Amended in Assembly April 29, 2015

Amended in Assembly March 26, 2015

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 726

Introduced by Assembly Member Nazarian

(Coauthor: Assembly Member Dababneh)

February 25, 2015

An act to add Section 35400.75 to the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 726, as amended, Nazarian. Vehicles: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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.

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.

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

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 35400.75 is added to the Vehicle Code, immediately following Section 35400.7, to read:

35400.75.  

begin insert (a) end insert begin insert   end insert 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.

begin insert

(b) Implementation of this section is subject to the collective
bargaining requirements under Article 10 (commencing with
Section 30750) of Chapter 5 of Part 3 of Division 10 of the Public
Utilities Code and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority Transit Employer-Employee Relations
Act (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 99560) of Part 11 of
Division 10 of the Public Utilities Code).

end insert

SEC. 2.  

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.