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Committee backs bill letting local governments allow golf carts to operate at night
Summary
The House Education and Public Works full committee voted to report House Bill 3,292 favorably, restoring permissive authority for counties and municipalities to permit golf carts to operate after dark under local ordinances; the bill passed the committee 15-2 with one not voting.
House Bill 3,292, which would allow municipalities or counties to adopt ordinances permitting the operation of golf carts at night, was reported favorably by the House Education and Public Works full committee on a 15-2 vote.
The measure, presented to the committee by Representative Hartnett, chairman of the public safety subcommittee, would reinstate language that previously permitted some local governments to authorize nighttime golf cart traffic. "This bill aims to revive a statute for the same purpose allowed to sun allowed to sunset in 2021," Representative Hartnett said, referring to the provision that expired in 2021.
The bill is permissive: it…
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