BILL NUMBER: AB 2221	CHAPTERED  07/21/00

	CHAPTER   155
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 21, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JULY 21, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   JULY 6, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   MAY 3, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Battin

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2000

   An act to repeal Section 1967 of the Streets and Highways Code,
and to amend and repeal Section 21716 of the Vehicle Code, relating
to vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2221, Battin.  Vehicles:  golf carts.
   (1) Existing law authorizes, until January 1, 2001, any city or
county to establish a golf cart transportation plan establishing golf
cart lanes, as defined, for the travel of golf carts on roadways
designated in the plan.
   Existing law prohibits any person from operating a golf cart on
any highway except in a speed zone of 25 miles per hour or less.
Among other exceptions to that prohibition is, until January 1, 2001,
a person operating a golf cart in a golf cart lane that is part of a
golf cart transportation plan.
   This bill would delete the January 1, 2001 repeal dates specified
above, thereby continuing, indefinitely the authority to establish a
golf cart transportation plan.
   Because violations of certain provisions that the bill would thus
extend are infractions, the bill would impose a state-mandated local
program by extending indefinitely the duration of existing crimes.
  (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state.  Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 1967 of the Streets and Highways Code is
repealed.
  SEC. 2.  Section 21716 of the Vehicle Code, as amended by Section
13 of Chapter 536 of the Statutes of 1997, is amended to read:
   21716.  Except as provided in Section 21115.1 and Chapter 6
(commencing with Section 1950) of Division 2.5 of the Streets and
Highways Code, no person shall operate a golf cart on any highway
except in a speed zone of 25 miles per hour or less.
  SEC. 3.  Section 21716 of the Vehicle Code, as amended by Section 4
of Chapter 536 of the Statutes of 1997, is repealed.
  SEC. 4.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution because the
only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district
will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction,
eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime
or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government
Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of
Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution.