(a) Bicycle Defined. A bicycle is defined as every device, other than a tricycle designed solely for use as a play vehicle by a child, propelled by human power upon which any person may ride having either two tandem wheels or one wheel in the front and two wheels in the rear, any of which is more than fourteen inches in diameter.
(b) Motorized Bicycle Defined. A motorized bicycle is defined as any vehicle having either two tandem wheels or one wheel in the front and two wheels in the rear, that is capable of being pedaled and is equipped with a helper motor of not more than fifty cubic centimeters piston displacement which produces no more than one brake horsepower and is capable of propelling the vehicle at a speed of no greater than twenty miles per hour on a level surface.
(c) License Application and Fee. A person who resides within the City may make an application for the registration of bicycles and/or motorized bicycles to the Director of Public Safety upon forms provided by the City which shall contain the name and address of the applicant and of the owner, if not the same as the applicant, and the name of the manufacturer, color and serial number and other identifying marks of the bicycle or motorized bicycle, if any, and such other information as the Director deems pertinent. The fee for such registration and the license hereinafter described shall be one dollar ($1.00) .
(d) Issuance of License.
(1) The Director, upon receipt of the proper application accompanied by the required fee, is authorized to issue a bicycle or motorized bicycle license which shall be effective for so long as the owner of the bicycle or motorized bicycle remains the same.
(2) The Director shall not issue a license for any bicycle or motorized bicycle when he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the applicant is not the owner or entitled to the possession of such bicycle or motorized bicycle or that such bicycle or motorized bicycle is not in safe operating condition.
(3) The Director shall keep a record of the number of each license, the date issued, the name and address of the person to whom issued, the name of the manufacturer, color, serial number and other identifying marks, if any, of the bicycle or motorized bicycle for which issued and such other information as the Director deems pertinent, and of all fees collected by him pursuant to this section.
(e) Disposition of Fees Collected. The Director of Public Safety shall pay over to the Director of Finance, monthly, all fees received pursuant to the provisions of this section and shall take the Director of Finance's receipt therefor, which shall be kept as a part of the Director of Public Safety's record of such registration.
(f) License Plates.
(1) At the time of registration, the Director of Public Safety shall furnish to the applicant a durable registration plate bearing the license number assigned to the bicycle or motorized bicycle and the name of the City. He shall also issue a registration card to the applicant reciting that the bicycle or motorized bicycle has been registered in the name of the owner and reciting the serial number of such license.
(2) The owner shall attach such license plate to the rear mudguard or frame of the bicycle or motorized bicycle for which issued in such position as to be plainly visible from the rear.
(3) No person shall maliciously remove, destroy, mutilate or alter any serial number of any bicycle or motorized bicycle licensed hereunder or any license plate or license card issued hereunder.
(4) In the event the license plate is lost, defaced or destroyed, the Director when satisfied of such fact, shall issue a new license plate upon application of the owner of such bicycle or motorized bicycle. A replacement fee of fifty cents ($0.50) shall be charged.
(g) Transfer of Ownership. Such license is not transferable except to a member of the licensee's family residing in the same household as the licensee. Such license shall be deemed to expire upon the sale or other transfer of a licensed bicycle or motorized bicycle except a sale or other transfer to a member of the licensee's family residing in the same household as the licensee, at which former event the licensee shall remove the license plate.
(Ord. 80- 43. Passed 10-21-80.)