Sec. 134-365. Neighborhood transportation vehicles.
(a) Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the term "neighborhood transportation vehicle" means a self-propelled, electrically or gas powered motor vehicle that:
(1) Meets the equipment standards set forth in article I of part 2 of the Model Traffic Code; and,
(2) Has a speed attainable in one mile that does not exceed 25 miles per hour; and
(3) An individual of reasonable mentality would describe in common terms as a golf cart.
(b) Prohibition—State highways. Not withstanding any other provisions contained in this section, it shall be unlawful for any person to operate a neighborhood transportation vehicle upon any state highway.
(c) Prohibition—City streets. Except as authorized in subsection (d) it shall be unlawful for any person to operate a neighborhood transportation vehicle on any highway which is maintained by the city and is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular traffic.
(d) Neighborhood transportation vehicles authorized. It is hereby authorized that licensed drivers may operate neighborhood transportation vehicles on those portions of the highways herein below designated:
(1) Within the marked bicycle/neighborhood transportation vehicle lanes on East Aurora Parkway from one mile west and one mile east of its intersection with Gartrell Road; or,
(2) Within the marked bicycle/neighborhood transportation vehicle lanes on Gartrell Road from its intersection with South Aurora Parkway to its southern most intersecting line with the border of Douglas County; or,
(3) While crossing any intersection within the above described boundaries of Gartrell Road and East Aurora Parkway.
The authorization to operate neighborhood transportation vehicles at the above referenced locations shall not be effective unless and until official signs, giving notice of such authorization, are placed at the start and end to those parts of the highways involved.
(e) Regulation of operation. Every person operating neighborhood transportation vehicle on those portions of the highways designated in subsection (d) shall have all the rights and duties applicable to the driver of any other vehicle under the Model Traffic Code, as adopted and amended by the city except as to those provisions which by their nature can have no application. (Ord. No. 2009-60, § 1, 1-11-2010; Ord. No. 2003-72, § 3, 11-17-2003; Ord. No. 2002-58, § 1, 10-14-2002)