Amending Chapter 20 Vehicles and Traffic (Vetoed)

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Sec. 20 -35 License fees. (a) The license fee to be paid for each bicycle for a three (3) year license shall be One Dollar ($1.00) and each renewal thereof shall be One Dollar ($1.00). The license fee to be paid for each bicycle for a two (2) year license shall be Seventy -Five Cents ($0.75) and each renewal thereof shall be One Dollar ($1.00). The license fee to be paid for each bicycle for a one (1) year license shall be Fifty Cents ($0.50) and each renewal thereof shall be One Dollar ($1.00). All license fees shall be paid to the Special Fund at the time of registration. (b) Bicycles registered under the ordinance in effect prior to April 8, 1974, with a currently valid license shall pay only a Seventy -Five Cent ($0.75) license fee for the first -time registration under this ordinance. (c) Upon loss of any license decal, and upon application and satisfactory evidence of such loss, a new license shall be issued upon the payment of a fee of Twenty -Five Cents ($0.25). Sec. 20 -36 Bicycle Fund. (a) There is hereby created a Bicycle Fund. All fees generated by the bicycle registration ordinance shall be deposited in the Bicycle Fund. (b) The monies deposited in the Bicycle Fund shall be appropriated in the usual manner to defray the cost of implementing the bicycle registration ordinance, to promote the safety of bicyclists and to improve public bicycling facilities. (c) All monies remaining in the Bicycle Fund at the end of the city's fiscal year shall remain in the fund and not revert to the General Fund. Sec. 20 -37 Records and registration forms. (a) The owner shall receive a copy of the regis- tration form and shall retain it as proof of ownership. (b) The City Controller shall receive a copy of the registration form and record all registration forms. (c) The Chief of the Police Bureau or his designee shall receive and computerize all registration forms. Sec. 20 -38 Destruction or removal of bicycle numbers, decals or other approved licensing device. No person shall willfully or maliciously destroy, mutilate or alter the serial numbers of any bicycle, nor shall any person willfully remove, destroy or mutilate any approved license or registration form during the time in which the registration is effective. SECTION II. Whosoever operates any bicycle in viola- tion of any provision of this Article or in violation of the state traffic laws or provisions of this code or traffic ordinances of the city, as they relate to street traffic and insofar as the laws are applicable, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined a sum not to exceed $100. SECTION III. I£ any section, sub - section, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is, for any reason, held invalid or unconstitutional by a court with competent jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed a separate, distinct and independent provision and such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions thereof. -2-