INTER OFFICE MEMO

TO: Mayor & Aldermen DATE: g h f°¥97
FROM: R.A. Freeman, City Clerk Cec. ; i

AUG 20 1973
Re: Bicycle Licensing and Regulating SEP. “4 1973

Alderman Ranger has as'ced that we present the following suggested changes in
Provincial legislation in order that the Council may more closely control the licensing
and regulation of bicycles: |
1. If the licensing section of the Municipal Act (Section 458K) could be amended to provide
that the Council could specify the equipment with which a bicycle should be equipped (not

“withstanding the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Act) it seems to me that this particular

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aspect of the problem would be overcome. In Port Coquitlam, for example, the Council could

pass a by~law requiring that all bicycles have licences and that all bicycles be equipped
with: certain types or kinds of equipment - - lights, reflectors, satisfactory brakes, etc.
Ze “With respect to the. prosecution of juveniles we wonder if this too could not be over-
come by a simple amenduent to the Municipal Act ct (and perhaps the Motor Vehicle Act) to pro-
vide that actual owner ship of a bicycle mus rest with some person over the age of sixteen

years and that that person is ‘responsible for any offence or infraction of the Motor Vehicle

Act or Municipal By-laws while the bicycle is being operated on public highways.” This would

follow the provision presently existing in the Motor Vehicle Act making the owner of the

vehitle responsible for all offences committed by the vehicle.

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City Clerk

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