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office. If any person so appointed fails to file such acceptance with the 

 county clerk, or to take the constitutional oath of office, within ten days 

 after receiving notice of his appointment, or if any member of the board 

 fails to attend three consecutive, regular meetings without being ex- 

 cused by a vote of the" board, the board of sidepath commissioners may 

 declare the place vacant by a majority vote of the board. Such com- 

 'missioners shall serve without compensation, but shall be repaid their 

 actual and necessary disbursements, out of the sidepath fund. 



SEC. 4935-4. [Power to construct and maintain side-paths.] 

 Such board of sidepath commissioners is hereby authorized and empower- 

 ed to construct and maintain sidepaths along any public road or section ?: 

 thereof, of the county, outside the limits of incorporated cities and vil- 

 lages, or outside the corporation tax district thereof. No sidtpath shall 

 be constructed upon or along any regularly constructed or maintained 

 sidewalk, except by the consent of persons owning the abutting lands. 

 Such paths shall not be less than three feet wide in any case nor more 

 than six feet wide, without the consent of the owners of the abutting 

 lands, and shall be constructed within the outside lines and along and 

 upon either side of such public roads. The term "sidewalk," as used 

 in this act, means any sidewalk constructed and maintained as such by 

 the public authorities or the owner of the abutting lands, which is re- 

 served by custom for the use of pedestrians; but not including footpaths 

 or portions of the public road which are worn only by travel. No member 

 or any number of members of a sidepath commission shall begin or in 

 any way authorize the construction of a sidepath, to be built from the 

 sidepath fund until the record of the proceedings of the board shows that 

 it has voted to construct such a path. 



SEC. 4935-5. [License upon bicycles.] Such board of sidepath 

 commissioners shall at their first meeting or within a reasonable time 

 thereafter, and in each succeeding calendar year, adopt a form of license 

 to consist of an inscription, tag, badge, emblem or device suitable to be 

 affixed to a bicycle and to be known as a bicycle sidepath license. Any 

 person, upon the payment of a fee of one dollar, shall be entitled to re- 

 ceive such license, which shall be good during the calendar year for 

 which it is issued, and for no longer. Every such license to be valid 

 must be issued by the sidepath commissioners of the county wherein 

 the bicyclist resides, except that any bicyclist who resides in another state 

 or in some county of this state where there is no sidepath commis- 

 sion, may secure a license in any county where a side path commission 

 has been lawfully appointed by a probate judge, and such license shall be 

 valid for the use of the person GO purchasing for the calendar year for 

 which it is issued and no longer. No person shall ride a bicycle on any 

 sidepath in any county of this state where a sidepath commission has 

 been or at any time hereafter may be appointed, unless a valid bicycle 

 license is attached or affixed to the left side of the front fork, or- upon 

 the lower tube of the frame \vithin six inches from the head so that the 

 license device will show on the left side of the lower tube of such bicycle. 



SEC. 4935-6. [License fee to be paid to county treasurer.] The 

 license fees authorized by the said boards of sidepath -commissioners shall 

 be paid on or before the first day of July in each year to the county 

 treasurer of their respective counties, by whom they shall be credited 

 to a special fund, to be called "the sidepath fund." No claims against the 

 sidepath commissioners shall be paid otherwise than upon the allowance 



