HB525 Alabama 2013 Session

Existing law does not authorize the operation of low speed vehicles such as golf carts on the municipal public streets

This bill would define low speed vehicle and would authorize the limited operation of low speed vehicles on municipal public streets. This bill would specify safety and operation standards for a low speed vehicle operating on a municipal public street. This bill would provide that a person must posses a valid driver's license in order to operate a low speed vehicle on a municipal public street

This bill would authorize a municipality to enact an ordinance regarding the low speed vehicle operation and equipment that is more restrictive than the restrictions enumerated herein

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose

To amend Section 32-19-1, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to low speed vehicles; to define low speed vehicle and to authorize the limited operation of low speed vehicles on the municipal public streets; to provide that a person must possess a valid driver's license in order to operate a low speed vehicle on a municipal public street; to authorize a municipality to enact an ordinance regarding the low speed vehicle operation and equipment that is more restrictive than the restrictions enumerated herein; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.