(A) License required. No person who resides within the city shall ride or propel a bicycle on any street, highway, sidewalk, or alley, or upon any public path set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles, unless such bicycle has been licensed and a license plate is attached thereto as provided herein.
(B) License application. Application for a bicycle license and license plate shall be made upon a form provided by the city and shall be made to the Chief of Police. An annual license fee of $.50 shall be paid to the city before each license or renewal thereof is granted.
(C) Issuance of license.
(1) The Chief of Police, upon receiving proper application, is authorized to issue a bicycle license which shall be effective until the next succeeding first day of January.
(2) The Chief of Police shall not issue a license for any bicycle when he knows or has reasonable ground to believe that the applicant is not the owner of or entitled to the possession of such bicycle.
(3) The Chief of Police shall keep a record of the number of each license, the date issued, the name and address of the person to whom issued, the number on the frame of the bicycle for which issued, and a record of all bicycle fees collected by him. All monies so collected shall be paid over to the Clerk-Treasurer and shall then be placed in the "City Bicycle Fund" from which shall be paid the cost of all applications, forms, license plates, and safety material. Any monies remaining in said Fund at the end of each fiscal year shall be credited to the General Fund of the city.
(D) License plate.
(1) The Chief of Police, upon issuing a bicycle license, shall also issue a license plate bearing the license number assigned to the bicycle, the name "City of Union City", and the expiration date thereof.
(2) The applicant shall cause such license plate to be firmly attached to the rear mudguard or frame of the bicycle for which issued in such position as to be plainly visible from the rear.
(3) No person shall remove a license plate from a bicycle during the period for which it is issued except upon the transfer of ownership or in the event the bicycle is dismantled and no longer operated upon any street in the city.
(E) Inspection of bicycles. The Chief of Police, or an officer assigned such responsibility, shall inspect each bicycle before licensing the same and shall refuse a license for any bicycle which he determines is in unsafe mechanical condition.
(F) Renewal, transfer of license.
(1) Upon the expiration of any bicycle license, the same may be renewed upon the application and payment of the same fee as upon an original application.
(2) Upon the sale or other transfer of a licensed bicycle, the licensee shall remove the license plate and shall either surrender the same to the Chief of Police or may, upon proper application but without payment of an additional fee, have said plate assigned to another bicycle owned by the applicant.
(Ord. 79-5, passed 9-17-79) Penalty, see § 70.99