BILL NUMBER: AB 220 CHAPTERED BILL TEXT CHAPTER 413 FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE OCTOBER 2, 2001 APPROVED BY GOVERNOR OCTOBER 1, 2001 PASSED THE ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 5, 2001 PASSED THE SENATE AUGUST 28, 2001 AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 23, 2001 AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 26, 2001 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 7, 2001 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 16, 2001 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Strom-Martin (Principal coauthor: Senator Chesbro) (Coauthor: Assembly Member Dickerson) FEBRUARY 13, 2001 An act to amend Section 35401.7 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 220, Strom-Martin. Vehicles: limitations of access. Existing law exempts from established limitations of access, licensed carriers of livestock when engaged in travel necessary and incidental to the shipment of livestock on specified portions of State Highway Route 101. This exemption is repealed on January 1, 2002. Existing law requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, to conduct a study of the effect that the exemption has on public safety and report to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2001. This bill would extend the January 1, 2002, repeal date to January 1, 2004, thereby continuing the exemption until January 1, 2004. The bill would require the Department of the California Highway Patrol, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, to conduct a comprehensive study of the effect that the exemption has on public safety during the entire effective period of the exemption, and would require the findings of the study to be reported to the Legislature on or before May 1, 2003. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 35401.7 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read: 35401.7. (a) The limitations of access specified in subdivision (d) of Section 35401.5 do not apply to licensed carriers of livestock when those carriers are directly enroute to or from a point of loading or unloading of livestock on those portions of State Highway Route 101 located in the Counties of Del Norte, Humboldt, and Mendocino from its junction with State Highway Route 1 near Leggett north to the Oregon border, if the travel is necessary and incidental to the shipment of the livestock. (b) The exemption allowed under this section does not apply unless all of the following conditions are met: (1) The length of the truck tractor, in combination with the semitrailer used to transport the livestock, does not exceed a total of 70 feet. (2) The distance from the kingpin to the rearmost axle of the semitrailer does not exceed 40 feet. (c) The exemption allowed under this section does not apply to travel conducted on the day prior to, or on the day of, any federally recognized holiday. (d) (1) The Department of the California Highway Patrol, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, shall conduct an initial study of the effect that the exemption provided under this section has on public safety. The findings of that study shall be reported to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2001. (2) The Department of the California Highway Patrol, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, shall conduct a comprehensive study of the effect that the exemption provided under this section has on public safety during the entire effective period of the exemption, commencing on January 1, 1999. The findings of the study required under this paragraph shall be reported to the Legislature on or before May 1, 2003. (e) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2004, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2004, deletes or extends that date.