SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1746

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE KOLLER.

Read 1st time January 31, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 307, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to electric personal assistive mobility devices.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Chapter 307, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 307.205, to read as follows:

307.205. 1. For the purposes of this section, "electric personal assistive mobility device" (EPAMD) shall mean a self-balancing, two nontandem wheeled device, designed to transport only one person, with an electric propulsion system of less than seven hundred fifty watts (one horsepower), whose maximum speed on a paved level surface, when powered solely by such a propulsion system while ridden by an operator who weighs one hundred seventy pounds, is less than twenty miles per hour.

2. An electric personal assistive mobility device may be operated upon a street, highway, sidewalk, and bicycle path. Every person operating such a device shall be granted all of the rights and be subject to all of the duties applicable to a pedestrian pursuant to chapter 304, RSMo.


Missouri House of Representatives