(a) License Required. No person shall ride or propel a bicycle on any street or public way or part thereof in the Municipality, unless the bicycle has been provided with the proper license tag as required herein.
(Ord. 1962-22. Passed 9-4-62.)
(Ord. 1962-22. Passed 9-4-62.)
(b) Application; Fee. Application for a license plate or tag shall be made to the Police Chief on a form provided by him, and shall be accompanied by a fee of one dollar ($1.00) at the time of application for issuance of the license. If the Chief approves the application, he shall so indicate in writing thereon and deliver the same, together with the fee to the Mayor, but if he does not approve the application, he shall return the fee to the applicant.
(Ord. 1988-42. Passed 6-20-88.)
(c) License Issuance; Records. The Mayor shall have the authority to issue, upon written application approved by the Chief of Police, bicycle licenses or tags which shall be effective until surrendered as hereinafter provided. Every license plate or tag shall have displayed upon it, the registration number of the bicycle to which it is issued, and the name of the Municipality. The Mayor 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 Mayor shall keep a record of all fees collected for issuance of such licenses.
(d) 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 Mayor, the attached license plate or tag, or may have the Mayor assign such plate to another bicycle owned or operated by the licensee, without charge.
(e) Attaching License Plate or Tag. Upon the issuance of a license, the licensee shall affix to the bicycle a proper plate or tag, which he shall cause to be firmly attached to the rear fender of the bicycle, in such a position as to be plainly visible from the rear. The removal of any such plate or tag, except by proper authority or upon transfer of ownership, shall be a violation of this section.
(f) Tampering with Identification Numbers. No person shall willfully or maliciously remove, destroy, mutilate or alter the number of any bicycle frame licensed pursuant to this section. No person shall remove, destroy, mutilate or alter any license plate or tag, seal or registration card during the time in which such license plate or tag, seal or registration card is operative. Provided, however, that 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 illegible or insufficient for identification purposes.
(g) Inspection. 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. 1962-22. Passed 9-4-62.)
(h) Penalty. Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.