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HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Regulating Bicycle Use, Repealing Ordinance 522 I ORDINANCE NO. 671 AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE USE OF BICYCLES WITHIN THE CITY OF EOF, AND FIXING PROVIDING PEENALTIEES FOR REGISTRATION ION,,OANDLICENS- ING THEREOF, PEALING ORDINANCE NO. 522. Be It Ordained by the City Council of the City of Ames, Iowa: General Section 1. Effect of Regulations . (a) It is a misdemeanor for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required in this article (b) The parent of any child and the guardian of any ward shall not authorize or knowingly permit any such child or ward to violate any of the provisions of this article . (c) These regulations applicable to bicycles shall ap- ply whenever a bicycle is operated upon any street or upon any public path set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles, subject to those exceptions stated herein. (d) Every person not owning but operating a bicycle or every person operating a bicycle other than the one registere in his own name shall conform to all provisions of this ordi- nance, except registration, and shall be punished as provided herein for any violation thereof. Licensing Section 2. License Required. No person, who resides within this city, shall ride or propel a bicycle on any street, sidewalk, or upon any public path set aside for the exclusive use of bicycle unless such bicycle ownership is registered and has been licensed and a license plate is attached thereto as provided herein. Section 3. License Application. Application for a bicycle license and license plate shall be made upon a form provided by the City and shall be made to the Police Department . An annual li - cense fee of 500 shall be paid to the City before each license or renewal thereof is granted. Section 4. Issuance of License . (a) The Police Department, upon proper application and payment of the fee, is authorized to issue a bicycle license9 which shall be effective for one year commencing July 1, except where originally issued after July 1, said license shall be effective until the following June 30, and the same fee shall be charged for parts of a year on the original regi - tration and licensing. All renewals shall be made annually within 60 days prior to July 1. (b) The Police Department shall not issue a license for any bicycle when it knows or has reasonable ground to believe that the applicant is not the owner of or entitled to the pos- session of such bicycle . (c) The Police Department shall keep a record of the number of each license, the date issued, the name and address of the person to whom issued and the number on the frame of the bicycle for which issued, and a record of all bicycle li- cense fees collected, and each day' s receipts turned in to the City Clerk' s office for deposit with the City Treasurer. 2 (d) I � `he event that an owner shall lose his license tag, plate, or other means of identification or the same steal be destroyed or stolen, he shall report the same to the Polic Department immediately and the Police Department shall then issue to such owner a new license tag, plate, or other means of identification at a cost of twenty-five cents (250) to such owner. Section 5. Damage to License Plate . It shall be unlawful for any person to alter or counterfeit any registration tag, plate or other means of identification issued in conformity with this ordinance. Section 6. Attachment of License Plate . (a) The Police Department upon issuing a bicycle licens shall also issue a license plate bearing the license number assigned to the bicycle, the name of the city, and the year for which issued. (b) The license plate shall be firmly attached to the rear mudguard or frame of the bicycle for which issued in such position as to be plainly visible from the rear. (c) No person shall remove a license plate from a bi- cycle during the period for which issued except upon a trans- fer of ownership or in the event the bicycle is dismantled and no longer operated upon any street in this city. Section 7. Renewal of License. The bicycle license shall be renewed annually prior to July 1 upon application and payment of the same fee as upon an original application. Section 8. Transfer of Ownership. Upon the sale or other transfer of a licensed bicycle the licensee shall remove the licen e plate and shall within five (5) days after said sale or transfer either surrender the same to the Police Department or may, upon proper application but without payment of additional fee, have sai plate assigned to another bicycle owned by the applicant. Section 9. Bicycle Dealers . Every person engaged in the busi - ness of buying or selling new or second-hand bicycles shall make a monthly report to the Police Department of every bicycle purchased or sold by such dealer, giving the name and address of the person from whom purchased or to whom sold, a description of such bicycle by name or make, the number thereof, and the number of license plate, if any, found thereon. Riding Rules Section 10. Traffic Laws Apply to Persons Riding Bicycles. Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway shall be granted all the rights and shall be subject to all the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by the laws of this state declaring rules of the road applicable to Vehicles - or-by the traffic ordinances of this city applicable to the driver of a vehicle, except as to spe- cial regulations in this article and except as to those provisions of laws and ordinances which by their nature can have no applica- tion. Section 1,1. Obedience to Traffic-Control Devices . (a) Any person operating a bicycle shall obey the in- structions of official tx-affic-control signals, signs, and other control devices applicable to vehicles, unless otherwise directed by a police officer. F r 3 (b) Whenever authorized signs are' erected indicating that no right or left or U turn is permitted, no person oper- ating a bicycle shall disobey the direction of any such sign, except where such person dismounts from the bicycle to make any such turn, in which event such person shall then obey the regulations applicable to pedestrians . Section 12. Riding on Bicycles . (a) A person propelling a bicycle shall not ride other than astride a permanent and regular seat attached thereto. (b) No bicycle shall be used to carry more persons at one time