[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Norristown
4-6-1982 as Ch. 84 of the 1981 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
A device having two (2) tandem wheels of a diameter not less than
ten (10) inches and propelled by human power.
A.
Prohibited on sidewalks. A bicycle shall be operated
only on the roadway as near to the right-hand side as possible. Bicycles shall
not be operated on the sidewalks.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Subsections B through G of § 84-2 of the 1981 Code, which immediately followed this subsection and which provided bicycle operating regulations that duplicated provisions of 75 P.S. § 3501 et seq., were deleted at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I.
B.
Parking. The operator of a bicycle shall park the same
upon the roadway at the curb or upon the sidewalk in a rack to support the
bicycle or against a building, except windows or glass doors thereof, in such
manner as to afford the least obstruction to pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
No person who resides within the borough shall ride or operate a bicycle
upon any street or public place within the borough unless such bicycle has
been properly registered and tagged in accordance with the following regulations:
A.
Application. Every owner or operator of any bicycle within
the borough shall make application for the registration of such bicycle with
the Chief of Police on a form provided for that purpose.
B.
Numbering and filing. Registrations of bicycles shall
be serially numbered and kept on file by the Chief of Police in his office
as a public record.
C.
Tag or plate; registration card. The Chief of Police,
upon receiving proper registration of a bicycle, shall affix or cause to be
affixed to the rear mudguard or frame of the bicycle an identification tag
or plate, serially numbered to correspond to the bicycle's registration, in
such position as to be plainly visible from the rear. A registration card
shall be issued to the owner of each properly registered bicycle.
D.
Charge. A charge of fifty cents ($0.50) per registration
shall be made for the registering and tagging of any bicycle. A charge of
ten cents ($0.10) shall be made for the issuing of duplicate registration
cards.
F.
Annual registration. Bicycles required to be registered
under the provisions of this chapter shall be registered annually. The Chief
of Police shall affix a new identification tag or plate to each bicycle at
the time of reregistration of any such bicycle.
G.
Sale, transfer, etc. Within ten (10) days after the sale,
transfer or dismantling of any registered bicycle, such information shall
be reported to the Chief of Police by the person in whose name the bicycle
was registered. Such person may have the identification tag or plate of his
former bicycle transferred to another bicycle owned by him without payment
of an additional fee upon proper registration of such bicycle with the Chief
of Police.
H.
Dealers. Every person engaged in the business of buying
or selling new or secondhand bicycles shall make a report within five (5)
days to the Chief of Police of every bicycle purchased or sold by such dealer,
giving:
I.
Rental agencies. A rental agency shall not rent or offer
any bicycle for rent unless the bicycle is properly registered and tagged
and unless such bicycle is provided with the equipment required under the
terms of this chapter.
The Chief of Police or his duly authorized representative shall inspect
each bicycle presented for registration and shall refuse to register any bicycle
found to be in an unsafe mechanical condition or lacking the equipment specified
as necessary under the terms of this chapter.
It shall be unlawful for any person willfully or maliciously to remove,
destroy, mutilate or alter the identification tag or plate, the frame number
of the bicycle or the registration card issued to the owner thereof.
Any person convicted in a summary conviction before a District Justice
of a violation of any provision of this chapter shall be subject to any one
(1) or any combination of the following penalties:
A.
Impounding of the bicycle for not more than seven (7)
days for the first violation; impounding of the bicycle for not more than
fourteen (14) days for the second violation; and impounding of the bicycle
for not more than thirty (30) days for the third violation.
B.
Removal and detention of the license plate from the bicycle.
C.
A fine of not more than ten dollars ($10.) or one (1)
day in jail.
