Ordinance No. 67-72 CITY OF TIGARD, OREGON
ORDINANCE No.67-72
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE LICENSING AND USE OF BICYCLES
WITHIN THE ITY OF TIGARD, PRESCRIBING PENALTIES, AND FIXING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
THE CITY OF TIGARD ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS:
Sectim 1: The following words or phrases except where the context
clearly indicates a different meaning, shall mean:
(1) Alley. - A narrow street through the middle of a block.
(2) Bicycle - Every device propelled by human power upon which
any person may ride, having two tandem ::heels either of which is
over twelve (12) inches in diameter.
(3) Highway, road and street - The entire width between the
boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof
is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular traffic.
(4) Park or .garking - The standing of a vehicle, whether occu-
pied or not, except when a vehicle is temporarily standing for the
purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading.
(5) Parkway - That pgrtion of a street not used as a roadway or
as a sidewalk.
(6) Person - Every natural person, firm, partnership, association
or corporation.
(7) Roadwa - That portion of a street or highway improved,
designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel.
(8) Safety zone - The area or space officially set apart within
a roadway fcrthe exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected
or is so marked or in icated by adequate signs as to be plainly
visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone.
(9) Sidewalk - That portion of a street between the curb lines,
or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, '
intended for the use of pedestrians.
Section 2: No person who resides within the City of Tigard shall
ride or propel a bicycle on any street or upon any public
path unless such bicycle has been licensed by the police department
of this City.
Section 3: The police department of the City of Tigard is hereby
authorized and directed to issue upon written application
therefor, bicycle licenses for a period of two (2) :years, beginning
January 1, 1968 and ending December 33, 1969, and thereafter such
> licenses shall be issued for a period of two calendar years commenc-
ing with the first of January and ending with the 31st of December
of the following year.
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Section 4: License plates shall be provided for each two-year period
commencing with January 1, 1968 by the City of Tigard
and registration cards shall also be provided. Such registration
cards and licenses shall be issued only to applicants who submit sat-
isfactory proof of ownership of the bicycle and evidence reasonable
knowledge of traffic safety rules. Further, the police department of
the City shall inspect each bicycle before registering and licensing
and shall refuse such license or registration card for any bicycle
determined to be in unsafe mechanical condition. All license plates
shall be suitable for the attachment to the frame of a bicycle at
such place and in such manner as the police department shall desig-
nate and one such plate shall be issued for each bicycle.
The police department shall charge and collect for the
benefit of the City of Tigard a license fee of Ono Dollar: "($400)
for each such biennial license and shall also keep a record of the
date of issuance and number of each license and to whom issued.
Section 5: All persons, firms or corporations engaging in the busi-
ness of buying secondhand bicycle within the City of
Tigard are hereby required to report to the police department each
such purchase, giving the name and address of the person from whom
each bicycle is purchased and a description of each such bicycle,
including the frame number and the license number, if found thereon.
All persons, firms or corporations engaged in the business of selling
new or secondhand bicycles within the City of Tigard, after the passage
and approval of this ordinance, are hereby required to report to the
police department all such sales, giving the name and address of the
purchaser and a description of the bicycle sold, including the frame
number and the license number, if any. All such reports shall be
turned in to the police department not later than 24 hours after the
time of sale. The police department shall prescribe the form and
contents of the reports required for this section and shall furnish
to such dealers, on request, blank forms suitable for ;such reports.
Section 6: It shall be the duty of every person who :hall sell or
transfer ownership of any bicycle to report such sale or
transfer by returning to the police department the registration card
issued to such person as licensee and covering the bicycle so sold,
together with the name and address of the person to whom said bicycle
was sold or transferred. Such report shall be made within five (5)
days after the time of such sale or transfer. It shall be the duty
of the purchaser or transferee of such bicycle to apply to the said
police department for a transfer of registration thereof within five
'5. 1-ys after the time of such sale or transfer.
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Section 7: Any person, firm or corporation who shall rent, hire or
loan bicycles, shall first obtain a license tag or tags to be
used on such bicycles and shall pay therefor the regular fee herein
provided. Such license tag or tags shall be attached to,such bicycles
and may be transferred from one bicycle to another as required by such
owner. Such license tag or tags shall be in a form which may be easily
distinguished from the license plates provided for in Section 4 hereof
and shall be issued by the police department who shall keep a record
thereof. Whenever any such bicycle shall by sold or transferred or
shall cease to be held for the purpose of renting, herring or lending,
the license tag provided for by this section shall be removed there-
from and such bicycle shall be licensed in the manner provided in
Section 3 of this ordinance.
