-07-01. Bicycle or ridden animal to be deemed vehicle. North Dakota century code.
39-10.1-02 of the north dakota century code states that traffic laws apply to persons riding bicycles.
One of the things that shocked me when I came to North Dakota were the bikes on the sidewalks. Where I live you are ticked immediately. People up here have forgotten that bikes are cars. You can't drive a car on the sidewalk, you can't run a red light, and you can't speed, yet bikes do it all the time when they shouldn't.
I understand that you want to get to class quickly, but I can walk anywhere on campus in 10 minutes, baring aerospace, which is the usual minimum time people have between classes. Being a graduate student I would think you would have more. The point being that it wouldn?t take more then an extra 30 seconds or so on a bike to go from say gamble to okelly taking the road and not the sidewalk.
But in a month it isn?t going to matter, its difficult to ride a bike on ice. I guess between the two, smoking, or bikes on the sidewalk, I would rather see bikes go. At least there would be a clear reason, safety. This anti smoking deal, despite how pissed off I get when people toss their smokes on the ground when they finish, is ridiculous. But for you smokers, you could probably view this as a policy that will be enforced as well as the current rule that says you can?t smoke within 20 feet of the entrance to a university building. Even the faculty don't pay attention to that one.