BILL NUMBER: AB 1473	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cook

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 35414 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1473, as introduced, Cook. Vehicles: load length.
   Existing law exempts from limitations as to length of vehicles and
loads, the transportation of poles and the tools and materials
incidental to the work to be performed when transported on a pole or
pipe dolly or otherwise lawful semitrailer used as a pole or pipe
dolly under specified circumstances.
   This bill would apply this exemption to the vehicle combination
when it returns to its original storage yard or point of origin.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 35414 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   35414.  (a) Except where a load can be transported consistent with
the limitations on vehicle and load length specified in other
sections of this chapter, the limitations of this chapter as to
length of vehicles do not apply when only poles, timbers, pipes,
integral structural materials, or single unit component parts,
including, but not limited to, missile components, aircraft
assemblies, drilling equipment, and tanks not exceeding 80 feet in
length are being transported upon any of the following:
   (1) Upon a pole or pipe dolly or otherwise lawful trailer used as
a pole or pipe dolly in connection with a motor vehicle.
   (2) Upon a semitrailer, except for the limitations provided in
Section 35410.
   (3) Upon a semitrailer and a pole or pipe dolly used in connection
with a truck tractor to haul flexible integral structural material.
   (b)  (1)    Poles and the tools and materials
incidental to the work to be performed may be transported on a pole
or pipe dolly or otherwise lawful semitrailer used as a pole or pipe
dolly, transporting not more than three poles not exceeding 80 feet
in length and when used by public utility companies or local public
agencies engaged in the business of supplying electricity or
telephone service, by the Department of Transportation, or by a
licensed contractor in the performance of work for a utility, the
department, or a local public agency, when  such 
 the  transportation is between a storage yard and job
location where  such   the  tools and
materials are to be used, in which event the limitations of this
chapter as to length of vehicles and loads shall not apply. 
   (2) The exemption under paragraph (1) from the limitations on
vehicle and load length of this chapter shall apply to the return of
the vehicle combination to its original storage yard or point of
origin.