(a) If the owner of any bicycle is a resident of the City he or she may register his or her bicycle with the City.
(b) Application for registration shall be made to the Police Department upon forms provided by the Department, which application shall state the make, color, serial number and other identifying characteristics of the bicycle; the name, address and telephone number of the applicant; and any other information the Department deems pertinent. In addition to the original application there shall be two carbon copies. The original and one of the carbon copies shall be retained by the Department to be arranged by numerical order of registrations and by alphabetical order of applicants, respectively; and one of the copies shall be returned to the applicant.
(c) Each application shall be accompanied by a fee of fifty cents (50¢).
(d) Upon receipt of the application and required fee, the Department shall furnish the applicant a numbered decal, of a form and design approved by the Safety Committee of Council, which shall be permanently attached to the bicycle in a conspicuous place. Each registrant shall also be issued a copy of or an abstract of the appropriate regulations set forth in this chapter.
(e) No decal, once issued, shall be transferable to or used on any other bicycle.
(f) No person shall purposely or knowingly remove, destroy, mutilate, alter or deface the serial number of any bicycle or such decal issued by the City for use on any bicycle.
(g) Any person who sells or transfers the ownership of a bicycle registered with the City is requested to report such sale or transfer at the earliest possible time.
(h) The Department shall act upon all applications and may require documents of ownership and compliance with all safety equipment provisions of this chapter.
(i) The Department shall maintain files of all registrations, as provided for in this section, in as diligent and efficient a manner as is possible, to expedite the recovery of stolen bicycles, and may remove from such files any registration more than ten years old.
(Ord. 87-84. Passed 9-10-84.)