BILL NUMBER: AB 190	CHAPTERED  09/30/08

	CHAPTER  588
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 13, 2008
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 15, 2008
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 12, 2008
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 19, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 14, 2008

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bass
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Maze)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Berg, Davis, DeVore, Dymally, Horton,
La Malfa, Portantino, and Sharon Runner)

                        JANUARY 25, 2007

   An act to add Section 22511.3 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 190, Bass. Vehicles: veterans: parking.
   Existing law authorizes the issuance of special license plates by
the Department of Motor Vehicles to certain qualified veterans for
their vehicles.
   This bill would authorize veterans displaying those special
license plates on their vehicles to park, without charge, in a
metered parking space, as specified. The bill would provide that a
local authority's compliance with this provision is solely contingent
upon the approval of its governing body.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 22511.3 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   22511.3.  (a) A veteran displaying special license plates issued
under Section 5101.3, 5101.4, 5101.5, 5101.6, or 5101.8 may park his
or her motor vehicle, weighing not more than 6,000 pounds gross
weight, without charge, in a metered parking space.
   (b) Nothing in this section restricts the rights of a person
displaying either a special identification license plate issued
pursuant to Section 5007 or a distinguishing placard issued pursuant
to Section 22511.55 or 22511.59.
   (c) (1) This section does not exempt a vehicle displaying special
license plates issued under Section 5101.3, 5101.4, 5101.5, 5101.6,
or 5101.8 from compliance with any other state law or ordinance,
including, but not limited to, vehicle height restrictions, zones
that prohibit stopping, parking, or standing of all vehicles, parking
time limitations, street sweeping, restrictions of the parking space
to a particular type of vehicle, or the parking of a vehicle that is
involved in the operation of a street vending business.
   (2) This section does not authorize a vehicle displaying special
license plates issued under Section 5101.3, 5101.4, 5101.5, 5101.6,
or 5101.8 to park in a state parking facility that is designated only
for state employees.
   (3) This section does not authorize a vehicle displaying special
license plates issued under Section 5101.3, 5101.4, 5101.5, 5101.6,
or 5101.8 to park during time periods other than the normal business
hours of, or the maximum time allotted by, a state or local authority
parking facility.
   (4) This section does not require the state or a local authority
to designate specific parking spaces for vehicles displaying special
license plates issued under Section 5101.3, 5101.4, 5101.5, 5101.6,
or 5101.8.
   (d) A local authority's compliance with subdivision (a) is solely
contingent upon the approval of its governing body.