California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 577

Introduced by Assembly Member Nazarian

February 20, 2013

An act to amend Section 38321 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 577, as introduced, Nazarian. Vehicles: illegal disposal.

Existing law prohibits a person from throwing or depositing in any area various types of garbage, a substance likely to injure or kill wild or domestic animal or plant life or damage traffic, or noisome, nauseous, or offensive matter. A person who drops, dumps, deposits, places, or throws that material, or who causes or permits that material to be so dropped, dumped, deposited, placed, or thrown, is required to remove the material or cause it to be removed and if a person fails to take those actions, the governmental agency responsible for the maintenance of the area, or the property owner of the land on which the material has been deposited, may remove the material and collect, by civil action, if necessary, the actual cost of the removal operation and damages.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the provision requiring the removal of that material.

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 38321 of the Vehicle Code is amended
to read:

38321.  

(a)  begin delete Any end delete begin insert A end insert person who drops, dumps, deposits, places,
or throws, or causes or permits to be dropped, dumped, deposited,
placed, or thrown, upon any area, begin delete any end delete begin insert a end insert material described in
Section 38320, shall immediately remove the material or cause it
to be removed.

(b) If begin delete such end delete begin insert a end insert person fails to comply with begin delete the provisions of end delete this
section, the governmental agency responsible for the maintenance
of the area, or the property owner of the land on which the material
has been deposited, may remove begin delete such end delete begin insert the end insert material and collect, by
civil action, if necessary, the actual cost of the removal operation
in addition to any other damages authorized by law from the person
who did not comply with the requirements of this section.