Oroville Municipal Code Ch. 12.40 Bicycles

It is unlawful for any person to remove, destroy, mutilate or alter any license plate, seal or registration card during the time in which such license plate, seal or registration card is operative. 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.

(Code 1954 § 5.5)

It is unlawful for any person to wilfully or maliciously remove, destroy, mutilate or alter the number of any bicycle frame licensed pursuant to this chapter.

(Code 1954 § 5.6)

A. All persons engaged in the business of buying secondhand bicycles are required to make a daily 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.

B. All persons engaged in the business of selling new or secondhand bicycles are required to make a daily 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 the frame number thereof and the number of the metallic license plate attached thereto, if any.

(Code 1954 § 5.7)

The riding of bicycles on the sidewalks within the city shall be unlawful.

(Code 1954 § 5.9)

No parent or guardian of a minor shall knowingly or wilfully permit or authorize his or her child or ward to violate any provision of this chapter. A violation of this section is a misdemeanor and punishable as provided in Section 1.08.010.

(Code 1954 § 5.11)