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Section 8: No person shall ride a bicycle
with
two or
rt more
retpersons
ed
upon the same bicycle; pr ,
restriction shall not apply to tandem bicyclethat noor cycles personeshalled
C for two or more riders and provided further, that
passenger in front of
ride or operate a bicycle so equipped,
with the operator of such bicycle.
Section 9: No person riding upon any bicycle shall attach the same
or himself to any other vehicle upon a roadway.
n 10: No person shall ride or operate any bicycle on any side-
Sectiowalk in the City of Tigard; provided, however,be that
bicycles used for delivery of papers or t
merchandise may
on the sidewalks while being so used, within the residential section
within
of said City of Tigard, only. The residential section of the City
Is hereby defined for the purposes of this section to include all
e City of Tigard bontiguous to a street or highway not
parts of th
comprising a business district when the frontage on such
c street
highway for a distance of 30 r
0 feet or more is mainly rovided,
„i;6M or by dwellings and buildings used for business, Pabe
uwcsa
that when the roadway is impassable for bicycles their -1
are not
ridden on the sidewalk for such distance as the roadways
soperating a
usable; and provided further, that any person riding
bicycle on any sidewalk in the residential section of the City shall
at all times yield the right-of-way to pedestrians using such sidewalk.
Section Every person operating a bicycle upon a roadway shall
ride as near to the right-hand side of the roadway as
praticableonecproceeding�inrthe isame udirection. Persons riding dbicyclescle r
upon
a roadway shall not ride otherwise than in single file.
l2: No person shall engage in, or cause others to be. engaged
Section
in, any bicycle racing upon the streets or other public
places in the City of Tigard, except under a permit from and under
lice department of this City-
the supervision of the po
;Section 13: Every person riding or operating a bicycle on a street
or public path in the City of Tigard shall be subject to
all the provisions of the laws of the State of Oregon applicable to
and shall also
such operation be subject to all the provisions of the
"Motor Vehicle Code of the City of Tigard" and any other ordinances
of the City. of Tigard applicable to such operation.
Raetion 14; Every bicycle operated within the Cita of miaard at any
mr. to a half hour before
time from a halt hour altar' poor due to insuf-
svnrise, or at any other time that visibility
is ions, shall be equipped
ficient light or unfavorable atmospherict visible from a dis-
rith a lamp on the front exhibiting a white light
tante of at least 500 feet to the front of such bicycle, and a red
s and so
reflector isthe rer ofible atanightsfr size or
distancestwithinCed
uch 300 feet t 50
as to be vis
feet from the rear of such bieyclebe useddlight inadditio nto themrearis-•
tance of 500 feet to the rear may
reflector. shall
Section Every bicycle operated upon the streets in this City
be equipped with brakes adequate to control the -,neve-
ment of and to stop and to hold such vehicle.
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Section 16: No person shall operate a bicycle at a speed greater
than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions
then existing.
cycle shall
carry package,
Section 1T: bundle No sor aon rticlenwhich g a iprevents theriderafrom keeping
at least one hand upon the handle bars and in full control of such
bicycle.
Section 18: From and after the passage of this ordinance, it shall
be unlawful for any person to park or leave a bicycle
upon the sidewalk within the City of Tigard; except in areas des—
ignated by ordinance, which areas shall be properly marked by signs
or painting and provided with racks for parking bicycles.
Section 19: minoorrwaards shallyauthorizeior knowingly permitoanynsuch
minor child or ward to violate any of the provisions of this ordinance.
Secion 20s Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of
this ordinance, shall, upon conviction thereof, be
punished by imprisonment in the City Jail for not to exceed five (5)
days or by a fine not to exceed $10.00, or both, or bicycles may be
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impounded for a period not to exceed fourteen (14) days.
Section 21: Inasmuch as it is necessary for the peaces health and
safety of the people of theCity of Tigard that provision
be made for the licensing and regulation of bicycles 3;ithin the City
nof
ancegshall become geffectiveis eonbJanuaryrld to 19681st, and this ordi-
PASSED: By the Council, by unanimous vote of all Council members
present, after being read three times by number and
title only, this 18th day of December, 1967.
Recorder - Cit 0f Tigard
,a,, oe December_ 1967.
APPROVED: By the mayor,
this -..� • �y
Mayor_C�tyof gird
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