BILL NUMBER: AB 1943 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Linder
(Coauthor: Senator Roth)
FEBRUARY 12, 2016
An act to amend Section 21113 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1943, as introduced, Linder. Vehicles: parking: public grounds.
Existing law prohibits a person from driving or parking a vehicle
or animal upon the driveways, paths, parking facilities, or grounds
of specified public entities, including a public transportation
agency and a county transportation commission, except with the
permission of, and subject to any condition or regulation that may be
imposed by, the governing body of the specified public entity.
Existing law defines "public transportation agency" for these
purposes.
This bill would revise the definition of "public transportation
agency" to include a county transportation commission.
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 21113 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
21113. (a) A person (1)
Except as provided in paragraph (2), a person
shall not drive a vehicle or animal, or stop, park, or leave standing
a vehicle or animal, whether attended or unattended, upon the
driveways, paths, parking facilities, or the grounds of any
public of the following:
(A) A public school,
state university, state college, unit or an
educational institution exempted, in whole or in part, from taxation.
(B) A unit of the
state park system, system.
(C) A county park,
park.
(D) A municipal airport,
airport.
(E) A rapid transit district,
transit development board, transit district, public transportation
agency, county transportation commission created pursuant to Section
130050 of the Public Utilities Code, or a joint powers
agency operating or managing a commuter rail system, or any
system.
(F) Any property under the direct
control of the legislative body of a municipality, or a
municipality.
(G) A state, county, or hospital
district institution or building, or an educational
institution exempted, in whole or in part, from taxation, or any
building.
(H) Any harbor improvement
district or harbor district formed pursuant to Part 2 (commencing
with Section 5800) or Part 3 (commencing with Section 6000) of
Division 8 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, a
Code.
(I) A district organized pursuant
to Part 3 (commencing with Section 27000) of Division 16 of the
Streets and Highways Code, or state Code.
(J) State grounds served by the
Department of the California Highway Patrol, or any
Patrol.
(K) Any property under the
possession or control of a housing authority formed pursuant to
Article 2 (commencing with Section 34240) of Chapter 1 of Part 2 of
Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code, except with
Code.
(2) The activities described in
paragraph (1) may be performed with the permission of, and upon
and subject to any condition or regulation that may be imposed by,
the legislative body of the municipality, or the governing board or
officer of the public school, state university, state college, county
park, municipal airport, rapid transit district, transit development
board, transit district, public transportation agency, county
transportation commission, joint powers agency operating or managing
a commuter rail system, or state, county, or hospital district
institution or building, or educational institution, or harbor
district, or a district organized pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with
Section 27000) of Division 16 of the Streets and Highways Code, or
housing authority, or the Director of Parks and Recreation regarding
units of the state park system or the state agency with jurisdiction
over the grounds served by the Department of the California Highway
Patrol.
(b) A governing board, legislative body, or officer shall erect or
place appropriate signs giving notice of any special conditions or
regulations that are imposed under this section and the governing
board, legislative body, or officer shall also prepare and keep
available at the principal administrative office of the governing
board, legislative body, or officer, for examination by all
interested persons, a written statement of all those special
conditions and regulations adopted pursuant to this section.
(c) When a governing board, legislative body, or officer permits
public traffic upon the driveways, paths, parking facilities, or
grounds under their control then, except for those conditions imposed
or regulations enacted by the governing board, legislative body, or
officer applicable to the traffic, all the provisions of this code
relating to traffic upon the highways shall be applicable to the
traffic upon the driveways, paths, parking facilities, or grounds.
(d) A public transportation agency that imposes any condition or
regulation upon a person who parks or leaves standing a vehicle,
pursuant to subdivision (a), is authorized to do either of the
following:
(1) Enforce that condition or regulation in the manner provided in
Article 3 (commencing with Section 40200) of Chapter 1 of Division
17 of this code. The public transportation agency shall be considered
the issuing agency for that purpose.
(2) Designate regularly employed and salaried employees, who are
engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and
regulations, for the purpose of removing any vehicle in the same
manner as a city, county, or jurisdiction of a state agency pursuant
to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 22650) of Division 11 of this
code.
(e) With respect to the permitted use of vehicles or animals on
property under the direct control of the legislative body of a
municipality, no change in the use of vehicles or animals on the
property, that had been permitted on January 1, 1976, shall be
effective unless and until the legislative body, at a meeting open to
the general public, determines that the use of vehicles or animals
on the property should be prohibited or regulated.
(f) A transit development board may adopt ordinances, rules, or
regulations to restrict, or specify the conditions for, the use of
bicycles, motorized bicycles, electric bicycles, skateboards,
electrically motorized boards, and roller skates on property under
the control of, or any portion of property used by, the board.
(g) A public agency, including, but not limited to, the Regents of
the University of California and the Trustees of the California
State University, may adopt rules or regulations to restrict, or
specify the conditions for, the use of bicycles, motorized bicycles,
electric bicycles, skateboards, electrically motorized boards, and
roller skates on public property under the jurisdiction of that
agency.
(h) "Housing authority," for the purposes of this section, means a
housing authority located within a county with a population of over
6,000,000 people, and any other housing authority that complies with
the requirements of this section.
(i) "Public transportation agency," for purposes of this section,
means a public agency that provides public transportation as defined
in paragraph (1) of subdivision (f) of Section 1 of Article XIX A of
the California Constitution or a county
transportation commission created pursuant to Section 130050 of the
Public Utilities Code .