(A) No person may use, ride, operate, own, or be in actual physical control of a bicycle upon any highway, street, alley, sidewalk, or other public property within the city unless such bicycle shall have been registered in accordance with M.S. § 168C.03, as it may be amended from time to time, and with the registration conspicuously displayed on the bicycle. Provided, however, that any person who has previously registered a bicycle with the City of Columbia Heights shall not be required to register that bicycle pursuant to M.S. § 168C.03, as it may be amended from time to time, prior to March 1, 1980.
(B) No person, who is an owner of record of any bicycle registered with the City of Columbia Heights on or before March 1, 1977 may sell or otherwise transfer ownership of the bicycle without notifying the City of Columbia Heights in writing within ten days thereof of such sale or transfer of ownership.
(C) The Columbia Heights Police Department may impound any bicycle which is used, ridden, operated, owned or possessed, or otherwise exists upon any public property within the city if such bicycle has not been registered pursuant to M.S. Chapter 168C, as it may be amended from time to time, or if registration is not conspicuously displayed on the bicycle. The bicycle may be surrendered upon proof of ownership and proof that said bicycle is properly registered.
(D) Any bicycle impounded by the city and which remains unclaimed by the owner for a period of 60 days may be sold at public sale or auction following published notice.
(`77 Code, § 7.401) (Am. Ord. 991, passed 4-26-82) Penalty, see § 7.601