Model legislation
Drafting language a legislator can lift. Electric unicycles are unlawful in most places by drafting accident, not by decision: a definition written by shape — “two nontandem wheels”, “handlebars”, “a floorboard” — leaves a one-wheeled device in no class at all, and it falls to the leftover “motor vehicle” class it can never be registered as. Every template here repairs that, at a different size.
6 templates · git c35aac7 · as of 2026-09-05
Pick the size of the repair
A whole class, written by functionPEVRA has written this text
Define the device by what it does, not by what it looks like
The template every other one on this page is a shortcut for: a device class defined by weight, speed and motor power, with no clause that counts wheels, requires handlebars or requires a floorboard.
Drafted 2026-08-29
One clause, inserted into a definition already in forcePEVRA has written this text
The one-wheel patch — for any code that defines a self-balancing device as "two nontandem wheels"
Three words inserted into an existing electric personal assistive mobility device definition. The smallest repair on this page, and the one most likely to pass in a single session.
Drafted 2026-08-29
One clause, inserted into a definition already in forcePEVRA has written this text
The Virginia patch — "regardless of the number of its wheels in contact with the ground"
One clause that makes a whole definition wheel-blind at a stroke, taken from language Virginia already enacted.
Drafted 2026-08-29
The whole category, rewrittenPEVRA has written this text
The Illinois rebuild — name the device, then write the operating rules once
The full-category version: an umbrella class, a named sub-class for the one-wheeled device, and a single set of operating rules that applies to all of them. This template is modeled on Illinois Public Act 104-0854: it adopts Illinois' own "electric unicycle" definition unchanged and writes its own, shorter version of the operating rule, with the differences named below.
Drafted 2026-08-29
A city ordinance a council can adoptPEVRA has written this text
The Santa Fe adoption — an ordinance-level definition and a carve-out that may not bite
What a city can do without waiting for its state: repair the local traffic code's own "motor vehicle" definition so it actually excludes the device, define the device, and apply the bicycle rules to it.
Drafted 2026-08-29
Watching for someone else’s textNo text in hand yet
MARC Kansas City — pending, no text in hand
PEVRA is watching for a regional model ordinance from the Mid-America Regional Council and has no text. This page carries no draft and no quotation, and will not until a steward has read the document in a browser and filed a citation for it.
Checked 2026-08-29
Where PEVRA stands
These are PEVRA’s stated policy positions, as recorded in this repository. They are facts about what this organisation holds, printed here so a drafter reading the templates knows what shaped them.
- Licensing. No licence should be required to operate below 30 mph (48 km/h). Held since 2026-08-28.
- 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.
- 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.
How to read a quotation on these pages
Where a template quotes a statute, the quotation comes from a citation record in PEVRA’s database and carries that record’s evidence tier and the date the source itself prints. Tier A is the jurisdiction’s own official publication. Tier B is legislative or agency material, published with that label. Tier C is a secondary source, or an official source PEVRA has not yet opened in a browser: useful context, never a verdict. Most quotations on this site sit at tier C today, and say so.
Where a template has no citation, it paraphrases and says that it is paraphrasing. It never puts words in a legislature’s mouth.
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