"Bicycle,"
for the purpose of this chapter, means any device upon which any person may ride, propelled exclusively by human power through a belt, chain or gears, and having one or more wheels.
(Prior code § 27-51)
A. 
No person shall ride, operate, use or knowingly permit any other person to ride, operate or use upon any street in the city, any bicycle which is not registered and for which the registration fee has not been paid as required by this chapter and which does not have attached thereto and displayed thereon a valid registration indicia issued for it by the city for the current registration period; except, that a bicycle registered and bearing an indicia for a registration period may be operated during that portion of a succeeding registration period in which the bicycle may be registered without penalty.
B. 
Every person, except a person engaged in the business of buying and selling bicycles or a person acquiring ownership of bicycles which are thereafter to be sold or transferred prior to being ridden, operated or used in the city, acquiring ownership of any bicycle which is not registered under the provisions of this chapter, shall apply for registration of such bicycle within ten days after ownership is acquired.
(Prior code § 27-52)
Each registration under the provisions of this chapter shall be effective until the expiration of the period for which such license is issued. The initial period shall be for a term of four years, and shall expire on December 31, 1978. Succeeding periods shall be for a term of three years, and shall commence on the first day of the year immediately following the expiration of the preceding period. Licenses may be sold and issued for each three (1) year period at any time on or after the first day of November preceding each period.
(Prior code § 27-53)
A. 
Each registration and registration fee shall be fifty cents per year or any unexpired portion of a year within a registration period.
B. 
A penalty of twenty-five cents shall be added upon any application for renewal of registration made on or after the first day of March of the calendar year following the expiration of any registration. A like penalty shall be added upon any application for registration not made within the time prescribed by this chapter.
C. 
If the city manager finds that it is impracticable to accept applications for registration or renewal before the date upon and after which the penalty is added as required by subsection B of this section, the city manager may fix a new date after which such penalty shall be added.
(Prior code § 27-54)
The owner of any bicycle desiring to register the same shall make application therefor to the chief of police of the city. The chief of police, if satisfied that the registration fee has been paid to the city clerk as required in section 10.60.040, is authorized and directed to register such bicycle by recording the date of registration, the number of such registration, the frame number of such bicycle, the make, type and model of such bicycle, the name and address of the person to whom such bicycle is registered and any further information which the chief of police may deem appropriate to aid in identifying such bicycle, and to issue as evidence of such registration a registration card, provided by the city, and registration indicia, obtained by the city from the state of California Department of Motor Vehicles, which shall bear the registration number and other such information as may be deemed necessary.
(Prior code § 27-55)
The chief of police or personnel authorized by the chief of police shall cause the registration indicia referred to in Section 10.60.050 to be securely attached to the bicycle for which it is issued.
(Prior code § 27-56)
In the event the registration indicia is lost or destroyed during the registration period for which it was issued, the bicycle to which it was assigned shall be reregistered and another registration number assigned to it and the former registration shall be canceled upon the registration records.
(Prior code § 27-57)
No person shall wilfully remove, destroy, mutilate or alter the number of any bicycle or bicycle frame, either licensed or unlicensed. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the chief of police from stamping numbers on the frames of bicycles on which no serial number can be found or on which the number is illegible or insufficient for identification purposes.
(Prior code § 27-58)
No person shall wilfully remove, destroy, mutilate or alter any registration indicia or registration card during the time in which such indicia or card is in effect, except when such indicia or card is replaced by an indicia or card for the succeeding registration period.
(Prior code § 27-59)
The chief of police shall cause any bicycle operated in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter to be impounded until the same shall have been registered, reregistered or transferred pursuant to the terms of this chapter. Bicycles which have not been so registered or reregistered within one year after being impounded shall be deemed to have been abandoned and may be sold by the chief of police at public auction.
(Prior code § 27-60)