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Originally Posted by livsea2
I wonder why the amount of the tickets in the Villages are so high? My wife just got a speeding ticket, her first in over thirty years, and it was $40. There's mention here of ticket being in the 200-300 range. Seems excessive if they're practicing mere traffic law enforcement.
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Because then they ticket you for exceeding the speed limit for a non street legal vehicle (your normal golf cart) which I 20mph, they write the ticket for "operating an unregistered vehicle" This moves it from a traffic citation to a low level felony and by the time they tally up the ticket cost and court costs it typically costs the golf cart owner in the $300 dollar range.
The folly of this is ..... if this happens in a "car", it is impounded and towed away. Then the owner must pay the fine and show proof of registration and insurance before the car is released. In these cases the golf cart owner gets back in what was an "unregistered vehicle" just a moment ago .... and motors away.