BILL NUMBER: AB 2602	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gatto

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 22511.5 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2602, as introduced, Gatto. Disabled parking placards.
   Existing law authorizes a disabled person or disabled veteran
displaying a special license plate or a distinguishing placard issued
by the Department of Motor Vehicles or a foreign jurisdiction to
park for unlimited periods in a restricted zone or parking zone, as
specified, and to park in metered spaces without paying parking meter
fees.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this
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 22511.5 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:

   22511.5.  (a) (1) A disabled person or disabled veteran displaying
 a  special license  plates   plate
 issued under Section 5007 or a distinguishing placard issued
under Section 22511.55 or 22511.59 is allowed to park for unlimited
periods in any of the following zones:
   (A) In any restricted zone described in paragraph (5) of
subdivision (a) of Section 21458 or on streets upon which
preferential parking privileges and height limits have been given
pursuant to Section 22507.
   (B) In any parking zone that is restricted as to the length of
time parking is permitted as indicated by a sign erected pursuant to
a local ordinance.
   (2) A disabled person or disabled veteran  is allowed to
  may  park in any metered parking space without
being required to pay parking meter fees.
   (3) This subdivision does not apply to a zone for which state law
or ordinance absolutely prohibits stopping, parking, or standing of
all vehicles, or  which  that  the law or
ordinance reserves for special types of vehicles, or to the parking
of a vehicle that is involved in the operation of a street vending
business.
   (b) A disabled person or disabled veteran is allowed to park a
motor vehicle displaying a special disabled person license plate or
placard issued by a foreign jurisdiction with the same parking
privileges authorized in this code for any motor vehicle displaying a
special license plate or a distinguishing placard issued by the
Department of Motor Vehicles.