than the number for which it is designed. Section 13. Riding on Roadways and Bicycle Paths . (a) Every person operating a bicycle upon a roadway shall ride as near to the right-hand side of the roadway as practicable, exercising due care when passing a standing ve- hicle or one proceeding in the same direction. (b) Persons riding bicycles upon a roadway shall not ride more than two abreast except on paths or parts of road- ways set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles. Single file when traffic is heavy. (c) Whenever a usable path for bicycles has been pro- vided adjacent to a roadway, bicycle riders shall use such path and shall not use the roadway. Section 14. Speed. No person shall operate a bicycle at a speed greater than, or in a manner other than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions then existing. Section 15. Emerging from Alley or Driveway. The operator of a bicycle emerging from an alley, driveway or building shall, upon approaching a sidewalk or the sidewalk area extending across any alleyway, yield the right-of-way to all pedestrians approachin on said sidewalk or sidewalk area, and upon entering the roadway shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching on said roadway. Section 16. Clinging to Vehicles . No person riding upon any bicycle shall attach the same or himself to any vehicle upon a roa - way. Section 17. No person riding upon any bicycle shall propel or tow another vehicle or attachment except by permission of the Chief of Police. Section 18. Carrying Articles . No person operating a bicycle shall carry any package, bundle, or article which prevents the rider from keeping at least one hand upon the handle bars . Section 19. Riding on Sidewalks . (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate -.a bi- cycle upon any sidewalk on the following streets: Main Street - Duff Avenue to Clark Avenue Lincoln Way - Stanton Avenue to Hayward Avenue (b) The Police Department is authorized to erect signs on any sidewalk or roadway prohibiting the riding of bicycles thereon by any person and when such signs are in place no person shall disobey the same. 4 (c) Whenever any person is riding a bicycle upon a side walk, such person shall yield the right-of-way to any pedes- trian and shall give audible signal before overtaking and passing such pedestrian. Parking Rules Section 20 . Parking. No person shall park a bicycle upon a roadway surface other than in racks provided, as stated below: In the following described districts and in such other dis- tricts as the police department may designate bicycles shall be parked at the regular parking spaces, to-wit: West side of Douglas Avenue from the north line of Main Street to the south line of the east and west alley between Main Street and Fifth Street. The area bounded on the north by the south line of Main Street, on 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 Northwestern Railway Company right-of-way to the south line of Main Street. Area between City Hall and alley going east and west extending from the sidewalk on Kellogg to the sidewalk going into the City Hall basement. North side of Main Street from the west line of Burnett Avenue to the east line of Clark Avenue. East side of Burnett Avenue for one hundred feet north of Main Street . South side of Lincoln Way from the west line of Stanton Avenue to the east line of Welch Avenue . East side of Welch Avenue from the south line of Lincoln Way to the north line of the alley running east and west. West side of Stanton Avenue for one hundred feet south of Lin- coln Way. East side of Hayward Avenue for one hundred feet south of Lin- coln Way. - . L Equipment Section 21. Lamps and Other Equipment on Bicycles. _ (a) Every bicycle when in use during the hours from one half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise shall be equipped with a lamp on the front which shall emit a white light visible from a distance of at least 500 feet to the front and with a red reflector on the rear of a type which shall be visible from all distances from 50 feet to 300 feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps on a motor vehicle. A lamp emitting a red light visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear may be used in addition to the red reflector. (b) No person shall operate a bicycle unless it is equi pec with a bell or other device capable of giving a signal audible for a distance of at least 100 feet, except that a bicycle shall not be equipped with nor shall any persons use upon a bicycle any siren or whistle . f a R 5 (c) Every bicycle shall be equipped with a brake which will enable the operator to make the braked wheel skid on dry, level, clean pavement. (d) It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully damage or remove any signaling device or lighting equipment carried on another person's bicycle. Section 22. Penalties . Every person convicted of a viola- tion of any provision of this article may be punished by a fine of not more than $50.00 or by imprisonment for not more than fifteen days or by removal and detention of the license plate from such person' s bicycle for a period not to exceed one year. Section 23. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflic herewith, particularly Ordinance No. 522, are hereby repealed. Section 24. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication as provided by law. Passed the 28th day of March, 1949• 0-;0 W.—Pr-at-her, City Clerk W. L. Allan, Mayor Moved by McCormick, seconded by Molleston, that Ordinance No. 671 be passed on its first reading. Voting Aye: Griffith, Bauge, McCormick, Molleston, Moore Voting Nay: None Absent: MacDonald Moved by Moore, seconded by Molleston, that the rules be suspended the second and third readings omitted, and Ordinance No. 671 placed on final passage. Voting Ayo: Griffith, Bauge, McCormick, Molleston, Moore Voting Nay: None Absent: MacDonald Moved by Griffith, seconded by Bauge, that Ordinance No. 671 d• now pass . Voting Aye: Griffith, Bauge, McCormick, Molleston, Moore Voting Nay: None Absent : MacDonald Mayor declared :Ordinance No. 671 passed. I, J. W. Prather, City Clerk of the City of Ames, Iowa, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance I;o. 671 was duly an properly passed at a meeting of the City Council on the 28th day of March, 1949, and published in the Ames Daily Tribune on the 6ti , Day of April, 1949. -- W. Prather, City Clerk