No person who is a resident of the Village of Larchmont shall operate
a bicycle on the public highways, streets, avenues, walks and public places
within the Village of Larchmont unless such bicycle has been inspected and
registered by the Chief of Police, and a certificate or tag of such inspection
and registration, containing a distinctive identification number, shall be
attached to such bicycle.
Application for bicycle registration and inspection and for a certificate
or tag of registration and inspection shall be made upon a form provided by
the village and shall be made to the Chief of Police. An annual registration
fee of $0.25 shall be paid to the village before each registration or renewal
thereof is granted.
The Chief of Police shall keep a record of the number of each registration,
the date issued, the name and address of the person to whom issued, the number
on the frame of the bicycle for which issued and the name of any child under
16 years, if any, for whose use the bicycle is being registered, and such
other matters as the Chief of Police deems necessary in his/her discretion.
The Chief of Police shall inspect, or cause to be inspected, each bicycle
before licensing the same and shall refuse a license for any bicycle which
he/she determines is in unsafe mechanical condition or which is not equipped
in conformity with the requirements of law.
The Chief of Police shall not issue a registration for a bicycle until
he/she knows or has reasonable ground to believe that the applicant, or any
child under 16 years for whose use said bicycle is being registered, is familiar
with the traffic regulations that apply to the operation or use of a bicycle.
The Chief of Police may give, or cause to be given, reasonable tests to ascertain
whether such applicant or such child is familiar with the traffic regulations
applicable to bicycles and is capable of complying with them when operating
a bicycle.
Upon the expiration of any bicycle registration, the same may be renewed
upon application and payment of the same fee as upon an original application.
Upon the sale or other transfer of a registered bicycle, the registrant
shall remove the registration certificate or tag and return the same to the
Chief of Police.
Rental agents in the Village of Larchmont shall not rent or offer any
bicycle for rent unless the bicycle is registered and the registration certificate
or tag or marking is attached thereto as provided herein and such bicycle
is equipped as required by law.
Every person, partnership, association or corporation in the Village
of Larchmont engaged in the business of buying or selling new or secondhand
bicycles shall make a report to the Chief of Police for every bicycle purchased
or sold by such dealer, giving the name and address of the person from whom
purchased or to whom sold, a description of such bicycle by name or make,
the frame number thereon and the number of the registration certificate or
tag or marking, if any, found thereon.