Duarte Municipal Code Ch. 11.20 Bicycles

A person, firm or corporation shall not operate or permit to be operated on any public street in the city any bicycle propelled wholly or in part by muscular power, unless such bicycle shall first have been registered and licensed as provided in this chapter.

(Ord. 35 § 1, 1957)

(a) APPLICATION. Any person, firm or corporation desiring to register a bicycle shall make application therefor in writing to the city clerk or the sheriff of Los Angeles County, upon forms provided by that official. Such form shall show the name and address of the applicant, a description of the bicycle to be registered, including the name, serial number, if any, and color thereof, together with such other information or description as may be required.

(b) REGISTRATION. Upon receipt of any such application, the sheriff or city clerk shall register the bicycle in a permanent register and give such bicycle a registration number.

(c) CERTIFICATE AND LICENSE. When a bicycle is so registered, a registration certificate and a license shall be issued to the applicant. Both the registration certificate and license shall bear the registration number assigned.

(Ord. 35 § 2, 1957)

A license plate which may be in the form of a decal shall be numbered and contain the letters LACBL and shall be attached to the frame of the bicycle for which issued. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to remove, mutilate, deface or destroy any such license or to transfer any such license to any bicycle for which the same was not issued.

(Ord. 35 § 3, 1957)

It shall be the duty of any person residing within the city who sells or transfers ownership of any such bicycle, to report such sale or transfer by returning to the sheriff or city clerk the registration card issued to such person, firm or corporation as licensee thereof, together with the name and address of the person to whom such bicycle was sold or transferred and such report shall be made within ten days of the date of such sale or transfer. It shall be the duty of the purchaser or transferee of such bicycle to apply for a transfer of registration therefor within such ten days of the date of such sale or transfer. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to refuse, fail or neglect to conform to any provision of this chapter.

(Ord. 760 § 1, 2001; Ord. 35 § 4, 1957)

If the license plate or decal is lost, stolen or mutilated, the person, firm or corporation owning such bicycle, shall make an application to reregister such bicycle. The previous registration shall be canceled and the bicycle shall be reregistered in the permanent register and, if necessary, a new identifying number shall be given to such bicycle.

(Ord. 35 § 5, 1957)

A bicycle registration and license shall expire four years after the end of the thirty-first day of December of the year during which such registration and license first take effect. The applicant shall pay a fee established by resolution of the city council for each new license issued or for each reregistration or for each transfer of registration.

(Ord. 781 § 1 (part), 2006; Ord. 344 § 1, 1973: Ord. 35 § 6, 1957)

Every auctioneer, auto wrecker, foundry, pawnbroker, secondhand dealer, junk dealer or bicycle dealer shall notify the city clerk in writing on forms prescribed, not less often than once a week of every bicycle received in the course of business by him since his last report. In such reports he shall describe each such bicycle received and give the license number thereof, if any. In addition he shall supply such other information as the sheriff shall require. The dealer shall not sell, transfer, deliver, destroy or alter any such bicycle until fourteen days after its receipt has been reported to the sheriff.

(Ord. 35 § 7, 1957)