Compton Municipal Code § 8-6 Bicycles

[Ord. #856, § 3500; Ord. #957]

a. No person shall operate or use a bicycle propelled wholly or in part by muscular power upon any street or public highway of the City, unless there shall have been first obtained by or on behalf of the owner of such bicycle a license so to do, which license shall be procured from the License Collector, and for which the applicant shall have paid a license fee. Each such license shall be subject to renewal whenever the ownership of the bicycle changes. Each such license when so issued shall entitle the licensee to operate such bicycle for which such license shall have been issued upon any of the public streets or public highways of the City, exclusive of sidewalks in any business district of the City.

b. No registration with the City shall be required where the user of a bicycle is a resident of another jurisdiction of the State having provisions for registration comparable to those of the City and who has actually complied with such registration provisions, has a valid evidence of registration, and is not using such bicycle in the City for a period in excess of seven days in any one month. In any proceedings, civil or criminal, brought pursuant to the provisions of this section, the burden of proof pertaining to this exception, and any element thereof, shall be with the operator and/or user, and a prima facie case under this section will be made upon proof of the violation of the provisions of paragraph a of this section, and thereafter the burden shall shift to the defendant or user to prove the applicability of this exception by competent evidence.

[Ord. #856, § 3501; Ord. #957; Ord. #1446; Ord. #1464; Ord. #1477]

The Chief of Police is hereby authorized and directed to issue, upon written applications, bicycle licenses, each of which shall be effective until the expiration of the period in which such license is issued. The license duration periods may be established by resolution of the Council to conform to the State bicycle license periods established by the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles of the State or to conform with such other State law as may become applicable in the future.

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Editor's Note: For violations of the subsection, see Section 12-6, Bail Rates.

[Ord. #856, § 3502; Ord. #957]

The License Collector shall provide for each one-year period license plates and registration cards as provided in Division 16.7, Sections 39000 et seq., of the Motor Vehicle Code of the State. Such license plates shall be suitable for attachment upon the frames of bicycles. It shall be the duty of the License Collector, upon the payment of the license fee provided for in subsection 8-6.10 to deliver one such plate to the owner of the bicycle and to issue a corresponding registration card to the owner of the bicycle. Such license plate shall remain attached during the valid period of such license. The License Collector shall keep a record of the date of issuance of each license, the person to whom issued, and the number thereof. Such records shall be given periodically to the Chief of Police who shall maintain such records.

[Ord. #856, § 3503; Ord. #957]

All persons engaged in the business of buying secondhand bicycles or bicycle frames, and any junk dealer who purchases or otherwise acquires any bicycle or bicycle frame as junk or otherwise, are hereby required to make a report to the Chief of Police, in writing, within 24 hours thereafter, specifying:

a. The name and address of the person from whom each bicycle or bicycle frame was purchased or otherwise acquired;

b. The description of each bicycle or bicycle frame purchased or otherwise acquired;

c. The frame number thereof; and

d. The number of the license plate found attached thereto, if any, or any identifying insignia.

[Ord. #856, § 3504; Ord. #957]

In addition to any other reports required by the provisions of this Code, all persons engaged in the business of selling new or secondhand bicycles or bicycle frames are hereby required to make a daily report to the Chief of Police, and any junk dealer who sells or otherwise disposes of any bicycle or bicycle frame as junk or otherwise shall report to the Chief of Police in writing, within 24 hours thereafter, specifying:

a. The name and address of the person to whom each bicycle or bicycle frame was sold or otherwise disposed of;

b. The description of each bicycle or bicycle frame sold or otherwise disposed of;

c. The frame number thereof; and

d. The number of the license plate found attached thereto, if any.

[Ord. #856, § 3505; Ord. #957; Ord. #1464]

a. It shall be the duty of every person who sells or transfers ownership of any bicycle or bicycle frame to report such sale or transfer by returning to the License Collector the registration card issued to such person as licensee thereof.

b. Whenever the owner of a bicycle licensed pursuant to this section changes his address, he shall, within 10 days, notify the License Collector of the new and old address.

[Ord. #856, § 3506; Ord. #957]

No pawnbroker, secondhand dealer, or junk dealer shall sell or otherwise dispose of any bicycle frame within 14 days after such article has been purchased or received by such pawnbroker, secondhand dealer, or junk dealer.

[Added by Ord. #957, § 3507]

No person shall wilfully remove, destroy, mutilate, or alter the number of any bicycle or bicycle frame, either licensed or unlicensed.

[Added by Ord. #957, § 3508]

No person shall wilfully remove, destroy, mutilate, or alter any license plate or registration card during the time such plate or card is operative. In the event a license plate is lost, stolen, or mutilated, the person owning any such bicycle shall make an application to reregister such bicycle, and a new license plate shall be procured from the License Collector for which the applicant shall pay a license fee of $0.50. The Chief of Police shall cancel the registration of such bicycle in the register, and such bicycle shall be reregistered and, if necessary, be given a new serial number and identifying letter. Nothing in this section shall be deemed or construed to prohibit the Chief of Police from stamping any number or insignia on any such bicycle for identification purposes.

[Added by Ord. #957, § 3509; amended by Ord. #1446; Ord. #1464]

The Council may set by resolution fees for bicycle licenses and for services performed by City agencies under this section, such that such fees will cover all City costs incurred directly or indirectly therefrom. In the event bicycle license fees have not been set by resolution, the fee therefor shall be $2 per year or any part thereof.

[Ord. #1766, § 1; Ord. #2295 § 3]

The City Council shall, by ordinance or resolution, from time to time determine and fix the amount to be assessed as fees applicable to process the sealing of police records pursuant to Section 851.8 of the California Penal Code.

Editor's Note: Ord. No. 2340 repealed Subsection 8-6.12, Administrative Fee for the Release of Abandoned and Impounded Vehicles. Prior history includes Ord. #1765, §§ 1 - 5; Ord. #1945, § 1; and Ord. #2295 § 4.