CHAPTER 15-800. - REGULATIONS FOR BICYCLES.

15-801. - Licenses Required.#

(1)

It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or ride a bicycle upon any of the streets, alleys or sidewalks of Tremonton City unless said bicycle has been registered and licensed as hereinafter provided or after the license has been suspended or revoked.

(2)

Every bicycle before being registered and licensed must be inspected with relation to the frame number, operating condition, warning devices and handle bars. The Chief of Police of Tremonton City is hereby authorized and directed, subject to approval of the Tremonton City Council, to prepare and issue regulations governing the inspection and licensing of bicycles.

(3)

Any bicycle registration and license issued under the provisions of this section by the Tremonton Police Department shall be valid for the life of such bicycle or until the transfer of ownership thereof, or the license plate or tag issued to such bicycle becomes destroyed, lost or mutilated, at which time such bicycle shall again be inspected, registered and licensed as herein provided.

(4)

The fee to be paid for each bicycle registered, transferred or registered because of transfer of ownership or the destruction, loss or mutilation of the license plate or tag or for any other reason shall be any sum which the Tremonton City Council shall deem appropriate and shall be payable at the time of such registration.

15-802. - Mutilation, Alteration, Removal of License.#

No person shall knowingly or willfully or maliciously destroy, mutilate or alter the numbers of any bicycle frame number licensed pursuant to this article, or remove, destroy or mutilate any license plate or tag while the same is valid, or operate any bicycle without having attached thereto a license plate issued as provided in this chapter.

15-803. - Miscellaneous Bicycle Rules.#

It shall be unlawful for the operator of a bicycle to do any of the following: (1)

When riding upon a sidewalk to fail to yield the right-of-way to pedestrians.

(2)

To ride more than two abreast upon any street and must proceed single file upon any sidewalk.

(3)

To carry extra passengers or carry any package, bundle or article which requires the removal of more than one hand from the handle bars of the bicycle.

(4)

To attach said bicycle or the operator to attach himself to any vehicle upon a street.

(5)

To ride other than upon or astride a permanent and regular attached seat.

15-804. - Impounding of Bicycles.#

The Tremonton Police Department is hereby directed and authorized to impound any bicycle so used in violation of this chapter for a reasonable period of time pending investigation of any alleged violation of this chapter or until such bicycle is registered and licensed by the owner thereof and equipped as herein provided.