BILL NUMBER: AB 188	CHAPTERED  06/30/05

	CHAPTER  26
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JUNE 30, 2005
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JUNE 30, 2005
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JUNE 20, 2005
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 15, 2005
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 23, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 27, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 3, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nakanishi
   (Principal coauthor: Senator Cox)

                        JANUARY 26, 2005

   An act to amend Section 21115.5 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 188, Nakanishi.  Vehicles: golf carts: low-speed vehicles:
special crossing.
   Existing law authorizes, until January 1, 2006, a golf cart or a
low-speed vehicle to cross State Highway Route 16 at certain
intersections, if the crossing is controlled by an official traffic
control device and is at an angle of approximately 90 degrees to the
direction of the highway.
   Existing law authorizes the Rancho Murieta Community Services
District to take any reasonable measures within its jurisdiction that
are necessary to ensure that golf carts and low-speed vehicles may
cross safely and that highway traffic is not unreasonably impeded
thereby.
   This bill would extend the repeal date specified in existing law
to January 1, 2007.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 21115.5 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:

   21115.5.
   (a) A golf cart or a low-speed vehicle may cross State Highway 16
at Murieta Drive and at Murieta South Parkway, if the crossing is
controlled by an official traffic control device and is at an angle
of approximately 90 degrees to the direction of the highway.
   (b) The Rancho Murieta Community Services District may take any
reasonable measures within its jurisdiction that are necessary to
ensure that golf carts and low-speed vehicles may cross safely, as
authorized under this section, and that highway traffic is not
unreasonably impeded thereby.
   (c) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that the district
complete a golf cart transportation plan under Chapter 6 (commencing
with Section 1950) of Division 2.5 of the Streets and Highways Code
on or before January 1, 2007, that will make the authority granted
under this section unnecessary.
   (2) The Legislature finds and declares that extension of the
repeal date of this section to January 1, 2007, will provide
sufficient time to allow the district to complete the plan described
in paragraph (1).
   (3) It is the further intent of the Legislature that the authority
granted under this section not be extended beyond January 1, 2007.
   (d) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2007, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute
that is enacted before January 1, 2007, deletes or extends that
date.