Street Legal Golf Carts Delray Beach

Freeburn said she hopes the city will encourage incentives for those who travel in electric vehicles like their golf carts or larger cars like a Tesla or Chevrolet Volt. Please see the Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles link below for information on road-approved vehicles. Festival volunteers, families and political candidates have all taken the golf carts for rides since Exhilaride launched last month, Freeburn said. Safety equipment required by Florida State law: Golf carts on public roads (Florida Statute 316.212, Section 5) A golf cart must be equipped with: • Effective brakes• Reliable steering device • Safe tires• A rear-view mirror • Red reflective warning devices in low-speed front and rear vehicles or road-approved golf carts (316.2122, Article 2) A vehicle with speed shall be equipped with: • Headlights • Brake lights • Turn signals • Tail lights • Reflectors • Parking brakes • Rear-view mirrors • Windshield • Seat belts • Vehicle identification numbers Cindi and David Freeburn have begun renting a fleet of 12 electric golf carts to Delray Beach residents and visitors who want to explore the city or simply run errands in a more relaxed vehicle. As this one was classified as illegal. South Florida Golf Carts offers low-speed vehicles (LSVs) or electric carts approved for neighborhoods, communities, downtown Delray Beach, and more. Scott Fischer, president of Code 3 Events and the Delray Beach St. Patrick`s Day Parade — which honors firefighters, paramedics and police officers — says he has reserved eight of the electric golf carts to transport first responders into town. Exhilaride rents electric golf carts for Delray Beach residents and visitors (Susan Stocker, Akeem Brunson/South Florida Sun-Sentinel) Are you looking for a legal golf cart on the street? Do you own a golf cart that you want to make road legal? With a Delray Beach golf cart rental, you have a wide selection of legal two-, four-, six- and 8-passenger electric golf carts on the road that you can rent on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. We also offer long-term rentals of 6 months, 1 year or more.

To be driven on roads alongside cars, cars must have safety features such as seat belts, headlights and taillights, windshield and wiper, horn horn and mirrors and mirrors, the Freeburns said. Exhilarde customers must be at least 21 years old and have a valid driver`s license. Four- and six-seater golf carts can zoom in up to 35 miles per hour and travel 50 miles per charge, she said. Rental rates start at $70 per day for four-seater cars and $100 for six-seater cars. By Rich Pollack Drive your golf cart down a public road at Ocean Ridge and you could be arrested for violating state traffic rules. Drive the same golf cart – similar to a golf course – on a road near Gulf Stream and you are acting within the law. Now, take the same golf cart for a short ride to Briny Breezes and you`d be breaking the law — at least for now — but chances are you won`t get a ticket as long as you use it safely. If that`s not confusing enough, add to the mix the fact that no matter what coastal town you`re in, you`re probably in the rough if you take that golf cart on the A1A national road – or even try to cross it. In coastal communities in Palm Beach County, laws that regulate golf carts vary widely, largely due to a provision in state law that allows local governments to issue ordinances that determine where they can be used.

However, these state laws and local ordinances are very different from laws for slow-moving vehicles — better known as legal golf carts on the street — like the ones you`ll find on the A1A and downtown Delray Beach. “That you can legally drive a golf cart in your community, you should educate yourself before engaging in this activity,” says Ocean Ridge Police Chief Hal Hutchins, who recommends contacting your local police department if you`re unsure about local restrictions. In Gulf Stream, an ordinance passed in 1999 allows anyone to drive a golf cart on a public road, as long as drivers follow traffic rules and golf carts have the right equipment. This regulation, issued at the request of some residents, has no age limit on who can and cannot drive the car. “Initially, we expected problems with young drivers, but it wasn`t an issue,” Police Chief Gary Ward said. In Briny Breezes — where the ratio of golf carts to homes is extremely high — the question of what legal uses of golf carts became a hot topic after an incident in February in which a resident`s foot was crushed from behind by a golf cart as carts and pedestrians crossed the A1A state road. For decades, Briny Breezes residents have used their golf carts to get around the city. In doing so, however, they are breaking the law, according to Hutchins, whose department provides policing services to this community. Now, the city is preparing an ordinance that will make it legal to use golf carts in the community, as long as they operate safely and in accordance with state law.