BILL NUMBER: SB 728	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wolk

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 34500 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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 1.  Section 34500 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   34500.  The department shall regulate the safe operation of 
all of  the following vehicles:
   (a) Motortrucks of three or more axles that are more than 10,000
pounds gross vehicle weight rating.
   (b) Truck tractors.
   (c) Buses, schoolbuses, school pupil activity buses, youth buses,
farm labor vehicles, and general public paratransit vehicles.
   (d) Trailers and semitrailers designed or used for the
transportation of more than 10 persons, and the towing motor vehicle.

   (e) Trailers and semitrailers, pole or pipe dollies, auxiliary
dollies, and logging dollies used in combination with  the 
vehicles listed in subdivision (a), (b), (c), or (d). This
subdivision does not include camp trailers, trailer coaches, and
utility trailers.
   (f) A combination of a motortruck and a vehicle or vehicles set
forth in subdivision (e) that exceeds 40 feet in length when coupled
together.
   (g) A truck, or a combination of a truck and any other vehicle,
transporting hazardous materials.
   (h) Manufactured homes that, when moved upon the highway, are
required to be moved pursuant to a permit as specified in Section
35780 or 35790.
   (i) A park trailer, as described in Section 18009.3 of the Health
and Safety Code, that, when moved upon a highway, is required to be
moved pursuant to a permit pursuant to Section 35780.
   (j) Any other motortruck not specified in subdivisions (a) to (h),
inclusive, or subdivision (k), that is regulated by the Department
of Motor Vehicles, Public Utilities Commission, or United States
Secretary of the Department of Transportation, but only for matters
relating to hours of service and logbooks of drivers.
   (k) A commercial motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating
of 26,001 or more pounds or a commercial motor vehicle of any gross
vehicle weight rating towing a vehicle described in subdivision (e)
with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 10,000 pounds, except
combinations including camp trailers, trailer coaches, or utility
trailers. For purposes of this subdivision, the term "commercial
motor vehicle" has the meaning defined in subdivision (b) of Section
15210.