BILL NUMBER: AB 2253	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Grove

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to amend Section 5004 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2253, as introduced, Grove. Vehicles: special plates.
   Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue
special identification plates to the owner of a vehicle that meets
specified criteria and is operated or moved over the highway
primarily for the purpose of historical exhibition or other similar
purpose, subject to a specified fee.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
   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 5004 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   5004.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, any
owner of a vehicle described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) 
which   that  is operated or moved over the highway
primarily for the purpose of historical exhibition or other similar
purpose shall, upon application in the manner and at the time
prescribed by the department, be issued special identification plates
for the vehicle:
   (1) A motor vehicle with an engine of 16 or more cylinders
manufactured prior to  the year  1965.
   (2) A motor vehicle manufactured in the year 1922 or prior
 thereto.   to the year 1922. 
   (3) A vehicle  which   that  was
manufactured after  the year  1922, is at least 25 years
old, and is of historic interest.
   (b) The special identification plates assigned to motor vehicles
with an engine of 16 or more cylinders manufactured prior to  the
year  1965 and to any motor vehicle manufactured in the year
1922 and prior thereto shall run in a separate numerical series,
commencing with "Horseless Carriage No. 1".
   The special identification plates assigned to vehicles specified
in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) shall run in a separate numerical
series, commencing with "Historical Vehicle No. 1".
   Each series of plates shall have different and distinguishing
colors.
   (c) A fee of twenty-five dollars ($25) shall be charged for the
initial issuance of the special identification plates.  Such
  These  plates shall be permanent and shall not be
required to be replaced. If  such   any 
special identification  plates become   plate
becomes  damaged or unserviceable in any manner, replacement for
the  plates   plate  may be obtained from
the department upon proper application and upon payment of 
such fee as   the fee that  is provided for in
Section 9265.
   (d) All funds received by the department in payment for such
identification plates or the replacement thereof shall be deposited
in the California Environmental License Plate Fund.
   (e) These vehicles shall not be exempt from the equipment
provisions of Sections 26709, 27150, and 27600.
   (f) As used in this section, a vehicle is of historic interest if
it is collected, restored, maintained, and operated by a collector or
hobbyist principally for purposes of exhibition and historic vehicle
club activities.