BILL NUMBER: AB 2491	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 13, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nazarian

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Section 22500.2 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2491, as amended, Nazarian. Vehicles: stopping, standing, and
parking.
   Existing law prohibits a person from stopping, parking, or leaving
standing any vehicle whether attended or unattended, except when
necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with
the directions of a peace officer or official traffic control device,
in designated places, including, among other places, within 15 feet
of the driveway entrance to any fire station. A violation of this
provision is subject to a civil penalty.
   This bill would authorize a local authority to, by ordinance,
prohibit a person from stopping, parking, or leaving a vehicle within
15 feet of a driveway that is used by certain emergency vehicles to
enter or exit a fire department, police department, ambulance service
provider facility, or general acute care hospital, except as
specified, and would require a local authority that enacts that
ordinance to provide appropriate curb markings  or "KEEP CLEAR"
pavement markings  and post appropriate signs that delineate
this prohibited area.
   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 22500.2 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   22500.2.  (a) A local authority may, by ordinance, prohibit a
person from stopping, parking, or leaving standing a vehicle, whether
attended or unattended, except if necessary to avoid conflict with
other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a peace officer
or official traffic control device, within 15 feet of a driveway
that is used by an emergency vehicle owned or operated by a fire
department, police department, ambulance service care provider, or
general acute care hospital, to enter or exit a fire station, police
station, ambulance service provider facility, or general acute care
hospital. This section does not apply to any vehicle owned or
operated by a fire department, police department, ambulance service
provider, or general acute care hospital, if the vehicle is clearly
marked as a fire department vehicle, police department vehicle,
ambulance, or general acute care hospital vehicle.
   (b) A local authority that enacts an ordinance pursuant to
subdivision (a) shall provide appropriate curb markings  or "KEEP
CLEAR" pavement markings  and post signs that delineate the
area specified in subdivision (a).