Bill Text: CA AB345 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Redevelopment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2012-09-29 - Consideration of Governor's veto pending. [AB345 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB345-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 345	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 4, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Atkins

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2011

   An act to amend Section 21400 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 345, as amended, Atkins. Vehicles: traffic control devices:
consultation.
   Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to consult
with local agencies before adopting rules and regulations prescribing
uniform standards and specifications for official traffic control
devices.
   This bill would additionally require the department to consult
with groups representing users of streets, roads, and highways, as
defined.  The bill would require the department to ensure that an
advisory committee or group organized for the purposes of advising
the department regarding standards and specifications for official
traffic control devices includes representatives from groups
representing nonmotorizing interests of users of streets, roads, and
highways. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 21400 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   21400.  (a) The Department of Transportation shall, after
consultation with local agencies and groups representing users of
streets, roads, and highways, and public hearings, adopt rules and
regulations prescribing uniform standards and specifications for all
official traffic control devices placed pursuant to this code,
including, but not limited to, stop signs, yield right-of-way signs,
speed restriction signs, railroad warning approach signs, street name
signs, lines and markings on the roadway, and stock crossing signs
placed pursuant to Section 21364.
   (b) The Department of Transportation shall, after notice and
public hearing, determine and publicize the specifications for
uniform types of warning signs, lights, and devices to be placed upon
a highway by any person engaged in performing work which interferes
with or endangers the safe movement of traffic upon that highway.
   (c) Only those signs, lights, and devices as are provided for in
this section shall be placed upon a highway to warn traffic of work
that is being performed on the highway.
   (d) Any control devices or markings installed upon traffic
barriers on or after January 1, 1984, shall conform to the uniform
standards and specifications required by this section. 
   (e) The Department of Transportation shall ensure that an advisory
committee or group organized for the purposes of this section
includes representatives from groups that represent nonmotorizing
interests of users of streets, roads, and highways.  
   (e) 
    (f)  For the purposes of this section, "users of
streets, roads, and highways" means bicyclists, children, persons
with disabilities, motorists, movers of commercial goods,
pedestrians, users of public transportation, and seniors.