{"id":1245,"date":"2008-10-28T04:47:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T10:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2008-10-28T04:47:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T10:47:27","slug":"have-your-registered-your-bike-you-might-not-need-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/28\/have-your-registered-your-bike-you-might-not-need-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Your Registered Your Bike? You Might not need to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by CAROLYN FEIBEL (Houston Chronicle)<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Bill White breaks this law. Thousands of innocent children could be implicated. You, dear reader, may be in violation and not even know it.<\/p>\n<p>The city finally is cracking down on bicyclists&#8217; rampant disregard of the registration law \u00e2\u20ac\u201d by getting rid of the law.<\/p>\n<p>City officials and bike enthusiasts all seem to agree that it&#8217;s a silly, outdated ordinance that is all but impossible to enforce.<\/p>\n<p>The City Council could vote to strike the law from the books on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The law requires owners to register their two-wheelers at a local fire station for $1 and place a little license sticker on the bike.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is something that I think is sporadically done,&#8221; said Randy Zamora, the city&#8217;s chief prosecutor. &#8220;And I think the firemen have better things to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Houston Chronicle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/metropolitan\/6081143.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>link to the full report at the Houston Chronicle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by CAROLYN FEIBEL (Houston Chronicle) Mayor Bill White breaks this law. Thousands of innocent children could be implicated. You, dear reader, may be in violation and not even know it. The city finally is cracking down on bicyclists&#8217; rampant disregard <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/28\/have-your-registered-your-bike-you-might-not-need-to\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[462,51],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bicycle-license","tag-houston-texas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-k5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}