Number
071342
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. ZIELINSKI AND BAUMAN
Title
An ordinance allowing neighborhood electric vehicles to travel on certain city streets and directing use and purchase of these vehicles by the city to the greatest extent practicable.
Sections
101-51 cr
310-18.5 cr
Analysis
This ordinance allows neighborhood electric vehicles to travel on certain city streets. The ordinance also directs the city purchasing director and any other officer, agent, agency, committee, board or commission of the city to purchase and use these vehicles to the greatest extent practicable.
Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:
Part 1. Section 101-51 of the code is created to read:
101-51. Use of Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs) on City Streets.
1. DEFINITION. “Neighborhood electric vehicle” means a self-propelled motor vehicle that has successfully completed the neighborhood electric vehicle america test program conducted by the federal department of energy and that conforms to the definition and requirements for low speed vehicles as adopted in the federal motor vehicle safety standards for low-speed vehicles under 49 CFR 571.3(b) and 571.500.
2. REQUIREMENTS. Neighborhood electric vehicles shall be 4-wheeled and have a speed range of at least 20 miles per hour and not more than 25 miles per hour on a paved surface, and have a gross vehicle weight at rest of less than 2,500 pounds. Neighborhood electric vehicle does not include an electric golf cart and shall have:
a. Headlamps.
b. Front and rear turn signals.
c. Stop lamps.
d. Reflex reflectors: one red on each side as far to the rear as practicable, and one red on the rear.
e. An exterior mirror mounted on the driver’s side and either an exterior mirror on the passenger side or an interior rearview mirror.
f. Parking brake.
g. Windshield that conforms to the requirements of the federal motor vehicle safety standard on glazing m...
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