Part 1
Bicycle Licensing
§3-101 License Required.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or use a bicycle upon any of the public ways of the Borough of Selinsgrove without first obtaining from the Borough a license therefore.
(Ord. 293, 11/4/1963, §1)
§3-102 Issuance and Duration of License.
The Police Department is hereby authorized and directed to issue, upon written application, bicycle licenses which shall be effective immediately. Said licenses shall be effective for as long as they are readable and attached to the bicycles for which they are issued. Such a license, when issued, shall entitle the licensee to operate such bicycle for which said license has been issued upon all the public ways in the Borough of Selinsgrove.
(Ord. 293, 11/4/1963, §2; as amended by Ord. 405, 1/7/1974; and by Ord. 458, 3/20/1978, §1)
§3-103 Metal License and Registration Cards; Record.
The Borough of Selinsgrove shall provide metal-tag-type bicycle licenses and registration cards, having numbers stamped thereon in numerical order beginning with No. 1 and indicating the license period for which the same are issued. Such license tags shall be suitable for placing upon the frame of bicycles. It shall be the duty of the Police Department to see that one such license is attached to the frame of each bicycle and to issue a corresponding registration card to the licensee upon the payment of such license fee provided for herein below. Such tags shall remain on the frame of the bicycle during the existence of such license. The Borough shall also keep a record of the date of issue of each license, to whom issued and the number thereof.
(Ord. 293, 11/4/1963, §3; as amended by Ord. 405, 1/7/1974; and by Ord. 458, 3/20/1978, §2)
§3-104 Duty upon Sale or Transfer.
It shall be the duty of every person who sells or transfers ownership of any bicycle to report such sale or transfer by returning to the Borough Police Department the registration card issued to such person as licensee thereof, together with the name and address of the person to whom said bicycle was sold or transferred; and such report shall be made within 5 days of the date of said sale or transfer. It shall be the duty of the purchaser or transferee of such bicycle to apply for a transfer of registration within 5 days of said sale or transfer.
(Ord. 293, 11/4/1963, §4; as amended by Ord. 434, 10/4/1976, §59-4)
§3-105 Mutilation Prohibited.
It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully or maliciously remove, destroy, mutilate or alter the number of any bicycle frame licensed pursuant to this Part. It shall also be unlawful for any person to remove, obliterate, mutilate or alter any license decal, seal or registration card during the time in which such license decal, seal or registration card is operative; provided, however, that nothing in this Part shall prohibit the Police Department from stamping numbers on the frames of bicycles on which no serial number can be found or on which said number is illegible or insufficient for identification purposes.
(Ord. 293, 11/4/1963, §5)
§3-106 License Fee.
The license fee to be paid for each bicycle shall be in an amount as established, from time to time, by resolution of Borough Council, and shall be paid in advance. Pursuant to §3-104 above, such license may be transferred when the ownership of said bicycle is transferred. No fee or other charge will be made for a transfer of an existing license. All license fees collected under this Part shall be paid into the general fund of the Borough of Selinsgrove.
(Ord. 293, 11/4/1963, §6; as amended by Ord. 405, 1/7/1974; and by Ord. 458, 3/20/1978, §3; and by Ord. 825, 10/3/2016, §5(B))
§3-107 Impoundment as Additional Penalty.
The Borough Police are hereby empowered, upon any violation of the provisions of this Part, to impound the bicycle or bicycles of the offender for a period of up to 60 days. This provision for enforcement shall be in addition to and not exclusive of the other enforcement or penalty provisions of this Part.
(Ord. 293, 11/4/1963; as added by Ord. 338, 6/6/1966)
§3-108 Violations and Penalties.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of this Part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before a magisterial district judge in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $1,000 plus costs together with reasonable attorney fees incurred by the Borough in the enforcement proceeding and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues or each Section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense.
(Ord. 293, 11/4/1963, §11; as amended by Ord. 434, 10/4/1976, §59-8; and by Ord. 825, 10/3/2016, §5(B))