Chapter 10.70
MOTORIZED SCOOTERS AND SHARED BIKES
Sections:
10.70.020 Removal and impoundment.
10.70.010 MORATORIUM.
(a) The city imposes an immediate, temporary moratorium on motorized scooter share programs and bike share programs until the city issues new ordinances governing motorized scooter share programs and/or bike share programs. The new ordinances will clearly state that this moratorium is rescinded, and will lay out the city’s terms under which motorized scooter share programs and bike share programs are to operate within the city.
(b) The sole bike share operator authorized in the city is Social Bicycles, Inc., which operates JUMP Shared Bikes; these bikes and this bike share program are exempt from this moratorium under the terms of the city’s July 27, 2017, contract with Social Bicycles, Inc.
(Ord. 2018-12 § 3 (part), 2018).
10.70.020 REMOVAL AND IMPOUNDMENT.
(a) During the moratorium, the city may remove and impound any motorized scooter or shared bike owned or controlled by a motorized scooter share operator and/or bike share program operator that is found in any public place within the city.
(b) It shall be the duty of the city department authorizing the impound of a motorized scooter or shared bike to notify the city’s finance department that such property is impounded. Such notification must include the following information: the owner of the motorized scooter or shared bike, where the ownership is ascertainable; the date of impoundment; and the location of impoundment.
(c) Once a department notifies the finance department that a motorized scooter or shared bike has been impounded, finance will then issue notice of impoundment to the device’s owner. The notice shall include the date of the scooter/cycle’s impoundment and location of its keeping, together with the information that before the owner or person in charge of the property shall be permitted to remove the same from the custody of the impounding department, evidence of identity and ownership shall be required together with the fees necessary to cover the costs for removal and impound. Such charges and costs shall be set by the finance department annually.
(d) The owner of the impounded property, or the owner’s agent, shall satisfy any and all city conditions or policies related to the impoundment of a motorized scooter or shared bike prior to retrieval of the property.
(e) The city may dispose of an impounded scooter or cycle if the owner does not claim and pay any required fees after thirty calendar days from the date of its removal.
(Ord. 2018-12 § 3 (part), 2018).
10.70.030 ENFORCEMENT.
(a) Any violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to the code enforcement process in Title 4, including the potential penalties for a violation.
(b) Any administrative citation issued pursuant to this chapter shall be prima facie evidence that the violation occurred.
(Ord. 2018-12 § 3 (part), 2018).