(A) The purpose of this subchapter shall be to establish a golf cart ordinance within the village to promote the health, safety and welfare of persons operating golf carts or carts within the village. Golf carts, hereinafter sometimes referred to as “carts”, are not designed or manufactured to be used on public streets and roads, and the village in no way advocates or endorses their operation on streets and roads.
(B) The village, by regulating such operation, is merely trying to address obvious safety issues, and adoption of this subchapter is not to be relied upon as a determination that operation on streets or roads is safe or advisable if done in accordance with this subchapter.
(C) All persons must be observant of, and attentive to, the safety of themselves and others, including their passengers, other motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians.
(D) (1) Any person who owns, operates or rides upon a golf cart on a public street, road or highway within the village does so at his or her own risk and peril and assumes all liability resulting from the operation of the golf cart.
(2) The village has no liability under any theory of liability for permitting carts to be operated on roads under special legislation granted by the state legislature.
(3) Any person who operates a cart is responsible for procuring liability insurance sufficient to cover the risk involved in using a cart on the streets and roads of the village.
(Ord. 19-O-05, passed 10-21-2019)