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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 150 (1961) ORDINANCE NO. 150 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REGISTRA- TION OF BICYCLES IN THE CITY OF TUSTIN, AND PROVIDING PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF. The City Council of the City of Tustin does ordain as follows: Section l: It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or use a bicycle propelled wholly orin part by muscular power upon~any of the streets, alleys or public highways of the City ~ Tustin, without first obtaining from the Riice Department a license therefor; provided, however, that there shall be excepted from the provisions of this Ordinance bicycles owned and operated by non-residents of the City of Tustin, which are regularly and duly licensed by any other municipality. Section 2: The Police Department is hereby authorized and directed~to issue, upon written application, bicycle licenses which shall be effective from the first day of May, 1961, to and including December 31, 1961, and thereafter said licenses shall be issued for the calendar year, com- mencing on the first day of January of each of said calendar years and ending on the thirty-first day of Declember of said calendar year. Said licenses when issued shall entitle the licensee to operate such bicycle for which said license has been issued, upon all the streets, alleys and public high- ways, exclusive of the sidewalks thereof, in the City of Tustin. Section 3: The City of Tustin shall provide each year a license, together with a registration card, said license and registration card having numbers stamped thereon- in numerical order, beginning with Number 100, and indicating the year for which the same are issued; such l'icense shall be suitable for attachment upon the frames of bicycles, and it shall be the duty of the Police Department to attach one such license to the frame of each bicycle and to issue a corresponding registration card to the licensee upon the payment of the license fee herein provided for. Such license 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. Section 4: All persons engaged.in the. business of buying second-hand bicycles are hereby required to make a weekly report to the Police Department, giving the name and address of the person from which each~bicycle is purchased, the description of each bicycle purchased, the frame number thereof, and the number of the license found thereon, if any, All persons engaged in the business of selling new or second- hand bicycles are hereby 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 license attached thereto, if any. Section ~: It shall be the duty of every person who sells or transfers ownership of any bicycles, 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 said bicycle was sold or transferred, and such report shall be made within five days of the date of said 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 said sale or transfer. Section 6: It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully or maliciously remove, destroy, mutilate or alter the number of any ~icycle frame licensed pursuant to this Ordinance. It shall also be unlawful for any person to remove, destroy, mutilate or alter any license, seal or registration card during the time in which such license, seal or registration card is operative. Provided, however, that nothing in this Ordinance shall prohibit the Police Department from stamp- ing numbers on the frames of bicycles on which no serial number can be found, or on which said number is illegible or insufficient for identification purposes. Section 7: For the first annual license issued pursuant to this Ordinance, the sum of $1.00 shall be paid. For each annual renewal of any such license the sum of 50~ shall be paid. In cases where a transfer of ownership is made in the manner prescribed by this Ordinance, the feefor transfer of the license shall be the sum of 50~. Section 8: Every person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the County Jail for a period of not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. In addition to the penalty hereinafter set forth, the Police Department of the City of Tustin or any of the members thereof, may impound and retain possession of any bicycle operated in violation of any of the pro- visions of this Ordinance, and retain possession of the same until the license provided for herein is obtained by the owner of said bicycle. PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City Of Tustin, held on the 20th day of March, 1961. ATTEST: ~CLERK ~ STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE, ) SS CITYOF TUSTiN ) RUTH Ci POE, City Clerk and ex~officio Clerk of the City council of the City of Tustin, California, does hereby cSrtify that the w~ole number of the members of the City Council of the City of Tustin is five; that the above and foregoing Ordinance was duly and regularly introduced and read at the regular meeting of the City Council held on the 6th day of March, 1961, and was given its second reading and duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting held on the 20th day of March, 1961, by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEN: Kidd, Humeston, Byrd.,. Mack .~nd Sheridan NOES: COUNCILMEN: None ABSENT': COUNCILMEN: None in, California