Chapter 10.32 — BICYCLE LICENSING, REGISTRATION, IMPOUNDING AND

FEES FOR SERVICE

Sections:

10.32.010 Definitions

10.32.020 License and Registration Required

10.32.030 Identification Card/Tag Issuance

10.32.040 Establishing of Fees

10.32.050 Dealer’s Records

10.32.060 Lost Records

10.32.070 Tampering with Bicycle Identification

10.32.080 Bicycle Impoundment

10.32.090 Bicycle Traffic Laws

For purpose of this Chapter, the following words and phrases are defined as follows:

A. “Bicycle” is a device upon which any person may ride, propelled exclusively by human power though a system of belts, chains, or gears, and having either two (2) or three (3) wheels in a tandem or tricycle arrangement.

B. “Highway” is a way or place of whatever nature, maintained and open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. Highway includes streets.

C. “Roadway” is that portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel.

D. “Chief of Police” shall include his designated representative.

A. No person in the City shall ride or propel any bicycle upon any street, alley, park, bicycle path or lane, or other public place in the City which is not registered and for which the appropriate license fee has not been paid or which does not bear a license place or sticker as required by this Chapter, as per Vehicle Code Section 39002.

B. The Adelanto Police Department shall license bicycles for persons residing within the City. All applicants residing outside the City limits shall be referred to their respective City or jurisdiction of residency.

C. Application for registration and licensing of bicycle shall be made by the owner or person having control of such bicycle thereof to the Chief of Police upon appropriate forms furnished by the Police Department. Such application shall contain the name and address of the owner of person having charge or control of such bicycle, the make and kind of bicycle, the factory frame or serial number thereof and any other information or description which is deemed necessary by the Chief of Police for purposes of identification and for the transfer of ownership of such bicycle.

D. The Chief of Police shall keep a record of the registration and the date of expiration of each license, to whom issued and the license number thereof and such other information as he deems necessary for the identification of bicycles and the enforcement of the provisions of this Chapter.

Upon payment of the license fee provided by this Chapter, the Chief of Police shall issue to the applicant a registration card containing the following information:

A. The license number assigned to the applicant.

B. The applicant’s name and address.

C. Provisions for the transfer of ownership of said bicycle.

D. Brief description of the bicycle being registered.

Said registration card shall be retained by the applicant as proof of ownership and kept in a safe place. All license tags shall be renewed on January 1st of the third year following the year of registration.

Upon registration of any bicycle and the payment of the license fee required by this Chapter, the Chief of Police shall issue to the applicant a license tag bearing the unique number assigned to that bicycle by the State in accordance with Vehicle Code Section 39001. This tag shall be affixed to the frame of such bicycle in plain view below the seat thereof. Such license tag shall remain on such bicycle and shall not be removed therefrom.

The fees required to be paid pursuant to this Chapter are as follows:

A. For a new license and registration, the sum of six dollars ($6.00) is required.

B. For each transfer of ownership which requires a new registration card, the sum of one dollar ($1.00) is required for each full year or pro rata share of any one (1) year remaining on the original registration certificate or license.

C. For replacement of a bicycle registration card or license tag lost, stolen, destroyed, mutilated or illegible, the sum of one dollar ($1.00) is required for each full year or pro rata share of any one (1) year remaining on the original registration certificate or license.

D. For release of an impounded bicycle, the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) is required.

Revenues from fees collected shall be retained by the licensing City and shall be used to meet costs and to improve bicycle safety programs within the limits of the jurisdiction.

Every person engaged in the business of buying, trading or selling bicycles in the City shall keep at his place of business a record of all bicycles, bought, sold or rented by him, giving the date of such transaction, the name and address of the person from whom purchased or traded, or to whom sold or rented, a description of such bicycle by name and make, the frame or serial number, and the number of the license tag attached thereto. Such record shall be maintained in plain, legible handwriting in a bound book, which record shall be available for inspection by members of the Police Department, giving the name, address and telephone number of all persons buying, selling or trading bicycles at his place of business, and the bicycle manufacture, type, frame number and bicycle tag number if any.

In the event that any identification card or tag is lost or stolen for any bicycle registered pursuant to this Chapter and the owner or person having charge or control of such bicycle furnishes satisfactory proof to the Chief of Police of such loss or theft upon payment of the fee provided in Section 10.32.040, the Chief of Police shall issue a new identification card or tag. It shall be the duty of any owner or person having charge or control of any bicycle registered pursuant to this Chapter, to notify the Chief of Police immediately of the loss or theft of such bicycle.

It is unlawful for any person to remove, destroy, mutilate, tamper with or alter the serial number on the frame of any bicycle, or the identification tag affixed to the frame of any bicycle, or tamper with any identification card registered pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter, provided, however, that nothing herein shall prohibit the Chief of Police from placing numbers or letters on frames of bicycles for purposes of identification.

The Chief of Police shall have the right to impound and retain possession of any bicycle being operated in violation of the provisions

described in this Chapter and may retain possession of such bicycle until the provisions of such Sections are complied with, and all fees provided by Section 10.32.040 are paid. If such bicycle is not claimed within three (3) months, it shall be deemed to be abandoned. Any bicycle which has been so impounded and held for three (3) months without redemption by or on behalf of the lawful owner thereof shall, if saleable, be sold at such time and place to be determined by the Chief of Police. If so determined by the Chief of Police unredeemed bicycles complete with new registrations may be made available to charitable groups for distribution.

When any bicycle so impounded bears the identification tag required by the provisions of this Chapter, the impounding agency shall, within seven (7) days after impoundment, send by regular mail a notification of impound addressed to the registered owner at the registered address.

All laws to the provisions of the California Vehicle Code shall apply to the operation of a bicycle, and any violations of said laws are punishable as described in that Code. No person shall ride a bicycle upon a sidewalk within any business district, or on the sidewalk within any business district, or on the sidewalk adjacent to any public school building, church, recreation center, playground or over any pedestrian over crossing, or within any crosswalk. Whenever a person is riding a bicycle on a sidewalk, such person shall yield the right- of-way to any pedestrian; and when overtaking and passing a pedestrian, shall give an audible signal. A person riding a bicycle off a sidewalk and onto the roadway shall yield to all traffic on the roadway.