Committee advances bill to legalize and regulate golf carts on many St. Louis streets

The St. Louis City Public Safety Committee voted to advance Board Bill 62 with a due-pass recommendation on Oct. 2, 2025, approving three amendments and a final committee vote recorded 6-0 to send the measure to the full Board of Aldermen.

Alderman Devote, the bill sponsor and a Fifth Ward resident who identified himself as an injury lawyer, told the committee the measure seeks “to legalize or legitimize the operation of golf carts on city streets” and to “put in place some common sense regulations with respect to both operation as well as, as basic equipment.”

The bill, as amended in committee, would permit golf carts to operate on city roadways with speed limits of 25 mph or less and on certain 30 mph streets so long as those roadways are not multilane arterials (the sponsor described a distinction aimed at keeping carts off divided, high-volume corridors such as Hampton Avenue and Kings Highway). Equipment requirements in the amended bill include headlamps, veil (running) lamps, brake lights, mirrors and either turn signals or the requirement to follow hand‑signal rules; operators must hold a valid driver’s license and must obey right-of-way and distracted‑driving rules. The committee removed a general seat-belt mandate and…