BILL NUMBER: SB 1388	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator DeSaulnier
   (Coauthors: Senators Price and Wyland)
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Jeffries)

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to add Section 22508.5 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
parking.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1388, as introduced, DeSaulnier. Parking: inoperable parking
meters.
   Existing law authorizes a local authority to establish parking
meter zones and fix the rate or fees for those zones by ordinance.
Existing law further authorizes a local authority to, by ordinance,
cause streets and highways to be marked with white lines designating
parking spaces and require vehicles to park within the parking
spaces.
   This bill would authorize a local authority to adopt an ordinance
or resolution prohibiting or restricting the parking of a vehicle at
an inoperable parking meter, as defined. The bill would also
authorize the parking at an inoperable parking meter for up to the
posted time limit, if no ordinance or resolution has been adopted to
prohibit it.
   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 22508.5 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   22508.5.  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a vehicle may
park in any parking space, for up to the posted time limit, for
which parking is subject to an inoperable parking meter or parking
payment center.
   (b) Local authorities may, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit or
restrict the parking of vehicles at inoperable parking meters. No
ordinance or resolution adopted by a local authority pursuant to this
section shall become effective until signs or markings giving
adequate notice of the restriction or prohibition on parking have
been placed at parking locations, parking meters, or parking payment
centers.
   (c) For purposes of this section:
   (1) "Inoperable parking meter" means a meter located next to and
designated for an individual parking space, or the parking payment
center closest to the space where a person has parked, which does not
accept payment in any form, does not register that a payment in any
form has been made, or does not issue a required receipt.
   (2) "Parking payment center" means an electronic parking meter
serving one or more parking spaces that dispenses time receipts that
are required to be displayed in a conspicuous location on or in the
vehicle or otherwise authorizes parking for payment of a fee.