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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 627-1972ORDINANCE NO. 627 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO 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. LICENSE REQUIRED. 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 citF a license therefor, as hereinafter provided. SECTION 2. LICENSE ISSUANCE. The police department of the City of South San Francisco is hereby authorized and directed to issue bicycle licenses upon application by the owner thereof. The license fee for each bicycle shall be two dollars ($2.00). Except as hereinafter provided, applications for.bicycle licenses, and payment of the license fees, shall be made within ninety (@0) days after passage of this ordinance. SECTION 3. LICENSE, REGISTRATION AND RECORD. The City of South San Francisco shall provide a license sticker, together with registration receipt, said license sticker and registration receipt having stamped thereon the letters "SSF," together with numbers in numerical order beginning with Number 0001, which shall also be stamped into the frame. Such license sticker shall be suitable for attachment upon the frames of bicycles, and it shall be the duty of the police department (or of such person I T i ri r' ~ [] I II or persons as may be authorized by the City Council or the Chief of Police) to attach one such license sticker to the frame of each bicycle and to issue a corresponding registration receipt to the licensee upon the payment of the license fee herein provided for. Such license- sticker shall remain attached permanently. 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. SECOND-HAND SALES - DAILY REPORT. Every person~ firm or corporation engaged in the business of buying second-hand bicycles is hereby required to make daily reports to the police department giving the name and address of the person from whom each bicy'cle is purchased~ the description of each bicycle purchased~ the frame number thereof~ and the number of the license sticker found thereon~ if any. EvePy person~ firm or corporation engaged in the business of selling new or second- hand bicycles is 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 license sticker attached thereto~ if any. SECTION 5. REPORT OF SALE. It shall be the duty of every person~ firm or corporation which sells or transfers ownership 'of any bicycle~ tO report such sale or transfer by returning to the police department the registration receipt issued to such person as licensee thereof~ together with the name and address of the person to whom said bicycle was sold or t~ansferred, and such report shall be made within thirty (30) 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 thirty (30) days of said sale or transfer. SECTION 6. UNLAWFUL ACTS. 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 ordinance. It shall also be unlawful for any person to remove, destroy, mutilate, or alter any license sticker, seal, or registration receipt during the time in which such license plate, seal, or registration receipt is operative. It shall be the duty of the police department to stamp numbers on the frames of all bicycles, said number to correspond to the number of the license sticker issued, preceded by the letters "SSF." SECTION 7. UNLAWFUL OPERATION. '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 Francisco in any business district of said City. SECTION 8. TRANSFERABILITY. Licenses issued in accordance with this ordinance may be transferred when the ownership of a bicycle is transferred,~ subject, however, to the provisions of Section $ hereof, and a fee of two dollars ($2.00) shall be paid for the registration of such transfer. i I SECTION 9. DEPOSIT OF FEES IN GENERAL FUND. All license fees and other fees collected under this ordinance by the police department shall be delivered to the City Finance Officer and shall be credited to the general fund of the City of South San Francisco. SECTION 10. BICYCLE MAY BE IMPOUNDED. 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 pro- vided for herein is obtained by the owner of said bicycle. Any and all costs incurred as a result of such impound or storage will be at the expense of the owner. SECTION ll. PENALTY. 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 punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment for a period of not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 12. REPEAL ~F ORDINANCES 339 AND 423. The following ordinances are hereby repealed: Ordinance 339, passed May 18, 1953, entitled, "An Ordinance of the City of South San Francisco Pro- viding for the Registration and Licensing of Bicycles in Said City and Providing Penalties for Violations." Ordinance 423, passed December 18, 1957, entitled, "An 0rdinanee Amending Ordinance No. 339, Entitled, 'An Ordinance of the City of South San Francisco Pro- viding for the Registration and Licensing of Bicycles in Said City and Providing Penalties for Violations. '" SECTION 13. SHORT TITLE. This ordinance shall be known and cited as "Bicycle Ordinance of the City of South San Francisco." SECTION 14. PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE. This. ordinance shall be published once in the "Enterprise- Journal," a newspaper of general circulation in the City of South San Francisco, as required by law, and shall become effective thirty (30) days from and after its adoption. San Francis co at a reaular City of South San Francisco this by the following vote: AYES, COUNCILMEN ,, NOES, ABSENT, " Introduced this ~Tth day of January , 19 72. Passed and adopted as an Ordinance of the City of South meeting of the City coUncil of the 7th day of February , i9 72, Pa?rick E. Ahern, Frank J. Ber?ucelli, Wi I liam A. Borba and Warren Steinkamp None F, Frank Mammi n i ATTEST: c.-'L~ City Clerk As Mayor of the City of South San Francisco, I do hereby approve the foregoing Ordinance this 7th day of Feb?uary 19 72 .