Ordinance No. 020 - Registration and Licensing of BicyclesORDINANCE N0. 20
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD PROVIDING FOR
THE REGISTRATION AND LICENSING OF BICYCLES AND ADD-
ING SECTIONS TO THE ROSEMEAD MUNICIPAL CODE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF ,THE CITY OF ROSEMEAAD DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLONS:
SECTION 1: AMENDING MUNICIPAL CODE.
Chapter IV is added to Article VI of the Rosemead Municipal
Code, the Sections of which shall read as follows:
Section 6400. Bicycle Registration required.
A person, firm or corporation shall not operate or permit to be
operated on any street in the City of Rosemead any bicycle propelled
wholly or in part by muscular power, unless such bicycle shall first have
been registered and licensed as provided in this Chapter.
Section 6401. City Clerk or Sheriff to Register.
(a) Any person, firm or corporation desiring to register a bi-
cycle shall make application therefor in writing to the City Clerk of the
City of Rosemead, or the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, upon forms pro-
vided by that official. Such form shall show the name and address of the
applicant, a description of the bicycle to be registered, including the
name, serial number, if any, and color thereof, together with such other
information or description as may be required.
(b) Upon receipt of any such application, said Sheriff or
City Clerk shall register said bicycle in a permanent register and give
such bicycle a registration number.
(c) When a bicycle is so registered, a registration certificate
and a license shall be issued to the applicant. Both the registration
certificate and license shall bear the registration number assigned.
Section 6402. License Plate - Decal.
A license plate which may be in the form of a decal shall be
numbered and contain the letters "LACBL' and shall be attached to the
frame of the bicycle for which issued. It shall be unlawful for any
person, firm, or corporation to remove, mutilate, deface or destroy any
such license or to transfer any such license to any bicycle for which the
same was not issued.
Section 6403. Transfer of Registration.
It shall be the duty of any person residing within the City of
Rosemead who sells or transfers ownership of any such bicycle, to report
such sale or transfer by returning to said Sheriff or City Clerk the re-
gistration card issued to such person, firm, or ro rporation as licensee
thereof, together with the name and addresses of the person to whom such
bicycle was sold or transferred and such report shall be made within (5)
five days of the date of such sale or transfer. It shall be the duty of
the purchaser or transferee of such bicycle to apply for a transfer of
registration therefor within such (5) five days of the date of such sale
or transfer. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to
refuse, fail or neglect to conform to any provision of this Section.
Section 6404. Re-registration.
If the license plate or decal is lost, stolen, or mutilated,
the person, firm,or corporation owning such bicycle, shall make an applic-
ation to re-register such bicycle. The previous registration shall be
cancelled and the bicycle shall be re-registered in the permanent register
and, if necessary, a new identifying number shall be given to such bicycle.
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Section 6405. Term of License - Fees.
A bicycle registration and license shall expire four (4) years
after the end of the Thirty-first day of December of the year during
which such registration and license first take effect. The applicant
shall pay a fee of Fifty (.50) cents for each new license issued or for
each re-registration or for each transfer of registration.
Section 6406. Dealer's Report and Sale.
Every auctioneer, auto wrecker, foundry, pawn broker, second-
hand dealer, dunk dealer, or bicycle dealer shall notify the City Clerk
in writing on forms prescribed, not less often than once a week of every
bicycle received in the course of business by him since his last report.
In such reports he shall describe each such bicycle received and give
the license number thereof, if any. In addition he shall supply such
other information as the Sheriff shall require.. Said dealer shall not
sell, transfer, deliver, destroy or alter any such bicycle until fourteen
(14) days after its receipt has been reported to the Sheriff.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 9th day of ebruar' 1960, by the
following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Buchanan, Cook, Horning, Lowrey, Stead.
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None.
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None.
MAYO F THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD
ATTEST:
CITY-CLERK OF CITY OF ROSE
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