SB44 Alabama 2019 Session

This bill would authorize any Class municipality to designate municipal streets in the municipality where golf carts may lawfully be operated. The bill would provide certain requirements for golf cart operation, including equipment required on a golf cart, insurance, and that the operator be licensed to drive. A municipality would be authorized by ordinance to provide more restrictive conditions on the operation of golf carts in the municipality. Any violation of the act or any ordinance of the municipality would be a traffic infraction punishable by a fine of up to $50

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

Relating to Class 6 municipalities; to authorize any Class 6 municipality to designate municipal streets within the municipality where golf carts may lawfully be operated; to provide for the requirements for golf cart operation; to authorize the municipality to enact by ordinance more restrictive conditions; to provide that any violation would be a traffic infraction punishable in municipal court; 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.