Pico Rivera Municipal Code Art. II Registration and Licensing

A. No person, firm or corporation shall operate or use, or permit to be operated or used on any street in the city any bicycle propelled wholly or in part by muscular power unless such bicycle shall have been registered and licensed as provided in Article II of this chapter.

B. Whenever the words "city clerk" appear herein, the same mean director of finance of the city, and all duties bestowed in this chapter upon the city clerk shall be performed by the director of finance.

C. Notwithstanding any provision of this article to the contrary, the duties herein bestowed upon the director of finance may be performed by the sheriff of Los Angeles County pursuant to contractual arrangement between the city and the county of Los Angeles, and the performance of such duties by the sheriff of Los Angeles County shall constitute compliance with the terms and provisions of Article II of this chapter.

(Prior code § 3400)

A. Every person, firm or corporation coming within the provisions of Section 10.72.050 shall cause such bicycle to be registered by making application in writing therefor to the director of finance or sheriff upon forms provided by that official. Such form shall show the name and address of the applicant, a description of such bicycle, including the name, serial number, if any, and color thereof, together with such information or description as may be required.

B. Upon receipt of such application, said official shall register the bicycle in a permanent register maintained for that purpose and give the bicycle a registration number.

C. When the bicycle is so registered, a registration certificate and a license shall be issued to the applicant upon payment of the prescribed fee. Both the registration certificate and license shall bear the registration number assigned.

D. Such registration shall continue until the city council shall order re-registration. If the license plate or decal is lost, stolen or mutilated, the person, firm or corporation subject to the provisions of Section 10.72.050 shall make an application to re-register such bicycle. The previous registration shall be cancelled and the bicycle shall be re-registered in the permanent register and, if necessary, a new identifying number shall be given to such bicycle.

(Prior code § 3401)

It shall be the duty of any person residing within the incorporated territory of 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 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 such five days of the date of such sale or transfer. It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to refuse, fail or neglect to conform to any provisions of this section.

(Prior code § 3402)

A. A license plate, which may be in the form of a decal, shall be numbered and contain the letters "L.A. Co. B.L." or similar letters, and shall be attached to the frame of the bicycle for which issued.

B. It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to remove, mutilate, deface or destroy any such license or decal, or to transfer any such license or decal to any bicycle for which the same was not issued.

C. No license shall be issued and no bicycle shall be registered or re-registered except upon payment of the fee of fifty cents for each such license issued, or registration or re-registration, to the director of finance or sheriff. Each such license shall continue without the necessity of renewal or further fee until the city council shall, by ordinance or resolution, direct re-registration, as provided in Section 10.72.060 of this article. Each such license when so issued shall entitle the licensee to operate such bicycle for which such license shall have been issued upon any of the public highways within the incorporated territory of the city.

D. Any person, firm or corporation coming within the provisions of Section 10.72.050 shall at all times keep the license or decal visibly displayed upon the bicycle, with the exception that this article shall not apply to any person, firm or corporation otherwise coming within the provisions of Section 10.72.050 who does not normally keep or store such bicycle within the city, and who has otherwise obtained and kept in full force and effect a bicycle registration and license for such bicycle imposed by the jurisdiction where the bicycle is normally kept or stored.

(Prior code § 3404)

A. Every auctioneer, auto wrecker, foundry, pawnbroker, secondhand dealer, junk dealer or bicycle dealer shall notify the director of finance or the sheriff in writing, on forms prescribed, not less often than once a week, of each bicycle received in the course of business by him or her since his or her last report. In such reports, he or she shall describe each such bicycle received and give the license number thereof, if any. In addition, he or she shall supply such other information as the sheriff or director of finance shall require.

B. The dealer shall not sell, transfer, deliver, destroy or alter any such bicycle until fourteen days after its receipt has been reported to the aforementioned official.

(Prior code § 3405)

Any person residing within the city who has heretofore during the calendar year registered such bicycle as provided for herein and procured a county license for this year, good until December 31, 1958, shall not be required to comply with the sections of this chapter, except upon the sale or transfer or ownership of title, until January 1, 1959.

(Prior code § 3406)

A. Upon the sale or transfer of title of any such bicycle licensed pursuant to the provisions of Article II of this chapter, the purchaser or transferee thereof, upon payment of the sum of fifty cents to the city clerk, shall be entitled to have the existing license issued for such bicycle transferred to the name of the new owner thereof. Each application for any such transfer shall be made to the city clerk in writing, and shall describe such bicycle in sufficient detail to identify the same, and shall include the serial number or other identifying mark existing thereon.

B. Provided, however, that no such license shall be transferred unless and until the applicant for such transfer shall present to the city clerk a certificate in writing signed by the sheriff of Los Angeles County, certifying that the registration of such bicycle has been changed to such applicant as transferee or the new owner thereof.

(Prior code § 3407)

A. It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation wilfully to remove, destroy, mutilate or alter, or to cause or permit to be removed, destroyed, mutilated or altered the number on any bicycle frame for which any such registration shall have been made pursuant to the provisions of Article II of this chapter.

B. It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to remove, destroy, mutilate or alter, or to cause or permit to be removed, destroyed, mutilated or altered any license plate issued by or on behalf of the city, for any such bicycle or any seal or registration certificate relating to such bicycle during the time in which such license plate, seal or registration certificate is operative.

C. Provided, however, that nothing in this article shall be deemed or construed to prohibit the sheriff from stamping any number on the frame of any such bicycle on which no serial number can be found, or on which such serial number is illegible or insufficient for identification purposes.

(Prior code § 3403)