BILL NUMBER: SB 166	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Runner

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2009

   An act to add Section 18871.12 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to special occupancy parks.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 166, as introduced, Runner. Special occupancy parks.
   Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community
Development to adopt regulations for special occupancy parks that
establish requirements which the department has determined to be
reasonable and necessary for the protection of life and property and
which take into consideration any special conditions, including
location, physical environment, density of usage, type of operation,
type of vehicles to be accommodated, and duration of occupancy.
Pursuant to these provisions, the department has adopted a regulation
that prohibits a truck camper from being occupied if it has been
removed from the truck.
   This bill would supersede that regulation and instead make it a
crime for any person to occupy a truck camper, as defined, that has
been dismounted from a truck, unless the truck camper is equipped
with a permanently mounted jack on each of its four corners and
designed to be occupied when dismounted.
   By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated
local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 18871.12 is added to the Health and Safety
Code, to read:
   18871.12.  Notwithstanding Sections 18865.3 and 18871.10, it is
unlawful for any person to occupy a truck camper, as defined in
Section 18013.4, that has been dismounted from a truck, unless the
truck camper is equipped with a permanently mounted jack on each of
its four corners and designed to be occupied when dismounted.
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.