Every tyke's tricycle, hipster's track bike and jock's mountain bike in New Jersey must bear a license plate, if state Assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker (D-Essex) has her way.
The New Jersey lawmaker is proposing a law that will require every bicycle rider in the state to pay $10 a year to register his or her bike with the Division of Motor Vehicles, reports NJ.com.
To prove that they have registered their "motor vehicles," each rider will have to attach a license plate to their human-powered transportation that would read "BICYCLE," reports NJ.com.
Tucker says that her bicycle-plate bill was inspired by several senior citizens who called her and complained about kids on bikes.
"They had been knocked down, knocked over and they had no way to register a complaint. They couldn’t identify the person," Tucker told NJ.com.
All bikers registering their "vehicle" would have to provide information such as the year, model, color, weight, serial number, owner’s address, date purchased and amount of state sales tax they paid on it, reports NJ.com.
"I believe it’s unenforceable. It’s cumbersome," owner of Montclair Bikery Gerry Magrini told NJ.com. "I don’t see any benefit to it at all, even from a revenue standpoint," he said.
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