California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly BillNo. 1250


Introduced by Assembly Member Bloom

February 27, 2015


An act to amend Section 35554 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1250, as introduced, Bloom. Vehicles: buses: gross axle weight.

Existing law, operative January 1, 2016, and subject to exception for certain transit buses, provides that the gross weight on any one axle of a bus shall not exceed 20,500 pounds.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

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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SECTION 1.  

Section 35554 of the Vehicle Code, as amended
2by Section 2 of Chapter 263 of the Statutes of 2014, is amended
3to read:

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35554.  

(a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 35550, thebegin insert maximumend insert
5 gross weight on any one axle of a bus shall not exceed 20,500
6pounds.

7(2) begin deleteA end deletebegin insertThis subdivision does not apply to a end inserttransit bus procured
8through a solicitation process pursuant to which a solicitation was
9issued before January 1, 2013begin delete, is not subject to this subdivisionend delete.

10(b) A transit bus is not subject to Section 35550.

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P2    1(c) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2016.

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