101. License Required

No person shall ride or use a bicycle upon any public streets in Susquehanna Township, unless the same shall be licensed as hereinafter provided.

102. Registration

Every owner of a bicycle, upon the effective date of this Chapter, shall list and register with the Police Department of Susquehanna Township at Police Headquarters, his name and address, the name of the manufacturer of the bicycle, its number, style and general description.  In the event the owner of a bicycle is a minor, under the age of eighteen (18) years, then the parent or guardian, or person having the care and custody of such minor, or the person with whom the minor lives, shall make such listing and registration on behalf of such minor owner.

103.  Issuance of Tags and Registration Cards; Exhibit of Card on Request

The Board of Commissioners of Susquehanna Township shall provide metallic tags, together with registration cards, which tags and cards shall have numbers stamped thereon in numerical order, beginning with No. 1;  such tags shall be suitable for attachment upon the saddle or frame of a bicycle, and it shall be the duty of the Police Department to issue to each owner one tag, which shall be attached by such owner tot he rear of the saddle or frame of the bicycle, in a position to be clearly seen from the rear, and to issue a corresponding registration card to the owner upon payment of the license fee hereinafter provided.  Such tags shall remain attached to the bicycle for which it is issued during the existence of such license.  The license and registration shall be permanent and need not be renewed or reissued from year to year.  The Police Department shall keep a record of such registration.  The operator of the bicycle shall display his owner's registration card,  or produce satisfactory proof that the owner has such registration card, upon demand of an officer of the Police Department of Susquehanna Township.

104.  Duty to Report Bicycles Out of Operation

It shall be the duty of every person who dismantles, reproduces to junk, or takes out of operation any bicycle, whether same be registered or not registered, to report same to said Police Department at Police Headquarters.

105.  Frame Numbers, License Tags or Registration Cards Not to be Tampered with or Destroyed.

It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully or maliciously remove, destroy, mutilate or alter the number on any bicycle frame, and it shall be unlawful for any person to remove, destroy, mutilate or alter any license tag or registration card during the time in which such license tag or registration card is operative; provided, however, that if any bicycle does not have a serial number stamped on the frame, or if such number is illegible, then the Police Department shall stamp an identification number on such frame of the bicycle.

108. Unlawful to Operate Without Proper Registration.

If any bicycle is found on a street of the Township of Susquehanna without a license identification tag as above set forth, or with a mutilated or altered serial number, or no serial number stamped on the frame of the bicycle, it shall be prima-facie evidence that said bicycle is being operated without proper registration and the owner shall be subject to penalties as hereinafter set forth.

109.  Warning Device Required.

It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a bicycle upon the streets of Susquehanna Township without having thereon a bell or horn in a workable condition; provided, however, that it shall be unlawful to have thereon, or use, a siren of any kind.

110.  Right of Inspection or Refusal of License

The Police Department of Susquehanna Township may at any time require the delivery of any bicycle to it for the purpose of making inspection of brakes and other parts, and shall refuse to license or register any bicycle found to be mechanically imperfect.

111.  Manner of Riding Bicycles

It shall be unlawful for the operator of a bicycle upon any street of Susquehanna Township to propel same abreast or to the left of other persons so propelling a bicycle, except in passing such bicycle.

113.  Penalties

Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provisions of this Part shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than six hundred dollars ($600.00) and costs, or in default of payment thereof, shall be subject to imprisonment for a term not to exceed thirty (30) days.  Each day that a violation of this Part continues shall constitute a separate offense.