Sucks nut. Believe me, this backassward town has the exact same thing. And they do enforce it, flashing lights and all.
What I hate is the bit about "Wherever a usable path for bicycles has been provided adjacent to a street or roadway..." we're obliged by law to use it, even if it's littered with the old, the slow, the doddling and the infant. Just be glad you're not stuck with that ghettorific law.