"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)
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)
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)