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HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Regulating Bicycle Use Ordinance No. 522 AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE USE OF BICYCLES WITHIN THE CITY OF AMES, IOWA: PROVIDING FOR REGISTRATION FOR LICENSING THEREOF AND FIXING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF TAE CITY OF A MES, IOWA: Section 1. Every person living within the City of Ames, Iowa, who owns and operates a bicycle within the limits of Ames, Iowa Ishall cause the ownership thereof to be registered at the office of the City Clerk of said City. Upon such registration, the City Clerk shall issue to such person a license tag, plate or other means of , identification which thereafter shall be kept permanently attached Ito said bicycle. Every person: not owning but operating a bicycle or every person operating a bicycle other than the one registered in his own name shall conform to all provisions of this ordinance : except registration, and shall be punished as provided herein for any violation thereof. Section 2. In the event a licensed bicycle be sold or trans- ferred the license tag, plate or other means of identification shall pass to the new owner or transferee and the sale or transfer of said , bicycle shall be reported to the City Clerk by the new owner or transferee thereof within five (5) days after said sale or transfer of said bicycle and the City Clerk shall make a record of said sal• i or transfer together with the name of the new owner or transferee � of said bicycle. Section 3. in the event that an owner shall lose his license tag, plate or other means of identification or the same should be destroyed or stolen, he shall report the same to the City Clerk immediately and the City Clerk shall then issue to such owner a new license to , plate or other means of identification at a cost of ten cents (10;1 to such owner. Section 4. It shall be unlawful for any person to alter or counterfeit any registration tag, plate or other means of identifica- tion issued in conformity with this ordinance. Section 5. All bicycles shall be equipped with a red glass reflector to be placed on the rear part of the bicycle so as to be visible from the rear. This reflector shall not be smaller than one land one-half inches in diameter and of such type as may be approved Iby the Police Department of the City of Ames, Iowa. Section 6. All bicycles used within the city limits shall, during the hours from one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise, display a headlight on the forward part of the bicycle, said headlight to be stationary and to have illumination equal to that produced by a one and twenty-five hundredths volt electric bulb and battery. Section 7. The use of sirens on bicycles shall be unlawful'. Section 8. In the following described districts bicycles shall Ibe parked at the regular parking spaces to-wit: i y r -2 West side of Douglas Avenue from the north line of Main .Street �to the South line of the Mast and West alley between Main Street and ' Fifth Street. i The area bounded on the north by the south line of Main Street jon the west by the east line of Lot 1, Block 13, Original Town, on :the south by, the north line of the East and West Alley south of !Block 13., Original Town and on the East by the West line of Duff Avenue. West side of Kellogg Avenue from the north line of the Chicago and North Western Railway Company right-of-way to the south line of ,Main Street. North side of Main Street from the West line of Burnett Avenue Ito the East line of. Clark Avenue. South side of Lincoln Way from the West line of Stanton Avenue to the East line of Welch Avenue. West side of Welch: Avenue from, the South line of Lincoln Way to the North line of Chamberlain Street. Section 9. It shall be unlawful for any person to ride or !operate a bicycle upon any sidewalks on the following streets: Main Street, Duff Avenue. to Clark Avenue. Section 10. Pedestrians upon sidewalks shall have the right- of-way at all times over persons riding bicycles upon any sidewalks and any person operating a bicycle upon any sidewalk shall operate the same in a careful and prudent manner at all times. Section 11. It shall be unlawful for any person riding a bicycle to follow fire trucks or other fire equipment at any time and it shall be unlawful for any person riding a bicycle to be towed Eby or to tow any other vehicle operating upon the streets or sidewalls of said city. Section 12. It shall be unlawful for any person riding or operating a bicycle to carry any extra passengers thereon at any time * Section 13. Bicyclists riding or traveling upon any street Zalsaid city shall not ride more than two abreast and upon any side- k bicyclists shall ride only in single file. Said bicyclists 1ishall also operate and travel with their bicycles as near the right Ilcurb as possible upon any street in said city, and shall travel in an approximately straight line without weaving back and forth laterally with the line of travel. Section 14. All persons riding bicycles upon any street or sidewalk within said city shall observe all traffic rules as to traffic lights and highway stop signs and shall signal any change of direction or course of travel in the same manner and the same way as uch signals are required under the law governing the use of auto- obiles upon streets and highways and shall not turn to the right or Left in traffic except at regular intersections of streets or alleys. l Section 15. The City Clerk of the City of Ames thall revoke or suspend any registration or license issued by virtue of this ,ordinance to any person for a period not exceeding one gear after a 1hearing for any violation of and conviction of any of the provisions iof this ordinance. Section 16. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdeameanor and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding One . Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days. Section 17. An other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 18. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication as provided by law. I Duly passed the 5th day of ,August 1940. ra emr-r, tyClerk Frank D. Paine, "mayor I li i I I