[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Neillsville as Title 8, Ch. 2, of the 1985 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A. 
Registration required. No person shall operate a bicycle upon any street or public highway within the City of Neillsville unless said bicycle shall first have been properly registered and tagged as hereinafter provided.
B. 
Form of registration. Every owner or operator of a bicycle within the City shall, prior to operation, file with the Police Department a complete description of such bicycle upon a blank form to be provided for that purpose, which such filing of description shall constitute a registration of such bicycle for the purpose of this section. Such registration shall be serially numbered and kept on file by the Chief of Police in his/her office as a public record.
C. 
Identification tag. Immediately upon the registration of the bicycle in his/her office, the Chief of Police shall affix to such bicycle a license tag, serially numbered to correspond with the registration of each bicycle. Each tag shall thereafter remain affixed to such bicycle unless removed by the Police Department for cause or for replacement with another tag upon re-registration. An inspection fee of $1 per registration shall be made for the inspection and tagging of any bicycle under the provisions of this section. All bicycles shall be registered annually. Bicycle registrations and tags shall expire annually on June 30th. All newly acquired bicycles shall be registered within 30 days of the date of the date of purchase or acquisition or shall be subject to a $1 penalty in addition to the normal registration fee.
D. 
Re-registration.
(1) 
Bicycles under the provision hereof shall be annually re-registered within 20 days following the June 30th expiration license expiration. Other owners of bicycles shall register the same before operating on public streets and shall renew annually as provided above.
(2) 
The Police Department shall cause to be affixed a new identification tag upon each bicycle at the time of such re-registration thereof.
E. 
Inspection. The Police Department shall cause to be inspected each bicycle presented for the registration, and they shall have the authority to refuse to register such bicycle found by them to be in unsafe mechanical condition or not equipped as herein required.
F. 
Cancellation of registration. The Chief of Police may cancel the registration of and remove the identification tag from any bicycle being operated upon any streets in the Village in an unsafe manner or in violation of any state law or local ordinance, and such cancellation of registration and removal of tag shall be in addition to other penalties provided hereunder.
G. 
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.
No bicycle shall be allowed to proceed in any street in the City 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 City, 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 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 City shall not ride more than two abreast excepting in a general parade or public demonstration.
Operators of bicycles shall not drive upon any sidewalk area, except where such operation is permitted. Where permitted, every person operating a bicycle upon a sidewalk shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian and shall exercise due care and give an audible signal when passing a bicycle rider or pedestrian proceeding in the same direction.