Bill Text: CA AB64 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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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-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 64	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	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, as amended, 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 
provided to a dealer the overall length of the 5th-wheel travel
  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.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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  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 from the
kingpin to the rearmost axle.   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 
provided to a dealer the overall length of the fifth-wheel travel
trailer.   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.