BILL NUMBER: AB 213	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonnie Lowenthal

                        FEBRUARY 2, 2009

   An act to amend Section 22502 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 213, as introduced, Bonnie Lowenthal. Vehicles: parking.
   Existing law generally requires a vehicle, stopped or parked upon
a roadway where there are adjacent curbs, to be stopped or parked
with the right-hand wheels of the vehicle parallel with and within 18
inches of the right-hand curb, with specified exceptions, including
authorizing a vehicle to be stopped or parked with the left-hand
wheels parallel to and within 18 inches of the left-hand curb on a
one-way roadway.
   This bill would allow local authorities to permit vehicles to park
on the left-hand side of the roadway parallel to and within 18
inches of the left-hand curb on a two-way local residential street
that dead-ends with no designated area in which to turn around
provided that the applicable streets are demarcated with signs or
markings giving adequate notice of the parking allowances.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 22502 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   22502.  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter 
every   , a  vehicle stopped or parked upon a
roadway where there are adjacent curbs shall be stopped or parked
with the right-hand wheels of  such   the 
vehicle parallel with and within 18 inches of the right-hand curb,
except that motorcycles shall be parked with at least one wheel or
fender touching the right-hand curb. Where no curbs or barriers bound
 any   a  two-way roadway, right-hand
parallel parking is required unless otherwise indicated.
   (b) The provisions of subdivision (a) or (e) do not apply to a
commercial vehicle if a variation from the requirements of
subdivision (a) or (e) is reasonably necessary to accomplish the
loading or unloading of merchandise or passengers on, or from,
 such   the  vehicle and while anything
connected with  such   the  loading, or
unloading, is being executed.
   This subdivision  shall not be construed to  
does not  permit  any   a  vehicle to
stop or park upon a roadway in a direction opposite to that in which
traffic normally moves upon that half of the roadway on which
 such   the  vehicle is stopped or parked.
   (c) Notwithstanding  the provisions of 
subdivision (b), local authorities may, by ordinance, prohibit
commercial vehicles from stopping, parking, or standing on one side
of a roadway in a business district with the wheels of  such
  the  vehicle more than 18 inches from the curb.
The ordinance shall be effective only if signs are placed in the
areas to which it is applicable clearly indicating the prohibition.
   (d) This section does not apply to vehicles of a public utility
when  such   the  vehicles are being used
in connection with the operation, maintenance, or repair of
facilities of the public utility or are being used in connection with
providing public utility service.
   (e) Upon a one-way roadway, vehicles may be stopped or parked as
provided in subdivision (a) or with the left-hand wheels parallel to
and within 18 inches of the left-hand curb, except that motorcycles,
if parked on the left-hand side, shall have either one wheel or one
fender touching  such   the  curb. Where no
curb or barriers bound  any such   a 
one-way roadway, parallel parking on either side is required unless
otherwise indicated. 
   The provisions of this 
    This  subdivision  shall   does
 not apply upon the roadways of a divided highway. 
   (f) Local authorities may, by ordinance or resolution, permit
vehicles to park on the left-hand side of the roadway parallel to and
within 18 inches of the left-hand curb on two-way local residential
streets that dead-end with no cul-de-sac or other designated area in
which to turn around. The ordinance or resolution may designate
certain streets or portions of streets on which the permission
applies. The ordinance or resolution permitting that parking shall
not apply until signs or markings giving adequate notice thereof have
been placed.