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IN HB1485

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/18/2017

Primary Sponsor

Donna Schaibley

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Origin

House of Representatives

2017 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Allows cities, counties, and towns to adopt ordinances regulating golf cart and off-road vehicle use on highways under their jurisdiction, including traffic, operation, and safety equipment regulations.

  • Permits ordinances concerning golf carts to also regulate operation of or safety equipment on golf carts used on local highways, provided such ordinances do not conflict with or duplicate state law.

  • Requires county ordinances to set limits on the number of passengers (other than the operator) permitted on golf carts or off-road vehicles.

  • Allows county ordinances to permit golf carts and off-road vehicles to cross state highways at right angles when traveling between county-jurisdictional highways and the operation can be done safely.

  • Establishes that violations of these ordinances committed on state highways by golf cart or off-road vehicle operators are considered ordinance violations, with fines deposited into the local government's general fund.

Legislative Description

Local golf cart ordinances. Provides that an ordinance adopted by a city, county, or town concerning golf cart use on a highway may concern operation and safety equipment regulation. (Current law provides for adoption by ordinance of traffic regulations.)

Last Action

First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation

1/18/2017

Committee Referrals

Roads and Transportation1/18/2017

Full Bill Text

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