Senate Bill No. 334

Introduced by Senator Fuller

February 19, 2013

An act to amend Section 38603 of the Vehicle Code, relating to recreational off-highway vehicles, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 334, as introduced, Fuller. Recreational off-highway vehicles: seat location: passengers.

Existing law, operative on July 1, 2013, prohibits a person operating a recreational off-highway vehicle from allowing a passenger to occupy a separate seat location not designed and provided by the manufacturer for a passenger.

This bill would instead make these provisions operative on January 1, 2015.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Vote: ²⁄₃. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 38603 of the Vehicle Code is amended
to read:

38603.  

(a) A person operating a recreational off-highway
vehicle shall not allow a passenger to occupy a separate seat
location not designed and provided by the manufacturer for a
passenger.

(b) This section shall become operative on begin delete July 1, 2013 end delete begin insert January
1, 2015 end insert .

SEC. 2.  

This act is an urgency statute necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within
the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into
immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

In order to allow sufficient time to implement recently enacted
provisions of law regarding recreational off-highway vehicles, it
is necessary that this act take effect immediately.