CHAPTER 6.
§ 6-1. Registration required.
§ 6-2. Registration devices and cards; register kept by chief of police.
§ 6-3. Transfer of ownership.
§ 6-4. Reports by dealers in secondhand bicycles.
§ 6-5. Removal, destruction or alteration of registration number, device
or card; bicycle without legible serial number.
§ 6-6. Fee for registration; transferring registration; loss of devices or
cards.
§ 6-7. Penalties.
Sec. 6-1. Registration required.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or use a bicycle
propelled wholly or in part by muscular power upon
any of the streets or public highways of the city without first
obtaining a certificate of registration from the chief of police
of the city and attaching to such bicycle a registration number.
(Code 1959, § 6-1; 8-21-72.)
Sec. 6-2. Registration devices and cards; register kept by
chief of police.
The city shall provide registration devices and seals, together
with registration cards. The registration devices and
registration cards shall be numbered in numerical order, beginning
with the number one, and the design and identification
lettering thereon shall be approved by the chief of police. It
shall be the duty of the chief of police to cause to be attached
one of such registration devices to the frame of each bicycle
and to issue a corresponding registration card to the owner of
such bicycle upon the payment of the registration fee required
by section 6-6. Such registration device shall remain attached
to the bicycle for which it was issued during the period such
bicycle is operated within the city. The chief of police shall
keep a permanent register in which shall be entered the name,
address and age of the owner of each registered bicycle, the
date of registration and sufficient information to identify such
bicycle. (Code 1959, § 6-2; 8-21-72.)
Sec. 6-3. Transfer of ownership.
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or transfer ownership
of any bicycle without reporting to the chief of police
within forty-eight hours from the time thereof full, complete
information relative to such transfer, so that such bicycle
may be registered in the name of the transferee. The
purchaser or transferee of any such bicycle shall apply for a
transfer of registration therefor within five days from the
time the same is acquired by him. (Code 1959, § 6-3.)
Sec. 6-4. Reports by dealers in secondhand bicycles.
It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in the business
of buying secondhand bicycles, or any parts of secondhand
bicycles, to fail to report to the chief of police of the
city within forty-eight hours after acquiring any secondhand
bicycle, or parts thereof. Such report shall include the registration
number of such bicycle, a description of each bicycle
acquired, the frame number thereof and the name and address
of the person from whom the same was acquired. In case
of the purchase of any parts of a bicycle, the report shall describe
each part and give the name and address of the person
from whom the same was acquired. (Code 1959, § 6-4.)
Sec. 6-5. Removal, destruction or alteration of registration
number, device or card; bicycle without legible
serial number.
It shall be unlawful for any person wilfully or maliciously to
remove, destroy, mutilate or alter the number of any bicycle
frame registered pursuant to this chapter. It shall also be
unlawful for any person wilfully or maliciously to remove,
destroy, mutilate or alter any registration device or registration
card issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter during the
time in which the bicycle for which such registration device or
card was issued is operated. Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit
the chief of police from stamping a number on the frame of a
bicycle on which no serial number can be found or on which such
number is illegible or insufficient for identification purposes.
(Code 1959, § 6-5; 8-21-72.)
Sec. 6-6. Fee for registration; transferring registration; loss
of devices or cards.
The registration fee to be paid for each bicycle registered shall
be twenty-five cents. Once a bicycle has been registered in a given
name, the registration thereof may be transferred from one
owner to another, without the payment of an additional fee. The
fee above required shall cover all charges incident to registration
and the issuance of registration devices and cards. In the event of
the loss of a registration device or card, a duplicate may be issued
at the cost of twenty-five cents. All fees collected shall be turned
over to the director of finance, who shall pay the same into the
city treasury. (Code 1959, § 6-6; 8-21-72.)
Sec. 6-7. Penalties.
Every person convicted of a violation of this chapter shall, upon
conviction thereof, be punished as provided in section 1-5. In lieu
of a fine, or in case such fine is not paid, or in addition to such
fine, the court may require that any bicycle operated by the
owner or other person lawfully in control thereof, in violation of
the provisions of this chapter, be removed from the streets of the
city and that the person operating the same in violation of this
chapter shall not be permitted to operate such bicycle on the
streets of this city for a period not exceeding thirty days, in the
discretion of the trial judge. (Code 1959, § 6-7.)
