Fair, I've not looked into how places are treating the different classes of electric bikes differently since I don't have one and my neighborhood isn't great for biking.

Where I live the city is trying to crack down on children riding fast scooters/bikes in the streets and in the city center and doubling and tripling up on them etc. I do regularly see teenagers and tweens engaging in unsafe activities on scooters and I understand.

So they passed a bunch of strict laws which only apply to the city, but they aren't allowed to override state law on Class 1 and 2 bikes, so the law is very clear and simple for them and they mostly can't pass anything. State law allows localities to implement more restrictons on class 3, so it's a little bit murkier for class 3 bikes here.

The city ordinance is actually very difficult to understand, because it's broadly written, so you might think that some things are illegal because it's not totally clear where it's overridden by state law. It's clear as mud, not simple english and you have to be an attorney and do some research to understand it.