Mandatory bicycle registration systems-- how to transfer ownership of donated bikes?
Do any of you have to deal with government paperwork for transferring bicycle ownership when repairing or reselling donated bikes?
Does anyone else but Hawaii have such a system?
If I don't hear from anyone I'll assume it is a system unique to Hawaii.
The system is: Mandatory $15 onetime registration fee/tax, if your bike doesn't have a yellow registration sticker on it, police can impound it and give you a $50 ticket. You can get your bike back by paying the $15 tax later. It is really only enforced on homeless people. There are many unregistered bikes around--newcomers and tourists and even long time residents are not complying with the system. To transfer ownership it is $5 and more paperwork. Basically they've been treating bikes like mopeds for many years now.
I'm hoping we can do away with that system, and shift to a free registration system like bikeindex.org. We'll see. However, a significant local bike organization, HBL.org, gets funds from the tax for education programs.
Thanks for listening! Colin
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Some of the cities around LA had that but we lobbied heavily against it and won. It really is just a way to mess with the poor.
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Colin Leath colinleath@gmail.com wrote:
Do any of you have to deal with government paperwork for transferring bicycle ownership when repairing or reselling donated bikes?
Does anyone else but Hawaii have such a system?
If I don't hear from anyone I'll assume it is a system unique to Hawaii.
The system is: Mandatory $15 onetime registration fee/tax, if your bike doesn't have a yellow registration sticker on it, police can impound it and give you a $50 ticket. You can get your bike back by paying the $15 tax later. It is really only enforced on homeless people. There are many unregistered bikes around--newcomers and tourists and even long time residents are not complying with the system. To transfer ownership it is $5 and more paperwork. Basically they've been treating bikes like mopeds for many years now.
I'm hoping we can do away with that system, and shift to a free registration system like bikeindex.org. We'll see. However, a significant local bike organization, HBL.org, gets funds from the tax for education programs.
Thanks for listening! Colin
Colin Leath +1 805 699 6411 purl.org/colinleath
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