AB 1641, as introduced, Travis Allen. Shuttle services: loading and unloading of passengers.
Under existing law, a person may not stop, park, or leave a vehicle standing alongside a curb space authorized for the loading or unloading of passengers of a bus engaged as a common carrier in local transportation when indicated by a sign or red paint on the curb, except that existing law allows local authorities to permit schoolbuses to stop alongside these curb spaces upon agreement between a transit system operating buses as common carriers in local transportation and a public school district or private school.
This bill would also allow local authorities to permit shuttle service vehicles, as defined, to stop for the loading or unloading of passengers alongside these curb spaces upon agreement between a transit system operating buses engaged as common carriers in local transportation and a shuttle service provider, as defined. The bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature to not replace public transit services.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Vote: 2⁄3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
It is the intent of the Legislature, in allowing
2local authorities to permit shuttle service vehicles to utilize
3designated transit system curb spaces, to not replace public transit
4services. The Legislature finds and declares that this act applies
5only to shuttle services that do not offer services to the general
6public as common carriers.
Section 22500.5 of the Vehicle Code is amended to
8read:
begin insert(a)end insertbegin insert end insert Upon agreement between a transit system
10operating buses engaged as common carriers in local transportation
11and a public school district or private school, local authorities may,
12by ordinance, permit schoolbuses owned by, or operated under
13contract for, that public school district or private school to stop
14for the loading or unloading of passengers alongside any or all
15curb spaces designated for the loading or unloading of passengers
16of the transit system buses.
17(b) Upon agreement between a transit system operating buses
18engaged as common carriers in local transportation
and a shuttle
19service provider, local authorities may, by ordinance or resolution,
20permit shuttle service vehicles to stop for the loading or unloading
21of passengers alongside any or all curb spaces designated for the
22loading or unloading of passengers of the transit system buses.
23(1) As used in this subdivision, “shuttle service vehicle” means
24a motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained by or for a
25charter-party carrier of passengers, as defined in Section 5360 of
26the Public Utilities Code, or a passenger stage corporation, as
27defined in Section 226 of the Public Utilities Code, or any highway
28carrier of passengers required to register with the Public Utilities
29Commission.
30(2) As used in this subdivision, “shuttle service” means
31transportation by private vehicles offered for the exclusive or
32primary use of a discrete group, including, but not limited to,
33clients, patients, students, paid or unpaid staff, visitors, or
34residents, between an organization or entity’s facilities or between
35the organization or entity’s facilities and other locations, on a
36regularly scheduled basis.
37(3) As used in this subdivision, “shuttle service provider” means
38any person using shuttle service vehicles to provide shuttle service.
This act is an urgency statute necessary for the
2immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within
3the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into
4immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
5In order to permit the utilization of curb spaces designated for
6the loading or unloading of passengers of transit system buses by
7shuttle service providers at the earliest possible time, it is necessary
8that this act take effect immediately.
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