(A) No person shall operate a neighborhood vehicle, golf cart or UTV within the city without first obtaining a permit from the Police Department as provided herein.
(B) Neighborhood vehicles, golf cart and UTV owners shall complete a permit application form and such forms are available at the Police Department. The completed forms shall be maintained by the city.
(C) All neighborhood vehicles, golf carts and UTVs must be inspected by a designated officer of the Police Department to ensure that the neighborhood vehicle, golf cart or UTV is safe to operate on city roadways and is in compliance with this chapter and with the State of Illinois Motor Vehicle Code.
(D) Any person who operates a neighborhood vehicle, golf cart or UTV must present valid proof of liability insurance or personal injury and property damage with limits of liability not less than the minimum required by the State of Illinois for passenger vehicles. Insurance coverage will be verified as in effect by the city when issuing or renewing a permit.
(E) Permits shall be granted for a period of one year and may be renewed annually.
(F) The cost of the permit shall be $25 per neighborhood vehicle, golf cart or UTV.
(G) Permits shall be displayed at all times on the rear of all neighborhood vehicles, golf carts and UTVs.
(H) Special use permit. A special use permit license shall allow a licensee to operate a neighborhood vehicle, golf cart or UTV within the city for a period not to exceed 24 continuous hours. A special use permit license may be granted only to a unit of state or local government or issued to bona fide religious, charitable, labor, business, fraternal, educational or veterans organizations that operate without profit to their members and which have been in existence continuously for a period of five years immediately before making application for a license and which have had during that entire five-year period a bona fide membership engaged in carrying out their objectives. A licensee shall be limited to three special use permit licenses in a calendar year. There shall be no fee for the issuance of a special use permit license.
(Ord. 09-35, passed 12-14-09; Am. Ord. 11-21, passed 8-8-11; Am. Ord. 12-06, passed 2-13-12; Am. Ord. 18-09, passed 5-8-18) Penalty, see § 80.99