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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - No. 378ORDINANCE NO. 378 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REGISTRATION AND LICENSING OF BICYCLES IN TIB CITY OF LODI AND PROVIDING PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LGDI DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. UNLAWFUL TO OPERATE BICYCLE WITHOUT LICENSE. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or use a bicycle propelled wholly or in part by muscular power upon any of the streets, alleys, or 2ublic highways of the City of Lodi without first having obtained from the Police Department a license therefor. Section 2. LICENSE TO BE ISSUED. The Police Department is hereby authorized and. directed to issue upon written application, bicycle licenses which shall. be effective from the first day of January, 1949, to and including December 31, 1949, and thereafter said licenses shall be issued for the calendar yezr, commencing on the first day of January of each calendar year and ending on the thirty-first day of December of each calendar year. Said licenses when issued shall en- title the licensee to operate the bicycle for which said license has been issued upon all the streets, alleys, and public highways, exclusive of the sidewalks thereof, in the City of Lodi. Section 3. LICENSE PLATES PROVIDED. The City of Lodi shall provide each year metallic license plates and seals, together with registration cards, said license plates and registration cards having numbers stamped thereon in numerical order, beginning with Hwnber 1, and indicatin,g the year for which the same are issued. Such license plates shall be suitable for attachment upon the frames of bicycles, -1- and it shall be the duty of the Police Department to attach one such license plate to the frame of each bicycle and to issue a correspond- ing registration card to the licensee upon the payment of the license fee herein provided for. Such license plate shall remain attached during the existence of such license. The Police Department shall keep a record of the date of issue of each license, to whom issued and the number thereof. Section 4. INSPECTION AND TESTS. The Police Department shall inspect each bicycle prior to the issuance of the license pro- vided in Section 3 hereof, and shall require adequate brakes and tires, an adequate warning device and a tail-light or reflector as prerequisites for the issuance of said license. be required on any bicycle which is to be used after sunset, and the operation or use of any bicycle after sunset without such a lighting system is hereby declared to be a violation of this Ordinance. The Police Department may, by written or oral test, examine any or all applicants for satisfactory knowledge of bicycle safety laws, and may withhold the issuance of a license from any applicant failing to pass such tests. A satisfactory lighting system shall Section 5.- REPORT OF BICYCLE SALES OR TRANSFER REQUIRED, DEALERS. All persons engaged in the business of buying second-hand bicycles are hereby required to make a daily report to the Police Department, giving the name and address of the person from whom each bicycle is purchased, the description of each bicycle purchased, the fraiie number thereof and the number of the license plate found thereon, if any. All persons engaged in the business of selling new or second- hand bicycles are hereby required to make a daily report to the Police Department, giving a list of all sales made by such person, which list shall include the name and address of each person to whom sold, the kind of bicycle sold, together with a description and frame number thereof and the number of the license plate attached thereto, if any. Section 6. REPORT CF BICYCLE SALES OR TRANSFERS REQUIRED PRIVATE PERSONS. It shall be the duty of every person who sells or transfers ownership of any bicycle to return to the Police Depart- ment the registration card issued to such person as licensee thereof, together with the name and address of the person to whom said bicycle was sold or transferred, and such report shall be made riithin five ( 5) days of the date of such sale or transfer. It shall be the duty o€ the purchaser or transferee of such bicycle to apply for a trmsfer of registration therefor within five (5) days of such sale or transfer. Section 7. UNLITvirFUL TO TAMPER WITH NUMBERS. It shall be unlawful for any person wilfully or maliciously to remove, destroy, mutilate or alter the number of any bicycle frame. It shall be unlaw- ful for any person to 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. shall prohibit the Police Department from stamping numbers on the frames of bicycles on which no serial number can be found, or on whicl-i said number is illegible, insuf€icient for identification purposes, or unsatisfactorily placed. Nothing in this Ordinance Section 8. BNIWAL FEE. The annual license fee to be paid for each bicycle shall be fifty cents (.5O) and shall be paid in advance. -3 - Pursuant to Section 6 hereof, such license may be transferred, and a fee of fifty cents (.SO) shall be paid for the registration of such transfer. A11 license fees collected under this Ordinance shall be paid into the General Fund of the City of Lodi. Section 9. REVOCATICN. The Tolice Department shall have the power to revoke any license issued hereunder for violation of any provision of this Ordinance, or of established rules for bicycle safety, or of the Notor Vehicle Code of the State of California. No license shall be issued to any person suffering a revocation within thirty (30) days after such revocation. Section 10. PENALTY. Every person violating any of the pro- visions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500) or by imprisonment for a period of not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. In addition to the penalty hereinabove set forth , the Police Department nay impound and retain possession of any unlicensed bicycle until the license herein provided for has been obtained, and may impound and retain possession of, for not more than thirty (30) days, any bicycle operated in violation of any of the provisions of this Ordinance. Section 11. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect on and after January 1, 1949. Approved this 1st day of December, 1948. Mayor AttesA City C1 -4- I, J. F. BLAKELY, City Clerk of the City of Lod certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 378 was introduced City Council of said City on the 17th d.ay of November, 194.8 was thereafter, on the 1st day of December, 194-8, regularly adopted and ordered to print by the following vote: AYES : Councilmen, Bull, Ilaskell, Lytle, Tolliver , Rinn. NOES : Councilmen, None. ABSENT : Counc iliiien , None. I further certify that said Ordinance No. 378 was 9 and signed by the EIayor on the date of its final passage. December 1, 1948. The Lodi Times - Publish on? time, furnish affidavit and 500 copies in same form as used for Ordinance No. 375, punched and round corner JFB -5-