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Legal Questions About Tricycle Motorcycles For Senior Citizens?

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Location: Arizona

I want to purchase a golf car/tricycle motorcycle that I can use to get around the community for myself and a few friends.

I live in a relaxed neighborhood with private roads and HOA rules, and a golf cart type of vehicle would be ideal to get back and forth between the clubhouse and our homes. We are at that age now where walking is difficult. I am hearing though there are two different interpretations between what is legal and what is not within these communities. Also does it make a difference from where the motorcycle is purchased from, for example if it is purchased from Alibaba or AliExpress would that require further vetting of legal compliance.

Some say that as long as the golf carts stay exclusively within the community and follow the posted speed limit that they can legally be used. Others mentioned that they can be driven only on private roads and in case they do cross onto public roads they would need registering and insurance.

I am not clear on this as our gated community has a few public roads so I need to clarify what the law says in regards to this? The tricycle motorcycle sounds like an ideal vehicle that can really serve the purpose and plus there are a bunch of electric ones available on wholesale websites so we maybe able to find that is reasonably priced. I just need to clarify if it can be used on public roads or not.

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