About PEVRA

PEVRA is the Personal Electric Vehicle Riders Association: a California nonprofit membership association, based in San Francisco, founded in 2018, run entirely by volunteers. Nobody is paid. You can reach us at info@pevra.org.

What PEVRA does

• Jump On! — free training for new riders, run since 2018.
• Westwheel — the annual expedition. The first was Las Vegas in 2018; the ninth ran on the Lost Coast in June 2026.
• The Pevvie Awards — the community’s own annual awards.
• PEVRA Lettersmith — help writing to an agency or a legislature about a rule that affects riders.
• The Rider Reference Card — a wallet card carrying the law for one place, printed from this database.
• This legal database — every claim tied to the clause it comes from, with the source’s own date, an evidence tier and a named verifier. Look up a place.

The card used to be called something else

The Rider Reference Card was called the “100% Legal” card. It is not called that any more, because the card now prints the clause, the date the source itself carries, and the name of the person who checked it — and because PEVRA does not issue a card for a jurisdiction nobody has verified. There is no verdict on this site that means “100% legal”, and the card cannot print one.

Where PEVRA stands

These are PEVRA’s three stated policy positions. They are facts about what this organisation holds.

1. Licensing. No licence should be required to operate below 30 mph (48 km/h). Held since 2026-08-28.
2. Device speed caps. Devices should never carry a built-in speed cap. PEVRA supports every rider speed limit a jurisdiction sets, by facility: rider limits yes, device limits no. Held since 2026-08-28.
3. Where EUCs belong. EUCs belong on all roads, bike paths and sidewalks, at a speed appropriate to and limited by the prevailing use of the space. Held since 2026-08-28.

Who runs it

Jesse Garnier is PEVRA’s founder and executive director. He has been riding since 2016 and organising PEVRA since 2018. He merges every change to this database; volunteer stewards propose changes as pull requests, and every entry carries the name of the person who verified it and the date they did.

How the database is kept honest

Three rules, all enforced by the build rather than by good intentions. A verdict never publishes without a quoted clause, an official link, the source’s own as-of date, an evidence tier and a named verifier. A secondary source can never support a verdict, only context. And where PEVRA has not checked, the page says “not yet verified” instead of guessing. How verification works.

Money

Membership pays for the training, the expedition, the awards and the work of keeping this database sourced and current. Donations and event registration are handled at pevra.betterworld.org. Nobody at PEVRA draws a salary; everything on this page is volunteer work.

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This page is legal information, not legal advice, and is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Nothing here should be construed as an attempt to offer or render a legal opinion or otherwise engage in the practice of law. PEVRA does not warrant that this information is complete or accurate and disclaims all liability for any loss caused by errors or omissions. Laws change; check the 'as of' date and the official source linked on every claim.