(a) Every person or his, her or its agent, operating a remote vehicle rental business shall place in a secure manner an identifying tag listing such person's business name and address on each individual scooter or bicycle under such person's ownership or control.
(b) It shall be the duty of every remote vehicle rental business to collect and store all scooters, bicycles, or motorized bicycles every night. Any such scooter, bicycle, or motorized bicycle found unattended by a rider on any public property, including streets, alleys, roadways, tree lawns (devil strips), sidewalks or other public rights of way, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and the presence of a scooter, bicycle, or motorized bicycle on public property, including streets, alleys, roadways, tree lawns, and other public rights of way, shall constitute a prima-facie violation of this section. Each scooter, bicycle, or motorized bicycle so found shall constitute a separate violation of this section.
(c) In addition to constituting a nuisance and subject to violation of law as hereinabove provided, any scooter, bicycle, or motorized bicycle found on public property, including streets, alleys, roadways, tree lawns (devil strips) or other public rights of way, shall be picked up and collected by City of Norwood employees or representatives and deposited in a place or area to be designated by the Safety-Service Director.
(d) Any remote vehicle rental business, whose scooters, bicycles, or motorized bicycles are so collected and stored, may reclaim its vehicles upon payment of the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) for each such scooter, bicycle, or motorized bicycle so claimed.
(Ord. 24-2019. Passed 5-28-19.)