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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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APPROVED AS TO LEGAL F t
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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
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