AB 2167, as amended, Achadjian. Vehicles: towed vehicles.
Existing law requires a business taking possession of a vehicle from a tow truck to document specified information, including the make, model, and license plate or Vehicle Identification number of the vehicle. Existing law requires a business taking possession of a vehicle to obtain the specified information from the towing company the next day if the vehicle was dropped off after hours. Existing law requires the information to be maintained for 3 years and to be made available for inspection and copying within 48 hours of a written request by any officer orbegin delete agencyend deletebegin insert agentend insert of a police department,begin insert aend insert
sheriff’s department, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the Attorneybegin delete General’s,end deletebegin insert General’s office,end insert the Bureau of Automotive Repair, a district attorney’s office, or a city attorney’s office. A willful violation of these requirements is a misdemeanor, as specified.
This bill would instead require a business to obtain the specified information described above from the towing company on the next business day if a vehicle was dropped off after hours.begin insert The bill would also authorize a business taking possession of a vehicle from a tow truck to document the tow truck driver’s identification number, as specified, or another government authorized unique identifier of the tow truck operator.end insert
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 22513.1 of the Vehicle Code is amended
2to read:
(a) begin insert(1)end insertbegin insert end insert A business taking possession of a vehicle
4from a tow truck shall documentbegin delete theend deletebegin insert all of the following:end insert
5begin insert(A)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertTheend insert name, address, and telephone number
of the towing
6
begin delete company, theend deletebegin insert company.end insert
7begin insert(B)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertTheend insert name and driver’s licensebegin delete numberend deletebegin insert number, driver’s
8identification number issued by a motor club, as defined by Section
912142 of the Insurance Code, or other government authorized
10unique identifierend insert
of the tow truckbegin delete operator, theend deletebegin insert
operator.end insert
11begin insert(C)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertTheend insert make, model, and license plate or Vehicle Identification
12
begin delete Number, and theend deletebegin insert Number.end insert
13begin insert(D)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertTheend insert date and time that possession was taken of the vehicle.
14
begin delete Ifend delete
15begin insert(2)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertIfend insert the vehicle was dropped off after hours, the business shall
16obtain the information from the towing company on the next
17business day.
18(b) The information required in this section shall be maintained
19for three years and shall be available for inspection and copying
20within 48 hours of a written request by any officer or agent of a
21police department,begin insert aend insert sheriff’s department, the Department of the
22California
Highway Patrol, the Attorney General’s office, the
23Bureau of Automotive Repair, a district attorney’s office, or a city
24attorney’s office.
25(c) A person who willfully violates this section is guilty of a
26misdemeanor, and is punishable by a fine of not more than two
27thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or by imprisonment in a
28county jail for not more than three months, or by both that fine
29and imprisonment.
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