A third Grand Strand municipality voted to relax its golf cart rules after South Carolina updated state law to give local governments more flexibility in regulating golf carts. Surfside Beach now allows drivers to operate golf carts with working lights anytime of day or night.
South Carolina law generally limits golf carts on public roads to a 4-mile radius of their registered address on secondary highways and roads during daylight hours. That means 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. normally and 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. in daylight savings time.
But since the new South Carolina law giving municipalities and counties the power to enact their own golf cart ordinances went into effect in May, North Myrtle Beach, Conway and now Surfside Beach have all passed ordinances of their own…