Operation of an all-terrain vehicle or utility terrain vehicle owned by an electric cooperative on a highway

What it does

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Current law prohibits the operation of all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) or utility terrain vehicles (UTVs) on any freeway that is part of the federal system of interstate and defense highways and on any part of any other freeway unless the Department of Transportation authorizes that use. Current law also generally prohibits operation of an ATV or UTV on all other highways, with various exceptions. Under current law a “highway” includes all public ways and thoroughfares and all bridges on those public ways and thoroughfares, and a “freeway” is a highway with full control of access and with all crossroads separated in grade from the pavements for through traffic.

Current law exempts from these freeway and highway prohibitions the operator of an ATV or UTV owned by a municipality, state agency, or public utility, or by the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, while engaged in an emergency or if the operation is directly related to the functions of that entity, unless safety requires strict adherence to the restrictions. This bill adds the operator of an ATV or UTV owned by an electric cooperative to this exemption.

Who's behind it

10 senators are its authors⁠. 8 are Republicans and 2 are Democrats.

18 more lawmakers signed on in support⁠.

Versions and amendments

Every text the Legislature printed for this bill, including proposed changes. Each opens on the Legislature's site.

• Amendment Histories
• LC Amendment Memo