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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02137 ORD - 08/26/1947AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING THE CVMERS OF ALL BICYCLES TO REGISTER THE SAME; PROVIDING FOR THE REGISTRATION OF ALL BICYCLES; SETTING OUT THE MANNER AND MODE OF SUCH REGISTRATION AND REQUIREMENTS INCIDENT THERETO; RE(ZUIRING DISPLAY OF REGISTRATION NUMBER ON BICYCLES; PROVIDING FOR TRANSFER OF MERSHIP AND PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS THEREFOR; PRESCRIBING REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL BICYCLES USED 17 -ITHIN THE CITY LIMITS; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION HEREOF AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS; SECTION 1. Registration Required. All bicycles operated on the streets of the City shall be registered as hereinafter provided. Under the supervision of the Chief of Police, Registrar of Bicycles of the Division of Police, shall install and maintain adequate records showing the name and address of the owner of each bicycle operated on the streets of the City, the trade name under which the bicycle is known and sold, the manufacturer's serial number, the registration number assigned to each bicycle by the Registrar of Bicycles as hereinafter provided and such other information relating to such bicycle and the owner thereof as the Chief of Police may deem advisable. SECTION 2. Registration Numbers. In conformity with the numbering system established by the Registrar of Bicycles of the Police Department, an identification number, known as a registration number, shall be assigned to each bicycle registered by the said Registrar of Bicycles. It shall be the duty of such owner to display in a conspicuous place on the rear of each bicycle owned by him the registration number of such bicycle with the seal by which it is attached, intact and un- broken, which number shall be conspicuous and not less than two (2 ") inches in height and 2 -5/8" in length and shall be firmly fixed by self - looking seal so as to be stationary on such bicycle. SECTION j. Registration Cards. At the time of the registration of a bicycle, the Registrar of Bicycles shall issue to the owner thereof a registration card, setting forth the owner's name and address, the trade 2)3-7 name of the bicycle, the manufacturers serial number, the registration number assigned thereto and placed thereon and such other information as the Chief of Police may prescribe. Each such registration card shall have printed thereon a form to be executed by the registered owner in the event that the bicycle described thereon shall be sold or trans- ferred to another person. Such form shall make provision for the entry of the name and address of the new owner and for the signature of the registered owner of the said bicycle, who, at the time of the sale thereof, shall fill out the said form and deliver or mail the registra- tion card to the said Registrar of Bicycles within 48 hours after said sale or transfer. SECTION 4. Registration Fee. Such owner shall pay to the Registrar of Bicycles as a Registration Fee the sum of Fifty cents (50¢), which sum so received shall be transferred to and placed in the General Fund of the City of Corpus Christi. SECTION 5. Display of Registration Number. The registration number assigned to a bicycle by the Registrar of Bicycles of the Division of Police as hereinafter provided shall be at all times displayed thereon and shall not be removed except by a member of the Division of Police, unless the use of said bicycle shall be permanently discontinued, and it shall be unlawful for any person to operate any bicycle, irrespective of the ownership thereof, on the streets of the City of Corpus Christi, unless at the time of such operation, the said bicycle shall have in the proper place thereon a registration number previously issued and assigned thereto by the Registrar of Bicycles. SECTION 6. Required Equipment. At the time of the registration of any bicycle it shall be equipped with the followings A. Rear Light or Reflector. One red rear light or red reflector attached to the rear fender and at least 1,.3/4 - in diameter, visible at night at least 1001 from the said bicycles -2- B. Brake. A brake of efficient effectiveness to stop a bicycle within a distance not exceeding one foot for each mile per hour at which the bicycle shall be operated; and, C. Bicycles to Be Equipped W "ith Bell, etc. Every bicycle shall be equipped with a bell, gong, horn, or other device in good working order, capable of emitting an abrupt sound adequate in quality and volume to give warning of the approach of such bicycle to pedestrians and to the rider or driver of animals or of other vehicles. persons oper- ating such vehicle shall sound said bell, gong, horn or other device whenever necessary as a warning of danger, but not at other times or for other purposes. D. Other Equipment. Such other safety equipment as the Chief of Police may require. SECTION 7. Notice of Transfer of Ownership. A. Notice by Dealers. Every person engaged in the business of dealing in or trading or selling used bicycles shall report to the Registrar of Bicycles the sale of every bicycle within fifteen (15) days after each such sale shall be made. Each such report shall be made upon a prescribed form