This chapter is adopted to address the interests of public safety. Golf carts are not designed, or manufactured to be used on public streets, and the town in no way advocates or endorses their operation on public streets or roads. The town, by regulating such operation, is merely trying to address obvious safety issues, and adoption of this chapter is not to be relied upon as a determination that operation on a public street or public vehicular area is safe or advisable, if done in accordance with this chapter. All persons who operate or ride upon golf carts on public streets or public vehicular areas do so at their own risk and peril, and must be observant of, and attentive to the safety of themselves and others, including their passengers, other motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians. The town has no liability under any theory of liability, and the town assumes no liability, for permitting golf carts to be operated on the public streets and public vehicular areas, under special legislation granted by the state’s legislature. Any person who operates a golf cart is responsible for procuring liability insurance sufficient to cover the risk involved in using a golf cart on the public streets and public vehicular areas of the town.
(Ord. passed 6-13-2011)