307.205. Defined--requirements for operation. - Missouri Statutes

Defined--requirements for operation.

307.205. 1. For the purposes of sections 307.205 to 307.211, "electricpersonal assistive mobility device" (EPAMD) shall mean a self-balancing, twonontandem wheeled device, designed to transport only one person, with anelectric propulsion system with an average power of seven hundred fifty watts(one horsepower), whose maximum speed on a paved level surface, when poweredsolely by such a propulsion system while ridden by an operator who weighs onehundred seventy pounds, is less than twenty miles per hour.

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

3. Persons under sixteen years of age shall not operate an electricpersonal assistive mobility device, except for an operator with amobility-related disability.

4. An electric personal assistive mobility device shall be operated onlyon roadways with a speed limit of forty-five miles per hour or less. Thisshall not prohibit the use of such device when crossing roadways with speedlimits in excess of forty-five miles per hour.

5. A city or town shall have the authority to impose additionalregulations on the operation of an electric personal assistive mobility devicewithin its city or town limits.

(L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)