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Originally Posted by Talk Host
If they don't have the authority to enforce speed violations, why would they suddenly have authority to enforce other violations. It doesn't make sense legally, I don't think.
JLK
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As all kinds of crimes can occur on the Villages' golf courses and the cops can come onto the golf courses to combat these crimes. Burglaries from golf carts for instance as well as thefts of golf carts.
An accident of a serious nature would bring the cops and the emergency vehicles onto the golf courses.
Developers of the Villages would be very hard pressed selling the Villages' if the cops were not allowed to come onto their private property to combat all kinds of crimes.
Access for the public also plays into just how private this property really is. The Villages golf courses are more of a semi-private nature with all the people who show up on them regularly.
I am surprised that the Sumter County Sheriff's Office has not pressed more into enforcing various FL state laws and local ordinances with respect to speeding and the like. Seems this is more of a political solution involving the developers' clout than a legal one.