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~ ~i ORDINANCE N0. 8715 _ An ordinance providing for the registration, licensing, operation, and equipment of bicycles within the city limits of the City of Eugene, Oregon fixing penalty for violation thereof and repealing all other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith. T'r~ CI 1'Y OF EUGENE DOES, ORDAIN AS FOLLO~F~S: Section 1. It shall be unlawful f or• any person to operate or use a bicycle, propelled ti~~holly or in part by muscular power upon any of the streets, alleys or public high~;fays of the City of Eugene without first obtaining from the Police Department a license therefor. Section 2. `The Police Department is hereby authorized and directed to issue, upon written application, bicycle licenses which shall be f'or the current year of 1942, to and including the 31st day of December, 1942, and thereaftez° said licenses shall issue for tYie current year commencing vaith the first day of January of each calendar year and ending with the 31st day of December of each year. Said licenses vahen issued shall entitle the licensee to opez•ate such bicycle for which said licerise has been issued upon the streets, alleys and public highways, exclusive of the sidewalks, in the city of Eugene excepting as hereinafter provided. ;.> Section 3. The City of Eugene shall provide each year metallic license plates which shall be issued only to owners oi' bicycles, together vaith a registration card, all to be issued~by the Chief of Police or assistaritts designated by him. The metallic license plates and registration cards are to have numbers stamped thereon in numerical order beginning with number one, indicating the year- for v~lhich the same are issued and the letter EBL stamped thereon; such metallic license plates shall be suitable for attachment upon the frames of bicycles, at a place designated by the Police Department, and it shall be tiie duty of the Police Department to attacri one such metallic license plate to the frame of each bicycle and to issue a corresponding re~istr•ation card to the licensee upon the payment of the license fee ®i' twenty-five (25} cents. . Such metallic license plate shall rerr:ain attached during the existence of such license. ~1'he Police Department shall also keep a record of the date of issue and number of such license and to whom issued. Section 4. No person shall ride or• operate any bicycle upan any street, alley, or public place within the corporate limits of the City of Eugene during ~ the period from a half hour before sunset to a half hour before suns°ise, and all .times when fog or other atmospheric conditions render the operation os: said bicycle dangerous to tr•az`'fic or the use of the streets, or at any othez.• time when there is not sufficient light to render clearly discez•nible any pez•son on the streets a distance of two hundred feet ahead without having a lighted lamp I~