BILL NUMBER: AB 1508	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Carter

                        JANUARY 12, 2012

   An act to amend Section 2810 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1508, as introduced, Carter. Vehicles: inspection of loads.
   (1) Existing law authorizes the Department of the California
Highway Patrol to stop a vehicle transporting timber products,
livestock, poultry, farm produce, crude oil, petroleum products, or
inedible kitchen grease and inspect certain documents to determine
whether the driver is in legal possession of the load, and, upon
reasonable belief that the driver of the vehicle is not in legal
possession, to take custody of the vehicle and load, as prescribed,
and imposes duties on the sheriff with respect to the care and
safekeeping of those products.
   This bill would additionally authorize a member of a city police
department or a member of a county sheriff's office, whose primary
responsibility is to conduct theft investigations, to stop any
vehicle, and would make those provisions applicable with regard to a
vehicle that is transporting metal products or metal alloy products.
By imposing additional duties on a sheriff regarding the care and
safekeeping of metal products and metal alloy products, this bill
would impose a state-mandated local program.
   The bill additionally would authorize a member of a city police
department and a member of the county sheriff's office, whose primary
responsibility is to conduct theft investigations, to stop and
inspect vehicles transporting any of those loads.
   (2) 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, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   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 2810 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   2810.  (a) A member of the  Department of the  California
Highway Patrol  , a member of a city police department whose
primary responsibility is to conduct theft investigations, or a
member of a county sheriff's office whose primary responsibility is
to conduct theft investigations  may stop any vehicle
transporting any timber products, livestock, poultry, farm produce,
crude oil, petroleum products,  metal products, metal alloy
products,  or inedible kitchen grease, and inspect the bills of
lading, shipping or delivery papers, or other evidence to determine
whether the driver is in legal possession of the load, and, upon
reasonable belief that the driver of the vehicle is not in legal
possession, shall take custody of the vehicle and load and turn them
over to the custody of the sheriff of the county in which the timber
products, livestock, poultry, farm produce, crude oil, petroleum
products,  metal products, metal alloy products,  or
inedible kitchen grease, or any part  thereof  
of those loads  , is apprehended.
   (b) The sheriff shall receive and provide for the care and
safekeeping of the apprehended timber products, livestock, poultry,
farm produce, crude oil, petroleum products,  metal products,
metal alloy products,  or inedible kitchen grease, or any part
 thereof   of those loads  , and
immediately, in cooperation with the department, proceed with an
investigation and its legal disposition.
   (c) Any expense incurred by the sheriff in the performance of his
or her duties under this section shall be a legal charge against the
county.
  SEC. 2.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.