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• registration device or seal and a registration card, at no cost to the owner. The registration device shall be attached to the frame of the vehicle bleyele. The registration card shall show the registration number, the vehicle bleyele identification number and the name and address of the owner. Such registration shall remain in effect during the period such vehicle bleyele is operated within the city. The fire chief shall establish appropriate procedures for the transfer of such registration upon sale or transfer of the vehicle bieyele. Sec. 16-63.3. Police registration record. Upon registration of any bicycle or mooed with the fire department, the fire chief shall transfer to the chief of police, and the chief of police shall keep a permanent file of the registration number, vehicle bieyele identification number, vehicle bleyele owner, address, age, vehicle bieyele make, type and approximate value of each vehicle bleyele so registered. Sec. 16-63.4. Removal, destruction or alteration of registration number device or card; bicycles and mopeds without legible serial number. It shall be unlawful for any person willfully or maliciously to remove, destroy, mutilate or alter the serial number on any • bicycle or moped frame. It shall also be unlawful for any person willfully or maliciously to remove, destroy, mutilate or alter any registration device or registration card issued pursuant to the provisions of this article during the time in which the vehicle bleyele for which the registration device or card was issued is oeprated in the City. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the fire department from stamping or engraving a number on the frame of the vehicle bleyele on which no serial number can be found or on which such number is illegible or insufficient for identifica- tion purposes. • Sec. 16-63.5. Operation generally. (a) Every person riding a bicycle or moped upon a street, roadway or other public vehicular area shall be subject to the provisions of this code and the provisions of chapter 4 of title 46.1 of the Code of Virginia applicable to drivers of motor vehicles, unless the context of any such provision clearly indicates otherwise. (b) Every person operating a bicycle or moped upon a street or highway shall ride as near to the right side thereof as practicable, exercising due care when passing a standing vehicle or one proceeding in the same direction. OA