LSV to Golf Cart Conversion Legislation

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Old 03-11-2013, 12:20 PM
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Default LSV to Golf Cart Conversion Legislation

Two bills are being chaired regarding modifying an LSV to comply with golf cart speed requirements and thus eliminating the need to register it FL. Senate Bill 0071 and House Bill 0062 are currently going through committee review/approval. Great time to let our representatives know our support on these 2 pieces of legislation. Bills can be viewed @ The Florida Senate - The Florida Senate and www.myflhouse.gov sites if interested.
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Old 03-11-2013, 01:17 PM
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Biggest waste of legislative time ever. This will only effect about one one hundredth of one percent of the population of the state.
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Old 03-11-2013, 01:45 PM
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Biggest waste of legislative time ever. This will only effect about one one hundredth of one percent of the population of the state.

I agree
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Biggest waste of legislative time ever. This will only effect about one one hundredth of one percent of the population of the state.
I'm sure to some it is not considered a waste of time. To each their own!
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I hope it is passed
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Old 03-11-2013, 09:38 PM
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I wonder if this is passed will the owners of LSV have to pay back the tax credits they received a few years ago?

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Old 03-11-2013, 09:40 PM
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Do you really think that they will all keep their carts at 19.9 MPH. Bad leg.
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Old 03-12-2013, 07:38 PM
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you only needed to keep cart as a LSV for 2 yrs. to get credits
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you only needed to keep cart as a LSV for 2 yrs. to get credits
Not concerned with tax credits since I bought a used Tomberlin. I don't want to have to go through the hassle of registering and paying higher insurance premium if I can convert it to operate <20MPH. thanks!
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Old 03-14-2013, 07:30 AM
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Do you really think that they will all keep their carts at 19.9 MPH. Bad leg.
really!!!! do you think that a lsv conversion would be a problem for speed....I would dare to say that well over 50% of golf carts now can exceed the "19.9" mph
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Old 03-14-2013, 08:53 AM
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The article in the Sun stated that there are around 5800 registered LSVs in the state of FL. Maybe half are in The Villages. If ten percent of The Village's LSVs want to convert to golf carts it would mean around 250 carts. (Anyone not in TV probably will keep their LSV because they don't have anywhere to drive a regular cart) The population of Florida is over 19 million. So our law makers are wasteing time on legislation that will only effect a couple hundred people out of 19 million and they wonder why citizens are disillusioned wiith government.
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The article in the Sun stated that there are around 5800 registered LSVs in the state of FL. Maybe half are in The Villages. If ten percent of The Village's LSVs want to convert to golf carts it would mean around 250 carts. (Anyone not in TV probably will keep their LSV because they don't have anywhere to drive a regular cart) The population of Florida is over 19 million. So our law makers are wasteing time on legislation that will only effect a couple hundred people out of 19 million and they wonder why citizens are disillusioned wiith government.
I think this will have more of an impact in the future -- more and more towns are considering allowing golf carts on their streets. As gas prices continue to rise, towns increase in size, downtown parking becomes more and more of an issue, I wouldn't be surprised to see even more towns and possibly even small cities begin to allow golf carts and then this law will have a much larger impact. (How's that for a nice, long run-on sentence?)
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agree how few will keep it at 19.9 after the conversion. Not many I'll bet!
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But look at all the free press those two politicions are getting!
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Old 03-14-2013, 04:48 PM
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The real problem that should be addressed is why LSV insurance rates are so high. There is no way that insurance companies are experiencing losses that justify the current LSV insurance rates.
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