A.
No person shall ride or propel a bicycle upon any
public street or highway or across any sidewalk except in a careful
and prudent manner and at a reasonable rate of speed. Persons riding
bicycles shall observe all traffic rules and regulations applicable
thereto, signal for all turns, ride at the right-hand side of any
street or highway, and pass only to the left when passing slow-moving
vehicles, with the exception that a pass may be made to the right
when slow-moving vehicles are about to make left-hand turns. No person
shall operate or propel any bicycle without having at least one hand
on the handlebars thereof. No person shall ride or propel a bicycle
with any passenger where said bicycle is designed to carry only one
person. No bicycle shall be used to carry more persons at one time
than the number for which it is designed and equipped.
B.
No person riding or operating a bicycle shall hold
onto any vehicle while said vehicle is in a moving motion. No person
shall ride or propel a bicycle on any street or highway of the Town
after dark, unless the same shall be equipped with sufficient light,
attached to the front of said bicycle, visible from the front thereof
not less than 200 feet, and properly lighted, nor without a rear tail
light or, in lieu of, a reflector attached to and visible from the
rear of said bicycle for a distance of 50 feet. No person shall ride
or propel a bicycle upon any street or highway or across any sidewalk
in the Town abreast or to the left of any person so riding or propelling
another bicycle.
No person shall park a bicycle upon a street,
other than upon the roadway against the curb or upon the sidewalk
in a rack to support the bicycle or against a building or at the curb,
in such manner as to afford the least obstruction to pedestrian traffic.
A.
No person shall ride a bicycle upon a sidewalk within
a business district.
B.
The Chief of Police is authorized to erect signs on
any sidewalk or roadway prohibiting the riding of bicycles thereon
by any person, and when such signs are in place no person shall disobey
the same.
C.
Whenever any person is riding a bicycle upon a sidewalk,
such person shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian and shall
give an audible signal before overtaking and passing such a pedestrian.
No resident shall operate or use a bicycle propelled
wholly or in part by muscular power upon any streets or public highways
of the Town of Sanford without first obtaining form the Sanford Police
Department a registration card and bicycle registration sticker.
The Sanford Police Department is hereby authorized
and directed to issue, upon written application, bicycle registrations
which shall be effective for an indefinite period, upon issue. Said
registration shall entitle the owner to operate such bicycle for which
the registration has been issued upon any streets, alleys, and public
ways, exclusive of the sidewalks within the business districts thereof,
in the Town of Sanford.
The Town of Sanford, under the direction of
the Sanford Police Department, shall provide reflective stickers,
together with registration cards. The Sanford Police Department will
be responsible for the registration records and enforcing this article.
The reflective stickers and registration cards shall have numbers
indicated thereon in numerical order, beginning with the number one,
and shall have letters "SSBR" indicated thereon (Sanford-Springvale
bicycle registration). Such reflective stickers shall be suitable
for attachment to the frames of bicycles. It shall be the duty of
the Sanford Police Department to attach one such reflective sticker
to each bicycle and to issue a corresponding registration card to
the owner. Such sticker shall remain attached to and during the ownership
period of such registration.[1] The Police Department shall keep a record of the date
of issuance of each registration, the person to whom issued, and the
number thereon.
[1]
Editor's Note: So in original.
It shall be the duty of every person who owns
a bicycle in the Town of Sanford, prior to operating or propelling
said bicycle upon any street or highway in the Town of Sanford, to
register said bicycle with the Sanford Police Department. It shall
be the duty of every person who sells or transfers ownership of any
bicycle to report such sale or transfer by returning to the Police
Department the registration card issued to such person as having the
registration issued thereof, together with the name and address of
the person to whom said bicycle was sold or transferred. It shall
be the duty of the purchaser or transferee of such bicycle to apply
for a new registration within five days of said transfer or sale.
A.
It shall not be required of dealers of bicycles to
register said bicycles that are for sale in business establishments
thereof.
B.
It shall be the duty of dealers of bicycles to register
said bicycles that are being used on a rental basis prior to allowing
said bicycles to be ridden or propelled on any street or highway in
the Town of Sanford.
The Sanford Police Department is authorized
to refuse any application for bicycle registration if said bicycle
does not meet minimum standards in safety and equipment required thereon.
The following standards will be required on all bicycles operated
or propelled on any street or highway of the Town of Sanford prior
to the issuance of registration cards and registration stickers:
No person shall willfully or maliciously remove,
destroy, mutilate, or alter the number of any bicycle frame registered
pursuant to this article.
No person shall remove, destroy, mutilate, or
alter any registration sticker, seal, or registration card during
the time in which such sticker, seal, or registration card is operative.
Nothing in this section shall prohibit the Police Department from
stamping numbers on the frames of bicycles on which no serial numbers
can be found or on which the number is illegible or insufficient for
identification purposes.
Bicycles shall be registered at the Sanford
Police Department on Wednesdays and Saturdays between the hours of
9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
There shall be no fee for bicycle registration.
The Sanford Police Department, or any member
thereof, may impound and retain possession of any bicycle operated
in violation of any of the provisions of this article, and for impoundment
of unregistered bicycles retain possession of the same until registered
by the owner.
Any bicycle that has been in possession of the
Sanford Police Department for a period of 90 days and is not claimed
by the owner will be disposed of by the direction of the Chief of
Police of Sanford. One item will be printed in the local newspaper(s)
for one week prior to the disposal of said bicycle or bicycles giving
a complete description of the bicycle or bicycles and stating that
said bicycle(s) will be disposed of if not claimed by a given date.
The Chief of Police will cause to have printed in the local newspaper
a list of disposed bicycles, indicating a description of the bicycles
and place of disposition, i.e., charity organization, etc.
A.
Any person or persons maliciously removing, destroying,
or mutilating or altering any registration card, fender stickers or
seals during which time such registration cards, fender stickers or
seals are operative shall be summonsed to the 10th District Court,
Western York Division, in Springvale on such and if found guilty will
be subject to a fine of not more than $10. Any portion of this fine
shall be used to reimburse the owner of said bicycle who may have
suffered such loss of said bicycle.
B.
Any person of the age of 17 or over who violates any
of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction, be punished
by a fine of not more than $10. The Chief of Police, when satisfied
that a juvenile under the age of 17 years has ridden a bicycle in
violation of any of the provisions of this article, may impound the
bicycle for a period not to exceed five days for the first offense
and for a period not to exceed 30 days for any subsequent offense.
