BILL NUMBER: AB 1041	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ma

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to repeal Section 40243 of, and to repeal and amend Section
40207 of, the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1041, as introduced, Ma. Vehicles: delinquent parking
violations: video imaging.
    Existing law authorizes the City and County of San Francisco (San
Francisco), until January 1, 2012, to enforce parking violations in
specified transit-only traffic lanes through the use of video imaging
evidence and authorizes San Francisco to install automated
forward-facing parking control devices on city-owned public transit
vehicles for the purpose of video imaging of parking violations
occurring in transit-only traffic lanes. Existing law requires a
designated employee, who is qualified by San Francisco, to review the
video image for determining whether these parking violations have
occurred and to issue a notice of a parking violation to the
registered owner within 15 days of the violation. Existing law
requires that the video image records be confidential and available
only to public agencies to enforce parking violations.
   This bill would make the above-described provisions permanent and
would make other technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions governing the content of a delinquent parking violation.
   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 40207 of the Vehicle Code, as amended by
Section 1 of Chapter 471 of the Statutes of 2010, is repealed.

   40207.  (a) The notice of delinquent parking violation shall
contain the information specified in subdivision (a) of Section
40202, subdivision (a) of Section 40241, or subdivision (a) of
Section 40248, as applicable, and Section 40203, and, additionally
shall contain a notice to the registered owner that, unless the
registered owner pays the parking penalty or contests the citation
within 21 calendar days from the date of issuance of the citation or
14 calendar days after the mailing of the notice of delinquent
parking violation or completes and files an affidavit of nonliability
that complies with Section 40208 or 40209, the renewal of the
vehicle registration shall be contingent upon compliance with the
notice of delinquent parking violation. If the registered owner, by
appearance or by mail, makes payment to the processing agency within
21 calendar days from the date of issuance of the citation or 14
calendar days after the mailing of the notice of delinquent parking
violation, the parking penalty shall consist solely of the amount of
the original penalty. Additional fees, assessments, or other charges
shall not be added.
   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2012, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2012, deletes or extends
that date. 
  SEC. 2.  Section 40207 of the Vehicle Code, as amended by Section 2
of Chapter 471 of the Statutes of 2010, is amended to read:
   40207.   (a)    The notice of
delinquent parking violation shall contain the information specified
in subdivision (a) of Section 40202 or subdivision (a) of Section
40248, as applicable, and Section 40203, and, additionally shall
contain a notice to the registered owner that, unless the registered
owner pays the parking penalty or contests the citation within 21
calendar days from the date of issuance of the citation or 14
calendar days after the mailing of the notice of delinquent parking
violation or completes and files an affidavit of nonliability that
complies with Section 40208 or 40209, the renewal of the vehicle
registration shall be contingent upon compliance with the notice of
delinquent parking violation. If the registered owner, by appearance
or by mail, makes payment to the processing agency within 21 calendar
days from the date of issuance of the citation or 14 calendar days
after the mailing of the notice of delinquent parking violation, the
parking penalty shall consist solely of the amount of the original
penalty. Additional fees, assessments, or other charges shall not be
added. 
   (b) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2012.

  SEC. 3.  Section 40243 of the Vehicle Code is repealed. 
   40243.  This article shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2012, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2012, deletes or extends
that date.