furnished by the Registrar of Bicycles. Every such person shall make available at all reasonable times for examination by the Division of police such books and records as shall disclose the facts and conditions under which any bicycles or part thereof or accessory thereto shall have been acquired, possessed, or disposed by such person. B. Notice by Registered and New Owner. within 48 hours after the sale of any registered bicycle the new owner thereof shall again register the bicycle with the Registrar of Bicycles. SECTION 8. Bicycles Dismantled or Destroyed. In the event that a registered bicycle shall be dismantled or destroyed or shall like- wise be removed permanently from operation, the registered owner thereof shall report such fact immediately to the Records Bureau of the Division of Police. -3- SECTION 9. Removal or Alteration of Serial or Registration Number. It shall be unlawful for any person to purchase, receive, possess, conceal, sell or otherwise acquire, have or dispose of any bicycle, bicycle part or bicycle accessory on which the manufacturer's serial number or the registration number shall have been destroyed, removed, defaced or otherwise mutilated or altered. Every person to whom any bicycle shall be offered for sale, sold or offered for storage or dis- mantling, from which the manufacturer's serial number or the registration number herein provided for shall have been destroyed, removed, defaced or otherwise mutilated or altered, shall immediately notify the Registrar of Bicycles of the Division of Police of all pertinent facts and circum- stances within such persons kmowledge. SECTION 10. Front and Rear Lights. Every bicycle while on the public streets, when in operation, during one -half (1/2) hour after sun- set to one -half (1/2) hour before sunrise and at all times when fog or other atmospheric conditions render the operation of such bicycle unusually dangerous to traffic and the use of public streets, shall carry on its front one lighted lamp showing a white light visible under normal weather conditions at least 200 feet in the direction such bicycle is facing and shall have at the rear, one red light plainly visible from the rear. SECTION 11. Offense by Persons Owning or Controlling Bicycles. It shall be unlawful for the owner, or any other person, employing or otherwise directing the driver of any bicycle to require or knowingly permit the operation of such bicycle upon a public street in any manner contrary to the law. SECTION 12. Offense by Parent or Legal Guardian. Any parent or legal guardian who knowingly permits, conspires to commit, or aids or abets any minor child in the commission of any act declared herein to be a misdemeanor shall be guilty of such offense and every person who falsely, fraudulently, forcibly, or wilfully induces, causes, coerces, requires, permits, or directs another to violate any provision of this ordinance is likewise guilty of such offense. -4- SECTION 13. Penalties. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon convic- tion in the Corporation Court of the City of Corpus Christi, be fined in any sum not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00). SECTION 7.%.. Ordinances Repealed. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith shall be and are hereby repealed, and especially repealed hereby are the following described ordinances and amendments thereto. (a) Ordinance No. 186, passed and approved on the 19th day of September, 1913; and, (b) Ordinance No. 1056, passed and approved on the 12th day of March, 1940, and recorded in Volume 11, page 69 of the Ordinance- Resolution Records of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas. SECTION 15. The fact that this ordinance is necessary for the public welfare of the citizens of Corpus Christi and that the existing ordinances are considered incomplete and will by this ordinance become more effective and practical, and that the prompt and proper enforcement of some is necessary to protect the public welfare of the citizens of Corpus Christi creates a public emergency,and public imperative necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or reso- lution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared that such public emergency and imperative necessity exist, and having requested that such Charter rule be suspended, and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction and take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED. PASSED and APPROVED this 26 day of , A.D. 1947• ATTEST: MAYOR, GiI7'r-TiUrpus Chriatt, Texas 21ts, � -� ity � n � APPROVED AS TO LEGAL F t Y Attorney Assistant, orne Cc us Christi, Texas G 1947 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas Gentlemen: For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspension of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three meetings of the City Council; I, therefore, hereby request that you suspend said Charter rule or requirement and pass this ordinance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. Respectfully, MACUR City of Corpus Christi, Texas The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Wesley E. Seale George R. Clark, Jr. John A. Ferris R. R. Henry Joe T. Dawson The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Wesley B. Seale George R. Clark, Jr. John A. Ferris R. R. Henry Joe T. Dawson 0-137