BILL ANALYSIS
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Date of Hearing: June 28, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
ACR 176 (Conway) - As Introduced: June 21, 2010
SUBJECT : State Route 198
SUMMARY : Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 198 as the
Detective Monty L. Conley and Detective Joe R. Landin Memorial
Highway. Specifically, this bill :
1)Recounts the lives and careers of Monty L. Conley and Joe R.
Landin, detectives with the Tulare County Sheriff's Department
who lost their lives in the line of duty.
2)Designates the portion of SR 198 between Road 204 East and SR
216, in the County of Tulare, as the Detective Monty L. Conley
and Detective Joe R. Landin Memorial Highway.
3)Requests the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to
determine the cost of appropriate signs, consistent with the
signing requirements for the state highway system, showing
this special designation and, upon receiving donations from
nonstate sources sufficient to cover that cost, to erect those
signs.
EXISTING LAW : Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating
and maintaining state highways. This includes the installation
and maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS : Monty L. Conley attended Woodlake High School and the
College of the Sequoias. At 19 years of age, he became
Woodlake's youngest police officer. In 1973, he joined the
Tulare County Sheriff's Department, where he worked in the jail
and patrol divisions and later as a detective in the narcotics
units. Detective Conley was a dedicated officer who served his
community and loved his profession.
Joe R. Landin also attended high school in Woodlake. After
joining the United States Marine Corps, and serving in Vietnam,
he returned to Woodlake in 1972 and attended the College of the
Sequoias. He became a Woodlake Police Officer in 1974. Upon
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joining the Tulare County Sheriff's Department in 1981,
Detective Landin worked in the jail and patrol divisions. As a
detective, he was assigned to the Sheriff's Tactical Enforcement
Patrol and the narcotics unit. Detective Landin was a dedicated
officer who served his community and loved his profession.
On August 5, 1985, Detective Conley and his partner, Detective
Landin, were investigating a narcotics case near the town of
Pixley, California, in southern Tulare County. While the two
were traveling in Detective Conley's vehicle, they collided with
another motorist who ran a stop sign at over 85 miles per hour.
Both detectives lost their lives as a result of this tragic
incident. The other motorist was tried and convicted of
vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and served a prison
term of five years and four months.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093