Bill Text: CA AB64 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Vehicles: fifth-wheel travel trailers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-10-04 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 548, Statutes of 2013. [AB64 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AB64-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 64 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
CHAPTER 548
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE OCTOBER 4, 2013
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR OCTOBER 4, 2013
PASSED THE SENATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 27, 2013
AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 11, 2013
AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 1, 2013
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 8, 2013
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 17, 2013
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY FEBRUARY 7, 2013
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Members Donnelly and Linder
JANUARY 7, 2013
An act to add Section 35400.6 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 64, Donnelly. Vehicles: fifth-wheel travel trailers.
(1) Existing law prohibits a vehicle from exceeding 40 feet in
length. Existing law exempts from this prohibition specified types of
vehicles, including, but not limited to, an articulated bus or
articulated trolley coach that does not exceed a length of 60 feet,
and a motortruck used solely as a cotton module mover that does not
exceed 48 feet in length. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime.
This bill would additionally exempt from this prohibition a
5th-wheel travel trailer that does not exceed 48 feet in length from
the foremost point of the trailer to the rear extremity of the
trailer, and that does not exceed 40 feet in length for a trailer
with 2 or more axles, and 38 feet in length for a trailer with a
single axle, from the kingpin to the rearmost axle. The bill would
require a manufacturer of a 5th-wheel travel trailer that meets this
exemption to include in the delivery documents specified length
information necessary to register that trailer. The bill would permit
a dealer to reject acceptance of the 5th-wheel travel trailer if
this documentation is not provided. By creating a new crime, the bill
would impose a state-mandated local program.
(2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 35400.6 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
35400.6. (a) Subdivision (a) of Section 35400 does not apply to a
fifth-wheel travel trailer that does not exceed the following
lengths:
(1) Forty-eight feet in length from the foremost point of the
trailer to the rear extremity of the trailer.
(2) (A) For a fifth-wheel travel trailer with a single axle, 38
feet in length from the kingpin to the rearmost axle.
(B) For a fifth-wheel travel trailer with two or more axles, 40
feet in length from the kingpin to the rearmost axle.
(b) A manufacturer of a fifth-wheel travel trailer described by
subdivision (a) shall include in the delivery documents the
information necessary to register that fifth-wheel travel trailer,
including its overall length pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision
(a) and a declaration that its length is in compliance with
subparagraph (A) or subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) of subdivision
(a). The dealer may reject acceptance of the fifth-wheel travel
trailer if this documentation is not provided.
SEC. 2. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.
