No person shall willfully or maliciously remove, destroy, mutilate or alter the serial number of any bicycle registered pursuant to this chapter. It shall be unlawful for any person to mutilate, alter or destroy any license tag during the time in which such tag is valid. Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit the Clerk from stamping numbers on the frames of bicycles upon which no serial number can be found or upon which said number is illegible or insufficient for identification purposes.
(1978 Code, § 7-4) Penalty, see § 1-9