[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Board of
the Village of Cambria 3-7-1988 as Title 8, Ch. 2 of the 1988 Code. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 430.
No bicycle shall be allowed to proceed in any
street in the Village by inertia or momentum with the feet of the
rider removed from the bicycle pedals. No rider of a bicycle shall
remove both hands from the handlebars or practice any trick or fancy
riding in any street in the Village nor shall any bicycle rider carry
or ride any other person so that two persons are on the bicycle at
one time unless a seat is provided for a second person. No person
shall ride any bicycle on Village sidewalks.
No person shall operate a bicycle upon a highway
during the hours of darkness unless equipped as required in § 347.489,
Wis. Stats.
No bicycle shall be operated on the streets
of the Village unless equipped with either a warning bell or horn.
No person shall leave a bicycle at such a place
or in such a way as to create a hazard to pedestrians, automobile
operators or to anyone else.
Persons riding or using bicycles or other similar
vehicles along or upon any public street, avenue, lane, alley or other
public road, ground or way within the Village shall not ride more
than two abreast excepting in a general parade or public demonstration.
The provisions of Ch. 346, Wis. Stats., shall
be applicable to the operation of bicycles where appropriate.
[Added 6-14-1994; amended 6-3-1996]
Registration required. It shall be unlawful for any person to
operate a bicycle upon any of the streets, alleys or public highways
of Cambria unless said bicycle is properly registered and tagged as
herein provided.
A.
Fee. Registration shall be made by filing with the
Village the name and address of the owner together with a complete
description of the bicycle on forms provided by the Village and paying
a registration fee as set from time to time by the Village Board.
Registrations shall be serially numbered and kept on file by the Village
Clerk/Treasurer as a public record.[1]
B.
Identification tag. Upon such registration, the Village
shall cause an identification tag to be affixed to the bicycle registered,
serially numbered to correspond to the registration number. Such tag
shall remain affixed to the bicycle unless removed by the Village
for cause or for retagging upon reregistration. In case of theft or
loss, a duplicate tag shall be issued upon payment of a fee covering
the cost of such tag.[2]
C.
Restrictions and suspension. No bicycle shall be registered
which is in unsafe mechanical condition. The Village shall have authority
to suspend the registration of and remove the identification tag from
any bicycle operated contrary to any state law or the Village Code
or operated while in an unsafe mechanical condition, such suspension
and removal to continue for a period not to exceed 10 days, provided
that such identification tag not be replaced while such bicycle is
in unsafe mechanical condition. Such suspension and removal shall
be in addition to other penalties provided hereunder.[3]
D.
Removal of identification tag prohibited. No person
shall willfully remove, deface or destroy any such identification
tag or any bicycle frame number.
E.
Report change of information. Within seven days after
any bicycle registered hereunder shall have changed ownership or been
dismantled and taken out of service or operation, the person in whose
name the bicycle has been registered shall report such information
to the Village. In case of change of ownership, the registration shall
thereupon by changed to show the name of the new owner. In case of
dismantling and taking out of service or operation, the registration
shall be cancelled and identification tag returned to the Village.[4]
[Added 3-1-1999]
A.
Regulations. It shall be unlawful for any person in
the Village of Cambria to operate or ride a skateboard, roller skates,
or roller skis ("play vehicles") in any of the following places:
(1)
On State Highway 146 within Village limits, except
while crossing a roadway at a crosswalk.
(2)
On any sidewalk in a business district. For purposes
of this section, a business district shall be defined as any area
primarily commercial in nature. This includes East and West Edgewater
Street from Williams Street to Scott Street.
(3)
In any public parking ramp or parking lot.
(4)
On private property, unless permission has been received
from the owner, lessee or person in charge of that property.
B.
Yield to pedestrians. Operators or riders of skateboards,
roller skates, roller skis or other play vehicles shall yield the
right-of-way to other pedestrians using Village sidewalks and shall
not otherwise endanger or interfere with normal pedestrian traffic
on those sidewalks.
C.
Play vehicles not to be pulled by moving vehicles.
No person riding upon any coaster, roller skates, skateboard, roller
skis, sled, toboggan or play vehicle shall attach the same or himself
to any vehicle upon a roadway.
