(a) License Required
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No person shall ride or propel a bicycle on any street or public way in the Village, or upon any part thereof, unless such bicycle has been provided with the proper license tag as required herein.
(b) Application. Application for a license tag shall be made to a Village Police Officer, upon a form to be provided by the Village. If the Police Officer approves the application he shall so indicate in writing thereon and deliver same, together with the fee to the Mayor, but if he does not approve the application he shall return the fee to the applicant.
(c) License Issuance Records
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The Mayor shall have the authority to issue, upon written application, approved by the Police Officer, bicycle licenses which shall be effective until surrendered as hereinafter provided. Every license plate shall have displayed upon it, the registration number of the bicycle to which it is issued, and the name of the Village. The Mayor and the Police Officer 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) Renewal
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All such licenses shall be renewed for a period of two years in the following manner:
Each owner or operator of a bicycle shall secure from the Mayor, on or before December 31, of each even numbered year, a new license plate, which shall replace the old plate and be attached in the same manner. The purchase of the new plate shall be recorded on the license and the duplicate thereof at the time of purchase. Additional renewals shall be made each two years thereafter in the manner and at the time herein provided for the first renewal. No owner or operator of a bicycle shall for any reason be entitled to a refund of any part of any license fee or a renewal fee.
(e) 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 may have the Mayor assign such plate to another bicycle owned or operated by the licensee, without charge.
(f) Attachment of License Plate
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Upon the issuance of a license, the licensee shall affix to the bicycle a proper plate to be furnished by the Village, which he shall cause to be firmly attached to the rear mud guard or frame of the bicycle, in such a position as to be plainly visible from the rear. The removal of any such plate, except by proper authority or upon transfer of ownership, shall be a violation of this section.
(g) Tampering with Identification Numbers
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No person shall wilfully or maliciously remove, destroy, mutilate or alter the number of any bicycle frame licensed pursuant to this ordinance. No person shall remove, destroy, mutilate or alter any license plate, seal or registration card during the time in which such license plate, seal or registration card is operative. Provided, however, that nothing in this section shall prohibit the Police Officers 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.
(h) Inspection of Bicycles
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Each 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. 293. Passed 5-2-63.)
(i) 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.