BILL NUMBER: AB 1101 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JANUARY 14, 2014
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JANUARY 6, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Chesbro
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
An act to amend Section 35401.7 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1101, as amended, Chesbro. Vehicles: State Highway Route 101:
carriers of livestock.
(1) Existing law exempts, until January 1, 2015, licensed carriers
of livestock from certain limitations of access upon highways when
those carriers are directly en route to or from a point of loading or
unloading of livestock on specified portions of State Highway Route
101, if the travel is necessary and incidental to the shipment of the
livestock, and certain conditions are met.
This bill would extend the operation of this exemption until
January 1, 2020 all specified route
improvements are completed, and the Director of Transportation makes
a determination that a certain combination of vehicles are authorized
to operate on specified portions of State Highway Route
101 .
(2) Existing law requires the Director of Transportation to notify
the Secretary of State if, prior to January 1, 2012, the director
determines that the removal of certain trees is the only possible
adjustment to State Highway Route 101 that would accommodate truck
sizes allowed to travel on specified portions of State Highway Route
101 pursuant to the exemption described in (1) above, the
notification of which would repeal that exemption.
This bill would extend that date to January 1, 2015.
(3) Existing
Existing law also requires the Director of
Transportation to notify the Secretary of State if, prior to January
1, 2015, the director determines that safety improvements to
specified portions of State Highway Route 101 have resulted in the
reclassification of the entire segment as a terminal access route, as
specified, the notification of which would repeal the exemption
described in (1) above.
This bill would extend that date to January 1, 2020
the operation of those provisions to the date that all
specified route improvements are completed, and the
Director of Transportation makes a determination that a certain
combination of vehicles is authorized to operate on specified
portions of State Highway Route 101 .
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 35401.7 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
35401.7. (a) The limitations of access specified in subdivision
(d) of Section 35401.5 do not apply to licensed carriers of livestock
when those carriers are directly en route to or from a point of
loading or unloading of livestock on those portions of State Highway
Route 101 located in the Counties of Del Norte, Humboldt, and
Mendocino from its junction with State Highway Route 1 near Leggett
north to the Oregon border, if the travel is necessary and incidental
to the shipment of the livestock.
(b) The exemption allowed under this section does not apply unless
all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The length of the truck tractor, in combination with the
semitrailer used to transport the livestock, does not exceed a total
of 70 feet.
(2) The distance from the kingpin to the rearmost axle of the
semitrailer does not exceed 43 feet.
(3) The length of the semitrailer does not exceed a total of 48
feet.
(c) The exemption allowed under this section does not apply to
travel conducted on the day prior to, or on the day of, any federally
recognized holiday.
(d) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2020, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2020, deletes or extends
that date.
(d) (1) Because route improvements in Richardson Grove that will
allow the combination of vehicles described in Section 35401.5 to
fully operate on all portions of State Highway Route 101 located in
the Counties of Del Norte, Humboldt, and Mendocino are ongoing and
not yet completed, this section shall remain in effect only until
both of the following conditions are satisfied:
(A) All route improvements in Richardson Grove are completed
without restraint, including, but not limited to, judicial or
injunctive restraints.
(B) The Director of Transportation determines that the combination
of vehicles described in Section 35401.5 is authorized to operate on
all portions of State Highway Route 101 located in the Counties of
Del Norte, Humboldt, and Mendocino. When the director makes the
determination described in this subparagraph, the director shall post
a declaration on the Internet Web site of the Department of
Transportation.
(2) This section is repealed as of the date that the declaration
described in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) is posted on the
Department of Transportation's Internet Web site.
(3) The declaration described in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1)
shall state that it is being made pursuant to this section.
(e) (1) If prior to January 1, 2015 the
completion of the route improvements in Richardson Grove as described
in paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) , the Director of
Transportation determines that the only adjustment to State Highway
Route 101 possible to accommodate the truck sizes allowed to travel
on portions of State Highway Route 101, pursuant to subdivisions (a)
and (b) , is the removal of any tree that has a diameter
of 42 inches or greater, measured outside the bark, at 12 inches
above ground on the side adjacent to the highest ground level, the
director shall notify the Secretary of State of that determination.
(2) If prior to January 1, 2020 the
completion of the route improvements in Richardson Grove as described
in paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) , the Director of
Transportation determines that safety improvements to the portion of
State Highway Route 101 described in subdivision (a) have resulted in
the reclassification of the entire segment as a terminal access
route pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 35401.5, the director
shall notify the Secretary of State of that determination.
(3) The notice required under paragraph (1) or (2) shall state
that it is being made pursuant to this section.
(4) This section is repealed on the date the Secretary of State
receives either of the notices described in this subdivision.