Electric scooters — Kentucky Permit Test

A Kentucky electric low-speed scooter weighs less than one hundred pounds and has wheels, handlebars and a brake adequate to stop and park it.

The definition is what decides which rules a machine follows, so the weight matters.

An electric low-speed scooter is defined as a device that weighs less than one hundred (100) pounds and is equipped with wheels, handlebars, and a brake adequate enough to stop and park the device.

A Kentucky electric low-speed scooter is designed to operate at a maximum speed of 20 mph on a paved level surface.

Twenty is well below the traffic around it, which is why drivers close on one faster than they expect.

Regardless of the type of propulsion, an electric low-speed scooter is designed to operate at a maximum speed of twenty (20) miles per hour on a paved level surface.

A person sixteen years of age or older may operate a Kentucky electric low-speed scooter on a highway, bicycle lane or bicycle path.

Sixteen is the floor, and the machine is allowed in all three places.

A person sixteen (16) years of age or older, may operate an electric low-speed scooter on a highway, bicycle lane, or bicycle path.

Kentucky electric low-speed scooters are subject to traffic regulation the same way bicycles are, and motorists must use the same caution around them.

One set of rules covers both, which makes them easier to remember and to obey.

Electric low-speed scooters shall be subject to traffic regulation in the same way that bicycles are required to obey traffic laws

A Kentucky electric low-speed scooter must have at least one headlamp and at least one rear red light, illuminated from half an hour after sunset to half an hour before sunrise or when visibility is low.

The hours are the same as for a car, and a scooter is much harder to see without them.

An electric low-speed scooter shall be equipped with at least one (1) headlamp, and at least one (1) rear red light.

A Kentucky electric low-speed scooter may be parked on a sidewalk if it does not impede the reasonable movement of pedestrian or other traffic.

A scooter left across a sidewalk is an obstacle to somebody using a wheelchair or a cane.

An electric low-speed scooter may be parked on a sidewalk if it does not impede the reasonable movement of pedestrian or other traffic.

What weight limit defines a Kentucky electric low-speed scooter?

Less than one hundred pounds. The definition is what decides which rules a machine follows, so the weight matters. Kentucky Driver Manual, p.62: “An electric low-speed scooter is defined as a device that weighs less than one hundred (100) pounds and is equipped with wheels, handlebars, and a brake adequate enough to stop and park the device.”