CHAPTER 5.
Bicycles.[5]
| § 1. |
Registration required. |
| § 2. |
Registration plates and cards; register kept by chief of police. |
| § 3. |
Transfer of ownership. |
| § 4. |
Reports by dealers in secondhand bicycles. |
| § 5. |
Removal, destruction or alteration of registration number, plate
or card. |
| § 6. |
Fee for registration; transferring registration; loss of plates or
cards. |
| § 7. |
Penalties. |
Sec. 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 metallic registration number. (Ord.
Dec. 16, 1940.)
Sec. 2. Registration plates and cards; register kept by
chief of police.
The city shall provide metallic registration plates and seals, together
with registration cards, the said metallic registration plates
and registration cards to be numbered in numerical order, beginning
with number one, the design and identification lettering thereon
to 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 metallic registration
plates 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 herein required. Such metallic registration
As to persons riding bicycles being required to obey traffic regulations,
see ch. 18, § 5 of this volume; as to required lamps on bicycles,
see ch. 18, § 43; as to use of bicycles upon sidewalks, see ch. 29, § 32;
as to bicycle racks on sidewalks, see ch. 29, § 33.
plate 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. (Id.)
Sec. 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. (Id.)
Sec. 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 to include the registration number of such-bicycle, a
description of each bicycle acquired, the frame number thereof, together
with 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. (Id.)
Sec. 5. Removal, destruction or alteration of registration
number, plate or card.
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 plate or registration card issued pursuant to
the provisions of this chapter during the time in which the bicycle
for which such registration plate or card was issued is operated.
Provided, however, that 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. (Id.)
Sec. 6. Fee for registration; transferring registration;
loss of plates 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, issuance
of registration plates and cards. In the event of the loss of a
registration plate 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.
(Id.)
Sec. 7. Penalties.
Every person convicted of the violation of any section of this
chapter shall, upon the first conviction thereof, be fined not less
than one dollar nor more than five dollars, and upon any subsequent
conviction thereof, not less than one dollar nor more than twenty-five
dollars, or in lieu of such 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. (Id.)
