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Lyon County officials move to advance ordinance allowing street-legal special purpose vehicles on certain county roads
Summary
County officials reviewed a proposed ordinance defining "street-legal special purpose vehicles," including equipment, registration and insurance requirements, and Speaker 1 moved to pass the ordinance (no vote recorded). The measure would allow such vehicles on county roads posted 55 mph or below and excludes golf carts.
Speaker 1, an unidentified county official, outlined a proposed county ordinance that would define and regulate "street-legal special purpose vehicles," saying the vehicles must be registered, insured and meet specified equipment requirements. "They have to be registered, they have to be insured, and then they have to comply with all the requirements and pay for registration of the street legal special purpose vehicles," Speaker 1 said.
The ordinance text as described designates county highways with posted speed limits of 55 miles per hour or less as routes where the vehicles would be allowed. It also lists three exemptions, includes prohibitions drawn from the referenced KRS, and contains a severability clause. Speaker 1 noted one equipment requirement on page 2, letter j: a working muffler. The speaker also said the ordinance explicitly excludes golf carts and that operations within some jurisdictions (referred to as "LVL") remain under that jurisdiction's rules.
Speaker 3, speaking from experience in another state, said towns with local police had fewer enforcement issues than towns without police. Speaker 1 said the county has previously issued only a small number of plates and emphasized the vehicles must meet registration and equipment standards.
Speaker 1 put a motion on the record: "I'm gonna make a motion to pass the street legal special purpose vehicle ordinance number o 3 20 25." The transcript does not record a second or a vote. Speaker 1 also said Mayor Greg Green would take the county ordinance to the city for consideration because a county ordinance alone would not allow operation on city streets.
What happens next: The motion was made on the record during the meeting; no vote or formal adoption is captured in the transcript. If the court moves forward, affected cities would need to adopt their own ordinances to permit operation within city limits.
