Lakewood Municipal Code Part 8 Bicycles

No person shall ride, move, haul or leave standing, or allow to be ridden, moved, hauled, or left standing any bicycle on any road, street, highway, or other public property within the City unless such bicycle has been licensed as required by this part.

The license and registration forms shall be issued by the City on the form approved by the Department of Motor Vehicles. The City Hall maintains a record of each license which shall include: license number; number of licensee; address of licensee; serial number of bicycle; make of bicycle; type of bicycle; and model of bicycle. No license may be issued for any bicycle that does not conform with Section 39007 of the Vehicle Code of the State of California.

Each license or registration shall be good from the date of registration until the City shall by resolution direct re-registration. All registration of bicycles and sales and transfers thereof shall be in accordance with and subject to the terms and provisions of Section 39000, et seq., of the Vehicle Code of the State of California.

Any person who transfers ownership of any bicycle licensed or required to be licensed under this Part, whether by gift, sale or otherwise, shall report such sale or transfer to the City in the form and manner provided by the City.

No person shall wilfully remove, destroy, mutilate or alter, or cause or permit to be removed, destroyed, mutilated or altered, the number on any bicycle frame for which any license or registration shall have been made pursuant to the provisions of this Part. No person shall wilfully remove, destroy, mutilate, or alter or cause or permit to be removed, destroyed, mutilated or altered, any license plate, seal, or other indicia of license or registration issued by the City for any bicycle during the time in which said license or registration is operative. Nothing contained in this part shall be deemed to or construed to prohibit the City from stamping any number on the frame of any bicycle on which no serial number can be found, or on which such serial number of illegible or insufficient for identification purposes.

Each person applying for such a license or transfer or license shall pay a license fee of not less than fifty cents ($ .50), or such other sum as may hereafter be established by the City Council.

[Amended by Ord. 76-5]

All licenses as well as the operator of any bicycle, are hereby made subject to the terms and provisions of all applicable provisions of the Vehicle Code of the State of California as well as all provisions of the Lakewood Municipal Code pertaining to the operation of bicycles. Any bicycle operator or licensee found in violation of the provisions of the aforementioned Codes may have such license or registration suspended or revoked for such period of time as determined by the City Council pursuant to hearing before the City Council upon reasonable notice to the licensee or operator. On recommendation of the Commander of the law enforcement agency of the Chief of Police, any bicycle operator who is subject to licensing under this Part, and who is charged with a violation of the aforementioned Codes, may be required to attend at such reasonable times and places as determined by the commander of the law enforcement agency or Chief of Police remedial bicycle safety classes under the supervision and direction of the commander of law enforcement agency or Chief of Police.

[Amended by Ord. 78-17]

No person shall ride a bicycle or motorized bicycle, or coast a bicycle or motorized bicycle, on any sidewalk except as authorized by the California Vehicle Code.

[Amended by Ord. 78-17]

It shall be unlawful for any person while operating a bicycle or motorized bicycle to sit on any portion of said bicycle or motorized bicycle not designed for said operator. No operator of a bicycle or motorized bicycle shall permit any other person to ride on any portion of said bicycle or motorized bicycle not designed for passenger use, such as upon the bar, handlebars, carrier racks, fenders or other portions of the vehicle, unless said passenger is an infant or young child who is riding that bicycle or motorized bicycle in a carrier or seat provided for that purpose.

[Added by Ord. 88-14]

Whenever the Law Enforcement Agency, as defined in Section 2142 should elect to deliver to the City of Lakewood any bicycles or toys that have been unclaimed for a period of at least sixty (60) days, the City may, instead of causing the same to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder pursuant to the provisions of Section 2080.5 of the California Civil Code, transfer and deliver the same to any charitable or non-profit organization which is authorized under its Articles of Incorporation to participate in a program or activity designated to prevent juvenile delinquency and which is exempt from income taxation under Federal or State law or both, for use in any program or activity designed to prevent juvenile delinquency. The City Administrator is hereby authorized, without further City Council approval, to administer the terms and provisions of this Section upon his determination and finding that the donee charitable or non-profit organization is exempt from State and Federal income taxation, is a nationally chartered organization, and is an organization which includes either in its Articles of Incorporation or its nationally chartered Articles of Incorporation programs or activities designated to prevent juvenile delinquency.