LSV to Golf Cart Conversion Legislation

[jmd4667]

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 (http://www.flsenate.gov) and www.myflhouse.gov sites if interested.

[tzangrilli]

Biggest waste of legislative time ever. This will only effect about one one hundredth of one percent of the population of the state.

[nkrifats]

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

[jmd4667]

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. :shrug: To each their own!

[ureout]

I hope it is passed

[Virtual Geezer]

I wonder if this is passed will the owners of LSV have to pay back the tax credits they received a few years ago?

VG

[golf2140]

Do you really think that they will all keep their carts at 19.9 MPH. Bad leg.

[ureout]

you only needed to keep cart as a LSV for 2 yrs. to get credits

[jmd4667]

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!

[ureout]

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

[tzangrilli]

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.

[redwitch]

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?)

[skip0358]

agree how few will keep it at 19.9 after the conversion. Not many I'll bet!:undecided:

[Bogie Shooter]

But look at all the free press those two politicions are getting!

[RVRoadie]

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.

[mrdills]

I wonder how many Gas golf carts stay under the legal speed limits? I have seen many that go way over 20 MPH.

[rubicon]

I speculate that if this legislation is passed it will provide an opening for more intrusive law enforcement concerning carts ( speed settings, safety features ,etc). It is obvious that those who purchased LSV did so for the obvious reason of higher speed. conversely their main reason for pushing this legislation is to get away from higher insurance rates. Hence law enforcement is the only way the state is going to know if these folks really adjusted their motors to 19.9mph. In addition insurance companies will also make that demand because they wil want their premium to equate with the risk.