[HISTORY: Adopted by the Council of the City
of Sunbury 6-29-1970 by Ord. No. 841. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Every device propelled by human power upon which any person
may ride, having two tandem wheels either of which is 20 inches or
more in diameter.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person who operates a bicycle in the City
of Sunbury shall do so in accordance with Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
law. Riding on sidewalks is prohibited.
Every owner of a bicycle, or the parent or guardian
of a minor owner thereof, shall make application to the police force
for a bicycle license, such application to be made on a form provided
by the City. A license fee of $0.50 shall be paid to the police force
before such license shall be granted.
The City of Sunbury shall provide a license,
together with registration cards, which license and cards shall have
numbers stamped thereon in numerical order, beginning with number
one, and indicating the name of the City. Such license shall be suitable
for attachment to the rear mudguard of the frame of the bicycle for
which issued, in such a position as to be plainly visible. Such license
shall be attached to the bicycle by a member of the police force at
the time of issuing the license and shall remain attached to the bicycle
for which it is issued. The police force shall also keep a record
of such registration. Upon issuance of a license and attachment of
the license to the bicycle, the police force shall also furnish to
the owner of such bicycle the corresponding registration card. The
operator of a bicycle shall display his registration card or produce
satisfactory proof that the owner has such registration card, upon
the demand of any officer of the Sunbury police force.
The police force shall inspect each bicycle
before licensing the same, and shall refuse a license for any bicycle
which it deems to be in an unsafe condition.
Upon the loss, destruction or defacement of
any bicycle license, the same may be renewed upon application to the
police force and payment of the same fee as upon an original application.
It shall be the duty of every person who sells
or transfers ownership of any bicycle within the City of Sunbury to
report such sale to the police force. If such bicycle had been licensed
and registered, such person shall, at the same time, return to the
police force the registration card and license. Such person shall
furnish the police force with the name and address of the person to
whom such bicycle was sold or transferred. Such report and return
of the registration card and license tag shall be made by the person
selling or transferring within three days of the date of the said
sale or transfer.
It shall be the duty of any person who purchases
or otherwise acquires a bicycle immediately to apply for a registration
card and license.
It shall be the duty of every person who dismantles,
reduces to junk or takes out of operation any bicycle, whether the
same be registered or not registered, to report the same to the police
force and to turn in the registration card and license if such bicycle
was registered.
It shall be unlawful for any person willfully or maliciously to remove, destroy, mutilate or alter the number on any bicycle frame; and it shall be unlawful for any person to remove, destroy, mutilate or alter any license or registration card during the time when such license or registration card is valid, except as provided in §§ 64-7 and 64-9 hereof; provided, however, that if any bicycle does not have a serial number stamped on the frame thereof, or if such number is illegible, the police force shall stamp an identification number on the frame of such bicycle.
In case of loss, defacement or destruction of
any license and/or registration card, a duplicate license and/or card
shall be issued to the registered owner of such bicycle, upon payment
of a fee of $0.50 for each license or card required, provided such
owner gives satisfactory proof of such ownership and loss, defacement
or destruction of such card and/or license, by affidavit or otherwise,
to the police force.
If any bicycle shall be found on any street
or alley in the City without a license as above set forth, with a
mutilated serial number or with no serial number stamped on the frame
of the bicycle, it shall be prima facie evidence that such bicycle
is being operated without proper registration.
[Amended 2-9-1998]
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate
a bicycle upon any sidewalks, as well as streets or alleys, in violation
of laws, rules and regulations applicable to motor vehicles.
A.Â
In addition to the foregoing, it shall be unlawful
to ride a bicycle or use a skateboard on the sidewalks, municipal
parking lots or Cameron Park in the downtown business district of
the City. The downtown business district shall include Arch Street,
Market Street and Chestnut Street running from Front Street to Tenth
Street.
B.Â
Any individual violating § 64-13 of the Code shall be subject to the penalties in the order set forth below:
(1)Â
A first offense shall result in the confiscation of
the bicycle or skateboard for a period of 30 days.
(2)Â
A second offense shall result in the permanent confiscation
of the bicycle or skateboard.
(3)Â
A third offense shall result in the imposition of
fine defined at a minimum amount of $25 and a maximum amount of $300,
along with permanent confiscation of the bicycle or skateboard.
(4)Â
If a minor is involved with any of the offenses, then
the parent or guardian shall be served with written notice of the
penalty. An item of property shall only be returned to a minor with
a parent or guardian present.
It shall be unlawful for the operator of any
bicycle, when upon any street or public alley or any public path set
apart for the exclusive use of bicycles, to ride with both hands off
the handlebars, to ride other than upon or astride the permanent and
regular seat attached thereto or to carry any other person upon such
bicycle other than upon a firmly attached and regular seat thereon,
nor shall any person ride upon a bicycle other than as above provided.
No person shall operate a bicycle upon any street
or public alley, or upon any public path set apart for the exclusive
use of bicycles, unless such bicycle is equipped with a bell or other
device capable of giving a signal audible for at least 100 feet, except
that no bicycle shall be equipped with, nor shall any person use upon
a bicycle, any siren or whistle.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate
a bicycle upon any street or public alley in such a manner as to interfere
with any pedestrian who is exercising due care thereon.
It shall be unlawful for any person operating
a bicycle upon any street or public alley in the City of Sunbury to
propel such bicycle abreast or to the left of any other person so
propelling a bicycle, except in passing such bicycle.
The operator of a bicycle emerging from an alley,
driveway or building shall, upon approaching a sidewalk or the sidewalk
area extending across any alleyway, yield the right-of-way to all
pedestrians approaching on said sidewalk or sidewalk area and, upon
entering the roadway, shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles
approaching on said roadway.
No person shall park a bicycle upon a street
or public alley other than upon the roadway against the curb or upon
the sidewalk in a rack to support the bicycle, or against a building
or at the curb in such manner as to afford the least obstruction to
pedestrian traffic.
No person shall operate a bicycle in the City
of Sunbury between the hours from dusk to dawn without a proper light
on the front and rear of the bicycle and unless such lights are turned
on.
[Amended 2-14-1977 by Ord. No. 951; at
time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter shall
be guilty of a summary offense and, upon conviction, be subject to
a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution, or 90 days'
imprisonment, or both.
