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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.)