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Berne joins golf cart parade |
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Written by Reporter1
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 |
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soon as it is published in the Berne Tri-Weekly News.
The new law will allow golf cart use on city streets and alleys if a cart is "registered, operated, insured, and equipped" as required by the ordinance.
Among Berne's golf cart requirements are the following:
• No golf cart may be operated on a highway except for the purpose of crossing a highway perpendicularly at an intersection with a city street.
• Golf carts must obey posted speed limits and may not be operated in excess of 30 mph.
• Golf carts shall be operated as closely to the right edge of the street or alley as possible and may not impede the flow of normal traffic.
• No golf cart may be operated or parked on city sidewalks.
• No golf cart shall be operated on a street between [midnight] and 5 a.m.
• Only a person with a valid driver's license shall be authorized to operate a golf cart on a street and the driver of a cart must have that license with him or her while driving.
• All golf carts must be insured for a period of not less than 12 months.
• Golf carts must have "factory seating for all occupants, a rearview mirror, headlights, tail lights, brake lights, front and back turn signals, and a slow-moving vehicle sign attached to the rear." The lights must be visible for at least 500 feet.
• No golf cart may be operated on a street until [it] is registered with the city. Registration must be done by the city police and will cost $25. One of the two changes reduced that fee from the originally-proposed $30.
Police Chief Tim Taylor said at the meeting that golf cart owners should contact the police, who will come to the owners' homes to register their carts. Each registration expires on December 31 of that year.
The other ordinance change was to put the golf cart registration money into the city's General Fund, not into the Police Department Equipment Fund.
The penalty for violating the new law is a fine of $50 to $100, plus court costs. If a golf cart owner has two violations in a calendar year, the registration of that cart will be revoked if that same golf cart was involved in the first violation.
If a golf cart is impounded by the police, it will not be released until "the basis of the violation has been corrected" and until the towing and impoundment fees have been paid by the owner or operator of the cart.
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