(a) License Required. No person shall ride or propel a bicycle on any street or public way in the Municipality, or upon any part thereof, unless such bicycle has been provided with the proper license tag as required in this section.
(b) Application; Fee. Application for a license tag shall be made to the Chief of Police, upon a form to be provided by him, and shall be accompanied by a fee of one dollar ($1.00) at the time of the issuance of the license. If the Chief of Police approves the application he shall so indicate in writing thereon and deliver same, together with the fee to the Manager, but if he does not approve the application he shall return the fee to the applicant.
(c) Issuance; Records. The Manager shall have the authority to issue, upon written application, approved by the Chief of Police, bicycle licenses which shall be effective until surrendered as hereinafter provided. Every license plate shall have displayed upon it, the registration number of the bicycle to which it is issued, and the name of the Municipality. The Manager and the Chief of Police shall each keep a record of issuance of such license, to whom issued, the number thereof, and the number and make of the bicycle frame; and the Manager shall keep a record of all fees collected for issuance of such licenses.
(d) Renewal; Fee. All such licenses shall be renewed for a period of two years in the following manner:
(1) Each owner or operator of a bicycle shall secure from the Manager, on or before December 31 of each even numbered year, a new license tag and shall pay the sum of one dollar ($1.00) for the new tag, which shall replace the old tag and be attached in the same manner. The purpose of the new tag shall be recorded on the license and the duplicate thereof at the time of purchase.
(2) Additional renewals shall be made each two years thereafter in the manner and at the time herein provided for the first renewal.
(3) No owner or operator of a bicycle shall for any reason be entitled to a refund of any part of any license fee or a renewal fee.
(e) Sales and Transfers. Upon the sale or transfer of a licensed bicycle, the licensee thereof, within five days from such sale or transfer, shall remove and surrender, to the Manager, the attached license plate, or may have the Manager assign such plate to another bicycle owned or operated by the licensee, for a charge of fifteen cents ($.15).
(f) Attachment of License Plate. Upon the issuance of a license, the licensee shall affix to the bicycle a proper plate to be furnished by the Municipality, which he shall cause to be firmly attached to the frame of the bicycle in such a position as to be plainly visible from the rear. The removal of any such plate, except by proper authority or upon transfer of ownership, shall be a violation of this section.
(g) Tampering with Identification Numbers. It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully or maliciously remove, destroy, mutilate, or alter the number of any bicycle frame licensed pursuant to this section. It shall also be unlawful for any person to remove, destroy, mutilate, or alter any license plate, seal, or registration card during the time in which such license plate, seal, or registration card is operative. However, nothing in this section shall prohibit the Police Department from stamping numbers on the frames of bicycles on which no serial number can be found, or in which the number is eligible or insufficient for identification purposes.
(h) Inspection of Bicycles. The Chief of Police, or any police officer shall inspect each bicycle presented to him for licensing and shall have the authority to refuse to approve the application for a license for any bicycle found to be in an unsafe mechanical condition.
(Ord. 326. Passed 5-25-66; Ord. 496. Passed 4-12-76.)
(i) Penalty. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to one predicate motor vehicle or traffic offense, whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of two or more predicate motor vehicle or traffic offenses, whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.