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McHenry council adopts ordinance regulating scooters, broadens ban to single-wheel devices
Summary
The McHenry City Council approved an ordinance allowing state-defined low-speed electric scooters on sidewalks, set driver’s-license requirements for faster scooters and amended the definition of motorized recreational vehicles to cover single-wheel devices after public safety concerns on the Riverwalk.
The McHenry City Council on Monday approved an ordinance to regulate electric scooters and other motorized recreational devices, allowing state-defined low-speed scooters (those that travel no more than 10 miles per hour) on sidewalks while requiring a valid driver’s license for faster scooters and expanding the local ban on motorized recreational vehicles to include single-wheel devices.
City Police Chief Burke, who presented the proposal, said the state statute fixes the definition for low-speed electric scooters and that “the vast majority of them … travel well over the speed of 10 miles per hour, which means by definition, they don't fit the state's definition of a low-speed electric scooter.” He described the proposal as an effort to follow state rules for low-speed devices while…
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