[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Oswego 5-12-1980
as Ch. 12 of the 1980 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 257.
[Amended 7-8-2002]
No resident of the City of Oswego shall ride or propel a bicycle in
the City of Oswego on any street or any public property unless such bicycle
has been licensed and its license sticker is attached thereto, as provided
herein.
A.
Application for a bicycle license and license sticker
shall be made upon a form provided by the City and shall be made to the Chief
of Police.
[Amended 7-8-2002]
B.
The Chief of Police, upon receiving proper application
therefor, is authorized to issue a bicycle license, which shall be effective
until change of ownership.
C.
The Chief of Police shall not issue a license for any
bicycle when he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the applicant
is not the owner or entitled to possession of such bicycle.
D.
The Chief of Police shall keep a record of the number
of each license, 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 a record
of all bicycle license fees collected by him.
[Amended 7-8-2002]
A.
The Chief of Police, upon issuing a bicycle license,
shall also issue a license sticker bearing the license number assigned to
the bicycle and the name of the City.
B.
The Chief of Police shall cause such license sticker
to be firmly attached to the frame of the bicycle for which issued and in
such position as to be plainly visible.
C.
No person shall remove a license sticker from a bicycle
during the period for which issued except upon a transfer of ownership or
in the event that the bicycle is dismantled and no longer operated upon any
street in this City.
A.
Every bicycle subject to this chapter shall be equipped
as provided for by § 1236 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the
State of New York, and any amendments and additions thereto.
B.
The Chief of Police, or an officer assigned such responsibility,
shall inspect each bicycle before licensing the same and shall refuse a license
for any bicycle which he determines is in unsafe mechanical condition.
[Amended 7-8-2002]
Every person engaged in the business of buying or selling new or secondhand
bicycles shall make a report within seven (7) days of any sale or transfer
to the Chief of Police of 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 thereof and
the number plate, if any, found thereon.
Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway shall be granted all of
the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver
of a vehicle by the laws of this state declaring rules of the road applicable
to vehicles or by the traffic ordinances of the City applicable to the driver
of a vehicle, except as to special regulations in this chapter and except
as to those provisions of laws and ordinances which, by their nature, can
have no application.
A.
Any person operating a bicycle shall obey the instructions
of official traffic control signals, signs and other control devices applicable
to vehicles, unless otherwise directed by a police officer.
B.
Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that
no right or left U-turn is permitted, no person operating a bicycle shall
disobey the direction of any such sign, except where such person dismounts
from the bicycle to make any such turn, in which event such persons shall
then obey the regulations applicable to pedestrians.
No bicycle riding shall be permitted on the sidewalks abutting the following
streets:
The operator of a bicycle emerging from an alley, driveway or building
shall, upon approaching a sidewalk area extending across any alleyway, yield
the right-of-way to all pedestrians approaching on said sidewalk or sidewalk
area, and upon entering the roadway shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles
approaching on said roadway.
No person shall park a bicycle on a sidewalk except in a rack designed
to support bicycles or against a building when the owner or occupant of the
building consents thereto. However, a bicycle may be parked on the sidewalk,
in an upright position, when said bicycle is attached to a parking meter by
chain or other securing device and where such parking of the bicycle shall
not be a hazard to automobiles traveling or parked upon the street or pedestrians
walking in the vicinity of said parking meter.
The Chief of Police is authorized to dispose of abandoned bicycles in
accordance with laws and regulations relating to abandoned property.
