SB44 Alabama 2019 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Clyde Chambliss Senator

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2019

Title

Class 6 municipalities, golf carts, mun. may authorize on mun. streets, regulation, more restrictive ordinances authorized, penalties

Description

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.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.

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Subjects

Municipalities