BILL NUMBER: SB 783	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Ashburn

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 285 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 783, as introduced, Ashburn. Vehicles: dealer.
   Existing law defines a dealer, among other things, as a person,
not expressly excluded, who for commission, money, or other thing of
value, sells, exchanges, buys, or offers for sale, negotiates or
attempts to negotiate, a sale or exchange of an interest in, a
vehicle subject to registration, a motorcycle, snowmobile, or
all-terrain vehicle subject to identification under the code, or a
trailer.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that
provision.
   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 285 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   285.  "Dealer" is a person not otherwise expressly excluded by
Section 286 who:
   (a) For commission, money, or other thing of value, sells,
exchanges, buys, or offers for sale, negotiates or attempts to
negotiate, a sale or exchange of an interest in, a vehicle subject to
registration, a motorcycle, snowmobile, or all-terrain vehicle
subject to identification under this code, or a trailer subject to
identification pursuant to Section 5014.1, or induces or attempts to
induce  any   a  person to buy or exchange
an interest in a vehicle and, who receives or expects to receive a
commission, money, brokerage fees, profit, or any other thing of
value, from either the seller or purchaser of the vehicle.
   (b) Is engaged wholly or in part in the business of selling
vehicles or buying or taking in trade, vehicles for the purpose of
resale, selling, or offering for sale, or consigned to be sold, or
otherwise dealing in vehicles, whether or not the vehicles are owned
by the person.