BILL NUMBER: AB 2426	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER   711
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 22, 1998
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 21, 1998
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 18, 1998
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 12, 1998
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JULY 28, 1998
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JULY 7, 1998
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 12, 1998
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 22, 1998

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Strom-Martin
   (Principal coauthors:  Assembly Members Cardoza and Oller)
   (Coauthor:  Assembly Member Frusetta)

                        FEBRUARY 20, 1998

   An act to add and repeal Section 35401.7 of the Vehicle Code,
relating to vehicles.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2426, Strom-Martin.  Combination vehicles:  access limits:
exception.
   Existing law authorizes the establishment of limited highway
access to terminals or services by the Department of Transportation
and cities and counties.
   This bill would exempt from established limitations of access,
licensed carriers of livestock when engaged in certain activities
under specified conditions and on specified portions of State Highway
Route 101 that are necessary and incidental to the shipment of
livestock.  This exemption would be repealed on January 1, 2001.
   The bill would require the Department of the California Highway
Patrol, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, to
report to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2000, concerning the
findings of a study regarding the effect of the described exemption
on public safety.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 35401.7 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:

   35401.7.  (a) The limitations of access specified in subdivision
(d) of Section 35401.5 do not apply to licensed carriers of livestock
when those carriers are directly en route to or from a point of
loading or unloading of livestock on the following portions of State
Highway Route 101, if travel on those portions is necessary and
incidental to the shipment of the livestock:
   (1) State Highway Route 101 in Mendocino and Humboldt Counties
from its junction with State Highway Route 1 near Leggett north to
Benbow.
   (2) State Highway Route 101 in Humboldt County from its junction
with Louisiana Pacific Road near Trinidad north to Orick.
   (b) The exemption allowed under this section does not apply unless
all of the following conditions are met:
   (1) The length of the truck tractor, in combination with the
semitrailer used to transport the livestock, does not exceed a total
of 70 feet.
   (2) The distance from the kingpin to the rearmost axle of the
semitrailer does not exceed 40 feet.
   (3) The motor carrier obtains a permit from the Department of
Transportation authorizing the transport of the livestock and
indicating the approved route of travel and any other related
conditions.
   (c) The Department of the California Highway Patrol, in
consultation with the Department of Transportation, shall conduct a
study of the effect that the exemption provided under this section
has on public safety.  The findings of the study shall be reported to
the Legislature on or before July 1, 2000.
   (d) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2001, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, which is enacted on or before January 1, 2001, deletes or
extends that date.