Ya I'm new to Florida and I didn't know the laws down here but I got a $256 lesson....

Welcome to Sumter County :-)

In my state you are given 30 days to register your vehicle. I'm pretty sure I'm just going to keep my vehicles registered in my home state instead of bothering with the nightmares of Sumter county. Call a cop to your house to check your Vin? Aren't they already too busy writing up the elderly for going 22mph on a golf cart? No wonder they call it Floriduh!

We moved here in June, changed our insurance, got our drivers license and went to the Sumter annex and registered our car and truck. All done in one afternoon. It's really not that big a deal. You must have your vehicle with you as they do ck the VIN. Honestly it's no big deal. If you want to claim Florida as your residence you MUST register your vehicle here. We also bought a golf cart that has a governor that will not allow it to go over 19.5 MPH and have liability insurance. We obey the golf cart rules and love carting in TV. Yes, we do get passed by a few others but they are the ones getting the tickets. We love TV and our cart.

I guess I should be glad my old cart only goes about 16mph.

The problem occured because the OP purchased his car here in Sumter co. He then drove 1.6 miles to the DMV to register the vehicle, which was unregistered before he bought it. Therefore he was issued a ticket for driving an unregistered vehicle. A catch 22 if I ever heard it!
Your car was already registered in your home state.

That is the way I read the original post too. I've never ever heard of being cited for that unless you are driving a car every where except to dmv. Did the OP first go to Disney ?

He says he drove directly to the DMV which was 1.6 miles. Kind of sounds like a setup to me!

I agree,,, if u want to drive ur souped up cart over the speed limit,, u have to do it on the paths they cant ticket u there

Ur going to drop some major $$$ for this little act of defiance!! I am sure glad i dont have answer to my wife for something like that!

If the Sumter Co LEO's did this more often, then maybe the streets would be safer for the the citizens who choose to follow the rules.

We had the governor on our preowned cart set back to 20 max. Cost us $30. No worries about speeding or having insurance co deny claim in the event of an accident now.

Just for discussion now, don't jump on me, did anyone think that stopping and ticketing golf carts that were not doing things right may have been motivated by the fact that we have way too many golf cart accidents and protection of us who live here just MIGHT be the reason "they" were doing it?

I wish "they" would crack down on the contractors and the "kids" who are leaving work in the restaurants and the building sites and who drive like bats out of hell in cars and trucks.

Now I know that at least four of you are gonna beat on me.

I just reread this thread and I posted in the wrong one, Moderator...will you move this to the ticketed for speeding in golf cart thread? I will report myself . sorry.

Sweetie, please bring me some coffee............

I wonder why he didn't get a temp (cardboard) plate and drive it there legally?

Shortcuts don't always turn out the way you'd like, he got caught this time.

You are absolutely on the mark. Don't beat on Gracie. There are a lot of us
who feel the same and I think "they" finally got the message.

Well said, Graciegirl.
Nancy of raynan

Including this one we now have 120 posts and we still do not know how fast the OP was traveling when he received a ticket .

Can we assume that of one driving a golf cart travels in excess of 20mph (20.1.........) he/she can be ticketed