§ 15-2. Bicycle registration; required, record, tag or decal.

(a)

All owners of bicycles within the city, and all such persons in the county regularly and customarily using bicycles on the public streets, alleys and public ways of the city, required to register such vehicles with the police department of this city, furnishing to said police department the name and address of the owner, a description of the vehicle, including name, color, manufacturer, serial or identification number thereon; approximate date of purchase; and dealer or person from whom purchased, all of which information the police department shall enter in a record book kept for such purpose, and shall provide to such owner a number to identify such registration, and a tag or decal, such number to be affixed to and displayed on such vehicle in a place where it shall be readily visible.

(b)

Each separate bicycle shall have a separate registration and a separate number and tag and decal which shall be displayed thereon with said decal being attached to the frame of said bicycle and said tag being attached to the rear seat thereon, facing to the rear of said bicycle and no bicycle shall display any tag or decal or license or registration not issued for said bicycle. Any bicycle not duly registered with said city shall be subject to seizure by the city police department pending verification of the true ownership thereof.

Each registration shall be valid for a period of five years from the date of registration or until a transfer of said bicycle, whichever shall come first.

(c)

A fee of $5.00 shall be assessed for the registration of each bicycle and all funds collected thereon shall be placed in the general fund of the city.

(d)

Enforcement of this section shall be by the police department.

(e)

Uniform fines for failure to register bicycles. Any person who shall fail to register a bicycle kept, maintained, stored or placed within the corporate limits of the city on October 15, 2003, or within 14 calendar days after acquisition thereof following October 15, 2003, shall be in violation of this section and subject to a uniform fine of $10.00 for such violation. In the event such person keeping, maintaining, storing or placing said bicycle shall be under the age of 18 years, the parents, grandparents, guardian or other persons with whom said minor shall reside and/or with whom said bicycle shall be kept, maintained, stored or placed shall be in violation of this section and subject to such uniform fine.

(Ord. of 8-27-73, §§ 1—3; Ord. of 6-22-87, § 1; Ord. of 10-26-87, § 1; Ord. of 8-11-2003)