Loading...
Application for registration for any bicycle shall be made by the owner thereof in writing to the Police Department upon blanks furnished by the city and shall set forth the name of the applicant, the applicant’s address, description of the bicycle and such other information as the Police Department may require. Before the issuance of a registration certificate, the applicant shall pay a fee as set by resolution.
(Prior Code, § 73.16) (Ord. 98-27, passed 7-20-1998)
The Police Department is hereby authorized and directed to issue registration certificates for bicycles upon the bicycle satisfactorily complying with the inspection tests provided for in § 73.15(A) of this code and upon payment of the required registration fee.
(Prior Code, § 73.17) (Ord. 98-27, passed 7-20-1998)
The city shall provide a registration number corresponding to the number appearing on the registration certificate, which registration shall be attached to the frame of the bicycle and shall remain attached thereto during the registration period.
(Prior Code, § 73.18) (Ord. 98-27, passed 7-20-1998) Penalty, see § 70.999
The Police Department shall keep a record of all fees collected for the registration of bicycles, the owner of the bicycle, the date of registration, the registration number, a description of the bicycle and the manufacturer’s serial number of the bicycle frame.
(Prior Code, § 73.19) (Ord. 98-27, passed 7-20-1998)
Any person who operates a bicycle upon any public or private road, street, highway or alley shall have all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle under the provisions of this code and shall be further subject to those special rules and duties provided for operators of bicycles as set forth in this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 73.20) (Ord. 98-27, passed 7-20-1998) Penalty, see § 70.999
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a bicycle within the city unless the bicycle is equipped with a brake adequate to control the movement of and to stop the bicycle within reasonable limits.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a bicycle within the city between sunset and sunrise without having one light lighted on the front thereof. Every bicycle shall have a red reflector tag not less than two inches in diameter, placed so as to be plainly visible from the rear of the bicycle.
(Prior Code, § 73.21) (Ord. 98-27, passed 7-20-1998) Penalty, see § 70.999
(A) The operator of a bicycle emerging from an alley, private road, driveway or building shall, upon approaching a sidewalk or the sidewalk area extending across any alley, yield the right-of-way to all pedestrians on the sidewalk and to all vehicles approaching on the street.
(B) Any person operating a bicycle upon a sidewalk shall do so at that person’s own risk and shall yield the right-of-way to any and all pedestrians thereon.
(C) When any person operating a bicycle on a sidewalk is involved in a collision with a pedestrian, the operator shall be presumed to have been negligent.
(D) The presumption provided in division (C) above shall not apply to police officers operating bicycles on the sidewalks or streets of the city in the course and scope of their employment although the officers may be held negligent for actions which were in fact negligent.
(Prior Code, § 73.22) (Ord. 98-27, passed 7-20-1998) Penalty, see § 70.999
Loading...