Irwindale Municipal Code Ch. 10.52 Bicycles

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* For statutory provisions on bicycle licensing see Vehicle Code § 39000 et seq.; for provisions on local regulations of bicycles, see Vehicle Code § 21206.

No person shall operate on any street in the city any bicycle propelled wholly or in part by muscular power, unless such bicycle has first been registered and licensed as provided in this chapter.

(Ord. 330 § 56 (part), 1979: Ord. 73 § 1(part), 1959: prior code § 3300).

Any person desiring to register a bicycle shall make application therefor in writing to the city clerk or the sheriff of the 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.

(Ord. 330 § 56(part), 1979: Ord. 73 § 1(part), 1959: prior code § 3301).

Upon receipt of any such application, said sheriff or city clerk shall register the bicycle in a permanent register and give such bicycle a registration number. 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. 330 § 56(part), 1979: Ord. 73 § 1(part), 1959: prior code § 3302).

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. No person shall remove, mutilate, deface or destroy any such license or transfer any such license to any bicycle for which the same was not issued.

(Ord. 330 § 56(part), 1979: Ord. 73 § 1(part), 1959: prior code § 3303).

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 said sheriff or city clerk the registration card issued to such person 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 five 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 five days of the date of such sale or transfer. No person shall refuse, fail or neglect to conform to any provision of this section.

(Ord. 330 § 56(part), 1979: Ord. 73 § 1(part), 1959: prior code § 3304).

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

(Ord. 330 § 56(part), 1979: Ord. 73 § 1(part), 1959: prior code § 3305).

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 of fifty cents for each new license issued or for each re-registration or for each transfer of registration.

(Ord. 330 § 56(part), 1979: Ord. 73 § 1(part), 1959: prior code § 3306).

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 or city clerk shall require. Said dealer shall not sell, transfer, deliver, destroy or alter any such bicycle until fourteen days after its receipt has been reported to the city clerk.

(Ord. 330 § 56(part), 1979: Ord. 73 § 1(part), 1959: prior code § 3307).

No person shall ride, or park or leave a bicycle upon any sidewalk. The rider of a bicycle upon a roadway shall ride as nearly as practicable within five feet of the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway except when passing a standing vehicle or making a left-hand turn at an intersection.

(Ord. 62 § 1(part), 1959: prior code § 3142).

No operator of any bicycle when upon the street shall carry any other person upon the bar, handle or tank of any such vehicle, and no person shall so ride upon any such vehicle.

(Ord. 62 § 1(part), 1959: prior code § 3143).

The penalty for violation of Sections 10.52.010 through 10.52.080 shall be a five-dollar fine.

(Ord. 330 § 56 (part), 1979).