SB 728, as introduced, Wolk. Vehicles: safe operation: Department of the California Highway Patrol.
Existing law requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to regulate the safe operation of specified vehicles, including, among others, schoolbuses and commercial motor vehicles.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 34500 of the Vehicle Code is amended
2to read:
The department shall regulate the safe operation ofbegin insert all
4ofend insert the following vehicles:
5(a) Motortrucks of three or more axles that are more than 10,000
6pounds gross vehicle weight rating.
7(b) Truck tractors.
8(c) Buses, schoolbuses, school pupil activity buses, youth buses,
9farm labor vehicles, and general public paratransit vehicles.
P2 1(d) Trailers and semitrailers designed or used for the
2transportation of more than 10 persons, and the towing motor
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vehicle.
4(e) Trailers and semitrailers, pole or pipe dollies, auxiliary
5dollies, and logging dollies used in combination withbegin insert
theend insert vehicles
6listed in subdivision (a), (b), (c), or (d). This subdivision does not
7include camp trailers, trailer coaches, and utility trailers.
8(f) A combination of a motortruck and a vehicle or vehicles set
9forth in subdivision (e) that exceeds 40 feet in length when coupled
10together.
11(g) A truck, or a combination of a truck and any other vehicle,
12transporting hazardous materials.
13(h) Manufactured homes that, when moved upon the highway,
14are required to be moved pursuant to a permit as specified in
15Section 35780 or 35790.
16(i) A park trailer, as described in Section 18009.3 of the Health
17and Safety Code, that, when moved upon a highway, is required
18to be moved pursuant to a permit pursuant to Section 35780.
19(j) Any other motortruck not specified in subdivisions (a) to
20(h), inclusive, or subdivision (k), that is regulated by the
21Department of Motor Vehicles, Public Utilities Commission, or
22United States Secretary of the Department of Transportation, but
23only for matters relating to hours of service and logbooks of
24drivers.
25(k) A commercial motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight
26rating of 26,001 or more pounds or a commercial motor vehicle
27of any gross vehicle weight rating towing a vehicle described in
28subdivision (e) with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than
2910,000 pounds, except combinations including camp trailers, trailer
30coaches, or utility trailers. For purposes of this subdivision, the
31term “commercial motor vehicle” has the meaning defined in
32subdivision (b) of Section 15210.
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