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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 339-1953 [Bicycle Ordinance] ORDINANOE NO. 339 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SOUTH SAN 'FRAN&~SO0 PROVIDING FOR THE REGISTRATION AND LICENSING OF BICYCLES IN SAID CITY AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS. The City Council of the City of South San Francisco does ordain as follows: Section 1. It shall be 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 of South San Francisco without first obtaining from the police department of said city a license therefor, as hereinafter provided. Section 2. The police department of the City of South San Francisco is hereby authorized and directed to issue, upon written application by the owner thereof, bicycle licenses which shall be effective for a period of two (2) years commencing with the 1st day of July, 1953, and ending with the 30th day of June, 1955, and continuing thereafter on a biennial basis. The license fee to be paid to said city for each bicycle shall be ONE DOLLAR ($1.00) for each two (2) year period or portion thereof. Ail applications for bicycle licenses, and payment of the license f~es, shall'be made on or before the 1st day of July in the year in which the license fee becomes due, or within twenty (20) days thereafter; and in the case of a newly acquired bicycle, application for a license and payment of the license fee must be made within twenty (20) days of the acquisi- tion date. Said licenses when issued shall entitle the licensee, or anyone having his permission, to operate the bicycle for which said license has been issued, upon all the streets, alleys, and public highways of said city. Section 3. The City of South San Francisco shall provide metallic license plates and seals, together with registration cards and isinglass holders therefor, said metallic license plates and registration cards having stamped thereon the letters "SSF", together with numbers in numerical order beginning with Number l, and also having indicated thereon the year for which the same are issued. Such metallic license plates shall be suitabIe for attachment upon the frames of bicycles, and it 'shall be the duty of the police department (or of such person or persons as may be authorized by the city council or the chief of police) to attach one such metallic license plate to the frame of each bicycle and to issue a corresponding regis- tration card to the licensee upon the payment of the license fee herein provided for. Such metallic license plates shall remain attached during the period for which such licenses are issued. Sa~d~eg~st~a~lom~a~ds shall be carried upon the person of the registered owner of each bicycle at all times when operating, said bicycle upon the public streets or thorough- fares of said city. The police department shall also keep~a record of the date of issue of each license, to whom issued, and the number thereof. Section ~. Ail persons engaged in the business of buying second-hand bicycles are hereby required to make daily reports to the police department giving the name and address of the person from whom each bicycle is purchased, the descrip- tion of each bicyCle purchased, the frame number thereof, and the number of the metallic license plate found thereon, if any. Ail persons engaged in the business of selling new or second- hand bicycles are hereby 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 metallic license plate attached thereto, if any. Section 5. It shall be the duty of every person who sells or transfers ownership of any bicycle, to report such -2- Sale or transfer by returning to the police department the regis- tration 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 twenty (20) days of the date of said sale or transfer. It shall be the duty of the purchaser or transferee of such bicycle to apply to the police department for a transfer of registration therefor within twenty (20) 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 bicycle frame licensed pursuant to this ordi- nance. It shall also be unlawful for any person to remove, destroy, mutilate, or alter any license plate, seal, or regis- tration card during the time in which such license plate, seal, or registration card is operative. It shall be the duty eli:the police department to stamp 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. It shall be unlawful for any person at any time to operate any bicycle upon any of the public sidewalks of the City of South San Franclsco.~ Section 8. Every license issued in accordance with this ordinance may be transferred when the ownership of a bicycle is transferred, subject, however, to the provisi~ns of Section 5 hereof, and a fee of FIFTY CENTS (50~) shall be paid for the registration of such transfer. Section 9. In the event that application for either the issuance of a license or the registration of a transferral is~not made within the time prescribed by this ordinance, the applicant shall pay a late registration fee of ONE DOLLAR ($1.00), which shall be in addition to the penalties hereinafter prescribed. Section 10. All license fees and other fees collected under this ordinance by the police department shall be delivered to the city clerk and shall be credited to the general fund of the City of South San Francisco. Section 11. The police department of the City of South San Francisco, or any of the members thereof, may impound and retain possession of any bicycle operated in violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance, and retain possession of the same until the license provided for herein is obtained by the owner of said bicycle. Section 12. Every person, firm, or corporation violat- ing any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than FIVE HUNDBED DOLLARS ($500.00), or by imprisonment for a period of not m~re than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 13, This ordinance shall be known and cited as "Bicycle Ordinance of the City of South San Francisco". Section 1~. This ordinance shall be published once, as provided by law, and Shall become effective thirty (30) days after its adoption. Introduced this 4th day of May, 1953. Passed and adopted as an ordinance of the City of South San Francisco at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of South San Francisco this 18th day of May, 1953, by the following vote: AYES~ Councilmen John Noonan, Adolph Sani, Emilio Cortesi, Joseph B~acco NOES, Counc i linen None ABSENT, Councilmen Telford Smith APP ROVED: ~th San Francisco