At the last Knoxville City Council meeting Knoxville added a height requirement for passengers in Knoxville on golf carts and UTV vehicles on the roads.

Knoxville Police Chief Aaron Fuller tells KNIA/KRLS News about UTV’s, “Most people, especially if you have a UTV, you are aware of the law change, from the state legislature last July 1st. So, July 1st, 2022, legislature changed the law for UTV’s specifically allowing them to travel on two lane state highways. Four lane state highways are out. So, Highway 92 here in town, Highway 163 over in Pella, that is illegal to operate a UTV on those roads. Two lane highways and two lane county roads you are good.”

According to Fuller the height requirement of 42” was added to make it safer. Nobody under 42” is allowed as a passenger in golf carts or UTV’s. The age would be somewhere between five and seven years old. It’s believed somebody that age could be capable of holding on.