Live Oak, Sutter County Municipal Code Ch. 10.64 Bicycle Registration

It is unlawful for any person to operate or use a bicycle propelled wholly or in part by muscular power upon any of the streets, alleys or public highways of the City without first obtaining from the Police Department a license therefor.

(Ord. 132 § 1, 1965)

The City Clerk's office is designated as the agency through whom applications for bicycle licenses shall be processed. The City Clerk's office is authorized and directed to issue, upon written application, bicycle licenses which shall be effective from January 1st to and including December 31st of the succeeding year and thereafter all licenses shall be issued every two years commencing on the first day of each even numbered year and ending on the 31st day of December of each odd numbered year. The licenses, when issued, shall entitle the licensee to operate such bicycle for which said license has been issued upon all of the streets, alleys and public highways exclusive of the sidewalks thereof in the City. The City Clerk's office may confer with the applicable law enforcement department, i.e., the Sutter County Sheriff's Department in connection with the processing of such applications and the issuances of such licenses.

(Ord. 132 § 2, 1965; Ord. 252 § 1, 1980)

The City shall provide each year metallic license plates and seals, together with registration cards and isinglass holders therefor, said metallic license plates and registration cards having numbers stamped thereon in numerical order, and it shall be the duty of the Police Department to attach one such metallic license plate to the frame of each bicycle and to issue a corresponding registration card to the licensee upon the payment of the license fee provided for in Section 10.64.040. Such metallic license plate shall remain attached during the existence of such license. The Police Department shall also keep a record of the date of issue of each license, to whom issued, and the number thereof.

(Ord. 132 § 3, 1965)

The license fee to be paid for each bicycle shall be one dollar and shall be paid in advance. All license fees collected under this chapter shall be paid into the general fund of the City.

(Ord. 132 § 7, 1965; Ord. 252 § 1, 1980)

All persons engaged in the business of buying secondhand bicycles are required to make weekly report to the Police Department giving the name and address of the person from whom each bicycle is purchased, the description of each bicycle purchased, the frame number thereof, and the number of the metallic license plate found thereon, if any. All persons engaged in the business of selling new or secondhand bicycles are required to make a weekly report to the Police Department, giving a list of all sales made by such dealers, which list shall include the name and address of each person to whom sold, the kind of bicycle sold, together with a description and frame number thereof, and the number of the metallic license plate attached thereof, if any.

(Ord. 132 § 4, 1965)

It shall be the duty of every person who sells or transfers ownership of any bicycle to report such sale or transfer by returning to the Police Department the registration card issued to such person as licensee thereof, together with the name and address of the person to whom the bicycle was sold or transferred, and such report shall be made within five days of the date of the 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 sale or transfer.

(Ord. 132 § 5, 1965)

It is unlawful for any person to willfully or maliciously remove, destroy, mutilate or alter the number of any bicycle frame licensed pursuant to this chapter. It is also unlawful for any person to remove, destroy, mutilate or alter any license plate, seal or registration card during the time in which the license plate, seal or registration card is operative; provided, however, that nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the Police Department from stamping numbers on the frames of bicycles on which no serial number can be found, or on which the number is illegible or insufficient for identification purposes.

(Ord. 132 § 6, 1965)

Every person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500.00 or by imprisonment in the County Jail for a period of not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. In addition to the penalty herein above set forth, the Police Department of the City, or any of the members thereof, may impound and retain possession of any bicycle operated in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, and retain possession of the same until the license provided for in this chapter is obtained by the owner of the bicycle.

(Ord. 132 § 8, 1965)