BILL NUMBER: AB 519	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Duvall

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2009

   An act relating to vehicles.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 519, as introduced, Duvall. California Consumer Bill of Rights
for Towed Vehicles.
    Existing law authorizes a peace officer, or a regularly employed
and salaried public employee, who is engaged in directing traffic or
enforcing parking laws and regulations, to remove a vehicle located
within the territorial limits in which the officer or employee is
allowed to act under specified circumstances, including, among other
things, when a vehicle is illegally parked and blocks the movement of
a legally parked vehicle. A violation of this provision is an
infraction.
   This bill would declare the Legislature's intent to enact
legislation to establish a "California Consumer Bill of Rights for
Towed Vehicles," require that it be posted in a vehicle office area
of a vehicle storage facility in plain view to the public, and
require that copies be made readily available to the public.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to establish a "California Consumer Bill of Rights for
Towed Vehicles," require that it be posted in the office area of a
vehicle storage facility in plain view to the public, and require
that copies be made readily available to the public.