S 0666  General Bill, By Climer

Similar(H 3945)
 A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 56-2-105 OF THE 1976 CODE, RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT
 OF MOTOR VEHICLES' ISSUANCE OF GOLF CART PERMITS AND THE OPERATION OF GOLF
 CARTS ALONG THE STATE'S HIGHWAYS, TO PROVIDE THAT A MUNICIPALITY MAY ADOPT AN
 ORDINANCE THAT ALLOWS FOR THE OPERATION OF GOLF CARTS THAT ARE EQUIPPED WITH
 WORKING HEADLIGHTS AND REAR LIGHTS DURING NON-DAYLIGHT HOURS.
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   03/14/19  Senate Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 6)
   03/14/19  Senate Referred to Committee on Transportation
                     (Senate Journal-page 6)
   03/26/19  Senate Committee report: Favorable with amendment
                     Transportation (Senate Journal-page 13)
   04/02/19  Senate Committee Amendment Amended and Adopted
                     (Senate Journal-page 30)
   04/02/19  Senate Read second time (Senate Journal-page 30)
   04/02/19  Senate Roll call Ayes-36  Nays-4 (Senate Journal-page 30)
   04/03/19         Scrivener's error corrected
   04/09/19  Senate Read third time and sent to House
                     (Senate Journal-page 23)
   04/09/19  House  Introduced and read first time (House Journal-page 172)
   04/09/19  House  Referred to Committee on Education and Public
                     Works (House Journal-page 172)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT AMENDED AND ADOPTED

April 2, 2019

S. 666

S. Printed 4/2/19--S.    [SEC 4/3/19 12:27 PM]

Read the first time March 14, 2019.

TO AMEND SECTION 56-2-105 OF THE 1976 CODE, RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES' ISSUANCE OF GOLF CART PERMITS AND THE OPERATION OF GOLF CARTS ALONG THE STATE'S HIGHWAYS, TO PROVIDE THAT A MUNICIPALITY MAY ADOPT AN ORDINANCE THAT ALLOWS FOR THE OPERATION OF GOLF CARTS THAT ARE EQUIPPED WITH WORKING HEADLIGHTS AND REAR LIGHTS DURING NON-DAYLIGHT HOURS.

Amend Title To Conform

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Section 56-2-105 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding an appropriately lettered new subsection at the end:

"(    )    A municipality with a land area of approximate 3.87 square miles and a population estimated as of July 1, 2017, to be between ten and eleven thousand persons by the United States Census Bureau's Population Estimate Program that is located within a county that had a population of two hundred twenty-six thousand seventy-three persons according to the 2010 United States Census may enact an ordinance allowing the operation of a permitted golf cart for up to sixty minutes after sunset on locally owned roads for which the posted speed limit is twenty-five miles an hour or less if the golf cart has operable headlights and brake lights."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.