And while it’s OK to drive your golf cart to Riomar and Vero Beach country clubs, it’s not OK to drive it to Publix on Miracle Mile, where Carroll, chuckling, said he saw one recently.

St. Lucie County Sheriff Richard Del Toro got his chief legal counsel to weigh in on a TCPalm reader query about the increase of alternative vehicles.

Vero Beach passed a special ordinance, allowing golf carts to be driven on streets near its two country clubs and a sidewalk connecting to its central beach district. But, as Carroll reminded his ...