A.
Every person riding a bicycle or other vehicle propelled
by muscular power upon the street and highway and public places shall
be subject to all the provisions of this Part 1 applicable to the
driver or operator of a vehicle except as to those provisions which
by their nature can have no application.
B.
No person shall operate or use a bicycle or other
vehicle propelled by muscular power upon the streets and highways
of the Village of Elmira Heights without first obtaining a license
thereof from the Police Department of the Village.
C.
The Police Department of the Village is hereby authorized
and directed to issue bicycle licenses upon written application. Such
a license shall be in such form as the Board of Trustees may designate
or may be prescribed by the laws of the State of New York and shall
be valid so long as the person named on the application for such license
shall remain the owner of the subject bicycle.
D.
Every person who sells or otherwise disposes of any
licensed bicycle shall report such and return to the Police Department
the license issued to such person as the licensee of such vehicle
within five days of such sale or other disposition.
E.
No person shall lawfully or maliciously remove, destroy,
mutilate or alter the number of any bicycle frame licensed under this
article or remove, destroy, mutilate or alter any license plate, seal
or registration card issued under the licensing provisions of this
article. Nothing in this article shall prohibit the Police Department
from stamping numbers or other identification on the frame of a bicycle
to be licensed on which no serial number can be found or on which
the numbers are illegible or insufficient for identifying purposes.
F.
The fee to be paid upon each application for a license
under this article shall be as set forth from time to time by resolution
of the Board of Trustees or such other sum as the Board of Trustees
may set by order, and said application fee shall be paid at the time
of making the application. All fees collected under this article shall
be paid into the general fund of the Village of Elmira Heights.
G.
In addition to the penalties provided, the Police
Department of the Village of Elmira Heights or any member thereof
may impound and retain possession of any bicycle operated in violation
of the licensing provisions of this article and shall retain possession
of such bicycle until the license provided for in this article is
obtained.
