O-215-50 ORDINANCE NO. 215
AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE REVISED BICYCLE
REGULATIONS, VIZ. : ANNUAL INSPECTION,
LICENSE TAG REQUIREMENT, REGISTRATION
NUMBER, REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE, REGIS-
TRATION CHARGE, FOR DISPLAY OF REGISTRA-
TION NUMBER AND LICENSE TAG, SAFETY EQUIP-
MENT, NOTICE OF TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP,
DISMANTLING OR DESTRUCTION, MAKING IT UNLAW-
FUL TO REMOVE OR ALTER REGISTRATION NUMBERS
OR LICENSE TAGS, AND CERTAIN OTHER SAFETY
REGULATIONS; PROVIDING FOR THE PARTIAL IN-
VALIDITY HEREOF,$ AND REPEALING ALL LAWS
OR PARTS OF LAWS IN CONFLICT HEREWITH.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF MIAMI SHORES VILLAGE:
Section 1. Yearly Inspection The owner of any bicycle operated on
the streets of the Village or, in the case of a minor, his parent or guardian, shall
present the said bicycle once every year, at a time and place designated by the
Chief of Police, for the purpose of having it inspected, registered, and having a
license tag issued by the Police Department. Such registration shall be renewed
each year in the same manner and upon the payment of the same fee as provided
for in the original registration. The registration or renewal shall begin on September
lst of every year and take effect on January Ist of �very year thereafter.
Section 2. License Tag Required - A.11 bicycles operated on the streets
of the Village shall be registered and bear a license tag as hereinafter provided.
The Police Department shall install and maintain adequate records showing the
name and address of the owner of each bicycle operated on the streets of the Village,
the trade name under which the bicycle is known and sold, the manufacturer's
serial number, the registration number, and the license tag assigned to such bicycle
by the Police Department, as hereinafter provided, and such other information re-
lating to said bicycle, or to the owner thereof, as the Chief of Police may deem
advisable.
Section 3. Registration Number - An original registration number
shall be assigned to each bicycle registered by the Police Department and shall
be the number of the bicycle for its entire life. The said registration number
shall be stamped upon the bicycle frame in one or more places as determined by
The Chief of Police.
Section 4. Registration Certificate- At the time of the registra-
tion of a bicycle the Police Department shall issue to the owner thereof a
registration certificate, setting forth the owner's name and address, the trade
name of the bicycle, the manufactnrer's serial number, the license tag number,
and the registration number assigned thereto and placed thereon, and such other
information as the Chief of Police may prescribe. Each such registration
certificate shall have printed thereon a form to be executed by the registered
owner in the event that the bicycle described thereon shall be sold. Such form
shall make provision for the entry of the name and address of the new owner, and
the registered owner, at the time of the sale thereof, shall fill out the said form
and deliver the registration certificate to the Police Department, which, in turn,
shall issue a new registration certificate t, o the new owner.
Section 5. Registration Charge - The Chief of Police is hereby
authorized and directed to charge a fee of twenty five cents (25�) for the license
tag, and all such fees shall from time to time be delivered or paid to the Village
Clerk to be deposited in the general fund of the Village.
Section 6. Display of Registration Number and License Tag - The
registration number and license tag assigned to a bicycle and placed thereon
by the Police Department, as hereinbefore provided, at all times shall be dis-
played thereon and shall not be removed except by a member of the Police Depart-
ment, unless the use of said bicycle shall be permanently discontinued. The
license tag shall be attached to the rear portion of the bicycle so as to be plainly
visible from the rear, and securely fastened so as to remain stationary. It shall
be unlawful for any person to operate any bicycle, irrespective of the ownership
thereof, on the streets of the Village unless, at the time of such operation, the
said bicycle shall have thereon a registration number and license tag, as here-
inbefore stated, the same having been previously assigned to and placed upon such
bicycle by the Police Department.
Section 7. Bicycle Safety Equipment- All bicycles operated upon
the Village streets shall be equipped with a brake in good working order and
other safety equipment as the Chief of Police may require.
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All bicycles operated upon the streets of this Village in the night time
shall be equipped with one or more front white lights and one or more rear red
lights or reflectors, clearly visible for a distance of not less than 100 feet.
Section 8. Notice of Transfer of Ownership - Within forty-eight hours
after the purchase of any new bicycle, the owner thereof shall register the
bicycle at a place designated by the Police Department. Within forty-eight hours
after the sale of any registered bicycle, the former owner shall return the regis-
tration certificate to the Police Department, which shall, in turn, issue a new
registration certificate to the owner.
Section 9. Bicycles Dismantled or Destroyed - In the event that a
registered bicycle shall be dismantled or destroyed, or its use be permanently
discontinued, the registered owner thereof shall report such fact immediately to
the Police Department by returning the registration certificate witha proper
notation of discontinuance thereon or otherwise in writing.
Section 10. Removal or Alteration of Serial or Registration Numbers
or License Tags It shallbe unlawful for any person to purchase, receive,
possess, conceal or otherwise acquire, have or dispose of any bicycle, bicycle
part or bicycle accessory on which the manufacturer's serial number or the regis-
tration number or the license tag shall have been destroyed, removed, defaced, or
otherwise mutilated or altered. Every person who has knowledge that the manu-
facturer's serial number or the registration number or the license tag herein
provided for shall have been destroyed, removed, defaced or otherwise mutilated
or altered, shall immediately notify the Police Department of all the pertinent
facts and circumstances within such person's knowledge. In the event of loss,
mutilation or destruction of a license tag, the owner of a registered bicycle may
obtain a duplicate thereof from the Police Department, making the facts known to
the Police Department, and upon the payment of a fee of twan#_4i;-ve cents (25�).
Section U. Bicycle Safety Regulations -
(a). The operator of a bicycle, when upon a Village street, shall not
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carry a person upon the handle bars, frame or luggage rack, of any such vehicle,
nor shall any person so ride upon any such vehicle.
(b) No person shall ride a bicycle without having his hands upon the
handle bars.
(c) Any person riding upon any bicycle shall not attach the same or
himself to any public conveyance or moving vehicle upon any roadway.
(d) Auy person riding a bicycle on the streets of the Village shall
ride with moving traffic, as far to the right as possible.
(e) Bicycle operators shall conform to all other ordinances pertain-
ing to vehicular traffic.
(f) During school days, school children will be permitted to ride
bicycles to and from school, within any sidewalk area in the Village, outside of
the business zone as defined by Ordinance #92, during the hours of 7:30 to 9:00
o'clock A.M. , and 3:00 to 4:30 o'clock P.M.
Section 12. If any section, part of section, paragraph, sentence or
clause of this ordinance shall be adjudged by a Court of competent jurisdiction
to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of any other portion hereof,
but shall be restricted and limited in its operation and effect to that specific
portion hereof involved in the controversy in whick such decision shall have been
rendered.
Section 13. All laws, or parts of laws, in conflict herewith be and
the same are hereby repealed.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this Zlst day of November, 1950.
Mayor
ATTEST:
Village Manage3� ana Clerk