[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Millsboro at
time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
The following definitions shall be applicable when used in this chapter,
except where the context clearly indicates to the contrary:
A vehicle with two tandem wheels or two or more wheels with solid
or pneumatic tires, having a steering bar or wheel, a saddle seat and propelled
by human power.
The Chief of Police of the Town of Millsboro.
Any form or tense thereof shall mean and refer to the use, putting
into action or causing to function a bicycle by a person mounted thereon.
Any road, boulevard, avenue, alley, street, thoroughfare or highway
located within the corporate limits of the Town of Millsboro.
Any person desiring to register a bicycle owned by him and secure a
license therefor shall make application in writing to the Chief of Police
on forms supplied by the Chief of Police stating the following:
A.
The name and address of the owner.
B.
The date of birth of the owner.
C.
The name of the manufacturer of the bicycle.
D.
The serial number of the frame thereof.
E.
The approximate date when the bicycle was obtained.
F.
The name and address of the person from whom bike was
obtained.
G.
If the owner is under the age of 18 years, the name and
address of the parent or guardian of said child.
H.
The signature of the owner.
I.
If the owner is under the age of 18 years, the application
shall be also executed by the parent or guardian of said owner.
The application, as completed, shall be presented to the Chief of Police
of the Town of Millsboro, together with a register fee as set forth from time
to time by the Town Council.
No bicycle shall be registered which has not been presented to the Chief
of Police of the Town of Millsboro for examination.
No bicycle shall be registered for any bicycle which, in addition to
handlebars or a seat, does not have a properly lighted headlamp attached to
the front of the bicycle in sight under normal atmospheric conditions from
the front thereof for a distance of not less than 300 feet nor without having
a reflector attached to the rear of the bicycle which is visible in the headlight
beam of a motor vehicle for a distance of 300 feet to the rear of the said
bicycle nor without having a signaling device audible at a distance of 50
feet when sounded nor, for those bicycles propelled by a gasoline motor, which
does not have adequate brakes and an adequate muffler.
The Chief of Police of the Town of Millsboro, upon receipt of the executed
application for registration, the registration fee as set forth from time
to time by the Town Council and upon an examination to ascertain that the
bicycle has the minimum safety features as herein provided shall issue a registration
card and license therefor.
The Chief of Police shall maintain an accurate list of all bicycles
so registered and all licenses so issued showing the name and address of the
owner to whom the license was issued.
The license so issued shall be effective for one year. The license year
shall be from January 1 to December 31.
When any bicycle which has been registered and licensed as herein provided
is sold, or is otherwise disposed of, or destroyed, the owner shall immediately
surrender to the Chief of Police the registration card and the license plate
issued therefor with the name and address of the new owner, if any, written
on the face of the registration card, and the Chief of Police shall immediately
make proper endorsement thereof of his records and retain and issue a new
card and plate to the new owner upon application, examination and payment
of the required fee. The number of any license surrendered as provided in
this section shall not be reissued.
When more than two persons in a group are operating bicycles on a roadway,
they shall ride single file.
The operator of a bicycle emerging from an alley, driveway, garage or
private sidewalk shall stop the bicycle immediately prior to driving onto
or across a public sidewalk, or onto or across a public sidewalk line projected
across an alley, and shall exercise extreme care in making such movements.
No person shall operate a bicycle which is not in such mechanical condition
so that it can be safely operated.
No bicycle shall be operated on any sidewalk within the corporate limits
of the Town of Millsboro except upon command of a police officer.
It shall be unlawful to park any bicycle along buildings in such a manner
as to interfere with pedestrians, or along roadways which interferes with
traffic, or with persons entering into or alighting from motor vehicles. No
person other than the owner or operator shall move, or in any manner interfere
with, any bicycle properly parked, nor shall any person interfere or in any
manner hinder any person from properly parking a bicycle, except that members
of the Police Department and Fire Department may move, or, in proper cases,
prevent the parking of the bicycle, when in the judgment of the policeman
or fireman, his action is necessary in order to properly safeguard persons
or property.
Each bicycle shall be equipped with a signaling device in good working
order and audible at a distance of 50 feet when sounded.
No bicycle shall be operated at any time faster than is reasonable or
proper, and every bicycle shall be operated with reasonable regard to the
safety of the rider and of other persons and property on the street.
Every person operating a bicycle shall strictly observe all traffic
signs and signals and all other traffic rules and regulations applicable thereto
and shall obey the orders and directions of every officer of the town authorized
to direct or regulate traffic.
No person shall, while operating a bicycle, indulge or engage in any
kind of trick or unsafe riding.
It shall be unlawful for any person, willfully or maliciously, to remove,
destroy, mutilate or alter the serial number of any bicycle licensed hereunder
or to remove, destroy, mutilate or alter any registration card during the
time in which the registration card is in force. The Chief of Police is hereby
authorized to stamp numbers on the frame of a bicycle in a legible manner
for identification purposes upon which no serial number can be found, or upon
which the serial number is illegible or insufficient for identification purposes.
It shall be unlawful for any person to use or operate any bicycle within
the town without the consent of the owner.
It shall be unlawful for any person to purchase or otherwise acquire
any bicycle from which the serial number on the frame has been removed, destroyed,
mutilated or altered, without first reporting the same to the Chief of Police.
The Chief of Police shall enforce the provisions of this chapter. The
Chief of Police may revoke or suspend for a period not to exceed 30 days the
privilege of operating a bicycle within the corporate limits of the Town of
Millsboro and for a violation of any provision of this chapter impound the
bicycle of any such violator for a period not to exceed 30 days.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provisions of this chapter
shall be fined not less than $1 nor more than $100 for each offense and shall
pay the costs of prosecution.
