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.
County and Municipal Government first Amendment Offered
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 923
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 922
County and Municipal Government Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on County and Municipal Government
Source: Alabama Legislature