Golf Cart operation on area streets

Post date: Sep 22, 2020 10:50:54 PM

To: All Murphy’s Landing Residents/Owners

RE: Golf Cart operation on area streets

From: MLHOA Board of Directors and IMPD

Date: 9/17/2020

This letter is to inform you of developments this year with increasing use of golf carts in use on our area

residential streets in unsafe and sometimes dangerous manner.

Due to several near miss accidents and several examples of poor decisions especially by young golf cart

operators, including running stop signs and doing 180-degree U-turns into traffic, IMPD has asked the

Board to inform residents that the operation of golf carts on any Indianapolis residential street is not

permitted by law.

For the safety of all residents they are asking that operation of golf carts cease and have asked that the

use of golf cart activity be reported to the non-emergency number 317-327-3811 or 311 on your mobile

phones.

The information is being mailed to all homeowners because they would rather not issue citations, but

they cannot continue to look the other way, because a serious accident is almost a certain outcome.

Received from IMPD

This is the Golf Cart IC Code. The Highway definition just to clarify.

There is no Marion County Ordinance that authorizes golf carts.

IC 9-21-8-57 Operation of golf cart on highway Sec. 57. A golf cart or off-road vehicle may not be

operated on a highway except in accordance with: (1) an ordinance adopted under IC 9-21-1-3(a)(14)

and IC 9-21-1-3.3(a) authorizing the operation of a golf cart or an off-road vehicle on the highway; or (2)

IC 14-16-1-20 authorizing an off-road vehicle to operate on a highway. As added by P.L.182-2009(ss),

SEC.293. Amended by P.L.259-2013, SEC.17.