Bill Text: CA SB165 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Vehicles: specially constructed vehicles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-08-31 - Placed on inactive file on request of Assembly Member Charles Calderon. [SB165 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB165-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 165	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 26, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 14, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lowenthal

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2009

   An act  to amend Section 14528.55 of the Government Code,
  to amend Section 44126 of the Health and Safety Code, and
to amend Sections 12810.3 and 21800 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
 transportation   vehicles  .



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 165, as amended, Lowenthal.  Transportation. 
 Vehicles.  
   Existing law authorizes a city or county, in which a planned state
transportation facility was to be located on a specified portion of
State Highway Route 84, to develop and file with the California
Transportation Commission a local alternative transportation
improvement program that addresses transportation problems and
opportunities, and provides for the use of revenues from the sales of
excess properties acquired for the planned state transportation
facility in order to fund the program, but limits the use of revenues
from excess property sales to state highway purposes and certain
projects in the program.  
   This bill would specify that the excess properties are
nonresidential properties. 
   Existing law creates  the High Polluter Repair or Removal
Account in the Vehicle Inspection and Repair Fund and creates 
the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Subaccount in the High Polluter
Removal and Repair Account.
   This bill would correct the name of  the  
that  account  to refer to the High Polluter Repair or
Removal Account  .
   This bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the
Vehicle Code.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  yes
  no  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
   
  SECTION 1.    Section 14528.55 of the Government
Code is amended to read:
   14528.55.  (a) To resolve local transportation problems resulting
from the infeasibility of planned state transportation facilities on
State Highway Route 84 in the Cities of Fremont and Union City, the
cities or the county in which the planned facilities were to be
located, acting jointly with the transportation planning agency
having jurisdiction over the cities or county, may develop and file
with the commission a local alternative transportation improvement
program that addresses transportation problems and opportunities in
the county that were to be served by the planned facilities.
Priorities for funding in the local alternative program shall go to
projects in the local voter-approved transportation sales tax
measure.
   (b) The commission shall have the final authority regarding the
content and approval of the local alternative transportation
improvement program. The commission shall not approve any local
alternative transportation improvement program submitted under this
section after July 1, 2010.
   (c) All proceeds from the sale of the excess nonresidential
properties, less any reimbursements due to the federal government and
all costs incurred in the sale of those excess nonresidential
properties, shall be allocated by the commission to fund the approved
local alternative transportation improvement program and shall not
be subject to Sections 188 and 188.8 of the Streets and Highways
Code. The proceeds shall be used only for state highway purposes or
for projects in the local alternative transportation improvement
program that are also in the local voter-approved transportation
sales tax measure, subject to approval by the department.
   (d) This section does not apply to those highways that are in the
National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.
   (e) This section only applies to State Highway Route 84.
   (f) Section 14528.8 does not apply to projects undertaken pursuant
to this section. 
   SEC. 2.   SECTION 1.   Section 44126 of
the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:
   44126.  The Enhanced Fleet Modernization Subaccount is hereby
created in the High Polluter Repair or Removal Account. All moneys
deposited in the subaccount shall be available to the department and
the BAR, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to establish and
implement the program created pursuant to this article.
   SEC. 3.   SEC. 2.   Section 12810.3 of
the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   12810.3.  Notwithstanding subdivision (f) of Section 12810, a
violation point shall not be given for a conviction of a violation of
subdivision (a) of Section 23123, subdivision (a) of Section
23123.5, or subdivision (b) of Section 23124.
   SEC. 4.   SEC. 3.   Section 21800 of the
Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   21800.  (a) The driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection
shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle which has entered the
intersection from a different highway.
   (b) (1) When two vehicles enter an intersection from different
highways at the same time, the driver of the vehicle on the left
shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle on his or her immediate
right, except that the driver of any vehicle on a terminating highway
shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle on the intersecting
continuing highway.
   (2) For the purposes of this section, "terminating highway" means
a highway which intersects, but does not continue beyond the
intersection, with another highway which does continue beyond the
intersection.
   (c) When two vehicles enter an intersection from different
highways at the same time and the intersection is controlled from all
directions by stop signs, the driver of the vehicle on the left
shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle on his or her immediate
right.
   (d) (1) The driver of any vehicle approaching an intersection
which has official traffic control signals that are inoperative shall
stop at the intersection, and may proceed with caution when it is
safe to do so.
   (2) When two vehicles enter an intersection from different
highways at the same time, and the official traffic control signals
for the intersection are inoperative, the driver of the vehicle on
the left shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle on his or her
immediate right, except that the driver of any vehicle on a
terminating highway shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle on
the intersecting continuing highway.
   (e) This section does not apply to any of the following:
   (1) Any intersection controlled by an official traffic control
signal or yield right-of-way sign.
   (2) Any intersection controlled by stop signs from less than all
directions.
   (3) When vehicles are approaching each other from opposite
directions and the driver of one of the vehicles intends to make, or
is making, a left turn.