City of Onalaska, WI Bicycle Registration

Registration required. No person shall operate a bicycle upon any street, sidewalk, public property, bicycle pathway or public highway within the City of Onalaska unless said bicycle shall first have been properly registered and an identification sticker attached as hereinafter provided.

Form of registration.

How made. Registration shall be made by filing with the Onalaska Police Department, on forms provided by the City of Onalaska, giving the name, address and age of the owner and a complete description of the bicycle, including the name of the manufacturer, style, model, serial number and color.

Registration fee. There shall be no fee for registering a bicycle.

Identification sticker. The registering employee or officer shall issue to the registrant a registration slip and an identification sticker. The identification sticker shall be immediately affixed to the registered bicycle, be serially numbered to correspond with the registration number and shall be firmly attached to the bicycle for which issued and kept visible and clean at all times.

Unsafe bicycles not to be registered. No bicycle shall be registered which is in an unsafe mechanical condition.

Record of registration. A duplicate registration slip shall be filed with the Police Department as a public record.

Period of registration. All bicycle registrations shall be effective and valid as long as the owner retains title and possession of the bicycle.

Owner to register. The licensing authority shall not register any bicycle which it knows or has reasonable grounds to believe is not owned by or lawfully in the possession of the applicant.

Change of ownership. All bicycles must be registered within 10 days of purchase. Within 10 days after any bicycle registered as provided herein is sold or transferred to a new owner or dismantled and taken out of operation, the person in whose name the bicycle is registered shall report such information to the Police Department. The Police Department shall thereupon cancel the registration of the bicycle and the new owner, if any, shall be responsible for obtaining a new registration. In the case of dismantling or taking out of operation, the owner shall notify the Police Department.

Bicycles to be kept in safe condition. No bicycle shall be registered which is in an unsafe mechanical condition. The Chief of Police shall have authority to suspend the registration of and remove the identification tag from any bicycle or to impound any bicycle operated contrary to any state law or City Ordinance, or which is being operated in an unsafe mechanical condition. Such suspension and removal or impounding shall continue for a period not to exceed 10 days, but the registration shall not be reinstated or such identification tag replaced while such bicycle is in unsafe condition. Such suspension and removal shall be in addition to other penalties provided for herein.

Change of ownership. Within 10 days after any bicycle registered hereunder shall have changed ownership or been dismantled and taken out of operation, such information shall be reported to the Police Department by the person in whose name the bicycle has been registered.

Registration to be displayed. The identification tag issued under this section shall be affixed to the registered bicycle so as to be plainly seen and read and shall remain so affixed until ordered removed by the Police Department for cause, or until expiration of the registration.

Exemption from registration. Any nonresident may operate a bicycle in the City of Onalaska without registration.

Removal and alteration of identification stickers.

Removal prohibited. No person shall remove an identification sticker from a bicycle during the period for which issued except upon a transfer of ownership or when the bicycle is dismantled and no longer operated upon any highway within the City.

Alteration prohibited. No person shall alter or counterfeit any identification sticker.

Unclaimed or unidentified bicycles. All abandoned or unidentified bicycles shall be delivered to the Police Department for storage, and all such bicycles remaining in the hands of the Police Department at the end of 30 days may be sold at auction.