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 SENATE  JUNE 29, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 20, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 4, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Atkins
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Gatto and Ma)

                        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 device
uniform standards: advisory committee.
   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  instead   additionally 
require the department to establish  , after consulting with
groups representing users of streets, roads, and highways,  a
specified committee to advise the department  ,  and  to
 hold public hearings regarding all of the above. The bill
would require  the department to ensure that  the
committee  to  include  various  representatives
, including representatives  from organizations representing
the interests of nonmotorized users of the highway.
   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.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) The California Department of Transportation has fulfilled the
obligations set forth in Section 21400 of the Vehicle Code through
the creation, staffing, and operation of the California Traffic
Control Devices Committee (CTCDC). The CTCDC meets regularly to make
recommendations to the director for the completion of the Manual on
Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD).
   (b) The committee membership, which has not changed since the
department created it in 1968, currently represents the interests of
the department, law enforcement, local government, and motorized
users.
   (c) In 2008, the department adopted Deputy Directive Number
DD-64R-1, which directs the department to include all users of the
road in all activities the department engages in.
   (d) In 2008, the California Complete Streets Act of 2008 (Chapter
657 of the Statutes of 2008) was signed into law, mandating that all
general plans' circulation elements consider the needs of all users
of the road.
   (e) The department has established and regularly pulls together a
committee of interest groups, department heads and staff, other state
departments, and the public to discuss implementation of the
California Complete Streets Act of 2008. The committee is called the
Active Transportation and Livable Communities Committee.
   (f) The Active Transportation and Livable Communities Committee is
widely accepted as the most comprehensive complete streets venue in
the state and should make the recommendation to the department for
the placement of two members from the nonmotorized interests to the
CTCDC.
  SEC. 2.  Section 21400 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   21400.  (a) (1) The Department of Transportation  shall
establish a committee to advise the department and hold public
hearings on the adoption of   shall, after consulting
with local agencies and groups representing users of streets, roads,
and highways, establishing a committee to advise the department, and
holding public hearings regarding rules and regulations, 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. 
   (2) The committee shall be formed by the director of the
department who shall approve all appointments to the committee. The
committee shall be composed of the following membership: 

   (2) The committee shall be composed of the following members:

   (A) One representative selected by the director of the department.

   (B) One representative recommended by the Commissioner of the
Department of the California Highway Patrol.
   (C) Two representatives recommended by the  California
 League of  California  Cities.
   (D) Two representatives recommended by the California State
Association of Counties.
   (E) Two representatives from motorized users of the highway. One
shall be recommended by the Automobile Club of Southern California
and one shall be recommended by AAA Northern California, Nevada and
Utah.
   (F) Two representatives  , approved by the director, 
from nonmotorized users of the highway recommended by the Active
Transportation and Livable Communities Committee created within the
department.
   (b) For purposes of this section, "users of the highway" means
bicyclists, children, persons with disabilities, motorists, movers of
commercial goods, pedestrians, users of public transportation, and
seniors.
   (c) 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.
   (d) 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.
   (e) 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.