[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Colonial Heights
4-8-1975 as Ch. 22, Art. II, of the 1975 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.][1]
[1]
Editor's Note: For statutory provisions regarding licensing of bicycles
and disposition of unclaimed bicycles, see Code of Virginia, § 15.2-1720.
As to applicability of state traffic regulations to persons riding bicycles,
see Code of Virginia, § 46.2-800.
[Amended 7-8-1986 by Ord.
No. 86-20]
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 of the city without
first obtaining a certificate of registration from the Chief of Police and
attaching the metallic registration plate or decalcomania to such bicycle.
[Amended 7-8-1986 by Ord.
No. 86-20]
The city shall provide metallic registration plates and seals, or decalcomania
together with registration cards, for bicycles, to be numbered in numerical
order, the design and identification lettering to be approved by the Chief
of Police. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to cause one (1) of
such metallic registration plates or decalcomania to be attached to the frame
of each bicycle and to issue a corresponding registration card to the owner
of such bicycle upon the payment of the registration fee required in this
chapter. Such metallic registration plate or decalcomania shall remain attached
to the bicycle for which it was issued during the period such bicycle is operated
within the City. The Chief of Police shall keep a permanent register in which
shall be entered the name, address and age of the owner of each registered
bicycle, the date of registration and sufficient information to identify such
bicycle.
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or transfer ownership of
any bicycle without reporting to the Chief of Police, within forty-eight (48)
hours from the time thereof, full and complete information relative to such
transfer so that such bicycle may be registered in the name of the transferee.
The purchaser or transferee of any such bicycle shall apply for a transfer
of registration within five (5) days from the time the bicycle is acquired
by him.
[Amended 7-8-1986 by Ord.
No. 86-20]
The registration fee to be paid for each bicycle registered shall be
one dollar ($1.). Once a bicycle has been registered in a given name, the
registration thereof may be transferred from one owner to another without
the payment of an additional fee. The fee required above shall cover all charges
incident to registration and issuance of registration plates and cards. All
fees collected shall be turned over to the city treasury.
[Amended 7-8-1986 by Ord.
No. 86-20]
It shall be unlawful for any person willfully or maliciously to remove,
destroy, mutilate or alter the number of any bicycle frame registered pursuant
to this chapter. It shall also be unlawful for any person willfully or maliciously
to remove, destroy, mutilate or alter any registration plate or decalcomania
or registration card issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter during
the time in which such registration plate, decalcomania or card is operative.
Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the Chief of Police from stamping a
number on the frame of a bicycle on which no serial number can be found or
on which such number is illegible or insufficient for identification purposes.
[Amended 7-8-1986 by Ord.
No. 86-20]
It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in the business of buying
or selling secondhand bicycles, or any parts of secondhand bicycles, to fail
to report to the Chief of Police of the city within forty-eight (48) hours
after acquiring any secondhand bicycle or parts thereof. Such report shall
include the registration number and the frame number of such bicycle, a description
thereof and the name and address of the person from whom acquired. In case
of the purchase of any parts of bicycles, the report shall describe each part
and give the name and address of the person from whom they were acquired.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former §§ 101-7 through 101-18 (original
§§ 22-31 through 22-42), which dealt with required equipment
and riding and parking rules and set penalties for violations thereof, were
repealed 8-12-1986 by Ord. No. 86-26.
