BILL NUMBER: SB 604	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 7, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 8, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Anderson

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 22520.5 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 604, as amended, Anderson. Vehicles: rules of the road.
   Existing law prohibits a person from soliciting, displaying,
selling, offering for sale, or otherwise vending or attempting to
vend any merchandise or service while being wholly or partly within
any of specified places, including, but not limited to, the
right-of-way of any freeway, including any on ramp, off ramp, or
roadway shoulder which lies within the right-of-way of the freeway,
or any roadway or adjacent shoulder within 500 feet of a freeway off
ramp or on ramp. A violation of these provisions constitutes an
infraction. Existing law also permits a charity, as defined, to
engage in a solicitation for charitable purposes that involves
persons standing in a public roadway soliciting contributions from
passing motorists, if the persons to be engaged in the solicitation
are law enforcement personnel, firefighters, or other specified
persons who are soliciting solely in an area that is within the
service area of that local agency, and the charity files an
application with the relevant jurisdiction, as specified.
   This bill would prohibit a person from soliciting, displaying,
selling, offering for sale, or otherwise vending or attempting to
vend any merchandise or service while being wholly or partly within
 any center median that is within 300 feet of  an
intersection controlled by a traffic control signal. This bill would
 except   exempt  from the prohibition, a
charity engaged in solicitation for charitable purposes if the
persons soliciting are law enforcement personnel, firefighters, or
other persons, as specified.
   Because this bill expands the definition of an existing crime, it
would impose a state-mandated local program.
   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 no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   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 22520.5 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:

   22520.5.  (a) A person shall not solicit, display, sell, offer for
sale, or otherwise vend or attempt to vend any merchandise or
service while being wholly or partly within any of the following:
   (1) The right-of-way of any freeway, including any on ramp, off
ramp, or roadway shoulder which lies within the right-of-way of the
freeway.
   (2) Any roadway or adjacent shoulder within 500 feet of a freeway
off ramp or on ramp.
   (3) Any sidewalk within 500 feet of a freeway off ramp or on ramp,
when vending or attempting to vend to vehicular traffic.
   (4) Except as provided in Section 17510.25 of the Business and
Professions Code, any  center median that is within 300 feet of
an  intersection controlled by a traffic control signal.
   (b) Subdivision (a) does not apply to a roadside rest area or
vista point located within a freeway right-of-way which is subject to
Section 22520.6, to a tow truck or service vehicle rendering
assistance to a disabled vehicle, or to a person issued a permit to
vend upon the freeway pursuant to Section 670 of the Streets and
Highways Code.
   (c) A violation of this section is an infraction. A second or
subsequent conviction of a violation of this section is a
misdemeanor.
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.