[TOTV Team]

New and used gas and electric golf carts for sale.

[LittleLatinaWife]

What is the age requirement to drive a golf cart? Is a drivers license required? ty

[philnpat]

You must be a minimum of 14 years old to drive a cart. A driver's license is not required.

[Old_As_Dirt]

Wrong, the Florida Statute, not the Villages

[Old_As_Dirt]

Originally Posted by philnpat

You must be a minimum of 14 years old to drive a cart. A driver's license is not required.

According to Florida statute, not the Villages

[Bonanza]

Originally Posted by Old_As_Dirt

Wrong, the Florida Statute, not the Villages

So what are the differences???

[mulligan]

The only regulation in TV is on the rental carts at the country clubs. There, you must be at least 16 with a driver's license. Other than that, Florida statute applies.

[Bonanza]

Originally Posted by mulligan

The only regulation in TV is on the rental carts at the country clubs. There, you must be at least 16 with a driver's license. Other than that, Florida statute applies.

Thanks!
Good info.
I didn't know that.

[mygpprogolfcarts]

16 Years of age with a valid drivers license.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by mygpprogolfcarts

16 Years of age with a valid drivers license.

You can drive a golf cart at fourteen with no license in the Villages. You can drive as fast as 20mph in The Villages..

[Bjeanj]

To get accurate information, I Googled Florida law-golf carts.
Statutes & Constitution :View Statutes : Online Sunshine

[Bjeanj]

the law provides for TV to allow exceptions in certain situations, which TV follows.

[kirk123]

Does anyone know if I need a “handicap” placard on my golf cart like I have for my car in order to park in the handicap spaces in the rec parking lots? Where do I get one? Can I use the one from my car? TY

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by kirk123

Does anyone know if I need a “handicap” placard on my golf cart like I have for my car in order to park in the handicap spaces in the rec parking lots? Where do I get one? Can I use the one from my car? TY

Handicap placards are not for golf carts (exception: street legal golf carts). They are for REGISTERED motor vehicles. Since you can't register a golf cart (except for street legal carts) in Florida, golf carts are not allowed in those spaces.

Although, in the Villages, apparently every golf-cart-owning disabled person is a special snowflake and parks in them anyway.

But some day, should you ever do that and find yourself with a ticket on your golf score-card clipboard, you'll know why.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Although, in the Villages, apparently every golf-cart-owning disabled person is a special snowflake and parks in them anyway.

Was it really necessary to be rude? I didn't know about the therapeutic effect of driving a golf cart. When a person with a disability arrives in a car they need a closer space but the act of driving a golf cart somehow makes them able to walk a longer distance?

If that is FL law then so be it but given that golf carts are a standard means of transportation here, maybe we need a golf cart equivalent for the handicap pass.