Amended in Assembly March 26, 2015

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 726

Introduced by Assembly Member Nazarian

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(Coauthor: Assembly Member Dababneh)

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February 25, 2015

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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 726, as amended, Nazarian. begin delete Vehicles: pilot cars. end delete begin insert Vehicles: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. end insert

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Existing law imposes a 40-foot limitation on the length of vehicles that may be operated on the highways, with specified exemptions. Existing law exempts from this limitation, among other things, an articulated bus or articulated trolley coach that does not exceed a length of 60 feet.

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This bill would authorize the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to operate articulated buses that do not exceed a length of 82 feet on the route designated as the Orange Line in the County of Los Angeles.

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This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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Existing law requires a pilot car, which is a vehicle that escorts oversized or special load vehicles, to display at least one red warning flag on each side of the vehicle and requires the flags to be a minimum of 16 square inches and visible from both the front and rear of the vehicle.

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This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

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

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Notwithstanding Section 35400, the Los Angeles
County Metropolitan Transportation Authority created pursuant
to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 130050) of Division 12 of
the Public Utilities Code may operate articulated buses that do
not exceed a length of 82 feet on the route designated as the
Orange Line in the County of Los Angeles.

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The Legislature finds and declares that a special law
is necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable
within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California
Constitution because of the unique circumstances of a large
number of riders using buses operated by the Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the Orange Line and
the need to reduce overcrowding on those buses.

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SECTION 1.  

Section 28100 of the Vehicle Code is amended
to read:

28100.  

A pilot car shall display at least one red warning flag
on each side of the vehicle. The flags shall be a minimum of 16
square inches, and shall be visible from both the front and rear of
the vehicle. The flags shall be removed or covered when the vehicle
is not operating as a pilot car.

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