Bill Text: SC S0666 | 2019-2020 | 123rd General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Golf carts

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-09 - Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works [S0666 Detail]

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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT AMENDED AND ADOPTED

April 2, 2019

S. 666

Introduced by Senator Climer

S. Printed 4/2/19--S.

Read the first time March 14, 2019.

            

A BILL

TO AMEND SECTION 56-2-105 OF THE 1976 CODE, RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES' ISSUANCE OF GOLF CART PERMITS AND THE OPERATION OF GOLF CARTS ALONG THE STATE'S HIGHWAYS, TO PROVIDE THAT A MUNICIPALITY MAY ADOPT AN ORDINANCE THAT ALLOWS FOR THE OPERATION OF GOLF CARTS THAT ARE EQUIPPED WITH WORKING HEADLIGHTS AND REAR LIGHTS DURING NON-DAYLIGHT HOURS.

Amend Title To Conform

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Section 56-2-105 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding an appropriately lettered new subsection at the end:

"(    )    A municipality with a land area of approximate 3.87 square miles and a population estimated as of July 1, 2017 to be between ten and eleven thousand persons by the United States Census Bureau's Population Estimate Program that is located within a county that had a population of two hundred twenty-six thousand seventy-three persons according to the 2010 United States Census may enact an ordinance allowing the operation of a permitted golf cart for up to sixty minutes after sunset on locally owned roads for which the posted speed limit is twenty-five miles an hour or less if the golf cart has operable headlights and brake lights."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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